The column: The need for escapism and distractions in the time of Coronavirus
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Read more“I am starting to get bored. Today, I opened my own small bakery inside my bakery. Then I cut my hair.” The bizarre becomes the new normal as Jacop...
Read moreWe’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought we shouldn...
Read more“Every day I act like I am infected.” Groupama-FDJ’s Jacopo Guarnieri reflects on life under quarantine in Italy
Read moreStage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a day for th...
Read moreOne day closer to Nice. Will we go the distance? Looking at our predictions for Stage 5, Cycling Mole wonders if there’s something in the kombucha ...
Read moreWe know there’s a cycling shortage at the moment, but Paris-Nice stage 4 is still a time trial, so just fax us the results, yeah? Is it one for the...
Read moreIt’s new bike day for Desire Editor, Stuart Clapp. He even claims that the Factor ViSTA is his N-minus-2 – what is the world coming to?
Read moreDubbels, Tripels, Trappists and Saisons. Illustrator Tom Jay gets the beers in for the cover of our Belgian special
Read moreOn a blustery Stage 2 in northern France, no one named Nizzolo as a possible victor. No one’s gone for him today, either, with most going for one o...
Read more“That is who we are.” We know Nairo Quintana was born in Colombia in 1990 but, as we discover in this extract from Matt Rendell’s new book, Colombi...
Read moreSeems to be a strong consensus that Paris-Nice Stage 2 will come down to a sprint, and there’s several to select from. The amateurs like the look o...
Read moreIs it selfish of us to feel sorrow over the cancellation of bikes races at a time of global crisis? Or is it simply human?
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