Jun 30, 2013 | Road Racing, Tour de France
Well, Stage 1 of the 100th Tour de France has just finished… 22 teams and 198 riders started out from Porto-Vecchio at the southern end of Corsica to ride the 213km to Bastia in the north of the island. A day designed for the sprinters, that could have seen Mark...
Jan 26, 2013 | Doping, Drugs, Lance Armstrong, Road Racing, Tour de France
Love him or loathe him, Lance Armstrong is still one of the most divisive characters of professional cycling. He is a bit like Marmite – you either hate it or enjoy it. On Friday 12th January 2013 Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had used banned...
Jul 30, 2012 | Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Road Racing, Tour de France
The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the greatest sporting spectacular on earth. It started in the city of Liege in Belgium on the 30th June and finished 23 gruelling days later in Paris on the 22nd July. It had moved forward a couple of weeks to make way...