Tag: Tour de France 2003

Why You’ve Got To Love Carlos Sastre

There’ll have been various points throughout Carlos Sastre’s career where he’d have been told not to look back; his solo stage victory ahead of a raging Jan Ullrich on Ax 3 Domaines comes to mind, as does his career defining attack on Alpe d’Huez en route to landing the Tour de France. However, now retired

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Ten of the best… Stages in Tour de France history (Part 2)

Part 1 of this list concluded with Marco Pantani’s destruction of Jan Ullrich in 1998. With the turn of the decade came a whole host of iconic moments and increased media coverage. Sadly, the whole era is tarnished by doping revelations but the protagonists still took part in some fierce battles. Immediately post-Armstrong we saw

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