Cadel Evans’ men’s senior world road championship victory isn’t only his most prestigious win, but the greatest by any Australian road cyclist. Australia is become a cycling super power.
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Letter from...: Amsterdam
Owning a bike in Amsterdam is a right of passage, writes Grant Doyle.
Tour de France: Contador and Cavendish are crowned the kings of Paris
While ultimately the day belonged to Alberto Contador, the Paris finale offered a fitting stage for Bathurst’s Mark Renshaw to come a brilliant second to Britain’s Mark Cavendish.
Cycling winning the war against drugs
The Tour de France reached such a nadir in the 2006-08 period that something had to be done about the mainly older generation of cheats, says Brendan Gallagher. Now, there are reasons to feel positive.
Tour de France: Evans falters as Contador steams ahead
For Australia’s cycling cheer squad, the extent of Cadel Evans’ demise has come as a genuine shock. So how did Australia’s golden boy from a genuine yellow jersey chance to 12th place?
The agony of the Tour de France (and middle-aged cyclists)
While Julius Caesar feared the Ides of March, for those of us lucky enough to live with a cyclist, it is the whole month of July that we dread.
Getting on your bike
In Sydney the car completely dominates. It’s serious business riding to work in a city where cycleways just suddenly end, writes Margaret Rice. Melbourne is a bit kinder.
Tonight the Tour de France surely ignites?
Tonight’s brute of a 223km stage of La Grande Boucle offers any rider outside the Astana team their first realistic moment of truth since the Trans France Express took control of the race on just the fourth day.
Tour De France: Bastille Day offers palace plots and intrigues
What could be more French than on Bastille Day for the Tour De France to wake up all kinds of political machinations thick in the air.
How Lance Armstrong is like Sarah Palin
They both react to any criticism with extreme defensiveness. And while they both periodically issue petulant threats to quit, you get the funny feeling that neither one is going away any time soon.
Aussies prang as Tour de Lance invades Andorra
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Australia in the Tour De France…
Tour de France: sport’s ultimate enfant terrible faces doping chaos
The Tour de France is now beset by more drug controversies in its lead-up than ever before.
Tour de France winner’s cancer to ignite drugs debate?
Fignon’s cancer is bound to reignite debate about the potential grave medical consequences from the taking of performance enhancing drugs, writes Ross Stapleton.
Colombian cyclists carving up the world circuit
A bicycle race in Bogota, Colombia, can involve charging through a crime-ridden slum, swerving down potholed streets to avoid drunken men and being chased by dogs. It’s not quite the Tour de France, but…
Lance Armstrong: still in training
Lance Armstrong’s fans aren’t accustomed to him coming in 73rd place. “Not every race is like the Tour de France” said Armstrong.
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Danish police hug cyclists
Police in Denmark stop bicyclists, hug them, and give them helmets.
Broken collarbones, bane of the cyclist
Broken collarbones are a rite of passage in the cycling world, an injury so common, many pros see it as another day at the office.
The Racing Kangaroo and De Ronde
De Ronde is a race for the hard men of cycling, not the anaemic mountain goats that characterise stage races such as the Tour de France, writes Tim Watson.
How to win the Tour de France, part two
Ever wondered how the Tour de France works. Here is the second in a two part series on how the great race is run and won. By freelance journalist Nahum Ayliffe.
How to win the Tour de France, part one
Ever wondered how the Tour de France works. Here is the first in a two part series on how the great race is run and won. By freelance journalist ,Nahum Ayliffe.
