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Charting the 2020 Tour de France
There are many ways to show how a bike race is unfolding. Video coverage, of course, written reports, podcasts, photo galleries — they all do the job in their own way. And so does data journalism, as VeloClub member Cameron Harris showed us during several big races last year. Well, Cam is back at it …
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Tony Martin’s truce turned the peloton into its own patron
Tony Martin asked for respect. He stuck his hands out and spread the front of the peloton wide across the road. As they climbed the Côte de Rimiez, he conversed with others around him, riders of the same vintage, and made the truce. Piano, piano, his lips read on the TV cameras. Slowly, slowly. It …
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An exercise in pointlessness: Emma Pooley on her world-record Everesting
Last month former world champion Emma Pooley broke the women’s Everesting record, eclipsing the previous mark set by fellow Englishwoman Hannah Rhodes. Pooley is the first female rider to complete the enormous challenge in under nine hours. Now that Emma has had time to digest her effort, she reflects on those painstaking hours in the …
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Froome and Thomas out, Carapaz in: What does it mean for Ineos at the Tour?
Ineos unveiled its Tour de France roster on Wednesday, and the big reveal turned heads in more ways than one. The team’s announcement confirmed that Chris Froome would, indeed, miss the Tour de France this year, putting an end to speculation that had been all over cycling media for weeks. But that wasn’t the only …
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The Tour de France starts next week, but should it?
In two Saturdays’ time, two months late, the 2020 Tour de France will finally begin. On the wide boulevards of Nice, with the glinting blue of the Mediterranean at their backs, the riders and their entourage will head up into the hills surrounding the coastal city and set a course that will lead them to …
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