Roubaix

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Egan Bernal, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Gianni Moscon of Team Sky cycling team during the eighth stage of the 105th edition of the Tour de France. Photograph: Getty Images
Bradley Wiggins stirs pot with warning of leadership battle in Team Sky

The Tour de France arrived at the foot of the Alps after the long transfer from Roubaix yet continued dishing the dirt, on and off the road. As Chris (...)

Dan Martin after winning the fifth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine on June 8th. “You can lose the Tour on any day, and that’s what makes it so difficult.” Photograph: Getty Images
Dan Martin ready for the relentless, brutal Tour de France

A map of the 2018 Tour de France is placed in front of Dan Martin, and he begins to run his finger over it, slowly at first, then more steadily. Fro(...)

Belgium’s Michael Goolaerts of Veranda’s Willems-Crelan cycling team receives first aid after a crash during the 116th edition of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic cycling race. Goolaerts later died of a cardiac arrest. Photo: David Stockman/Getty Images
Michael Goolaerts' death puts sports tragedies in perspective

What a week for sporting tragedy. Five months after La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed the end of the world when Italy failed to qualify for the World(...)

Competitors cycling across cobble stones during the 116th Paris-Roubaix one-day classic on Sunday. Photograph: Getty Images
Paris-Roubaix maintains its reputation for sustained brutality as cyclist dies

The death of young Belgian Michael Goolaerts following a crash in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix reminds us of the price that can be paid for our pleasure. Fi(...)

Spain’s Sergio Garcia after winning the 2017 Masters. In some cases the winner might surrender that winning cheque and happily walk away with just the blazer. Photograph: Reuters/Mike Segar
Ian O’Riordan: The Paris-Roubaix race is ‘hell’ on wheels

Most of us have no idea of what it would mean to win on Sunday. That sense of history and hype in perfect rhyme, of keeping your head when all about y(...)