The first week of the 2019 Tour de France was a very good one for the host country, with 27-year-old Julian Alaphilippe, of the French Deceuninck-Quick Step team, becoming the first Frenchman to wear the race leader’s yellow jersey since 2014.
Despite the dominance of the Deceuninck – Quick-Step outfit in recent seasons, Viviani was yet to claim a stage win at the Tour de France. Adding to his La Vuelta and Giro wins, he completed the ’collection’ yesterday. The victory also catapulted him to second…
It used to be a lot of bread and pasta, not anymore. Even though every Tour De France rider will burn approximately 140 000 kcal during the 21 days of racing, their diet has to stay pretty diverse and full of quality nutrition. In this article,…
Andy Raymond Schleck is a former pro-cyclist, a Luxembourg native, the 2010 Tour de France winner and has cycling running in his family. Currently, he functions as a chairman of the Škoda Tour de Luxembourg and as an ambassador at the Tour de France’s Škoda…
“You’ve just won a place on the Tour de France Hospitality Programme by Škoda!” That’s a sentence every avid La Grande Boucle fan craves to find in their e-mail inbox after taking part in one of the contests. A lot has been written about the…
It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek matter to introduce the Tour de France, The Rolling Stones of cycling races even cycling deniers have heard of, on the virtual pages of an e-zine literally called We Love Cycling for the hundredth time. So we won’t. For all the…
With the start of the Grand Boucle almost upon us, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit with this “brand new” gallery of old cycling heroes. From climbing the Col du Galibier with Gino Bartali to the ecstatic face of Ferdi Kubler, these photos…