Liberté, egalité, fraternité, Grellier: on  Bastille Day, chapeau to Direct Energie’s lively French fugitive

More from our Tour de France 2018, 21 stages, 21 stories series: former triple jumper Jonathan Edwards hosts British Eurosport’s coverage at the Tour. The...

We watched it, so you didn’t have to. Stage 7 of the Tour de France took the race 231km due east from Fougères to Chartres...

Dimension Data want an African Tour winner by 2020. We love their hope, but here’s why that looks unlikely

He was a prologue specialist familiar with winning over short distances. But looking to right a historic wrong on home turf, Thierry Marie soloed 234km to a...

Fighting a rearguard action, here’s to LottoNL-Jumbo’s Dutch debutant who helped to save Primoz Roglic’s Tour de France after two slip-ups

We talk economics, electric vehicles and Emmanuel Macron with the Ag2r-La Mondiale climber who won the Tour de France’s last visit to Mûr de Bretagne

Trek-Segafredo’s potato-powered Latvian TT champion plays it smart in Brittany to land the polka dot jersey

“I couldn’t understand it, when the people turned against me,” says Jan Ullrich. We revisit our 2016 interview with Jan Ullrich

21 stages, 21 stories – It was on the slopes of the Mûr de Bretagne that Cadel Evans and his BMC team sowed the seeds of...

History is made as Belgium’s Guillaume Van Keirsbulck becomes Rouleur’s first double Top Banana winner after proving the most enthusiastic rider in today’s break

EF Education First sports director Charly Wegelius gives us the inside story on Lawson Craddock’s spill on the opening stage of the 2018 Tour de...

BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day

Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...

They make ’em tough in Texas. No-one would have blamed Lawson Craddock for calling it a Tour after yesterday’s horror crash, but despite being bloody,...

“The winner from the break is the rider who won’t bargain for anything less. Even with himself.” Matt Seaton goes up the road in search...

Christian Prudhomme waves his flag, lowers his body through the sunroof of the red lead car, and the Tour de... The post Top Banana: Tour...

It should have been a spectacular ride across the ocean, but the 1999 Tour’s disastrous crossing from Noirmoutier spelt an early bath for several riders...

A sleepy island of 10,000 and a mesmerising marshy hinterland hosts the start of the 2018 Tour de France. Andy McGrath dips his toes in...

Direct Energie do things differently, starting with their 19th century manor house cum service course in the Vendée, and extending to the team ethos: “It’s...

Unicorns amongst the peloton? The next generation of cycling kit is coming to the fore and you’ll either get it or you won’t

Quirky churches, stunning coastline and a baguette vending machine: we drove the route of the opener between Noirmoutier and Fontenay-le-Comte, which should end up being...

After riding 20 Grand Tours on the trot, Adam Hansen is taking a bit of time off during the 2018 Tour de France. But what...

Transition, TV punditry and team management as the French fan favourite sips on his cycling career digestif

“I didn’t choose it; the bike chose me. I don’t love the bike, the bike loves me. It’s going to pay for it.” An extract...

You wait your whole career for a Grand Tour win, then three come along at once. Sam Bennett has finally arrived (even if he hasn’t...

Cycling kit made for the suckers of Golden Age Thinking. It is such a thing and for Sean Sako his new kit is all about...

The Cervélo-Bigla’s dynamic Dane on her rise from supermarket worker to super talent

Pirelli have only just re-entered the cycle tyre market. But in years gone by, not only did their tyres lead the way, so too did...

The Sochi scam, The Cold War and Trump, how politics and sport are so often intertwined. Matt Seaton believes the problem is us