Okay, so the Col de la Bonette may not be the highest road in Europe as it often proclaims but scaling its way up 2,802 metres with a cheeky little 2 kilometre loop around the top just to out trump ...
"I'm gone, I'm dead." The words keep cropping up among the Danish crowds on the roads of this Tour de France, emblazoned on t-shirts and banners. On the climb to Superdévoluy the other day, one ...
“When you’re racing on the Bonette, you don’t think it’s beautiful; you hate it. It’s terrible, really terrible,” says Bjarne Riis, the disputed ‘winner’ of the 1996 Tour. “If you want to admire the ...
Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates squad confirmed their dominance of the 2024 Tour de France with yet another stage victory in Isola 2000. UAE Team Emirates controlled a quality breakaway over ...
The Tour de France ascended Europe's highest mountain pass for only the fourth time in its 105-year history, and the 2,802m Col de la Bonette-Restefond almost proved very costly for a young South ...