The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 will be remembered as one of the race’s great late reversals. Demi Vollering did not simply win the Giro. She took it away from Anna van der Breggen on the final day, after a race that had seemed to tilt towards the former world and Olympic champion after the Nevegal […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 reaches its first major collective test on Tuesday, 9th June, with a 28.4km team time trial around Perreux. After two road stages won from the breakaway, the race now shifts into a very different discipline, where team structure, pacing and technical execution can reshape the general classification in less […]
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Copenhagen Sprint 2026 has one of the clearest identities on the WorldTour calendar. This is a race built for speed, control and lead-out strength, with the men’s event taking the peloton from Roskilde to Copenhagen before the city-centre finishing circuit outside the National Gallery of Denmark. The profile points towards a sprint, but that does […]
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Team Visma | Lease a Bike won stage 3 of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, setting the fastest time in the 28.4-kilometre team time trial around Perreux despite losing key riders during the effort. Matteo Jorgenson led the team home in 32:52, 9 seconds faster than Netcompany INEOS and 29 seconds ahead of EF […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 reaches stage 4 with the general classification already sharpened by the opening road stages and the stage 3 team time trial. This is not a pure mountain stage, and it should not produce the same kind of gaps as the final weekend, but it is exactly the sort of […]
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Asturias and Cantabria feel different from the Spain many cyclists first imagine. This is not the dry heat of Andalucía, the wide Pyrenean drama of Catalonia, or the volcanic black roads of the Canaries. This is green Spain: damp stone walls, mist sitting low in the valley, cattle bells in the fields, eucalyptus and chestnut […]
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Alex Baudin survived the first major general classification reshuffle of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, holding onto the yellow jersey after the stage 3 team time trial in Perreux. Team Visma | Lease a Bike won the 28.4km test, but EF Education-EasyPost did enough late on to protect Baudin’s race lead. The stage was […]
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The Men’s Tour de France began as a newspaper stunt and became the most famous bike race in the world. It has survived scandal, war, commercial reinvention, national obsession, doping crises, television transformation and the rise of a truly global peloton. Across more than a century, it has also remained surprisingly faithful to its original […]
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Alex Baudin is the first leader of the Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 after winning stage 1 from Vizille to Saint-Ismier. The EF Education-EasyPost rider survived from the breakaway, attacked on the Côte de Rousset and held off the reduced chase behind to take both the stage victory and the yellow and blue leader’s jersey. […]
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Aosta Valley does not feel like a place that slowly introduces itself. It hits you at once. The mountains rise too close, the valley narrows too quickly, and the road seems to carry the weight of everything around it: glaciers, stone villages, Roman walls, vineyards, castles, ski towns, tunnels, waterfalls and the long shadow of […]
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Anton Charmig made it two breakaway wins from two stages at the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, attacking from the day’s escape on the final classified climb and soloing to victory in Le Puy-en-Velay. The Uno-X Mobility rider went clear on the Côte de Saint-Vidal, held off the strongest riders from a 10-man breakaway, and […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 continues on Monday, 8th June, with the longest stage of the race. Stage 2 takes the riders from Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux to Le Puy-en-Velay over 234.3km, turning the second day into a major endurance test before the team time trial in Perreux. After a sharp opening stage to Saint-Ismier, this is […]
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Few team names carry the same weight in cycling history as Peugeot. Long before modern WorldTour structures, co-sponsors, performance departments and rotating team identities, Peugeot was already part of the sport’s fabric. It was a bicycle manufacturer, a car company, a sponsor, a talent developer, a Tour de France force and, for decades, one of […]
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Anthon Charmig won stage 2 of the Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 after another successful day for the breakaway, soloing to victory in Le Puy-en-Velay after the longest stage of the race. The Uno-X Mobility rider attacked from the front group in the closing kilometres and held on after 234.3km from Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux. Alex Baudin kept […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 reaches its first race-shaping test on stage 3, with a 28.4km team time trial around Perreux. After the hilly opener to Saint-Ismier and the long endurance stage to Le Puy-en-Velay, this is where the general classification moves from early positioning into something more structured. Team time trials are rare […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 did more than deliver a dramatic final-stage reversal. It reshaped the balance of the women’s WorldTour season, gave Demi Vollering a major Grand Tour win built on persistence rather than control, and turned the summer’s remaining stage-race picture into something far more open than it had looked after the Nevegal […]
