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 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 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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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 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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Isaac del Toro won stage 7 of the 2026 Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes on the Grand Colombier, surging past Juan Ayuso in the final kilometres to take a major mountain-stage victory and move firmly back into the general classification fight. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider had looked measured while Ayuso attacked earlier on the final […]
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The Tour de France 2026 route looks built for a serious mountains classification battle. With 8 mountain stages, 5 summit finishes, the Col du Tourmalet, Plateau de Solaison, Orcières-Merlette and back-to-back days on Alpe d’Huez, the polka-dot jersey should be more than a side contest. It could become one of the defining threads of the […]
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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 Tour de Romandie 2026 takes place from Tuesday 28th April to Sunday 3rd May, with six stages across French-speaking Switzerland and a route that should favour climbers and complete general classification riders. The race begins with a short prologue in Villars-sur-Glâne, then builds through a series of hilly and mountainous road stages before the […]
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Dorian Godon of Ineos Grenadiers won stage 1 of the 2026 Volta a Catalunya on Monday, beating Remco Evenepoel of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe by the finest of margins after a tense, technical finish in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Tom Pidcock of Pinarello-Q36.5 launched early and held on for third on the day, while Godon’s bonus seconds […]
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