André greipel bags his first win down under

In the early 1890s a young Victor Goddet was working at the Vélodrome de l’Est, Paris. Every day a twenty-something rider arrived and every day Goddet studiously checked his pass. One day the rider qu

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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

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Hailing from Yorkshire – despite his Continental-sounding name – the Picnic PostNL rider is in his first season in the WorldTour