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Federica Venturelli took victory at the 2026 Dwars door de Westhoek after beating Lonneke Uneken and Marta Lach in a reduced sprint from the day’s decisive breakaway. The UAE Team ADQ rider launched out of the final sequence of moves, came past the SD Worx-Protime presence in the sprint, and threw her bike across the […]
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Elisa Longo Borghini won the final stage of the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women in Saluzzo, sprinting from the decisive front group after a dramatic day that saw Demi Vollering overhaul Anna van der Breggen to take the overall title. The Italian champion came over Niamh Fisher-Black in the final metres to claim an emotional victory, […]
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Alex Baudin won the opening stage of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes with a superb solo ride from the breakaway, holding off the chasing favourites on the uphill finish in Saint-Ismier. The EF Education-EasyPost rider attacked on the final climb, the Côte de Rousset, and carried enough of a gap over the descent and […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 comes to its final day on Sunday, 7th June, with 145km starting and finishing in Saluzzo. This is not a ceremonial run to the line. After Demi Vollering won the shortened stage 8 finish on the Colle delle Finestre, Anna van der Breggen still holds the maglia rosa, but her […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 begins on Sunday, 7th June, with a testing opening stage from Vizille to Saint-Ismier. The race may have a new name after its rebrand from the Critérium du Dauphiné, but its role remains familiar: a key June WorldTour test before the Tour de France. Stage 1 is 146.2km long, […]
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The Alpes Grésivaudan Classic takes place on Sunday, 7th June 2026, with the women’s 1.1 race offering one of the more mountainous one-day tests on the French calendar. The race starts in Bernin and finishes at Prapoutel les Sept Laux, with a 109.9km route and around 3,590 metres of elevation gain. Live coverage will be […]
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Demi Vollering won stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on the Colle delle Finestre, taking her second stage victory of the race and moving closer to Anna van der Breggen in the general classification. The queen stage did not finish in Sestriere as planned, with the race shortened because of the risk of […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 ends on Sunday, 7th June, with a final stage that is anything but ceremonial. Stage 9 starts and finishes in Saluzzo, covering 145km and around 2,200 metres of climbing, with three climbs packed into a route that keeps the general classification alive until the final afternoon. Demi Vollering’s stage 8 […]
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Demi Vollering won stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on Sestriere, attacking in the final metres to beat Isabella Holmgren and Antonia Niedermaier after a brutal high-mountain day shaped by the Colle delle Finestre. Anna van der Breggen finished fourth in the same front group, limiting her losses and keeping the maglia rosa […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 begins on Sunday, 7th June, with a stage that removes any idea of a gentle opening day. Stage 1 runs from Vizille to Saint-Ismier over 146.2km, with close to 3,000 metres of climbing and five categorised climbs packed into a route that gives the puncheurs, climbers and ambitious GC […]
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The full start list for Copenhagen Sprint Women 2026 brings together a field built around speed, positioning and lead-out strength. The race takes place on Saturday, 13th June, with 156km from Roskilde to Copenhagen and three laps of the city-centre finishing circuit outside the National Gallery of Denmark. This is only the second edition of […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its queen stage on Saturday, 6th June, with 105km from Rivoli to Sestriere and the race’s biggest climbing test. After the hilly stage to Salice Terme, the peloton now faces the Colle delle Finestre, the Cima Alfonsina Strada of this year’s Giro, before the road continues towards the high-altitude […]
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Copenhagen Sprint Women returns on Saturday, 13th June 2026 with a route that keeps the race’s identity clear: flat roads, fast approach kilometres and a technical city-centre finish in one of Europe’s great cycling capitals. The women’s race covers 156km, starting at Stændertorvet in Roskilde before heading towards Copenhagen and finishing outside the National Gallery […]
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The full start list for Copenhagen Sprint Men 2026 brings together a field built for one of the fastest WorldTour one-day races of the season. The race takes place on Sunday, 14th June, with 228.2km from Roskilde to Copenhagen and a finishing circuit outside the National Gallery of Denmark. This is only the second edition […]
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