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Cat Ferguson will miss the 2026 Tour de France Femmes after further medical checks revealed two fractures in her ankle following her crash on the opening stage of the 2026 Giro d’Ital...

The British presence at the 2026 Tour de France is smaller and more focused than the broad farewell-and-debut mix of 2025, but it still has several important storylines. There is no Geraint Thomas farewell this time, no Mark Cavendish sprint-history chase, and no expectation that Britain will control the race in the way Team Sky and Ineos once did. Instead, the interest is sp...

Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to a national cycling project, a commercial force, a Grand Tour machine and a cultural phenomenon all at once. Its pink and later magenta colours cut through the peloton, its riders became household names, and its Tour de France victories helped...

Primož Roglič at the 2026 Tour de France is a complicated idea before the race even starts. On pure ability, his name still belongs in any serious Grand Tour conversation. On team structure, age profile and recent direction, his place is far less straightforward. Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe now have a wider leadership picture, with

The Tour de France 2026 reaches the Massif Central at an awkward point in the race. The Pyrenees have already bitten, the sprinters have had a run of opportunities, and the first rest day is close enough for riders to start thinking about survival. Then comes the terrain that rarely looks decisive in the same way as the Alps, but often hurts more than expected.

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