Ringing the changes

It’s been 12 years since Lance Armstrong confided to Oprah Winfrey that his seven Tour de France titles were a lie. Those wins came between 1999 and 2005, the first just 12 months after the Festina Af

This would be a very short article indeed if I just said “hard work” but actually that is very much part of the story: certainly it is impossible to become a champion without hard work. As we move int

The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’

I t seems very easy for people to ...

Call me a masochist, a dopamine junky, or just a good old-fashioned weirdo – I’ll happily answer to all of the above – but I love nothing more than to find myself teetering on the verge of complete ph

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I WAS A GREAT many ...