Cycling Legends Archives

“I just couldn’t let the yellow jersey slip away from me”: Chris Froome Looks Back on His Tour de France Career

July 8, 2026 at 3:36 pm2 min reading

Road cycling

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…

The Greatest Domestiques of All Time

June 2, 2022 at 2:07 pm6 min reading

Socialising and Culture

With the Tour de France knocking on our door, it’s high time to take a look at the heroes that make this event the biggest spectacle in the two-wheeled world. While for most people, those are yellow jersey owners, the winners of the Škoda Green…

Gino Bartali: New Touching Documentary Celebrates “The Messenger of Peace”

April 7, 2022 at 1:46 pm5 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Tour winner. Giro Winner. A multi-talented cyclist. Gino Bartali’s career speaks volumes on its own, but his name will forever be remembered for his fierce opposition to all forms of injustice. At a time when Mussolini’s fascist rule was gaining traction and the twisted Nazi…

When Top-Class Cycling Runs in the Family

February 9, 2022 at 7:46 am6 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Sport has always had the ability to produce fairy-tale stories where from generation to generation, the talent gene is passed down from father to son, mother to daughter – and the other two iterations in this narrative – allowing families to compete at the highest…

The Greatest Comeback in Cycling History: The Greg LeMond Story

December 29, 2021 at 8:00 am6 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Whenever you ask someone about thrilling moments in sport, they always miss including cycling in their list for some unknown reason. Even avid cyclists will probably quote some football game rather than Mathieu van der Poel’s mind-altering win at the 2019 Amstel Gold or Tadej…

5 of Cycling’s Classic Rivalries

November 27, 2020 at 12:56 pm7 min reading

Socialising and Culture

Emotional, dynamic, and undeniably a driving force for some of the best athletic performances ever recorded, rivalries are a big part of what makes sports so exciting for fans and athletes alike. Born from a desire to out-perform another great talent, the best rivalries constitute…

Gino Bartali Was a Hero on a Racing Bike

June 8, 2020 at 1:15 pm7 min reading

Road cycling

The events of the past two weeks in the United States make this a very good time to recall a man who, for a time, risked his life almost daily to fight one of the most brutal persecutions in modern history – that of the…

The Champion Who Was Left for Dead and Rose Again

January 31, 2020 at 9:20 am6 min reading

Road cycling

His cycling journey began when he was seventeen and lasted for an impressive seven decades. This incredible persona made New Zealand’s racing history and yet almost nobody talks about him in our little world of cycling. Let’s fix this unfortunate mistake and tell a story…