Sean Kelly Archives

5 Lessons of This Year’s Tour de France

July 25, 2022 at 10:23 am5 min reading

Road cycling

This year’s Tour de France has already been hailed as one of the most exciting and entertaining ever run. There was not a single stage without incident, drama or hard racing. In fact, there was so much hard racing that this 109th Tour was the…

One-Day Wonders: The Best Riders to Wear the Yellow Jersey Just Once

June 21, 2022 at 11:35 am6 min reading

Road cycling

The origins of the yellow jersey – the iconic Tour de France leader’s jersey – are often disputed. One rider from the 1913 Tour, Phillipe Thys, told Champions et Vedettes that Henri Desgrange, the father of Le Tour, asked him to wear a yellow jersey…

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Škoda Green Jersey Overview: Sprinters Are Favoured to Win – for a Change

August 20, 2021 at 11:07 am6 min reading

Road cycling

If you look up the winners of the green jersey in the last 10 editions of the Vuelta a España, you will notice something remarkable. Only one of the 10 riders to win the green jersey over that decade was a pure sprinter, John Degenkolb,…

Who Will Win The 2020 La Vuelta?

October 20, 2020 at 1:19 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

There will be two races in this year’s Vuelta a España, man against man and man against the virus. What happened in the Giro, in which two teams dropped out as a result of COVID-19 infections and some riders and teams asked for the race…