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The Slovakian cyclist Peter Sagan , world road champion last year, has just defended his title in Qatar, beating Britain’s Mark Cavendish a...

This courageous Scotsman, Danny MacAskill , is never afraid of falling off his bike. You have to wait until the end of the documentary to di...

I'm happy to see the success at Rio of the Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellera , who will soon be retiring. I've always been impress...

Ladies have the right (like men, for that matter) to choose the kind of hot tube around which they would like to spread their thighs. And we...

Every individual has a way of making oneself feel as old as a dinosaur. My failproof method consists of watching old cycling videos. Cli...

This attractive drawing has been used in Le Monde to illustrate an ordinary article about the coming cycling season. I often wonder wh...

The sun is shining upon Gamone. Yesterday, on the slopes of Choranche, I donned my beekeeper’s clothes and attended the second hands-on ses...

Whichever way you look at the situation, and no matter what he actually says in his much-awaited coming-out on doping condemnations (recorde...

I call it the Darkstrong epoch. Others will evoke lies, cheating and bullying. Funnily enough, we cycling enthusiasts and observers i...

The US Anti-Doping Agency's decision to erase the career of Lance Armstrong is a blatant case of perfectionism. I'm using this term...

In competitive track cycling, there's a curious technique—in the two-person racing format known as sprinting —that consists of standing ...

The city of Grenoble (half an hour away from where I live) was the birthplace of the French novelist Stendhal [1783-1842], whose most celeb...

Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel is a sleepy village on the right bank of the Loire, opposite Jargeau , not far from Orléans , in the heart of th...

The day before yesterday (Wednesday), I ran into a South African couple, Andrew and Brenda , at the petrol station attached to the local su...

In the charming village of St-Jean-en-Vercors, Roger and Teresa have created a high-quality gite, called Vélo Vercors , for cycling enthus...

On the eve of the Tour de France in 2006, there was a vast dope-oriented cleanup. The organizers published a short list of undesirable ride...

Most serious individuals concentrate upon one thing at a time. I'm not suggesting that they have what might be called "one-track mi...

This is an amusing presentation of Lance Armstrong 's new RadioShack team: Lance has just arrived in South Australia to start preparing...

I'm happy to see an Australian road cyclist achieving a major victory, and I'm tremendously pleased that the victor should be Cadel ...

This photo shows Cadel Evans in the recent Tour de France : These days, he has been competing splendidly in the Vuelta , the road-cycling t...