Tour de France

On Wednesday July 7, the Tour de France returns to Mont Ventoux…

There’s often a common thread that links the Tour de France wins of those who have claimed multiple titles in the race…

Our great sport really doesn’t help itself sometimes…

A is for Age.
He’s 36. Most sprinters are in carpet slippers by this stage…

Chris Froome’s staying power has never been in doubt. Four stages after hitting the deck at high speed on the very first stage of the 2021 Tour…

Prior to the start of the Tour’s third stage between Lorient and Pontivy, Deceuninck-QuickStep lead-out man Michael Mørkøv, who’s recognised…

First the tribute kit, now the symbolic victory. The first two stages of Mathieu van der Poel’s Tour de France career have provided…

The refrain is one I have heard every July since I first worked on the Tour de France back in 1990. The Tour, it’s always said, is getting more dangerous every year…

It’s that time of year again, when we rush headlong from the Giro d’Italia to the Tour de France via a dizzying whirl of minor stage races…

On September 8 last year, there was a bombshell at the Tour de France. The race director, Christian Prudhomme, tested positive for the Covid-19 virus…

Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com / Cor Vos It’s been a few years since I went hunting badgers in the Ardennes.…

Massive thanks to SWpix.com for supplying the images of the Tour de France that you see on our website. This selection is by Alex…

Race analysis by Nick Bull | Photos by SWpix.com / A.S.O. So, congratulations then, Primož Roglič. Tour winner. Tour de l’Ain, that is. For…

Words by William Fotheringham | Photos by SWpix.com / A.S.O. The French like to use a Franglais term, le hold-up, to describe a scenario where…

Words by Sophie Smith | Photo by SWpix.com / A.S.O./Alex Broadway Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team had all but won the 107th edition…

Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com Picking up the phone to Bahrain-Maclaren head Rod Ellingworth on Friday morning, with one rolling stage…

The Tour de France physically ages you and at this point of the race Paris starts to resemble not the city of love, accomplishment…

As a journalist and as a bike fan, I’ve found it hard to appreciate Primož Roglič. The Slovenian is completely devoid of expression when…

Understandably, much of the general classification talk at the Tour de France has been about compatriots Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian duo…

It was the end of the 2015 Tour de France and Richie Porte was at a Team Sky afterparty in Paris. Hours earlier, Sky…