The Journal

It was an almost despairing plea on Twitter from one of the best young cyclists in the world. ‘Stop comparing please,’ wrote Remco Evenepoel on 28 August. ‘I’m not like...

In late July 2020, the cycling world’s eyes were drawn to Transylvania, and the first category-1 race after the reopening of the cycling calendar: the tenth edition of Romania’s Sibiu...

It was the first time Annemiek van Vleuten had been seen at the front all race and, for the first time in an imperious year as world champion, she was...

27 February 2020 was the last normal day in pro cycling. The desert sun shone brightly over the vast, empty expanse surrounding the road up Jebel Hafeet. Tadej Pogačar got...

Maybe this is the year. Maybe this is the time that we’ve been building up to, that people will look back on and say, ‘That was the moment.’ Then again,...

It was an almost despairing plea on Twitter from one of the best young cyclists in the world. ‘Stop comparing please,’ wrote Remco Evenepoel on 28 August. ‘I’m not like...

On Sunday 15 March 2020 the Gran Premio de la Patagonia, a not unimportant new road race in the UCI category 1.2, finished in Puerto Montt, a port town in...

Having covered the Tour de France in most years since the mid-1990s, my path often crossed Raymond Poulidor’s at the race, usually at the stand of yellow jersey sponsor Crédit...

Amore infinito. It’s been that way since I first stepped off the boat onto a Venetian island for my first Giro d’Italia in 2009. It’s become part of my biological...

It was my first time in Sicily. The Italians talk about it as a little bit of a mythical place, very different to mainland Italy. We had Salvo with us....

As an athlete you always know you’ll break your own bones. But I never thought someone else would break mine. It’s a scar that means a lot to me. It’s...

Friday July10, 2.40pm: An email arrives in my inbox from Ned Boulting. “Along with e-Racing – Everesting needs to be recorded, I think. It’s become a thing.” We should have...