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
Stories by John Wilcockson »
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th
It’s all about the teamUntil the very final meter of Tuesday’s 39km team time trial in Montpellier it looked as though Lance Armstrong was going to grab the yellow jersey from Fabian Cancellara. That he didn’t take it may have disappointed those Armstrong fans looking for a Hollywood ending to a ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th
Columbia-HTC's stage 3 throw down presages great TTT battle on Tuesday.George Hincapie should know. He called Monday’s amazing collective performance by his Columbia-HTC team as the greatest he’d been associated with. And that’s saying something when you consider that the American veteran was on all seven of Lance Armstrong’s winning Tour ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 5th
Inside the Tour: Behind Cavendish's domination of the sprintsWatching Mark Cavendish totally dominate the other sprinters at Sunday’s stage 2 of the 96th Tour de France set me thinking about the first time I saw him race. It was in early 2005 at the world track championships in Los Angeles, when he was only 19.
Posted: Sat, Jul 4th
A strong start for ArmstrongNo one really knew what to expect when Lance Armstrong sped down the starting ramp alongside the harbor in Monte Carlo Saturday afternoon to begin his first Tour de France in four years. He wasn’t expecting to win Saturday’s 15.5km time trial, and that attitude was reflected ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 4th
Some surprises in L'Equipe's list of favoritesPredicting the outcome of the Tour de France is a hazardous undertaking, but it’s one that the editors of L’Équipe — the French sports newspaper that invented the Tour and is still part of its organizational team — always take a stab at. They generally get it ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd
Inside Cycling - All eyes on ContadorThe pressure is on Alberto Contador at the 96th Tour de France. By general consensus, Team Astana’s 26-year-old Spanish star is the clear favorite to wear the yellow jersey into Paris in three weeks’ time — but the 2007 winner could lose the chance of taking the Tour for a ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7th
Columbia-Highroad goes 1-2 in PhillyThere’s no stopping Team Columbia-Highroad’s blond German sprinter André Greipel. He has won race after race since he returned from the injured list a month ago. After a stage win at the Four Days of Dunkirk on May 10, three stages of the Tour of Bavaria in late May, and ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7th
Teutenberg says her third Philly win was the hardestIt all looked so easy for Team Columbia-Highroad’s Ina Teutenberg as she sped along Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway Sunday morning to win her third TD Bank Liberty Classic. At the line, the veteran German sprinter was two lengths clear of New Zealander Joanne ...
Posted: Sat, Jun 6th
Boasson Hagen favored at 25th Philly ChampionshipIt doesn’t seem possible that Edvald Boasson Hagen, the budding superstar at Columbia-Highroad and favorite to win this Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia International Championship, wasn’t even born when Eric Heiden won the inaugural edition of the 156-mile race in June 1985. ...
Posted: Tue, May 26th
John Wilcockson takes a look at the Giro's five tough remaining stagesAn exhausted Michael Rogers was speaking from experience on Monday after the Giro d’Italia’s gigantic stage 16 to Monte Petrano when he said, “I have just spent the toughest day and the hottest day I have ever experienced in the saddle.”
Posted: Sun, May 24th
Inside Cycling - Smart tactics can win this GiroIn order to challenge Denis Menchov and Danilo Di Luca for victory in this centennial Giro, Levi Leipheimer, Franco Pellizotti, Carlos Sastre, Ivan Basso and Michael Rogers have to go on the attack in the final week. But where and when they attack is all important because in the ...
Posted: Thu, May 21st
The challenges of the Cinque Terre TTWith the centennial edition of the Giro d’Italia at its halfway point, and with less than three minutes covering the top 10 riders on GC, doing well in Thursday’s ultra-tough Cinque Terre time trial is the key to overall victory. But besides the expected challenges to Danilo ...
