Tour of flanders 4 april, 1999

When Jasper Philipsen was a child, long before he was winning Tour de France stages on a regular basis, he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Despite hailing from the same town as Belgian

‘Monte Bondone, 8th June [1956]. A drama, a real drama, a shocking spectacle. From Trento to Monte Bondone, the snow: a few flakes 6km from the top, then the storm. It had rained all day, the cold and

Dream weekend for Alpecin-Deceuninck overshadowed as Philipsen crashes out

Being tasked with selecting an image gallery of the Tour de France when you have well over a century of history to play with seemed an impossible job. Tens of thousands of evocative pictures to squeez

It’s hard to imagine a better place to start a ride. At 1,326m Briançon is the highest city in France. And with 300 clear days a year on average, it’s also one of the sunniest. To describe the morning

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