Jeremy Whittle

United Kingdom

Journalist at Freelance

Correspondent at The Guardian

Author, journalist, dog walker. https://t.co/SF69jnEDk0

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Articles

‘When I stopped racing I thought, who am I?’: Pippa York on leaving her old life behind

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Pippa York used to be Robert Millar, a stage winner and king of the mountains in the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia. Millar was also a podium finisher, in both the Vuelta a España and the Giro, a British national champion, and Tour of Britain winner. But Millar had also wanted to be a girl since the age of five, a secret that remained buried throughout childhood in Glasgow, the subsequent racing career, and beyond, into mid-life.
Ally Wollaston pips British teenager Cat Ferguson to Tour of Britain title

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The teenage prodigy Cat Ferguson came within a hair’s breadth of executing a memorable overall win in her debut Tour of Britain, but was outsprinted by her rival Ally Wollaston at the climax of the final stage in Glasgow. The pair came into the final sprint tied on time, after Wollaston had erased the 19-year-old Ferguson’s overall lead. Bonus seconds for third place in the final sprint, behind the stage winner, Lorena Wiebes, was enough for the New Zealander to snatch the overall win.
Lizzie Deignan’s farewell tour off to tricky start on Yorkshire home roads

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

There was personal celebration but professional frustration for Lizzie Deignan on the opening day of her final Tour of Britain when her Lidl-Trek team failed to stop the Mauritian national champion, Kim Le Court, taking the first stage win and overall race lead in Redcar.
Lizzie Deignan ‘emotional’ as she prepares for final race in Britain

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

An emotional Lizzie Deignan will end her years racing on home roads with a farewell appearance in the four-day Tour of Britain, which begins in Dalby Forest. “I’m really pleased that the race starts in Yorkshire and finishes in Glasgow, because I’ve got amazing memories of my career there,” she said.
Giro d’Italia winner Simon Yates hails ‘huge moment in my career’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Simon Yates reflected on a “sweet success” he had been targeting for much of his life after a spectacular and decisive coup in Saturday’s final mountain stage ensured he would ride to victory in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday. At 32, the Lancastrian had not been tipped to add to his sole Grand Tour victory, the 2018 Tour of Spain, but in the mammoth stage over the Colle Delle Finestre, he confounded those expectations to win the sport’s second most prestigious race, after the Tour de France.
Pogacar’s absence from Giro d’Italia may offer breath of fresh air for competition

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The 2025 Giro d’Italia may lack the star power of the Tour de France, but it is likely to make up for it with dynamic and unpredictable racing when it gets under way in Tirana on Friday. Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, the top three riders in last year’s Tour de France, are not racing, but the Giro will, as ever, throw up plentiful drama.
Geraint Thomas: ‘It’s been up and down. You remember the good times’

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

“Bike racing is all I have ever known,” says Geraint Thomas of the 19-year professional career that will end this summer with one final Tour de France and a farewell appearance in the Tour of Britain. While many of his peers are relishing a Tadej Pogacar-free Giro d’Italia that starts on Friday, the 2018 Tour winner has opted against three weeks in Italy, favouring one last ride in July’s French hothouse.
Four-stage 2025 Women’s Tour of Britain set for northern England and Scotland

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The 2025 women’s Tour of Britain will go ahead in northern England and the Scottish Borders in early June, despite speculation that this year’s event was in difficulty. Buoyed by news that the men’s and women’s Tour de France will start in Britain in 2027, this summer’s four-day women’s race will start in Yorkshire on 5 June and end in Glasgow four days later.
Edinburgh and Yorkshire set to host Tour de France Grand Départs in 2027

Mar 19, 2025 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales. It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the last 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014, and the most logistically demanding Grand Départ in the century-long history of the race.
‘I feel like I’ve been let off the lead’: Tom Pidcock on his Ineos exit, Netflix editing and not riding Le Tour

Feb 28, 2025 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

It’s July 2022 and Tom Pidcock is flying down the towering Col du Galibier at 100km an hour, pushing the boundaries of what is achievable on a road bike, his rear wheel sliding through each snaking vertiginous bend, leaving his peers far behind and French TV commentators aghast. A couple of hours later, he raises his arms at the top of Alpe d’Huez, one of the Tour’s most feared climbs, taking an exhilarating stage win in his debut Tour de France. A new star is born.