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Krave, karaoke, and looking cool: Question time with Josh Tarling

Krave, karaoke, and looking cool: Question time with Josh Tarling

The Ineos Grenadier and World Championships TT bronze medallist on his craving for Krave, his throwing ability and the necessity of committing when it comes...

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The Tour de France and the Boulder Problem

The Tour de France and the Boulder Problem

Tadej Pogačar went into the Pyrenees with a slim lead in the 2024 Tour de France, and emerged with a significant one. Rouleur looks at...

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Anthony Turgis masters the chaos

Anthony Turgis masters the chaos

The TotalEnergies rider takes his biggest ever win, and his team’s first at the race in seven years

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A day out in La France Profonde

A day out in La France Profonde

Stage eight was a classic ‘quiet’ stage of the Tour, taking their riders through La France Profonde, the heart of rural France

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Julien Bernard makes a party out of a time trial

Julien Bernard makes a party out of a time trial

What Julien Bernard lost in time by stopping to greet his friends and family in the Burgundy time trial, he gained in making the Tour...

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How I won the Tour of Flanders

How I won the Tour of Flanders

Edward Pickering speaks to several riders who have won Belgium's most prestigious Classics, to find out how they did it and what the victory meant...

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'A bit mind-bending' – how Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice

'A bit mind-bending' – how Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice

Matteo Jorgenson tells Rouleur about how he took his biggest victory yet at Paris-Nice

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An American in Nice

An American in Nice

Rouleur editor Edward Pickering reflects on Matteo Jorgenson's Paris-Nice win

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Jay Vine: The numbers game

Jay Vine: The numbers game

Jay Vine has endured a challenging season, despite winning the Tour Down Under in January. He reflects to Rouleur on the highs and lows of...

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Edward Pickering’s five things to look forward to at Rouleur Live 2023

Edward Pickering’s five things to look forward to at Rouleur Live 2023

Rouleur Editor, Edward Pickering, looks ahead and picks some highlights from the star-studded Rouleur Live 2023 line-up

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What's inside Issue 122 of Rouleur?

What's inside Issue 122 of Rouleur?

There is no better way of travelling than by bike. It is the cheapest, cleanest and healthiest way of getting from A to B, and...

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A lifetime with Phil Liggett

A lifetime with Phil Liggett

Television commentator Phil Liggett has covered 50 Tours de France and has been ever present as the sport of road cycling has grown and changed beyond recognition....

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A duel in the sun

A duel in the sun

Strange things are afoot in this Tour de France Femmes, and the latest unpredictable stage saw Ricarda Bauernfeind win solo in Albi

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The Tour’s culture war

The Tour’s culture war

Jonas Vingegaard won the 2023 Tour de France and looks set for an era of dominance, but his style has not been a hit with...

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Thibaut Pinot: Once More, With Feeling

Thibaut Pinot: Once More, With Feeling

France’s favourite cycling son tried hard to achieve a stage win on home ground in his penultimate day in the Tour, but despite passionate support,...

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Stage 19 is Bazball

Stage 19 is Bazball

Was that the most dynamic Tour de France stage there has ever been?

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Friends forever… almost

Friends forever… almost

The break held off the chasing peloton in Bourg-en-Bresse. Rouleur looks at the temporary alliances which win and lose bike races

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Vingegaard twists the knife

Vingegaard twists the knife

In an implacable show of dominance, Jonas Vingegaard killed off the 2023 Tour de France, and for good measure psychologically crushed Tadej Pogačar

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A dramatic turn of events

A dramatic turn of events

The story of the 2023 Tour de France took a surprising twist in the stage 16 time trial to Combloux

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Pogačar and Vingegaard are fighting each other to a standstill

Pogačar and Vingegaard are fighting each other to a standstill

The two main protagonists of the 2023 Tour de France, along with their immensely strong teams, are in a position of stalemate, but has momentum...

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There are still two: why 2023 is a Tour de France for the ages

There are still two: why 2023 is a Tour de France for the ages

The gap between Vingegaard and Pogačar is wafer-thin, and neither looks stronger than the other. This is a Tour that is going to go down...

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Marginal gains: was all that effort by UAE Team Emirates worth it for eight seconds?

Marginal gains: was all that effort by UAE Team Emirates worth it for eight seconds?

Tadej Pogačar continued to chip away at Jonas Vingegaard’s lead, with the GC battle even more finely poised as the race enters its third weekend

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A quiet stage in a quiet town

A quiet stage in a quiet town

Stage 11 of the 2023 Tour de France took the race to Moulins, in the heart of La France Profonde, for the first time ever

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Chess on wheels: mastering the Tour de France breakaway

Chess on wheels: mastering the Tour de France breakaway

Pello Bilbao was the winner of stage 10, in a finely-balanced finale that saw a fair fight between a number of riders

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Pain, probability and the Puy: How bike racing works

Pain, probability and the Puy: How bike racing works

Mike Woods won stage nine of the Tour de France atop the Puy de Dôme, after a complicated and absorbing battle between the 14 riders...

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A lighthouse: The history and meaning of the Puy de Dôme

A lighthouse: The history and meaning of the Puy de Dôme

The Tour de France returns to the iconic Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years in 2023. From Issue 120 Rouleur takes...

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No fairytale for Mark Cavendish

No fairytale for Mark Cavendish

The greatest sprinter ever dramatically crashed out of the Tour de France on stage eight, between Libourne and Limoges, leaving the 2023 race short of...

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Anatomy of a sprint: The Space Between

Anatomy of a sprint: The Space Between

Mark Cavendish found himself with the space to operate in the stage seven sprint in Bordeaux, but bad luck and a rampant Jasper Philipsen denied...

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The Tour de France is not over after all

The Tour de France is not over after all

Tadej Pogačar turned the tables on new yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard by winning in Cautarets and closing to within 25 seconds of his lead

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Chaos theory and the 2023 Tour de France

Chaos theory and the 2023 Tour de France

Jai Hindley is in the yellow jersey, and Jonas Vingegaard now looks like the favourite for the 2023 Tour title, after a chaotic and unpredictable...

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