Great inventions of cycling 12,000 bc -beer

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

Beer comes in a bewilderment of varieties, produced on a giant scale or in tiny microbreweries. Such dominance isn’t bad for a drink supped for more than 10,000 years, writes Clare Hunt

A You might wonder how it could be possible that cyclists who ride for 21 days around a lap of France at warp speed can finish heavier than when they started, but for some that’s the case. “It’s easil

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 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