The French really do not like 3 GB winners in the last 4 TdFs do they?
What's the French for "suck it up" ? :)

Anyone watch what just went down in the time trial????

Absolutely amazing stage - the young Slovenian just blew everyone away and the poor leader - your heart breaks for him but what went wrong on that climb????

Old story - it has taken 4/5 years for Freeman to be found guilty, but most cycling enthusiasts have known about this for sometime.
What they haven't got is evidence of which riders were involved.

GB cycling don't won't to get involved for obvious reasons...

Cyclings reputation as the premier bastion of pharmaceutical enhancement is well deserved, it is probably the easiest sport in which to demonstrate the fundamentals of ones own biochemistry. Eat nothing go out for a couple of hours on your bike and you will bonk, hit the wall. Eat as you go and you can keep plodding on in relative comfort, even a very average cyclist can see how ones own physiology and capacity to exercise can be tweaked by what and when you take nutrients and what ever else on board. The early tours where populated by working class athletes with pretty basic kit probably taking what ever to get round. The tour is so brutal it has always been so.

I really enjoyed Christophe Bassons book A CLEAN BREAK which clearly predicts how history would reveal a complete lack of irony in Brailsford jibe against the French in 2012, that British cycling had specially rounded wheels. I really dont know how I would feel if my kid was pursuing a career as an elite cyclist as I think rounding of the bodies biochemistry is a prerequisite of elite participation. I used to rush home from school to watch Robert Miller chase the polka dot jersey. It has taken me a couple of decades to come to terms with how teams & cyclists prepare and fuel for the tour, stopped watching it during the Armstrong years & then started again for a bit with team sky until their domination suggested the roundest wheels ever and then binned it completely.

Commuting by bike during COVID has re-stimulated my interest and watching the fledgling careers of some Brit youngsters is sorely tempting. I just wish for them it was a clean sport unfortunately winning is everything and as Bassons states the only prize for cycling clean is your health, conscience and a life long love of sporting participation which is normally the preserve of amateurs alongside an empty trophy cabinet.

Another day of chaos high speed crash after crash GC classification all over the place. Broken bones, dislocated shoulders and a hell of a lot of road rash. Breath taking racing

Chapeau Mark Cavendish!