Elisa Balsamo tightened her grip on the points classification with another stage win at the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, sprinting to victory in Brescello after a flat but far from simple stage 6. Maggie Coles-Lyster went early in the finale but was caught by Balsamo in the final metres, with Georgia Baker completing the podium. […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 moves into one of its most awkward remaining stages on Friday, 5th June, with 159km from Sorbolo Mezzani to Salice Terme. After the flat sprint opportunity into Brescello, stage 7 brings the race back into hilly terrain, with enough late climbing to make this much more than a simple transition […]
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Nils Politt has signed a three-year contract extension with UAE Team Emirates-XRG, keeping the German rider with the team until the end of 2029. The 32-year-old has become one of the squad’s most dependable road captains since joining the Emirati team, combining Classics experience, Grand Tour support work and lead-out strength across some of the […]
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The history of the Tour de France Femmes is not a straight line. It is a story of beginnings, disappearances, legal arguments, underfunded survival, campaigning, compromise and, eventually, rebirth. The modern Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift may have arrived in 2022, but women had been trying to claim a proper place alongside the Tour […]
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The future of the VolkerWessels women’s team appears to be more secure than the men’s squad, despite ongoing uncertainty around the wider cycling structure and the future of the VolkerWessels name. Reports in the Dutch cycling media suggest that the women’s team is expected to continue, potentially under the Team Reggeborgh name, while the men’s […]
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Célia Gery took a superb victory on stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, winning in Salice Terme after a fast, tense finale where the late break just managed to hold off the chasing peloton. The FDJ United-SUEZ rider came around Lucinda Brand after the final corner, using the short uphill drag to the […]
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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 most important climbing test. After the hilly trap to Salice Terme, stage 8 sends the peloton towards the Colle delle Finestre before the road continues up to the summit finish at Sestriere. This […]
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Célia Gery took the biggest win of her young career on stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026, outsprinting Lucinda Brand and Chantal Pegolo in Salice Terme after a late move survived by seconds. The stage looked as though it might come back together inside the final kilometre, but the attackers held off the […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 gives the sprinters another major opportunity on stage 6, with a 159km route from Ala to Brescello on Thursday, 4th June. After the Nevegal uphill time trial and the Dolomite stage to Santo Stefano di Cadore, this is the clearest reset point for the fast finishers before the race turns […]
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Copenhagen Sprint 2026 brings two days of WorldTour racing to Denmark, with the women’s race on Saturday, 13th June and the men’s race on Sunday, 14th June. Both races are built around fast roads, exposed Danish terrain and a city-centre finish in Copenhagen, making this one of the clearest sprint-focused weekends in the top-level calendar. […]
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Molteni is remembered through colour as much as results. The orange jersey, the black trim, the simple block lettering, the almost severe visual identity of a team that looked less like a sponsor’s experiment and more like a permanent fixture of the sport. In the early 1970s, that jersey became inseparable from Eddy Merckx, and […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 arrives with a route built to expose real Tour de France conditions. The race may have a new name, but it keeps the old Dauphiné function: eight days of high-level June racing, a team time trial, awkward transition stages and a final mountain block that should be too hard […]
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Elisa Balsamo continued her remarkable Giro d’Italia Women with a fourth stage victory of the race, sprinting to win stage 6 in Brescello after a long, tense day that carried the peloton out of the hills and onto the Po Valley. The Lidl-Trek rider came around Maggie Coles-Lyster in the final metres after a superb […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches one of its more tactically awkward days on stage 7, with 159km from Sorbolo Mezzani to Salice Terme on Friday, 5th June. After the flat sprint opportunity to Brescello, the race moves back into hillier terrain for a stage that looks less severe than the Dolomites or Sestriere, but […]
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The Men’s Tour de Suisse 2026 will be shown live in the UK through Warner Bros. Discovery’s cycling coverage, with TNT Sports the main TV route and HBO Max the main streaming route. The race’s own broadcast information lists Eurosport as the UK and European broadcaster, but for UK viewers that now sits inside the […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 moves straight from the Nevegal uphill time trial into its first major mountain road stage today, with 146km from Longarone to Santo Stefano di Cadore. After Anna van der Breggen took the maglia rosa on stage 4, stage 5 gives the new race leader an immediate test in the Dolomites. […]
