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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Giro d’Italia Women 2026 stage 3 is where the race begins to move away from the sprinters and towards riders who can handle repeated climbing, positioning and a more awkward finale. The route from Bibione to Buja on Monday, 1st June covers 156km and brings around 1,000 metres of elevation gain, with most of the […]
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Giro d’Italia Women 2026 stage 2 gives the sprinters another major opportunity, but it is not quite as straightforward as the flat opener to Ravenna. The route from Roncade to Caorle on Sunday, 31st May covers 156km, with around 500 metres of climbing and one short, sharp obstacle placed early enough to create tension without […]
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Giro d’Italia 2026 stage 21 brings the race to Rome for its final day, with a 131km route from Roma to Roma on Sunday, 31st May. After three weeks that began in Bulgaria, crossed southern Italy, climbed through the Alps and finished its GC battle in the high mountains, the Giro ends with a largely […]
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Giro d’Italia 2026 stage 20 is the final mountain test of the race and the last realistic chance to change the general classification before Rome. The route runs from Gemona del Friuli to Piancavallo over 200km on Saturday, 30th May, with 3,750 metres of elevation gain and a double ascent of the final climb. After […]
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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 begins with a stage built for speed. Stage 1 takes the peloton from Cesenatico to Ravenna over 139km on Saturday, 30th May, with only around 100 metres of elevation gain and a flat final circuit around the finish city. It is the clearest possible invitation for the sprinters, and it […]
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Giro d’Italia 2026 stage 18 offers a different kind of final-week test. After the climbing-heavy stages to Carì and Andalo, the race moves from Fai della Paganella to Pieve di Soligo, with a route that should tempt sprinters, puncheurs and breakaway riders in equal measure. Michael Valgren won stage 17 in Andalo after a late […]
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Giro d’Italia 2026 stage 17 gives the peloton a very different problem after the brutal Swiss summit finish to Carì. The race returns to Italy with a 202km stage from Cassano d’Adda to Andalo, moving from the Lombardy plains into Trentino for a long, awkward day that looks far more suited to attackers than to […]
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The 2026 Giro d’Italia reaches one of its most important mountain stages on Saturday, 23rd May, with stage 14 taking the race from Aosta to Pila. After several days where the breakaway, points race and awkward medium-mountain terrain have carried the story, this is a very different kind of test. The GC riders can no […]
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The 2026 Giro d’Italia reaches stage 13 on Friday, 22nd May, with a route that looks simple for most of the day, then suddenly becomes much more awkward. Alessandria to Verbania is 189km, and for around 160km it is a largely flat run across the Po Valley towards Lake Maggiore. The final 30km changes the […]
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Veenendaal-Veenendaal 2026 takes place on Friday, 22nd May, and everything about the race points towards a fast finish. The Dutch one-day race is not usually a day for major climbing selections or long-range moves that survive through attrition alone. Instead, it is a race built around positioning, exposed roads, sprint trains and the ability to […]
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Vuelta a Burgos Feminas has become one of the most useful short stage races in women’s cycling because it packs several different demands into only four days. It sits in a valuable part of the calendar, after the spring Classics but before the longer summer stage-race block, which gives it a clear role. For some […]
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After the breakaway survived on stage 11 to Chiavari, the 2026 Giro d’Italia gives the sprinters another chance on stage 12, but not a simple one. Imperia to Novi Ligure is a 175km route that begins on the Ligurian coast, crosses inland through two categorised climbs, then offers more than 50km for the peloton to […]
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After the long Viareggio to Massa time trial, the 2026 Giro d’Italia moves into a very different kind of test on stage 11. This is not a pure sprint stage, not a summit finish, and not a simple day for the breakaway either. Porcari to Chiavari is a 195km route that starts steadily, then becomes […]
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The 2026 Giro d’Italia returns from its first rest day with a stage that could be just as important as the summit finishes that shaped the opening week. Stage 10 is a 42km individual time trial from Viareggio to Massa, and after Jonas Vingegaard’s victories on Blockhaus and Corno alle Scale, it arrives at exactly […]
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Itzulia Women 2026 reaches its final day with the general classification still close enough to invite attacks, but now with a different level of pressure around the yellow jersey. Dominika Wlodarczyk’s stage 2 victory in Amorebieta-Etxano changed the race’s shape, not only because it gave UAE Team ADQ a major WorldTour win, but because it […]
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The 2026 Giro d’Italia reaches its second weekend with a stage that looks simple for almost 170km, then suddenly becomes one of the most important GC tests of the race so far. Stage 9 runs from Cervia to Corno alle Scale, taking the peloton from the Adriatic coast into the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines for a summit […]
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Stage 1 gave Itzulia Women 2026 exactly the sort of opening day the race usually threatens to produce: selective, tense and hard to control. Mischa Bredewold took the win in Zarautz from a reduced five-rider sprint, beating Yara Kastelijn and Riejanne Markus after a rain-soaked day that immediately separated the strongest from the merely well-placed. […]
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After Blockhaus gave the 2026 Giro d’Italia its first proper general classification fracture, stage 8 asks a very different question. This is not another summit finish, nor a conventional sprinter’s day. It is a sharp, awkward, rolling stage through Abruzzo and the Marche, with a finale built around short climbs, narrow streets and the kind […]
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The Giro d’Italia 2026 reaches its first major summit finish on Friday, 15th May, with stage 7 taking the race from Formia to Blockhaus. After the chaos of stage 5 to Potenza and the sprint-style tension of stage 6 into Napoli, this is the day when the general classification should finally face a proper climbing […]
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Itzulia Women 2026 begins on Friday, 15th May, with a stage that immediately sets the tone for the race. There is no gentle opening day, no flat procession, and no obvious sprint stage for the peloton to settle into the rhythm of the Basque Country. Instead, stage 1 starts and finishes in Zarautz, covers 121.3km, […]
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