Isaac del Toro won the final stage of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes at Plateau de Solaison, taking his second summit finish in two days and overturning Luke Tuckwell’s yellow jersey on the final climb of the race. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider attacked 9 kilometres from the summit, swept past the remaining breakaway […]
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The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 reaches the Grand Colombier on Saturday, 13th June, with stage 7 taking the riders from La Bridoire to one of the hardest summit finishes of the race. After the breakaway ambush on stage 6 changed the overall classification, this is no longer a straightforward mountain test. It is now […]
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Maxim Van Gils won stage 6 of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes on the summit finish at Crest-Voland, finishing off a remarkable day for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe after a 60-rider breakaway reshaped the race. The Belgian was part of the decisive front selection on the final climb, where Luke Tuckwell also rode himself into the […]
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Alex Baudin kept the yellow jersey at the Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 after stage 4, as Quinn Simmons continued the race’s run of breakaway success with victory in Montrond-les-Bains. The 167.4km stage from Le Puy-en-Velay looked like one of the days where the sprinters might finally bring the race back together, but the breakaway […]
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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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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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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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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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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 […]
The post Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 stage 1: Alex Baudin solos…
The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 arrives with the feel of a serious Tour de France rehearsal. The rebranded race still occupies the familiar early-June position in the calendar, but the 2026 route gives it a particularly sharp identity: an eight-stage WorldTour race with a team time trial in Perreux, then three consecutive uphill finishes […]
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Men’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026 takes place on Sunday 26th April and closes the spring Classics season with the oldest Monument in cycling. It is the race where depth matters almost as much as leadership, because the Ardennes do not simply expose the strongest rider. They also expose which teams can still place support around their leader […]
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Men’s Amstel Gold Race 2026 looks more open than some recent editions, and that is a large part of its appeal. The route still asks the same familiar question through Limburg’s repeated climbs, but the team picture feels a little less dominated by one or two overwhelming forces. Defending champion Mattias Skjelmose returns with a […]
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