2013 Tour de France: Teams

Ag2r La Mondiale (Fra) What does the sponsor do? Insurance company Team Manager: Vincent Lavenu Established: 1992 (Chazal, Petit-Casino, Casino-Ag2R La Prevoyance, Ag2R La Prevoyance) Past stars: Nicholas Roche, Cyril Dessel, Jaan Kirsipuu, Laurent Brochard, Jean Patrick-Nazon, Christope Moreau, Francisco Mancebo. 2012 Tour: Nothing of note to be honest - Nicholas Roche wound his way...

Summer Challenge: Marmotte & The Etape du Tour

2013 is, in case the cycling world has somehow passed you by in the last 18 months, the centennial year of the Tour de France. The race itself is thus celebrating that fact, so I thought why not do something similar? I didn't have any particularly crazy plans, and at first, I simply wanted to...

11 things we’d love to happen in the 2013 Tour de France, but almost certainly wont

We look into our rose tinted, somewhat delusional crystal ball to try and see what's going to happen in July... 1. Andy Schleck reveals his masterpiece of deception Having been written off completely and trailing in with the laughing group most days, When the race hits the slopes of the first summit finish, Schleck attacks,...

Teammate trouble: Why Wiggins’ withdrawal doesn’t spell the end for Team tensions

You reckon the Tour is going to be a boring Sky procession with Froome in yellow now? Disappointed that Wiggins' departure for a 'knee injury' that apparently means he wont even be good enough to feature in the best nine riders for Sky (...) means that we won't have three weeks of sniping and forced...