Jonas Vingegaard does not sound like a man limping into the Tour de France after a brutal Giro d’Italia. He sounds refreshed, reset, and quietly dangerous.
This year’s Tour de France holds the promise of being one of the best editions of all time, with four superstar riders and another handful of just plain stars with outside podium chances.
Jonas Vingegaard may be in the form of his life. However, as his recent dominant Giro d’Italia victory demonstrated, the situation is not ideal with his Visma–Lease a Bike team as he prepares to face arch-nemesis Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) in the Tour de…
So far, 2026 has not been a banner year for the best cycling team in the world, UAE Team Emirates–XRG. Yes, they lead the UCI’s technical rankings with 15,059 points, but Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe and Visma–Lease a Bike are close behind. And while the team has…
Remco Evenepoel is trying to win the Tour de France without riding in a race for more than two months prior to stage 1. Is that an act of desperation or a brilliant course of action based on innovative principles of sport science? We can’t…
The 113th edition of the Tour de France, unveiled in Paris on 23 October 2025, will run from 4 to 26 July 2026. It opens with a bold Grand Départ in Barcelona, dips immediately into the Pyrenees, sweeps across France’s central ranges, and ends with…
It was a year in which political protests seriously disrupted the Vuelta Ciclista a España, and top riders such as Remco Evenepoel and Juan Ayuso broke their contracts to sign with new teams. But mostly it was the year of Tadej Pogačar, aka King Pogi…
For one thing, Jonas Vingegaard is the 28-year-old Dane and Visma–Lease a Bike rider who on Sunday was (unceremoniously) crowned champion of the 2025 La Vuelta following a dominant ride to the summit of the Bolsa del Mundo in what turned out to be the…
Amy Hudson set out to ride the full 2025 Tour de France route – every stage, every transfer, all on her own schedule and legs. Four weeks and 6,556 kilometres later, she arrived in Paris, quietly completing one of the most ambitious amateur cycling challenges…
Watch closely after a Tour de France stage, and you’ll see a familiar ritual. Riders crossing the line and soigneurs immediately handing them a dark red drink. Yes, that’s cherry juice. It might seem too simple to belong in the elite world of sports nutrition,…
