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Industry
From speed skating to SD Worx, Eline Jansen follows a proven path into the WorldTour
The 24-year-old Dutch rider has signed through 2028 after turning victories in Brittany and Tour de France Femmes top-10 finishes into a move to the Women's WorldTour team.
Racing
'He needs a breather' - Brian Holm questions collarbone explanation for Vingegaard ending 2026 season
Visma says Vingegaard’s Tour de France injury delayed his training, but the former sports director believes a demanding campaign also shaped the decision to focus on 2027.
Tour de France
'Never, never going full gas', Bruyneel claims Pogačar saved energy for Vuelta during Tour
The former sports director says Pogačar managed his effort while protecting Isaac del Toro’s podium place, but his account comes from an unnamed contact and has not been confirmed by UAE.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026
Tour de France Femmes passes 100 million European viewing hours as digital records tumble
The 2026 race was broadcast in 190 countries, while official channels generated 241 million video views and the French television audience share reached a new high.
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Women’s cycling is faster and better funded than ever. So why is the Grand Tour speed gap growing?
Investment, salaries and coverage have transformed the women’s peloton. An analysis of Grand Tour stages and World Championship time trials finds clear progress in speed, but no evidence of convergence with the men.
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Tour de France Femmes reaches 23.2 million French viewers as full-stage broadcasting case grows
France 2 recorded the race’s highest average audience share yet, while 5.1 million viewers watched at the Ventoux stage’s peak. Full-stage coverage remained limited and the reported totals conflict.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026
Show every kilometre first before adding more stages - What next for the Tour de France Femmes?
The nine-stage race already delivers close, aggressive racing. Better live coverage and wider free access offer a clearer route to growth than immediately stretching the format.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026
'I won on Mont Ventoux, I feel like that was the biggest day of my life' - Niewiadoma-Phinney savours Tour podium
Demi Vollering took yellow after a final-day reversal, while Elisa Longo Borghini recovered from a difficult first half of the Tour to claim third in Nice.
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Analysis: 'I lost all my respect for them', but Célia Gery's Tour stage 8 move was hard racing, not a foul
The French champion’s positioning helped Demi Vollering take yellow and forced Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney to brake. It was decisive, frustrating and entirely consistent with hard racing.
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‘This déjà vu came back’ – Vollering turns tables to her favour after seizing Tour de France Femmes lead with stage 8 win
The FDJ United-Suez leader turned a 15-second deficit into an eight-second advantage in Nice, then disclosed the knee problem that disrupted her winter preparation.
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'I just feel so much gratitude' - Niewiadoma-Phinney storms into yellow on Mont Ventoux, but there’s much more racing to come
A 10km solo attack transformed the Tour de France Femmes, but Demi Vollering and Marlen Reusser remain within 39 seconds before a demanding finale in Nice.
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'It's gonna be brutal, 100%' - Marlen Reusser takes her 12-second Tour lead onto Mont Ventoux
The yellow jersey has ridden the Tour’s summit finish only once, but believes its long, sustained gradient may suit her better than the climbs already faced.
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'I was asleep. I don't know what I did', Reusser keeps yellow but sprint lapse leaves Vollering just 12 seconds back
Vollering cut her deficit to 12 seconds with an aggressive victory, while Reusser retained yellow but blamed herself for losing momentum in the decisive sprint.
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Mont Brouilly leaves the Tour de France Femmes podium race looking like a three-rider contest
The first major climbing selection gave the race a clear leading tier, but Mont Ventoux still stands between Wednesday’s evidence and a settled podium.
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Why Tour de France Femmes stage 5 could break the GC race open
Time-trial losses have given several powerful teams an incentive to attack on a twisting Beaujolais route where positioning and descending may matter more than altitude.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026
French viewers embrace women's racing as 2.17 million watch Tour de France Femmes opener
France 2 secured a 27.6% audience share for the Lausanne opener before its post-stage programme retained 1.65 million viewers in a competitive evening slot.
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The Tour de France Femmes deserves better than a paywall and five-minute YouTube highlights in the UK
British viewers can watch every stage through TNT Sports and HBO Max, but the free evening programme offered for the men’s Tour has disappeared from the schedule.
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Wiebes survives rivals' best chance to crack her, and four more Tour de France Femmes stage 1 talking points
Late attacks could not dislodge the sprint favourite in Lausanne, while crashes, early GC losses and a fruitless Lidl-Trek move shaped a tense opening stage.
