The final time trial of the 2026 Tour de Pologne became Tudor Pro Cycling's playground. Not only has Stefan Kng recorded the best time of the day, but their general classification hope Mauro Brenner also prevailed among his rivals to secure the overall title. Brenner placed himself in a perfect po...

Even after winning years of legal battles, its unclear if a trial will ever go ahead. Route would be part of S2S Dublin Bay route and help link Dn Laoghaire with city centre.A planned 6-month trial cycle path was just about to be put in place on Dublins Strand Road in 2021 before it was blocked by a High Court injunction. But after Dublin City Council eventually won an appeal in 2025, and now six years from when it was first announced, the trial has still not been put in place.In April, the council told this website that it was looking at options for the route. That is still the case, the council confirmed this week. On Friday, a spokesperson for Dublin City Council said: Options for a cycle route onStrandRoadare being considered. An update, once available, will be presented to the south east area councillors.The Strand Road trail was to include making Beach Road and Strand Road one-way for motorists to make way for a two-way cycle path, and the city council also planned to continue the two-way path onto Merrion Road, with a reduction of an outbound traffic lane where the road is wider. Dn Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils Coastal Mobility Route was extended to the border with the city council, where the route currently ends.In the Court of Appeal case, the judges seemed to be very clear that they viewed the case as a live issue to deliberate on because the council intended to go ahead with the trial. IrishCycle.com asked the council whether it is moving away from trialling the cycle route and, if so, why, but the council did not directly answer this question.The Strand Road Cycle Route would fill in the largest section of the S2S Dublin Bay route, with the city council having most of the northside section of the route open and Dn Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils Coastal Mobility Route in place with improvements planned. Dublin Port is also building a project at the western boundary of the port, with cycle paths which will help link the north and southside route.

Even though Elisa Longo Borghini was not at her best during the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, the Italian champion secured a podium spot through tenacity and consistence. While many pre-race favourites fell out of contention during the week, Longo Borghini persisted and anoverall third place is her w...

The 2026 Vuelta a Espaa will mark a turning point in Pablo Torress career. The young rider from Madrid, one of Spanish cyclings brightest prospects, will start his first Grand Tour on the 22nd of August in near-ideal conditions: lining up with UAE Team Emirates XRG, the leading favourite for the...

The tension that followed a heated Stage 8 finale between Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM) and Demi Vollerings FDJ United-SUEZ team appears to have been settled, despite animated words between the two Tour de France Femmes rivals in the opening kilometres of Stage 9.TV cameras caught Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney riding alongside one another early in Sundays final stage having a conversation. Vollering later confirmed that she had approached her rival to clear the air over the previous days controversial finale."It was good that we had a talk together," Vollering, draped in yellow, said after the stage. "It was all good in the end."Niewiadoma-Phinney similarly suggested the matter had been resolved between the riders."Sometimes its nice for us riders to talk through things and maybe leave the media out of it," she said. "At the end of the day, theres so much going on when youre full gas."Weve been competing together for years, and we will be competing for the next year or so. None of us ever wants to have any sort of beef."The discussion followed a bitter end to Stage 8, when Niewiadoma-Phinney was furious with FDJ rider Clia Gery after feeling she had been blocked and pushed into the barriers by the French champion during the finale.Niewiadoma-Phinney publicly confronted Gery after the finish and subsequently criticised the French rider and FDJs actions, saying she had lost all respect for the team over the incident.Vollering said Sunday that FDJ had never intended to block Niewiadoma-Phinney and that Gerys line had instead been dictated by the road."I went to Kasia this morning to say that we never had the intentions to block her," Vollering explained. "It was also a tricky corner. There was a pothole in the middle, so it was only one way to take this line, and Clia had no other choice."Clia also, in this moment, didnt realise she did anything wrong."The controversy spiralled overnight on social media, and FDJ-Suez's Director Sportif Lars Boom said that Gery even received death threats. "[Gery] got a lot of nasty messages, which makes me always very angry, especially because shes such a young girl still, and we should always protect young people from these kinds of stupid actions from people who dont think and just send a message," Vollering revealed. "Its very sad to think that you go to somebodys profile and send them threatening messages. I can really not understand this, but it makes me very angry. And she had a really rough time."The FDJ leader said she had been disappointed by how publicly the criticism had been directed at an individual rider while emotions were still running high."I wanted to have a chat with Kasia about this also because I was just a bit disappointed that she let all the emotions out like that about a rider and saying their name," Vollering said."You should always try to avoid these kinds of things. First of all, we are riders, and then next to it, we are human beings, we are real persons. If you say somebodys name or you really attack somebody like this, it really hurts somebody and can really do bad things to people."There was little time for either rider to dwell on the dispute as the stakes were as high as they can get. Vollering started the 99.2km final stage with a mere eight seconds over Niewiadoma-Phinney on general classification, leaving the yellow jersey still very much in play on a course featuring four ascents of the Col dze.Asked how she had managed to shut out the controversy with the Tour still on the line, Vollering offered a simple solution."Dont go on social media. That helps a lot," she said.On the final ascent of the Col dze, Vollering made the decisive move around 800 metres from the summit, with an acceleration to which Niewiadoma-Phinney had no response. Vollering crested the top with an 18-second advantage and continued to extend it to well over a minute on the descent into Nice to claim her second Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift victory. By the time the celebrations began, any lingering animosity appeared to have disappeared, with the two rivals embracing and chatting amicably. "[Demi] makes me work harder and then dream to come back here and get the yellow jersey again," Niewiadoma-Phinney said. Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney have now both finished on the final podium in all five editions of the Tour de France Femmes since its 2022 revival. They've also both won the Tour, so while the tension from Stage 8 appears to have been put to rest, the rivalry between the pair is certainly going nowhere.

