http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/on-the-road-theres-a-new-colour-in-the-team-sky-camp-and-its-yellow/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/on-the-road-theres-a-new-colour-in-the-team-sky-camp-and-its-yellow/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:08:43 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26152 On Bradley’s arrival, he bounded out of the team car and shook the hand of every single person on the team, including yours truly. It was a real mark of the respect that exists between the riders and their support team, and made my day after missing out on watching the stage.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/09/on-the-road-theres-a-new-colour-in-the-team-sky-camp-and-its-yellow/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/05/on-the-road-team-sky-can-make-history-on-tour-de-france/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/05/on-the-road-team-sky-can-make-history-on-tour-de-france/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:51:01 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25978 No one on Team Sky mentions it; let alone discusses it for fear of jinxing the whole thing, but I can tell it is there.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/05/on-the-road-team-sky-can-make-history-on-tour-de-france/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/29/on-the-road-the-riders-dont-appear-nervous-simply-excited-to-start-the-tour-de-france/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/29/on-the-road-the-riders-dont-appear-nervous-simply-excited-to-start-the-tour-de-france/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:30:08 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25756 Everyone refers to the Tour de France simply as ‘the Tour’. Many other races have the same prefix, but only one is sufficiently famous, epic, and so overwhelmingly difficult as to be referred to by it.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/29/on-the-road-the-riders-dont-appear-nervous-simply-excited-to-start-the-tour-de-france/feed/ 0