In the loop

There’s more to going long than just grinding it out. Steve Shrubsall finds out how to thrive during ultra endurance events

Such is the relatively short period of human history in which so many people are choosing to exercise intensively through middle age and beyond, that the consequences to our health of doing so is stil

‘Who are the French guys who can win the Tour this year? It’s a subject that’s served at the table every July,’ says Romain Bardet, whose second place in 2016 is the closest a Frenchman has come to br

Cyclist: What are your earliest memories of the Tour? Serge Laget: I first discovered the Tour in my village of Langogne in the Cévennes in 1954, when I was seven. I remember as if it were yesterday.

Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali… some of the best rivalries in sport have been a clash of styles, cultures and temperaments. Rocky IV was

To cycle up a mountain is to pedal into a world of paradoxes. Mountains are a playground and a torture chamber; a means of outdoor adventure and inner discovery; an opportunity for wonder, a guarantee