The 2026 Tour de France Femmes classifications will shift across nine stages of racing, from the Grand Depart in Lausanne on 1 August to the final stage in Nice on 9 August. Across sprint stages, hilly terrain, an individual time trial and major mountain tests, each day can alter the shape of the ra...

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney put in an all-time best climbing performance when she won on Mont Ventoux at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. She dropped the entire peloton, claimed the stage by more than a minute, and rode herself into the yellow jersey. Fans were confused, then, when she uploaded her ride to Strava, and didnt have the fastest recorded women's time the QOM. That honour instead went to Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team LIMAD), who finished third on the day, with a time of 1:07:44 on the official 20.74km Mont Ventoux (par Bdoin) segment. When Cycling Weekly questioned the Italian about the QOM on Saturday, she said she only had it probably because Kasia didnt publish yet. But Niewiadoma-Phinney had published by that point. Why did she not take the crown? I think I did, the Canyon-Sram rider told Cycling Weekly quizzically on Sunday, during her press conference for finishing runner-up overall. I think so, because I was looking at it also. Thats the one because there are a few different segments the one that Longo has right now?I was like nearly two minutes faster, she continued. [The QOM] is there, but its not loading for some reason. I dont know why. The answer, it turned out, lay in Niewiadoma-Phinneys Strava privacy settings; due to hiding the ends of her rides, her file appeared to finish a few hundred metres short of Ventouxs summit. This meant her QOM time on the segment was not recorded on the public leaderboards. Asked if she will now amend the file to secure the QOM, Niewiadoma-Phinney smiled: Oh yeah. A surreal scene then unfolded in the media centre when Longo Borghini, who was waiting for her press conference for finishing third, raised her hand to ask a question. Hi Kasia, its Elisa Longo Borghini from UAE Team LIMAD, she began. I want to ask you a question: can you not upload your Strava segment? I have the QOM and Id like to keep it.Laughing, Niewiadoma-Phinney said: It depends how many drinks you buy me for that. Longo Borghini replied: It depends how cheap drunk you are We can make a deal later. Seven of the top 10 women's Strava times on Mont Ventoux were set on Friday during stage seven of the Tour de France Femmes. As it stands, and before Niewiadoma-Phinney has updated her file, Paula Blasi (UAE Team L'IMAD) is second, Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) fourth, with Marion Bunel (Visma-Lease a Bike), Thalita de Jong (Human Powered Health), Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) and Maeva Squiban (UAE Team L'IMAD) also featuring on the leaderboard. Reflecting on her entire Tour performance, Niewiadoma-Phinney said she was happy and satisfied with her second place, because she was confident she had given her absolute best.We came here to fight for the best possible result and, I mean, I won on Mont Ventoux, and I feel like that was the biggest day of my life, cycling-wise, she said. Im super proud and happy about it.

The 2026 Czech Tour will be taking place from the 13th to the 16th of August this year. During the very busy month of August, the Czech Republic's top event provides a stage for plenty riders to showcase their sprinting and climbing skills at a key period of the year. We take a look at its profiles....

Across nine stages from Lausanne to Nice, the Tour de France Femmes can change quickly through crashes, illness and the accumulated strain of a compact route. With little recovery time between sprint finales, hilly stages, the Dijon time trial and the decisive mountain tests, one incident can remove...

With only nine stages at the Tour de France Femmes, a relegation, time penalty or yellow card can carry consequences far beyond the immediate result. Sprint deviations, sticky bottles, feeding breaches and littering offences can all affect stage placings, jersey battles and the shape of a riders ra...