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Lachlan Morton is a hard man to tie down. The Australian rider began his career in traditional fashion, leaving home to race in Europe and America, building a palmarès that included victory at the Tou

FAVOURITE Tour de France moment “The stage 20 time trial in 2020, on La Planche des Belles Filles [between Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar]. I’d never seen a stage 20 reversal on GC and I didn’t see t

Once you’ve won an Olympic gold medal and earned your way through to the big league, why would you ever go back to race against the weekend warriors? If you win, well that’s because you’re a full-time

Something occurred to me when reading Ned Boulting’s latest book – it was possible that ITV’s long-serving commentator and reporter has never watched the Tour de France on television. So, I put it to

Cyclist: Mystery surrounds your shock recent dismissal from Jayco-AlUla. Team manager Gerry Ryan simply said, ‘If you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result.’ What happened? Matt White: I’