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How to watch the Tour de France Femmes 2026: Free live stages, TV coverage and streaming from anywhere
Every stage is available live in several major markets, with free coverage in Australia and parts of Europe. Find the correct broadcaster, subscription price and daily start time, plus guidance for following your usual service while travelling.
Tour de France
Tour de France keeps 150 million TV viewers as paywalls reshape how Europe watches cycling
The 2026 race generated 700 million television viewing hours, while Warner Bros. Discovery reported its largest Tour streaming audience yet despite declines on Dutch and Belgian public broadcasters.
Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2026
Tour de France Femmes 2026 route and favourites analysis: Ventoux towers over nine days of racing drama
The 1,175km route combines a Dijon time trial, repeated technical climbs, a Mont Ventoux summit finish and four ascents of the Col d’Èze. Here is every classified climb, each finish approach and the leading jersey contenders.
Feature
Pogačar broke Pantani's Alpe d'Huez record, but our equipment-adjusted model puts Pantani 14 seconds ahead
The record may have fallen, but our calculations still make Pantani the faster rider. Modern equipment is worth an estimated 97 seconds on Alpe d'Huez, enough to reverse the recorded gap.
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'That affects the race', Wout van Aert condemns Vingegaard's solitary 2am Tour doping test
Vingegaard was woken 14 hours before his race-ending crash, while Tadej Pogačar was tested at 5am. Van Aert wants a consistent standard for out-of-hours controls.
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Canyon-SRAM's new Tour kit launches ten-year push to bring 1,000 women to cycling events each year
We Femmes will begin with free, no-drop rides before moving into a wider programme shaped by participant feedback and annual public reports.
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After missing an Olympic medal by 0.13 seconds, speed skater Sandrine Tas gets Tour de France Femmes debut
The 30-year-old Belgian only began her professional road career in April, but two stage wins in Brittany have secured her place in Lotto Intermarché Ladies' seven-rider squad.
Tour de France
Where we go from here - the five questions for the rest of the cycling season
La Vuelta offers one final Grand Tour prize, but the Canadian races provide a cleaner path to the World Championships. The decision will affect contenders, returning riders and UAE's plans for Isaac del Toro.
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Once-in-a-generation opportunity' – Wales bets on £4.5m cycling legacy from 2027 Tour de France
New destination hubs will offer secure parking, e-bike charging, repairs and bike hire as Wales prepares to welcome more than one million visitors to its Tour stages.
Tour de France
Remco Evenepoel’s father reveals racist abuse and direct threats targeting family after Tour de France podium
Evenepoel finished 6:26 behind Tadej Pogačar, but his father says the family’s pride has been tempered by hate messages and racist social-media comments directed at Oumi Rayane.
Tour de France
Tour top 10 reshuffled on Alpe d'Huez with Carapaz and Martinez biggest winners in Tour snake and ladders
Lenny Martinez and Richard Carapaz each gained two places, while Juan Ayuso fell to seventh and the fight behind Remco Evenepoel remained tightly balanced.
Tour de France
Einer Rubio abandons Tour after reported collision with UAE car
Tobias Halland Johannessen said he saw the Movistar rider hit a UAE Team Emirates-XRG vehicle on Alpe d’Huez, but Rubio’s condition remains unknown.
Tour de France
'It still scares me a bit' - Evenepoel asks for Alpe d’Huez barriers as riders voice crowd fears
The full 21-hairpin ascent hosts Friday’s Tour finish amid concerns over spectator behaviour, while Richard Plugge has proposed a symbolic admission fee for people walking up the climb.
Tour de France
What’s next for Quinn Simmons after disagreements come to the surface with team at Tour de France?
His stage 15 attack showed he has the form to win in the mountains, but a seven-point contest with Jasper Philipsen leaves little room for personal ambition.
Tour de France
‘It's already been a tough season' - Jonas Vingegaard's 2026 return undecided after collarbone surgery
The Giro winner could target the World Championships or Il Lombardia, but Visma-Lease a Bike will wait until after the Tour de France before setting any return date.
Tour de France
'Without putting the yellow jersey in difficulty' - UAE sets condition on Isaac del Toro's Tour podium bid
Del Toro holds third place and the white jersey by 20 seconds, but Remco Evenepoel's form leaves UAE with little room for error before the Tour's final Alpine tests.
