The British presence at the 2026 Tour de France is smaller and more focused than the broad farewell-and-debut mix of 2025, but it still has several important storylines. There is no Geraint Thomas farewell this time, no Mark Cavendish sprint-history chase, and no expectation that Britain will control the race in the way Team Sky […]
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Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to a national cycling project, a commercial force, a Grand Tour machine and a cultural phenomenon all at once. Its pink and later magenta colours cut through the peloton, its riders became […]
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Primož Roglič at the 2026 Tour de France is a complicated idea before the race even starts. On pure ability, his name still belongs in any serious Grand Tour conversation. On team structure, age profile and recent direction, his place is far less straightforward. Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe now have a wider leadership picture, with Remco Evenepoel […]
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The Tour de France 2026 reaches the Massif Central at an awkward point in the race. The Pyrenees have already bitten, the sprinters have had a run of opportunities, and the first rest day is close enough for riders to start thinking about survival. Then comes the terrain that rarely looks decisive in the same […]
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Mads Pedersen goes into the 2026 Tour de France with a route that does not look made for him at first glance, but still gives him enough ways to shape the race. This is not a soft Tour for sprinters. The Pyrenees arrive almost immediately, the Massif Central, Vosges and Jura keep the middle of […]
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Jhonatan Narváez has signed a long-term contract extension with UAE Team Emirates-XRG, keeping the Ecuadorian rider with the squad until the end of 2029. The new deal secures one of the team’s most versatile riders through what should be the prime years of his career. Since joining UAE Team Emirates-XRG ahead of the 2025 season, […]
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The Tour de France 2026 Grand Départ in Barcelona is not just a race start. It is three days of cycling, city spectacle and logistical planning, with the team presentation on Thursday, 2nd July, the opening team time-trial on Saturday, 4th July, stage 2 finishing back in Barcelona on Sunday, 5th July, and stage 3 […]
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The Tour de France 2026 is not an easy race for the sprinters, but it does give them a clearer points-classification pathway than some recent editions. There are seven flat stages on the official route, and the revised green jersey structure makes those days even more valuable. That means the fast men are not simply […]
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Jasper Philipsen arrives at the Tour de France 2026 with a familiar question around him: how many sprint stages can he win if Alpecin-Premier Tech get the lead-out right? That question has followed him for several years, but it feels especially relevant in 2026. The route offers seven flat stages, the points system has been […]
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Oscar Onley arrives at the Tour de France 2026 in a very different place from 12 months ago. In 2025, he was still the breakthrough story, the Scottish climber who turned promise into a genuine general classification result by finishing 4th overall. In 2026, he is no longer simply a talented outsider. He is a […]
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The Tour de France 2026 saves its most obvious drama for Alpe d’Huez, but the Vosges and Jura section may be where the final-week race is quietly set up. Stage 13 from Dole to Belfort, stage 14 from Mulhouse to Le Markstein Fellering and stage 15 from Champagnole to Plateau de Solaison form a difficult […]
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Jonathan Milan goes into the Tour de France 2026 as one of the most obvious green jersey contenders in the race. He has the sprint power, the team structure and the recent Grand Tour points pedigree to make him a genuine threat, but the question is not simply whether he can win stages. It is […]
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The Tour de France 2026 saves its hardest mountain sequence for the final week. After the early Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Vosges and the stage 16 time-trial, the race reaches the Alps with three mountain stages still to come: Voiron to Orcières-Merlette, Gap to Alpe d’Huez, and Le Bourg d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez. That […]
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The Tour de France 2026 gives time-triallists two very different chances to shape the race. Stage 1 in Barcelona is a 19.6km team time-trial with individual general classification consequences. Stage 16 is the only individual time-trial of the race, a 26.1km route from Évian-les-Bains to Thonon-les-Bains that arrives after the second rest day and just […]
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The Tour de France 2026 begins with something unusual enough to alter the entire opening week: a team time-trial in Barcelona. Not a short prologue. Not a nervous sprint stage. Not a scenic parade into the first yellow jersey. A 19.6km collective effort that will immediately force the GC teams to show their structure, their […]
