Jun 3, 2023 | Geraint Thomas, Mark Cavendish, Mountains, Road Racing, Tour de France
The 2023 Tour de France starts in just 4 weeks; and will be the 110th edition of the most famous Road Race in the world. It will start in Bilbao, Spain on 1 July and end with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris on 23 July. 22 teams are scheduled to take part in...
Jul 1, 2022 | Chris Froome, Copenhagen, Denmark, Geraint Thomas, Mark Cavendish, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Tour de France
It’s Friday 1st July 2022, it’s cold, wet and windy here in Copenhagen; and the 2022 Tour de France has just started. This annual sporting event is being contested by 176 riders from 22 teams; over a distance of 3350 kms (2081mls), ending on the Champs Elysees in the...
Feb 17, 2022 | Geraint Thomas, Mark Cavendish, Tour de France
Santa was very generous this year, and managed to fit 2 new books into my Christmas Stocking. Mountains According to G by Geraint Thomas and Tour De Force by Mark Cavendish. Mountains According to G was published in 2020 and is an “inside guide to twenty-five of the...
Aug 15, 2019 | Chris Froome, Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas, Tour de France
The 2019 Tour de France was the 106th edition of the world’s most famous cycling race. The 3,365.8 km (2,091 ml) long race consisted of 21 stages, starting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on 6 July, before racing through France and finishing with a mad sprint on...
Aug 15, 2018 | Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Team Sky, Tour de France
The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling’s three Grand Tours. The 3,351 km (2,082 ml) long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île, in western France, and finishing on 29 July with...
