In 2026, amateur cyclists from around the world will once again have the chance to ride a stage of next year’s Tour de France under the same closed-road conditions as, presumably, Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, who between them have won the last six Tours.
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…
You told yourself it was just a quick spin. A little shakeout ride. Beat the sunset. Home before dark. Maybe even time for a post-ride snack that doesn’t involve eating peanut butter from the jar in cycling gloves.
The disheartening decades-long stretch of futility in Grand Tour racing for French men riders may be nearing an end because of the presence in the peloton of the French sporting goods retail giant Decathlon as a sponsor and because the current crop of under-25 riders…
