Stage 14 TDF 2023 Blog: Best Descender Wins Carlos Rodriguez (promoting oil and SUVs) won Stage 14 by closing the gap on Vingegaard and Pogacar after the top of the climb of the Joux Plane, and being the fastest on
Stage 13 TDF 2023 Blog: Pole Position Michal Kwiatskowski (promoting oil and SUVs) registered an impressive win on the top of the Grand Colombier on Stage 13. He was part of a 20-man breakaway that also included James Shaw, Quentin
Stage 12 TDF 2023 Blog: Nouveau Winner in Beaujolais Stage 12 was always likely to be a hard-fought breakaway affair, and so it proved. I had Ion Izagirre pencilled in for Stage 14, because he won on a very similar
Stage 11 TDF 2023 Blog: Boring, but not for JP Stage 11 was a sprinters’ stage, with a doomed breakaway and a massed peloton. Dylan Groenewegen was well-placed for the sprint, but had to settle for second as Jasper Philipsen
Stage 10 TDF 2023 Blog: the Heat is On Stage 10 was raced on a very hot day, and there were lots of climbs as the riders made their way through the Massif Central. That made for a hard and
Disappointing Anti-LTN Rhetoric from High-Carbon Transport Secretary Harper Transport Secretary Mark Harper indulged in populist anti-active travel propaganda in Sunday’s Telegraph. It is becoming increasingly clear that Prime Minister Sunak leads a government that is anti-active travel and uninterested in
Stage 9 TDF 2023 Blog: Woods’ Mountain Michael Woods was the fastest of the 14 breakaway riders up the Puy de Dome, and won his first Tour de France stage. He had been left behind on the flat by some
Stage 8 TDF 2023 Blog: Tough Uphill Sprint in Limoges In a hard, uphill finale, Mads Pedersen of Lidl Trek went early and kept sprinting all the way to a well-deserved win. Philipsen had the advantage of a Mathieu van
Stage 7 TDF 2023 Blog: Cav 2nd, Philipsen Wins Again Mark Cavendish came very close to Tour de France win no. 35 today, but Jasper Philipsen won again. Mathieu van der Poel started a lead-out for Philipsen early, and it
Stage 6 TDF 2023 Blog: Resurrection After looking dead and buried yesterday, Tadej Pogacar was back again today, sprinting away from Jonas Vingegaard and winning the stage. It was an odd performance. Usually you can understand the trajectory of a