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2014 was the year that pro-cycling teams really started to use video to engage their fans. It’s finally allowed them to fit into a world where everything gets GoPro-d. Sport, weather, human interaction, animals, you name it, everything now has a GoPro vantage point from which to watch. But it’s not just on-board cameras and […]
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1. The major towns that get a look-in Bridlington, Wakefield, Leeds, Scarborough, York and Selby will all feature, but where they are going to be placed in the 2015 route is going to remain a secret until 21st January. So Yorkshire’s east coast features heavily as well as big cities in West and North Yorkshire. South […]
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L’Étape du Tour is an event in which mere mortals pit themselves against a stage that the Tour de France pros will be tackling in a few days time. Many train for months, even years, to manage it. Others rock up with nothing more than a clean set of lycra and a devil-may-care attitude. Some make it. Others don’t. The ones […]
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Today the Tour de France 2015 route was unveiled in Paris, and the 102nd edition of the race already looks intriguing to say the least. A lot of the focus this year is on the very top and tail of the country: the peleton will commemorate World War One on the flat plains of northern […]
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I’m sure if you’d asked Michal Kwiatkowski that morning he wouldn’t have thought it either. Movistar rider and Essex boy Alex Dowsett delighted the home crowds yesterday when he took the lead from the clutches of Omega Pharma Quick-Step’s Kwiatkowski after a powerful and smart ride in the day’s breakaway. What happened to Kwiatkowski’s yellow jersey? […]
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