Everything you need to know about how elite cyclists tackle the slopes of the Tour.
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When the road heads higher and the mercury is rising, the world’s top cyclists get to test the quality of their preparation.
There’s clearly a growing enthusiasm for the sport but our experts crunched the numbers to see if this is just more middle-aged men in lycra (Mamils).
It’s not enough to be an elite athlete these days, you have to construct your own narrative for success.
Whether through US corporatism or the Wiggo effect in the UK, Middle-Aged Men in Lycra are spending big on bikes and bib-shorts.
Even before this year’s race began, only five or six riders had any real chance of winning.
Intake of carbohydrate before, during and in-between Tour stages is the best known way to power cyclists’ ‘engines’.
Mountains? Pah. 60kph sprints and 220km stages? They’re nothing. The thing most troubling the teas battling for the yellow jersey is this time trial.
While world cycling insists it has cleaned up its act, it remains in suspicious times until further notice.
Cycling’s biggest race delivers speed, pain and danger to boost its popularity and profitability. And we wonder why doping leaves such a long shadow.
Science shows there’s an optimal way to win a sprint finish in the Tour de France, but a tiny error could cost a cyclist the win, as happened to Mark Cavendish in stage 2.
It takes a cyclist with a diverse set of strengths to win over the 21 gruelling stages of the Tour de France.
The Gran Fondo New York bicycle race is the biggest mass-participation event of its kind in the state, a 100-mile run between Manhattan and Bear Mountain. In May 2012 the organisers introduced drug testing…
He may not possess the urbanity of Carlo Ancelotti, be owner of the world’s biggest sporting brand, or have Cristiano Ronaldo at his disposal, but Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov is intent on creating…
The dust has settled now on the 2014 Tour de France, with Vincenzo Nibali’s well-deserved win, the French resurgence and the other race jerseys and classifications awarded. The 2014 Tour should probably…
As the Tour de France approaches its final days, teams will be looking to place their top riders in the best possible position for the all-important individual time trial in the penultimate stage, where…
The final dash to the line in a Tour de France sprint finish may appear to the bystander to be a mess of bodies trying to cram into the width of a road, but there is a high degree of strategy involved…
July in France means tourists, sunflowers, Bastille Day and the running of the national bicycle race. The Tour is one of the most recognisable symbols of France in the global imagination. But it is an…
Although one of sport’s biggest mega-events has now come to an end (the World Cup), we are still only halfway through another – the Tour de France. Already, there are clear comparisons to be made between…
When the Tour de France comes to town, it’s a chance to get your gladrags on. This year’s Grand Depart in Yorkshire saw Leeds decked out with yellow flowers, bikes placed in coffee bar windows, statues…
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor, Victoria University
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Associate professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
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Professor of History, Western Kentucky University
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Senior lecturer in Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University of Central Lancashire
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Lecturer, College of Sport & Exercise Science, Victoria University
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Deputy Head of Department, Bournemouth University
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Postdoctoral Research - Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University
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Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer Sport Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
