by Simon Crisp
A straw man often employed by the media is that cycling claims to be a green sport, but is nothing of the sort. They cite the team cars, air travel and plastic bidons as being indicative of hypocrisy, yet teams have rarely, if at all bothered to push any sort of environmental cause as part... Continue Reading →
Three US Presidents, six British Prime Ministers, 127 new riders, 298 Tour de France stages and 339 UK Number One singles after July 25th 2008, Cofidis no longer have to reference a rider who retired five seasons ago as the last rider to win a Tour de France stage for the team. Yes, Sylvain Chavanel... Continue Reading →
It's Tour Time! And quite a young one by the looks of it. We've had a look at the tour teams of the last few years (2005 onwards, the ProTour era) to see what level of experience is being brought to the 2023 race, and how it differs to the past. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14286425/ 2023 will feature... Continue Reading →
Race charts for all Grand Tours since 1998
Yessss, more charts and graphs on the WorldTour teams for 2023, and how they break down. Aren't you lucky?Here's the 2023 WorldTour split by teams. You can see the breakdown by nation, and also sort the teams by their ProCyclingStats scores, number of stage wins, Monument wins and podiums, and the total career wins of... Continue Reading →
How's the peloton looking this year? Who has the strongest team? Who has the most stage winners? Now I've managed to get Flourish to embed, here's lots of charts... Who is the strongest team? Well, this year, it's UAE, although it should be noted that Jumbo have surged since their 2017 nadir. This ranking by... Continue Reading →
After all the major jersey competitions, it's time for stage win records. Most of these are going to pretty difficult for people to beat these days, with only one - the Tour de France Stage win record - really up for grabs. Eddy Merckx's overall Grand Tour stage win record of 65 wins is almost... Continue Reading →
There is some precedent for teams announcing jerseys for the following year in July. Movistar have done it, for no particular reason (one less thing to get angry with on Netflix, perhaps), and Lotto Soudal once did, as part of a sponsorship extension announcement. Soudal-Quick Step started us off this July, but now we're in... Continue Reading →
It's Oscars time, when arthouse cinema gathers together, thinks its popular, then is shocked when the films that win don't do particularly well at the box office. Whilst this years nominees are an eclectic mix of biographies, neo-westerns and god-awful climate change analogies, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as it is officially... Continue Reading →
This is one of a series of looks at advertising in cycling, mostly informed by looking back through past issues of Procycling magazine. We all love a good advert, don’t we? Those little snippets of language or imagery created with the sole intent to make us feel part of something, or to instil a desire... Continue Reading →
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