Ringing the changes

‘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

WHEN KRISTIAN GKOLOMEEV WOKE UP one morning in February, the last thing he expected to do was break a world record in the pool. The Greek swimmer and four-time Olympian, who finished fifth in the 50-m

The Doc turns the tables on vicarious glory hunters

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.

There is always a frisson of excitement on race morning, but it was nearly all over before it started in London as an internet outage at the Aquatics Centre led to a 2 ½ hr delay before the action got

Is there any truth to the adage ‘no pain, no gain’? Steve Shrubsall heads to the lab to find out which endurance sport is the most painful when improving performance