One track mind

When Masters racer Richard Oakes spoke, Chris Sidwells listened – and realised the multiple world champion’s hard-won wisdom was too good not to share

Winning the 2006 tin-top crown made the six-foot-plus Midlander a rare back-to-back title winner. Matt James finds out more

E ddy Merckx won the Tour de France ...

Once you’ve won an Olympic gold medal and earned your way through to the big league, why would you ever go back to race against the weekend warriors? If you win, well that’s because you’re a full-time

The British Isles have two new Tour stars, Ireland’s Ben Healy and Scotland’s Oscar Onley . Can their contrasting talents take them all the way, asks Adam Becket

FAVOURITE Tour de France moment “The stage 20 time trial in 2020, on La Planche des Belles Filles [between Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar]. I’d never seen a stage 20 reversal on GC and I didn’t see t