Author: Harold Dalton

With six climbs on the menu stage 6 of Paris Nice 2020, opened the door to the climbers of the peloton and gave them their first real chance to make some inroads in the overall classification. The final 20km had a savage cat 2 climb with some bonus seconds available shortly after. With the GC far from over and Nice looming on the horizon make sure you check out our highlights of the decisive stage of the race.

With the negative results of the third and final block of testing and the quarantine period now at an end, the Emirati team have decided to return to Europe. This observation period was necessary to be sure of non-contagion for negative riders and staff, and also to allow the time to show the positive results of the others. These measures were to protect the health of loved ones at home, fellow teammates and the wider cycling community. The cases that have proved positive in the meantime will remain in the UAE, where they will remain in the best of care in hospital.…

After consultation with the relevant authorities, The Union Cycliste Internationale and the Ville de Nice, the organisers of Paris-Nice have decided that 7th stage, finishing at Valdebore la Colmiane, will be the last of the race. This decision, taken as part of the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus, means that the final stage in Nice is now cancelled.

In response to the spread of the coronavirus the Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency. This prohibits the organization of mass events and makes it impossible to organize international events. As a consequence, the Organising Committee of the Giro d’Italia’s Hungarian stages declared that the Giro’s start could not be held in Hungary at the originally scheduled time. All parties have agreed that they are determined to work together to enable the Giro d’Italia to depart from Hungary at a later time. RCS Sport, having taken note of the international and national situation, announces that the date of the 2020…

This essay is Part Three of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below is the same for all five essays. One of my great academic mentors, who would almost certainly prefer to remain unnamed in this article, had a fundamental belief in common with me: that sports matter. But while we certainly cycled along the same roads, both metaphorically and literally, it became clear that we were approaching a similar topic from slightly different directions. Over five weeks in 2016, we explored these directions, with research conducted at Tufts and MIT. Here follows…

There will be a new Tour de France videogame in 2020. Back in the early days of Derailed, we had to trawl ancient MS-DOS releases, weird Japanese NES ROMs about keirin racing, and a terrible PS2 Tour de France RPG that had a pretty baffling take on how to turn bike racing into a game. Oh, and Pro Cycling Manager 2004, which was actually pretty good apart from a bug that killed all your riders’ morale after a season and made it impossible to compete. In 2020, we still have Pro Cycling Manager. If you last played it in 2004,…

Tejay van Garderen has retired from the Paris-Nice and returned to the US, citing the new travel ban on Europe imposed by the US. Being unwilling to become indefinitely separated from his family due to the COVID-19 crisis, Van Garderen did not start Stage 5 this morning. This is a tough decision. Sergio Higuita is about to win Paris-Nice, yet I won’t be able to be there to celebrate with him in Nice. My wife and kids had plans to travel from the US to Nice for the final, but given the current circumstances I couldn’t risk being separated from…

Stage 5 of Paris – Nice was a lumpy route skirting around the foothills of the Massif Central and was the longest stage the riders will face at this year’s race. The parcours suited attackers and with no less than four categorised climbs on the menu it was an exciting stage into La Côte-Saint-André. With a flat finish did the bunch catch the break before the line? With one of the best opportunities for the breakaway in the race don’t miss out on our highlights of stage 5.