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Suze Clemitson

Suze Clemitson is the author of 100 Tours 100 Tales and the blog of the same name. She was one of the original writers for Cyclingnews back in the days when it was still a newsletter, and was a 'faceless, genderless' attendee at the Change Cycling Now summit where Greg Lemond nearly broke her ipad

July 2022

  • Kathryn Bertine on the road in in 2014.

    100 Tours 100 Tales
    Kathryn Bertine: ‘I’ll celebrate the Women’s Tour but also keep fighting’

    The former cyclist says the new eight-stage Tour de France Femmes is just the start in the road to equality for women

December 2020

  • Tom Kelsall has contended with various health conditions throughout his life but he has not let them come between him and his bike.

    100 Tours 100 Tales
    How young cyclist Tom Kelsall became an unlikely hero in 2020

    Tom has contended with various health conditions throughout his life but he has not let them come between him and his bike

June 2019

  • Annemiek van Vleuten will be aiming to add to her two La Course wins in Pau on 19 July.

    La Course packs a punch but push for women’s Tour de France continues

    The 2019 route suits attacking riders, with five ascents in a dynamic circuit but has failed to build on momentum to expand the one-day race

February 2019

  • When asked for a photo by an 18-year-old fan, Iljo Keisse leant back and pretended he was having sex with her.

    Guardian Sport Network
    Another cycling season, another shameful case of sexism

    When asked for a photo by a fan, Belgian cyclist Iljo Keisse pulled a porn-star pose. And the reaction was just as depressing

October 2018

  • The peloton in action during La Course last summer.

    100 Tours 100 Tales
    Women's cycling needs its own Tour de France – not more vague promises

    The route for next year’s Tour de France was revealed this week. Yet again women’s cycling was treated like a poor relation

August 2017

  • Chris Froome

    Guardian Sport Network
    Will Chris Froome become the third cyclist to win the Tour-Vuelta double?

    Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault are the only cyclists to have won the Tour and Vuelta in the same year – and they did it before the calendar changed

July 2017

  • Annemiek van Vleuten

    Guardian Sport Network
    Women could cycle the Tour de France route, so why give them La Course?

    Annemiek Van Vleuten was a worthy winner of the two-day race but women cyclists deserve more than a shortened mountain stage and a novelty pursuit
  • Cycling now has its own hero: Philippa York.

    Guardian Sport Network
    Philippa York can be the trailblazer who hauls cycling into the 21st century

    Philippa York’s decision to speak publically about her transition should be a powerful and positive moment for the sport
  • Jan Bakelants is given the yellow jersey on the podium at the Tour de France in 2013.

    Guardian Sport Network
    Condoms, chicks and La Course: the Tour de France still has a sexism problem

    The Tour organisers told Jan Bakelants to apologise for his stupid sexist comments but they should also update their own attitude to women’s cycling

April 2017

  • Karen M. Edwards

    Guardian Sport Network
    How to take a perfect sports photo: plan, stay calm and fight for your spot

    Sports photography isn’t just about being at the right place at the right time. As Karen M. Edwards explains, you have to be prepared – and willing to jostle

December 2016

  • Sarah Storey

    Guardian Sport Network
    Dame Sarah Storey's roadmap for women's cycling and para-cycling

    Dame Sarah Storey won three gold medals in Rio but her sport is still crying out for sponsorship, media coverage and money. She has proposed some solutions

October 2016

  • Lance

    Guardian Sport Network
    Cortisone in cycling: from the Nobel prize to Bradley Wiggins via Lance Armstrong

  • Chloe Hosking

    Guardian Sport Network
    Looking for a good news story in cycling? How about the success of Wiggle High5

August 2016

  • Olympic Games 2016 Road Cycling<br>epa05463286 Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the gold medal in the women's cycling road race of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Fort Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 07 August 2016. EPA/LUKAS COCK AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Guardian Sport Network
    What next for the cyclists involved in the traumatic women's road race in Rio?

    Should cycling put safety before excitement after Annamiek van Vleuten’s crash? Will the Olympic medalists dominate at the world championships? And what next for the unlucky professionals who failed to qualify for the Games?

July 2016

  • Chloe Hosking

    Chloe Hosking sprints to La Course victory on Champs Élysées

    Chloe Hosking comfortably won La Course by Le Tour in a sprint finish on the Champs Élysées in Paris after crashes on the final lap
  • Lizzie Armitstead

    Lizzie Armitstead among top contenders for third running of La Course

    The world champion is in-form but the aggressive riding at this one-day event staged on the final Sunday, 24 July, by the Tour de France’s organisers makes for an open contest
  • Ventoux

    Tour de France 2016: Mont Ventoux – a proving ground for giants

    Standing alone above Provençal fields, Mont Ventoux has a history of triumph and tragedy in the Tour and on Bastille Day will again ask questions of riders like no other

June 2016

  • Tour de France 2014 - 21th stage<br>epa04332652 Marianne Vos (R) of the Netherlands celebrates after winning the "La Course" female cycling race before the 21st and final stage of the 101st Tour de France 2014 cycling race, over 137,5 km from Evry to Paris, by the Champs-Elysees, in France, 27 July 2014. EPA/NICOLAS BOUVY

    100 Tours 100 Tales
    Celebrating Mien Van Bree, the brilliant and brave pioneer of women's cycling

    Marianne Vos and Lizzie Armitstead are attracting new fans to women’s cycling every day but we should also celebrate heroines from the previous generation

April 2016

  • Demoitié

    Guardian Sport Network
    Antoine Demoitié's death should be a wake-up call for cycling's crowded races

    The proliferation of motorbikes and support cars has left cyclists looking less like professional athletes and more like rush-hour commuters on hostile city streets

March 2016

  • Arnaud Démare.

    Guardian Sport Network
    The fine line between bending cycling's rules and breaking them

    Cycling’s ethical code seems to add up to two principles: don’t get caught, and, if you are caught, hope the rules are applied in a suitably arbitrary fashion
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