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Tour de France

Podium Cafe's coverage of the 2010 Tour!

Tour de Force, by Mark Cavendish

The third volume of Mark Cavendish’s autobiography

Le Fric, by Alex Duff

A (financial) history of the Tour de France with an emphasis on the attempts to form a breakaway league a decade ago

Mythologies: Assassins of the Aubisque!

The 1910 Tour has given rise to no end of nonsense, not least the claim that Octave Lapize called the race organisers assassins as he crossed the Col d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.

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2022 Tour de France Mountains Preview - Let's Rank the Mountains

Mythologies: Alphonse Steinès and the Invention of the Pyrénées

Dirty Feet, by Les Woodland

A brief history of the Tour de France from the veteran cycling historian Les Woodland

When Josephine Baker Sprinkled Her Stardust on the Tour de France

From 1933 to 1938 the American star of the Jazz Age played a role in the Tour’s grand départ and in doing so helped reshape the Tour for a new audience.

Tour stage 21 preview: Everything ends

Rambouillet - Paris (128km)

Tour Stage 20 Preview: Alpine Trilogy, Part 3 - An Ending and a Continuation

Albertville - Val Thorens (59 km)

Tour Stage 19 Preview: The Alpine Trilogy, Part 2- Altitude Boogaloo

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Tignes (126.5 km)

Tour Stage 18 Preview: The Alpine Trilogy, Part 1

Embrun to Vaillore (by way of the Vars, Izoard and Galibier) (208 km)

The Tour According to G, by Geraint Thomas

Editors’ Chat: Who’s Going to Win the Tour?

Tour Stage 17 Preview: Mind the Gap

Pont du Gard to Gap (200 km)

Rest Day Open Thread: Who wins the Tour?

Seriously, who is going to win this thing?

Tour Stage 15 Preview: Albi waiting for you

Limoux - Foix-Prat d’Albis

Tour Stage Fourteen Preview: Nowhere to Hide

Tour Stage Thirteen Preview: Time to Find Out Where we Stand

Stage 11 Preview: “It’s a Trap!”

Albi to Toulouse (167 km)

Tour Stage Ten Preview: Resting a Day Early

Saint-Flour - Albi (218km)

Tour Stage 8 preview: Give us a break

Mâcon - Saint Étienne 200 km

What we Learned from Stage Six

Tour Stage 7 Preview: Getting from one place to another

Belfort - Chalon-sur-Saône 230 km

Tour Stage Six Preview: Return to Hotties’ Hill

Mulhouse - Planche des Belles Filles (161km)

Tour Stage Five Preview: Oh Heinrich, Where Art Thou?

Tour Stage Four Preview: Oh Right, it is the First Week

Who’s Gonna Win the Tour? You Decide!

A Tale of Two Skybots

A look at Geraint Thomas’ and Richie Porte’s chances at the Tour

Can Jakob Fuglsang Really Do This?

With some talk about Dan Martin towards the bottom.

Why Adam Yates might win the TdF

Tour de France Open Thread: What are you looking forward to?

A Tour Without Froome