With the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift swiftly approaching, our host Matt Stephens wanted to explore more of our current theme for both events – Tour fandom and its specific flavours. The commitment and creativity of fans on site…
Has any Tour de France ever started more dramatically than Saturday’s stage 1? I don’t know but it’s hard to imagine any more chaotic and, frankly, insane race than what happened on the 184.9km course that started and ended in Lille. If this was a…
With every year that passes, 70-year-old Bernard Hinault becomes more of a legend. That is because he was the last French cyclist to accomplish a feat that is looking more and more impossible: win the Tour de France. Hinault won it five times, the last…
When Andy Schleck reached the foot of the dreaded Col du Galibier in the 2011 Tour de France, he was 26 years old and had no reason to believe that his astonishing solo ride up that iconic and very long slope (22.7 km at an…