There should be a word in the English language for people like me – and there are many of us – who refuse to acknowledge Tadej Pogačar’s greatness. How about Pogiphobe? And the condition itself will be known as pogiphobia. It’s not that we don’t…
Chris Froome won the Tour de France four times, the Vuelta España twice, and the Giro d’Italia once. Between 2013 and 2018, he and his Team Sky dominated the sport perhaps to an even greater extent than UAE Team Emirates–XRG does today. But ask almost…
Something pretty weird is happening at the Tour de France (and I don’t mean the heat and the wildfires, which are, unfortunately, becoming less weird every year). It’s that some commentators have been saying, after Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates won stages 2…
The beauty of the Tour de France is that nobody really knows what’s going to happen. Every year, analysts make predictions, fans make predictions, riders make predictions, and by the second week, most of those predictions are lying abandoned in a ditch somewhere in the…