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There is a particular sound to riding into Geraardsbergen. It is not loud at first. The town does not announce itself like an Alpine resort or a polished Mediterranean cycling base. Instead, it arrives through brick houses, small squares, railway lines, cafés with steamed-up windows and roads that seem ordinary until they suddenly begin to […]
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The Men’s Tour de France 2026 will be the 113th edition of cycling’s biggest race, and it arrives with a route that feels both familiar and unusually sharp. It begins outside France with a Grand Départ in Barcelona, returns through the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Vosges, Jura and Alps, and finishes in Paris on the Champs-Élysées. […]
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Women’s cycling sprint finishes are getting faster because the whole race into the sprint is faster. The final 150 metres still belongs to the rider with timing, nerve and acceleration, but the modern sprint is no longer just a late burst from a loose bunch. It is the visible end point of a much quicker […]
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Demi Vollering took her first victory of the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women on stage 5, winning a four-rider sprint in Santo Stefano di Cadore after a relentlessly tactical day in the Dolomites. The FDJ United-SUEZ rider beat maglia rosa Anna van der Breggen, Antonia Niedermaier and Isabella Holmgren after a stage that repeatedly split, reformed […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 changes rhythm again on stage 6, moving from the Dolomite climbing of Santo Stefano di Cadore to a flatter 159km route from Ala to Brescello. After the Nevegal uphill time trial and the first major mountain road stage, this is the clearest opportunity for the sprinters to return to the […]
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Demi Vollering won stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 in Santo Stefano di Cadore, taking the sprint from an elite GC group after the race split decisively on the Dolomite climbs. Anna van der Breggen finished second on the stage and kept the maglia rosa, but the overall picture tightened behind her as […]
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Anna van der Breggen took control of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on stage 4, winning the uphill individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal and moving into the maglia rosa with a commanding performance. After three days shaped by Elisa Balsamo’s sprint strength, the race has now shifted decisively towards the climbers and general […]
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Anna van der Breggen delivered the clearest statement yet of her return to the top level, winning stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 with a commanding ride on the uphill time trial to Nevegal. The SD Worx-Protime rider stopped the clock 1:04 faster than Marlen Reusser, taking both the stage victory and the […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 moves from the controlled brutality of the Nevegal uphill time trial into its first major mountain road stage on stage 5, with 146km from Longarone to Santo Stefano di Cadore. After three sprint and reduced-sprint stages, then a short but sharp individual test against the clock, this is where the […]
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Elisa Balsamo tightened her control of the Giro d’Italia Women 2026 on stage 3, winning again in Buja after a hilly finale that briefly threatened to pull the race away from the sprinters. The Lidl-Trek rider came through late to beat Lily Williams and Femke Gerritse, adding another stage victory, more bonus seconds and another […]
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Elisa Balsamo extended her grip on the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women with another sprint victory on stage 3, winning in Buja after a chaotic finale that repeatedly swung between GC attacks, late solo moves and a reduced bunch sprint. The Lidl-Trek rider, already in the maglia rosa after her stage 2 win in Caorle, came […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first clear general classification checkpoint on stage 4, with a 12.7km individual time trial from Belluno to Nevegal. After an opening weekend controlled by the sprinters and a more awkward stage 3 to Buja, the maglia rosa battle now moves into something much more precise: one rider, one […]
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Shirin van Anrooij will not start stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia Women after Lidl-Trek confirmed that the Dutch rider is unwell. The update removes one of Lidl-Trek’s key support riders from the race before the 12.7km uphill time trial from Belluno to Nevegal, a stage expected to create the first clear general classification gaps […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches its first major general classification test today, with stage 4 taking the riders from Belluno to Nevegal in a 12.7km uphill individual time trial. After three opening road stages that have kept Elisa Balsamo in the maglia rosa, the race now turns sharply towards the climbers and GC riders. […]
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