http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 21:06:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/lance-armstrong-norway-richard-iii-live-while-were-young/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/lance-armstrong-norway-richard-iii-live-while-were-young/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:24:42 +0000 Ellen E Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27750 What's trending and why?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/24/lance-armstrong-norway-richard-iii-live-while-were-young/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-and-team-sky-have-made-tour-de-france-history-its-been-emotional/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-and-team-sky-have-made-tour-de-france-history-its-been-emotional/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:07:25 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26688 Martin Ayres has spent the past three weeks on the road with Team Sky. With victory secured yesterday afternoon on the Champs Elysee, Martin looks back at a life changing experience. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-and-team-sky-have-made-tour-de-france-history-its-been-emotional/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/20/on-the-road-getting-closer-to-paris/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/20/on-the-road-getting-closer-to-paris/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:11:14 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26576 We had a team meeting yesterday and Dave Brailsford reminded us that until we get Paris the job is not done.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/20/on-the-road-getting-closer-to-paris/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/17/on-the-road-sabotage-punctures-the-wrong-tack-and-le-gentleman-bradley-wiggins/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/17/on-the-road-sabotage-punctures-the-wrong-tack-and-le-gentleman-bradley-wiggins/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:54:08 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26441 The past 24 hours for everyone on the Tour has been dominated by tacks - 20mm long pieces of pure evil.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/17/on-the-road-sabotage-punctures-the-wrong-tack-and-le-gentleman-bradley-wiggins/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/12/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-does-a-perfect-recreation-of-alan-partridges-dan-dan-dan/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/12/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-does-a-perfect-recreation-of-alan-partridges-dan-dan-dan/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:47:07 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26277 The more time you spend on the road, the more important those small moments of fun to stop us all going deranged from the daily pressure of being on 'Le Tour'.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/12/on-the-road-bradley-wiggins-does-a-perfect-recreation-of-alan-partridges-dan-dan-dan/feed/ 5 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/2012/07/02/one-the-road-team-sky-are-more-formula-one-than-professional-cycling/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/one-the-road-team-sky-are-more-formula-one-than-professional-cycling/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:05:35 +0000 Martin Ayres http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25870 The team convoy was stuck in gridlocked traffic outside town when a policeman on a motorbike appeared out of thin air. On his lights went, and off we drove into Liege through a two thousand car guard-of-honour that had pulled onto either side of the road to allow us through.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/one-the-road-team-sky-are-more-formula-one-than-professional-cycling/feed/ 0 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 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/29/caught-social-ronson-remembers-amy/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/29/caught-social-ronson-remembers-amy/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:44:14 +0000 Luke Blackall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=14666 Daily gossip from the world of celeb]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/29/caught-social-ronson-remembers-amy/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/24/top-ten-moments-from-the-tour-de-france-2011/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/24/top-ten-moments-from-the-tour-de-france-2011/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:43:09 +0000 Simon O'Hagan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=14468 I haven’t seen every minute of every stage, or anything like that much, but I’ve seen quite a bit of the Tour and I visited for a couple of days. Here are my top 10 moments, in ascending order.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/24/top-ten-moments-from-the-tour-de-france-2011/feed/ 1