Eddy Merckx

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Irish rider will be looking for fast start around familiar roads in Nice

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The 107th edition features a Grand Départ on the Riviera and eight mountain days

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Part torture chamber, part music festival - the climb that can break a rider’s Tour de France

The Best Of Times: Roche goes to the limit and beyond in bid for Tour de France glory

The drama of the closing stages of the 1987 race held the nation in rapture

My favourite sporting moment: San Sebastian erupts after Big Mig delivers

July 4th, 1992: The Tour de France gets underway in the Basque Country

Teunissen pips Sagan in photo finish to take Tour de France first stage

Nicolas Roche 40th and Dan Martin 112th as Thomas shrugs off big crash in Brussels

Three Irishmen in yellow: the glory and tragedy of the maillot jaune

Dan Martin aiming to emulate Elliott, Roche and Kelly who all achieved Tour feat

Grand ambitions starting to move into clear view for Eddie Dunbar

Young Irish rider relishing cycling’s steep learning curves as he continues his rise

Team Sky’s legacy: titles and ambition tarnished by coldness and allegations

The team which will lose Sky as a sponsor next year made cycling more professional, yet forfeiting some of its humanity

Organisers unveil ‘highest Tour in history’

Route for 2019 Tour de France will encourage more breakaways and attacks

Glandular fever forces Mark Cavendish to take break from cycling

Former world champion can take his time to recover for 2019 season

Tour de France faces uphill battle against spectator disorder

Chris Froome was spat at, Vincenzo Nibali forced out of race and a flare fired at peloton

Chris Froome chasing place in history as rivals look for weakness

With the exception of Dumoulin who also cycled the Giro, Froome’s rivals should have the benefit of freshness

Chris Froome on course to secure Giro d’Italia crown

British rider set to join Merckx and Hinault in completing Grand Tour wins

Giro d’Italia: Froome leads after obliterating rivals with solo escape

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