The doped games

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

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

Where once it was all about a rider flogging themselves and racing by feel, now it’s about slick aerodynamics, no junk miles and huge amounts of number crunching. In fact, you could argue that road cy

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

Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a

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