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Ahead of the 2022 Giro d'Italia we unravel the story of Italy’s most famous jersey – from fascist dictators to superstitious journalists
Miguel Indurain’s 1993 Tour win secured his place in history as the only man to record two Giro/Tour doubles back-to-back
The arrival of two riders with very different styles in the 1950s heralded a brief golden period for the Swiss at the Tour
A miserable start to 2010 saw Mark Cavendish struggling for wins and losing respect. He needed to do something special…
In 1914 Belgium’s Philippe Thys won his second Tour in a race dominated by his Peugeot team – just days before Europe descended into war
Now retired from his role as UAE Team Emirates DS, Allan Peiper talks about Tadej Pogačar, beating cancer and more
In 1989 American Greg LeMond took 58 seconds out of Laurent Fignon on the final day to record the narrowest victory in Tour history
It was the comeback no one expected – except, perhaps, Mark Cavendish. Here’s how the Manx Missile went from boy racer to history maker
No rider has achieved the Tour/Giro double since 1998, the year that Marco Pantani went from being a hero to a legend
It’s one of the greatest stories in cycling – how Octave Lapize took the Tour to new heights in the Pyrenees in 1910. Photo: L'Equipe
We pay tribute to the Tour de France's iconic leader's jersey
In 1948 Italy was on the verge of revolution. To prevent anarchy the country needed a hero, and up stepped Gino Bartali
In 1952 Fausto Coppi became the first rider to win a Tour stage on Alpe d’Huez, on his way to a second Giro/Tour double in three years
In 1926 the toughest stage of the longest Tour became biblical when a storm hit the Pyrenees. It would seal the legend of Lucien Buysse
For some riders, racing becomes about more than just winning – it’s about beating one person in particular
Magne could easily have lost yellow in the final week of the 1931 Tour but for the arrival of an anonymous letter. Photo: L'Equipe
Federico Bahamontes is one of the finest climbers to have ridden the Tour, but in 1963 he lost the yellow jersey just three days from Paris
In 1972 Molteni’s team time-trial win took their leader Eddy Merckx into yellow, setting the stage for his fourth straight Tour title
A brutal mountain stage at the 1955 Tour is where a young Charly Gaul announces his arrival to the world
At the 1981 Tour de France, everyone believed Belgian sprinter Freddy Maertens was burnt out – a has-been. How wrong they were
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