Tour de France
The time trial that reshaped the Tour top 10: Seixas closes on podium as Lipowitz abandons
Evenepoel cut Pogačar’s lead with a second straight win, while the contest for third place tightened and several unexpected time-trial performances altered the lower half of the classification.
Tour de France
'Riders are terrified of getting a missed control', CPA President Adam Hansen attacks overnight Tour tests
The CPA president wants fewer, more precise controls and better laboratory equipment after Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard were tested during the night.
Tour de France
Ten punctures and counting: Netcompany INEOS probes costly Tour problem
Geraint Thomas estimates the team has suffered 10 or 11 flats, several at costly moments, prompting an examination of tyre selection and setup.
Feature
Inside the rulebook: why Pogačar and Vingegaard has overnight anti-doping tests, and what the rules really allow
Overnight controls disrupted the Tour leaders' sleep before stage 15. The timing looked extraordinary. Read against the actual rulebook and the science that shaped it, it was the system working exactly as designed, and the two best riders in the race are precisely the profile it is built to test hardest.
Tour de France
A 2am knock, an unswept corner and a broken collarbone: how Vingegaard's Tour ended on Stage 15
The overnight control and difficult corner raise legitimate athlete-welfare questions, but neither fatigue nor a medical connection to Jonas Vingegaard’s fractured collarbone has been established.
Tour de France
'That forced me to ride a little more slowly', Evenepoel says Tour car blocked him on Col du Haag
A photograph appears to support the Belgian’s account of contact with an organisation vehicle, but he recovered across the plateau to finish four seconds behind Jonas Vingegaard.
Tour de France
Pogačar looked vulnerable on stage 14, but his rivals let the Tour's best gamble pass
Jonas Vingegaard exposed rare signs of discomfort on the Col du Haag, but protecting second place took priority over the attack that might have tested the yellow jersey.
Tour de France
'Damage control' leaves Mads Pedersen facing six-rider green jersey fight at Tour de France
Only 70 points cover the leading four riders after Stage 13, while the final realistic sprint opportunity offers 75 points across its intermediate sprint and finish.
Tour de France
'There’s positives and there’s some disappointment', Tom Pidcock leaps six places into Tour de France podium fight but still misses stage win
Two third places and a successful stage 13 breakaway have moved Pidcock within nine seconds of the podium, but the Vosges will provide a more direct test of his GC credentials.
Tour de France
Armstrong and Wiggins' ‘98 days in yellow' post captures cycling's unlikeliest friendship, and the limits of erasure
The caption only adds up if Armstrong's annulled Tour days are counted, and it is the second time in a week he has counted them with Wiggins at his side. Fourteen years after the record was struck, a photograph tests what erasure actually erased.
Tour de France
'Perhaps one day, but it is not currently on the agenda' - Prudhomme rejects Tour schedule changes
The Tour director says moving the race from July or adopting 9 a.m. starts would create logistical and audience problems, despite calls for change after extreme heat affected stage 9.
News
‘I think it would be awesome' - Mads Pedersen identifies Copenhagen Worlds as possible 2029 retirement race
The former world champion would be 33 when Denmark hosts the championships, but says the Tour de France green jersey and a first Monument remain firmly on his agenda.
Tour de France
'I don't want to get carried away' - Juan Ayuso seizes Tour white jersey after riding at his limit
The Lidl-Trek rider moved within 16 seconds of the podium at Le Lioran, but said following Jonas Vingegaard's pace left him unable to contribute to the chase.
Tour de France
ASSOS and EF have somehow made the Giro’s alien kit even weirder with new ‘Spooky’ collection
The limited-edition capsule includes two aero-fit jerseys and a casual long-sleeve option, priced from £115 to £180, but its extraterrestrial details provide the main talking point.
Tour de France
'He knows what the record is': Armstrong predicts Pogačar will chase seven Tour wins
Five victories would match cycling’s official benchmark, but Armstrong believes the stripped total associated with his own career will keep Pogačar returning to the Tour.
Tour de France
Tour de France Stage 9 cut by 30km after red heatwave alert in Corrèze threatens 41°C spikes
Sunday’s race from Malemort to Ussel will start later and use a revised route as organisers respond to an intense heatwave.