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The Tour de France 2026 is not short of obvious GC battlegrounds. Five summit finishes, an early Pyrenean block, a late individual time-trial and back-to-back Alpe d’Huez stages give the race a clear structure, but the most important attacks will not all come in the same way. Some days are built for direct yellow jersey […]
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Tadej Pogačar won stage 5 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse in Villars-sur-Ollon, catching Lenny Martinez inside the final kilometre before riding clear to take both the stage victory and the overall title. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider completed a dominant week with his third stage win of the race, adding the final mountain stage […]
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Remco Evenepoel arrives at the Tour de France 2026 with one of the most finely balanced cases among the main contenders. There is no doubt about his raw quality, his time-trial pedigree or his capacity to win huge races. The harder question is whether the 2026 Tour route gives him enough road to turn those […]
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The Tour de France 2026 should have one of the most interesting French groups in years, not because there is one obvious home favourite for yellow, but because there are several different kinds of French storyline spread across the race. Paul Seixas gives France its biggest GC hope in a long time, even if expectation […]
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The Men’s Tour de Suisse 2026 reaches its final day on Sunday, 21st June, with the queen stage in Villars-sur-Ollon offering one last chance to test Tadej Pogačar before the race is almost certainly wrapped up in yellow. After winning the opening stage from long range and then adding the Aarburg time-trial by the narrowest […]
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Tadej Pogačar won stage 4 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse in Aarburg, denying Mathieu van der Poel by just 0.3 seconds in a blistering 23.7-kilometre individual time-trial. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider completed the course in 26:37, averaging more than 53km/h, and extended his overall lead before the final mountain stage. Van der Poel […]
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The Tour de France 2026 has an obvious top line. Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel shape the yellow jersey conversation before the race has even started. They are the riders everyone else has to measure themselves against, and the route gives each of them a clear path to influence the race. But the […]
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The US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team became one of the most recognisable teams in cycling history because it seemed to represent a new kind of order. It was American, methodical, commercially polished and built around a single dominant leader. At the centre was Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor who turned the Tour de France […]
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The Men’s Tour de Suisse 2026 reaches its decisive time-trial stage on Saturday, 20th June, with stage 4 in Aarburg giving the GC riders and specialists a 23.8km test against the clock. After three road stages shaped by long-range moves, breakaways and Tadej Pogačar’s control of the general classification, this is the day where the […]
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Jonas Vingegaard goes into the Tour de France 2026 with one of the most intriguing profiles in the race. He is not arriving as an underdog, because a two-time Tour winner and reigning Giro d’Italia champion can never be treated that way. But he is no longer the rider with the clearest, cleanest path to […]
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The Men’s Tour de Suisse 2026 reaches its most controlled test on Saturday, 20th June, with a 23.8km individual time-trial in Aarburg. After three road stages that have already shaped the general classification, stage 4 removes most of the tactical noise and leaves the strongest riders against the clock to make their move. Tadej Pogačar […]
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Jhonatan Narváez won stage 3 of the 2026 Tour de Suisse in Bad Ragaz after a two-rider breakaway held off the sprinters’ teams by the narrowest of margins. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider beat Xandro Meurisse of Pinarello-Q36.5 in a head-to-head sprint after the pair had gone clear on the day’s second climb and defended […]
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For many UK cycling fans, July and ITV became almost inseparable. The Tour de France on ITV4, the evening highlights, the familiar voices, the daily rhythm and the sense that the biggest race in cycling was available without a subscription all became part of the summer routine. That changes for the Tour de France 2026. […]
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Tadej Pogačar arrives at the Tour de France 2026 as the rider everyone else has to dislodge. The route gives him almost every kind of terrain he likes: a technical Grand Départ in Barcelona, an opening team time-trial where UAE Team Emirates-XRG can make an immediate statement, early mountain tests in the Pyrenees, a hard […]
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The Tour de Suisse 2026 reaches Bad Ragaz on Friday, 19th June, with the race still trying to settle after a brutal opening in Sondrio and a punchy second stage in Locarno. Stage 3 is not as obviously decisive as the opening day or the final mountain stage, but it may be one of the […]
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