John Wilcockson
BACKGROUND: Wilcockson writes about all aspects of cycling but specializies in European road racing. He has reported the Tour de France no less than 40 times. A graduate of the University of London, Wilcockson became the editor of VeloNews in 1988 and has since worked as editorial director and now editor-at-large. His other journalism experience includes being the editor of International Cycle Sport, Winning: Bicycle Racing Illustrated and Inside Cycling magazines, as well as serving as the longtime cycling correspondent of The Times and The Sunday Times of London. He is the author of more than a dozen books. He raced as a Cat. 1 amateur in Britain, France and Ireland before becoming a writer and editor in 1968. These days he celebrates his birthday each year by riding his years in miles in the Rocky Mountains.
BIKES IN THE GARAGE: '98 Seven Cartesia, '87 Vitus and '04 Jamis Dakota
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Posted: Tue, Oct 27th
Inside Cycling: A stage-by-stage analysis of the 2010 GiroThe route for the 2010 Giro d’Italia — which was unveiled on Italian national television by race director Angelo Zomegnan in Milan last Saturday night — has elicited much praise from both the European media and the racers.
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st
Inside Cycling - Four TTs in tougher 2010 Giro?Just as word leaked out beforehand about the route of the 2010 Tour de France, so several sources in Italy have published reports on the likely stages for the 2010 Giro d’Italia — which will be formally unveiled this Saturday in Milan.
Race organizer RCS and its daily ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th
Inside Cycling - Perspective on the 2010 Tour routeRelated: Interactive Google Map of the 2010 Tour route
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th
Inside Cycling - 2010 Tour to celebrate Pyrenean centennialWhen race director Christian Prudhomme unveils details of the 2010 Tour de France in Paris on October 14, his presentation will most likely emphasize the 100th anniversary of the first crossing of the Pyrénées with a course that culminates on the Col du Tourmalet just three ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 25th
The Mendrisio worlds and other memoriesUnlike a grand tour or a classic, or any other major annual bike race, the world road championships is the sport’s only prestigious event that has the whole world looking on — and the organizers have only one chance to do it right. That’s because the Union Cycliste ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Why the Vuelta is key to the worldsFans who have followed the Vuelta a España for the past three weeks must have been wondering why so many riders were dropping out. Of the 198 starters, only 139 finished the race in Madrid on Sunday. Many quit because of injuries suffered in the overly frequent crashes, but the ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 3rd
John Wilcockson: North Americans still in the hunt at the Vuelta, even with Horner gone In terms of roadside spectators, the opening four stages of the 64th Vuelta a España through The Netherlands and Belgium were a huge success.. “Just like the Tour de France,” some of the riders said. But the interest in North America has been minimal, at best, even though ...
Posted: Sat, Aug 22nd
Inside Cycling - The Tour of Ireland’s forgotten time trialIf money hadn’t been tight at this year’s Tour of Ireland, Lance Armstrong and the other notables in the field would have been tracing the wheelmarks of Irish legends Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche in a historic time trial. But the world’s economic downtown forced the ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 26th
Cavendish always deliversDuring the stage-winning celebrations at the Columbia-HTC team bus in Paris Sunday evening, directeur sportif Allan Peiper pointed out that Mark Cavendish scored his record six field-sprint wins at this Tour in very different ways. The 24-year-old Brit not only packs a kick that ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 25th
Inside the Tour - Weary peloton ready for ParisThe Tour de France organizers’ experiment of making the peloton race up Mont Ventoux the day before the finish had mixed results.
It was a thrill for the estimated 500,000 fans who lined the 21km length of the infamous climb. It was a burden for most of the 156 men who ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd
Inside the Tour - Armstrong still has a shot at Paris podiumAfter the most difficult mountain stage of this Tour de France, Alberto Contador appears to have wrapped up his second overall victory in three years. But the fight for the other two podium places will continue Thursday in the stage 18 time trial at Annecy — before being ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19th
Inside Cycling - This Tour is not over“Contador was the strongest today,” Saxo Bank’s Fränk Schleck said shortly after Sunday’s intense stage 15 to Verbier. “And now it will be very difficult for us to win the Tour de France. But we will try again.”
Saxo Bank surprised many on Sunday by being the ...
