Monthly Archives: August 2014
GP Ouest-France ’14: Race Preview
Tomorrow sees the non-Vuelta portion of the World Tour peloton head to the French village of Plouay… because… well, I’m not sure. It seems you can stick a bike race on pretty much any roads and someone will find a way to make it interesting. Plouay only actually features on a corner of the route […]
Vuelta a Espana ’14: Race Preview
The Vuelta a Espana – the awkward, unplanned third sibling in the Grand Tour family – starts this Saturday. What the Vuelta could be thought to lack in prestige, at least compared to its siblings, it makes up for in bite: make no mistake, this is a brutal race – one that can dole out […]
Some stuff you may have missed
Since the Tour de France is more attention-demanding than a rich white girl on her 21st birthday, it’s hard to notice anything else going on around it. But, just like that rich white girl, often the other stuff is a lot more interesting, if a little less shiny. This is just a quick run-down […]
Tour de France ’14: The Lazy Man’s Summary
Weep, because the Tour de France is over. Again. It has a habit of doing that, and in my case, it’s rather passed me by: a combination of trips, doing some work experience as an actual sports journalist (hooray) and desperately trying to get in shape (not so hooray) have left me with little […]
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