How Team GB cyclists peaked at the Olympics and owned the velodrome
When it comes to winning Olympic gold, it turns out timing isn’t everything.
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Five questions for cycling chief Dave Brailsford
The Team Sky boss is due to give evidence to MP’s at parliament. Here’s what they should ask him.
Popularity of apps like Natural Cycles highlights serious issues with contraceptives today
It’s unsurprising that such apps are popular. Contraceptives come with a slew of hazards.
Tour de France’s doping history clouds a ‘cleaner’ sport
With the start of the 101st Tour de France only one day away, the topic of doping in cycling will no doubt start to rear its ugly head. While the riders cover 3,664km in 21 stages over three weeks in an…
A French victory in the Tour de France would mean ‘cycling’s coming home’
If you think English footy fans have it hard losing in the semis in far away away tournaments, imagine being French and losing the Tour de France on your home turf every year.
Lunar and solar eclipses make animals do strange things
While the world gathers to see an eclipse, what’s the rest of nature doing?
Science says a 17‑mile stage might be the Tour de France’s toughest test
Mountains? Pah. 60kph sprints and 220km stages? They’re nothing. The thing most troubling the teas battling for the yellow jersey is this time trial.
There are solutions to these needless cyclist deaths
It has been a grim month for cycling in London. Just days ago newspapers wrote of five deaths in nine days, and barely is the ink dry before yet another death this morning makes six in under two weeks…
Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez is freezing her eggs – here’s what to consider if you’re thinking of doing the same
An increasing number of women are turning to “social” egg freezing each year.
Humans have an internal lunar clock – but light pollution is disrupting it
Many animals synchronise their behaviour to the phases of the Moon.
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