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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia, Stage 4
If in doubt, Sunweb? While the Rouleur team herd towards the thoroughbred sprinters, The Cycling Mole has his eye on another shiny stallion...
Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3
Close but no cigar yesterday, as Miles and Cycling Mole's pick of Peter Sagan was pipped to the post and his first Giro stage win...
Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 2
Three out of five correctly predicted yesterday's TT result, and with it the first maglia rosa. Today's stage, with its lumps and bumps and punchy...
Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Hommes
A Monumental 40 consecutive days of WorldTour racing is barely beginning. Strap yourselves in as we attempt to pick the winner for every one of them...
Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes
Love Liège, go Dutch? The Netherlands' women have been dominant in the one-days of late. Will their run continue in an out of place LBL?
Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 1
What's the only thing better than an uphill time trial? A downhill one. Can we predict the Giro as well as we did Le Tour?...
The Column: Actually, we do need to talk about doping
We need to talk about doping. Not particularly because Nairo Quintana’s room was raided at the Tour de France.Nor, particularly, because this week saw further...
Mur de Huy: Theatre of Pain
This article was originally published in Issue 60 of Rouleur. Download the app to read it in its entirety. Arthur Schopenhauer knew a thing or...
Rouleur predicts... Imola 2020: Men's World Championships road race
Last year we went with Tomorrow's Worlds. This year we thought about calling it Battle of the Bands. What matters is who's going to be wearing rainbows...
Rouleur predicts... Imola 2020: Women's World Championships road race
In 2019 we went with Tomorrow's Worlds, this year we thought about calling it Battle of the Bands. What matters is who's going to be wearing rainbows. Will it...
Teniel Campbell: Trinidad's Trailblazer
Teniel Campbell hails from Trinidad, not the easiest place to become a pro cyclist. But this determined talent is on the edge of breaking big and...
Why 2020 was the Tour of transition
Shorter stages, younger stars, the same short shrift for inclusivity: Luke Walpole on seismic shifts and the areas where the race still has a way to go
The Tour de France is 21 stages long: Tour de France 2020, Stages 20 & 21
They said it couldn't happen, shouldn't happen and wouldn't happen. But the Tour de France is 21 stages long, and it did happen
Comment: Grand Tours must ditch the ceremonial final stage
Ceremonial final stages of Grand Tours are a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s get rid of the procession and race them in anger once more
Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 21
It's been an emotional three weeks, but our panel has made it to Paris. Who will bag the final win on the Champs-Ẻlysées?
It ain't over til it's over - Tour de France 2020, Stage 19
For all the (somewhat spoiled and bratty) grumbling about the dreariness of day five, there has not been a single stage of this year’s race...
Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 9
Last chance saloon as Van der Breggen defends her lead over Niewiadoma to the end
Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 20
Just a mountain TT to go before Paris - prime Primož territory. Or is it?
Brothers in arms: Tour de France 2020, Stage 18
Liberté, égalité and fraternité define the final day in the big mountains
Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 8
Everything to play for now as crash takes out race favourites in Maddaloni
Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 19
Kämna, Trentin, Martinez, GVA and Arndt. It's a mixed bag of sausages for stage 19 as we near Paris. Who's a chipolata, and who's a...
No time to take a breath, not much air to breathe: 2020 Tour de France, Stage 17
Do we have ourselves a podium? If we do, as it seems we may, its shaping came in a way that few could have predicted. ...
Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 7
That's three stage wins out of six for the insatiable Marianne Vos, sensational racing. And three wins to date for our panellists, too. Top...
Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 18
Another big day in the saddle. Yates, Sivakov, De Gendt, Pogacar or Carapaz? The Mole runs his beady eye over out punts, then goes wild
Plenty to play for with Paris in sight: 2020 Tour de France, stage 16
From the polka dots to the points, why we're watching the most open Tour de France in years
Rouleur predicts... Giro Rosa stage 6
Baddabing! Vos bosses stage 5, Van Vleuten stays in charge, Niewiadoma lurks, Uttrup Ludwig is utterly Cecilie. Stage 6 predictions...
Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 17
Big mountains, big shakedown, or big break? Stage 17 of the Tour de France promises much. Will the Rouleur pundits deliver?
Bernard Thévenet: The theory of relativity
The 1975 Tour winner on his favourite mountain, the mighty Izoard

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