Jasper Philipsen admitted he had been feeling the pressure before sprinting to a dominant victory from a reduced bunch at the end of the Tour de France's Alpine 17th stage on Wednesday, to end a ...

Unannounced tests in the middle of the night at the Tour have never been used before — but have been possible since 2016 ...

Waking an athlete at 2 a.m. for anti-doping testing isn't just inconvenient. It's ignoring the science of sleep and performance. Lessons learned from the Tour de France.

Research published in the journal Nature in February this year found that the frequency and severity of heat stress events ...

Analysis of stage 16 of the 2026 Tour de France, a 26km time trial between Évian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains ...

As you grimace at the thought of Tour de France riders being taken from their beds at 2am and 5am to do drug tests, it needs to be remembered that cycling brought this on itself. For decades riders ...

The cameras are again trained on one man at this year's Tour de France – and the spectacle is suffering for it ...

With an average of 50.91 km/h, Wednesday’s stage between Vichy and Nevers was the fastest in Tour de France history. A ...

Not even the Tour de France organisers had imagined a stage as fast as Wednesday’s. Assuming perfect conditions, and a quicker than usual pace, the earliest they thought stage 1 ...

Tadej Pogačar has broken plenty of Tour de France records in person since he first won the race outright back in 2020, but on ...

In short, professional road cyclists don’t poo during a Tour de France stage – or they try to avoid it at all costs. It would ...

The good is that France and Spain, two of the best teams in the 2026 World Cup, are meeting in the semifinals for what will likely be one of the most entertaining matches of the entire tourney, at ...