Great inventions of cycling 1869: the parcours

Naysayers silenced as crowds roar for the Tour

... Tom Davidson asks riders if it’s what they really want

Jacarepaguá rose from the ruins of the old Autódromo Nova Caledônia in Rio de Janeiro, with work on the new track starting in 1971. Local politics soon intervened, the project stalled and Formula 1 mo

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The first women’s Tour de France ran in 1955 – and then vanished. Stephanie Boland charts the long, winding road to its modern revival

The Doc hails the dizzying insanity of sport’s most dazzling spectacle