The 2013 Tour de France is over, and this year I really enjoyed it. I thought it was the best tour I can remember watching. Nearly as exciting as the breaking news that a British woman has just had a baby. Though Froome was clearly the strongest rider in the tour, there was sufficient drama […]
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Spectators at the Tour de France
. L’Alpe d’Huez. photo Bryan77 Watching the Tour de France stage to Alpe d’Huez I was in two minds about the spectators. Was this the greatest collection of sporting fans in the world? or the craziest and most dangerous? Watching the riders battle through a sea of flags, cameras, running spectators, people dressed as giant […]
Doping questions – It’s not about Froome
I think it was J.Vaughters who said this was not a good year to win the Tour. The first year after USADA’a 2012 report on Armstrong, it’s only to be expected the spectre of doping would loom large. If Froome had crashed out on the first stage, there would have been just as many questions […]
Merckx 1969 – Stage 17 – riding alone for 140km
It would have been ‘interesting’ if Merckx had been riding in the present generation of riders. In 1969, Merckx won his first tour de France by a margin of 17 minutes 54 seconds. On the 17th stage, over four cols from Luchon to Mourenx, he won by eight minutes after riding alone for 140 km. […]
Armchair cycling pundits
It’s easy to be a reality armchair cycling pundit ‘Why don’t you attack?’ Why don’t you ride faster? – these are all ideas that can easily come from the comfort of your sitting room. Yesterday, the tours stage was run at an average of over 47 km/h. That’s 47 km/h for 217 km. Usually, that […]
Disappointment in the Tour de France
Watching the Tour de France made me aware of how easy for riders to be disappointed It’s a brutal race, with no hiding place. Slightly off the pace, and you can slip minutes away. A bit of bad luck, and you can pick up nasty injury. So many potential challengers saw their hopes dissipate pretty […]
Doping and Suspicious Performances
Fairly early in the USADA report into US Postal, they made the point that according to WADA rules, performance alone is never sufficient to launch an anti doping investigation. In other words, ‘eyebrow raising performances’ are not sufficient for an anti-doping unit to begin an investigation of an athlete. There needs to be other evidence. […]
Winning margins of Tour de France winners
Tour de France – All Time Greats Not often a winning margin of less than 5 minutes. Related Full list of winners
Look Mum – Broken Pelvis
The Tour de France is always a unique spectacle – whether it’s the bizarre scenes of a bus getting stuck under the finish line or seeing a dog playing Russian roulette with a peleton approaching at 30mph. You never now what is going to happen. But, whatever happens, the Tour will always remain the pinnacle […]
Tour De France Questions
The tour is one of the biggest sporting spectacles in the world. No matter how many scandals and tearful confessions on Oprah , we can’t resist the allure of watching the Tour. The tour has everything, beautiful scenery, drama, excitement, raw passion and the opportunity for endless hours of Sean Kelly say ‘erm, well, I […]
Va Va Froome – book review
It’s the week before the Tour de France and we have a whole week with no cycling on tele, just hours of speculation about the riders, the course and different possible outcomes. It’s that time of the year when journalists are desperately looking out for some tibit or quote to fill the press pages. Chris […]
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