Increasingly of late, we’re seeing just how high the skeletons of cycling have been stacked underwater as the tide rolls back to reveal the carnage. The scramble to highlight current…

A cartoon by Anders Bendixen   With today’s news that Miguel Indurain is the latest multiple Tour de France winner to be associated with a doping scandal, it’s turning into a regular conspiracy/cover-up scene…

“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.” ~ Akira Kurosawa     Bjarne Riis’s autobiography really should have been…

We’ve looked at the version of the 1996 Tour de France as it was reported at the time (part 1 and part 2). We’ve looked at the sensible justifications offered…

Having looked at the version of the Tour de France that was reported at the time (part 1 + part 2), we now look at some of the explanations and…

Our look at Bjarne Riis’s rise to the top of cycling’s greasy pole continues, picking up the story of the 1996 Tour de France on the first day in the…

With the publication of the English-language translation of Bjarne Riis’s autobiography – Riis: Stages of Light and Darkness (Vision Sports Publishing) – let’s turn the clock back and take a…