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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas
Deceunink-Quick Step’s young Spaniard Enric Mas sneaks into the white jersey and gives Alaphilippe an ace card in the mountains
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Matteo Trentin
A top team performance on tough terrain helps Simon Yates to his first Tour de France win – and yet another top ten for Matteo...
Mathew Hayman: A quick Tour de France Q&A
Mathew Hayman is enjoying his first Tour de France since retiring in January. The legendary Australian domestique – and Paris-Roubaix winner – shares his hottest...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann
King of invisibility, prince of stealth, Buchmann will ‘do a Zubeldia’ all the way to Paris
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Luke Rowe
Welshman takes our French fancy and lands the fruit in crosswind chaos on the road to Albi
Thomas De Gendt: Stage hunter
Stage hunter par excellence, captain of the break and seldom far from the front of the race. There’s no-one quite like Thomas De Gendt
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Wout van Aert
The Tour’s dazzling debutant has caught the eye throughout the first week. Why not a stage win for wondrous Wout?
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Geraint Thomas
They said he was playing second banana but his performance on La Planche proved Geraint Thomas is still top. In normal times it would be...
The column: Tour de France so white
The Tour de France makes a good show of presenting itself as diverse and inclusive, but when it comes to making meaningful progress is it...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Tom Skujiņš
You say potato, Tom Skujiņš says potatoes. For overcoming gastronomic adversity, getting himself out of the basement and giving it a go, Top Banana. The...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Max Richeze
The things riders are forced to do for their teams, eh? For the lead-out and the Lidl, Deceuninck Quick Step’s Max Richeze is today’s Top...
Yvette Horner: Dancing queen of the caravan
Yvette Horner, world accordion champion, with sales of over 30 million records, and friend to the peloton stars
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Michael Matthews
A confidence boosting runner-up spot for the confused Australian. A stage win or two are on the cards for Matthews
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Martin
Tony Martin was in the driving seat and a big part of another stunning win from Jumbo-Visma
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Greg Van Avermaet
Hey, hey, GvA, what the heck did you do today? Smart racing from the Olympic champion bags a jersey
The column: Who’s (not) going to the Tour?
A dearth of sprinters, but plenty other big names missing out as well. A look at who’s missing out on this year’s biggest bike race...
Agriculture Club: Tour de France field art
Where would the Tour de France be without les agriculteurs? Keeping TV audiences amused through tedious transition stages, a look at the field art competition
Cover stories: How Velobici created the embroidered front page of Rouleur’s Tour de France special
Q&A with Chris Puttnam of Leicester-based apparel brand Velobici, who embroidered the jersey used for the front cover of Rouleur’s Tour de France special
The column: Assessing Jakob Fuglsang’s Tour chances
How are they doing it and how long can they keep it up? Evaluating the Tour de France prospects of Jakob Fuglsang and his Astana...
The Cycling Hall of Fame 2019: the case for Daniel Mangeas
Voice of the Tour de France for 41 years, Mangeas is a true legend of cycling, the patron of cycling commentators. Vote for Daniel!
Cover Stories: issue 19.4 by Thomas Danthony
French illustrator Thomas Danthony’s take on the Tour. Stillness, speed and reflections
The column: A silver lining to Tom Dumoulin’s DNF?
As disappointed as he was to abandon the Giro d’Italia, could it yet force Tom Dumoulin to make his first full-bore assault on the Tour...
The column: Gent-Wevelgem gave us the best of Alexander Kristoff
Alexander Kristoff has won races on cycling’s biggest stages yet is still seen as a mere support act. His win at Gent-Wevelgem should – finally...
Sir Gary Verity Q&A – the cyclist behind Yorkshire’s big race obsession
The CEO of Welcome to Yorkshire tells Rouleur about his cafe rides in the Dales, his language skills and sheep farming
Pick your favourite Rouleur photographer’s shot of the year from 2018
Our fine body of photographers choose their best work from the 2018 season. Vote for your own personal top shot
The Tour on telly (part 4): the outsider – Gary Imlach
In the words of Francis Ford Coppola, live television is a high wire act. And without an autocue, it’s even... The post The Tour on...
The Tour on telly (part 3): The man in the director’s chair
Surrounded by screens, flashing buttons and high-tech controllers it’s a complex mission to broadcast the Tour de France. ITV’s director-producer Steve Docherty has seen a...
The Tour on telly (part 2): Ealing, we have a problem
As one team are trawling their way thousands of kilometres around France, the other are in dark rooms in Ealing piecing everything together. Calm is...
The Tour on telly (part 1): how ITV captures a moving circus
The 2017 Tour de France was the first edition of wall-to-wall live coverage for ITV4. Andy McGrath goes behind the scenes with Boardman, Boulting and...
Geraint Thomas: did Froome want to attack me? (book extract)
In this extract from his new book, The Tour According to G, 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas recalls the ‘weird team meeting’ and how his relationship...
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