Monthly Archives: October 2009

Défaillance, part 3: les hommes forts

The 1992 season for Greg LeMond was the beginning of his slow descent. But what we can now see with hindsight was not so evident at the time. “I can’t believe that a rider of his quality is finished at 31,” his director, Roger Legeay, had said. Before looking in detail at LeMond’s disastrous seasons

L’étape colossale

One hundred years after the Tour de France first ventured into the Pyrenees, the 2010 parcours will pay homage to the 1910 Tour’s queen stage, l’étape colossale, as L’Auto called it at the time. The media are billing next year as the showdown between the returning champion, Alberto Contador, and the former seven-time winner on