The route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes has been announced this morning in Paris, and it features a very difficult route that differs quite a lot from this year's. Taking place from Saturday, 1 August to Sunday, 9 August 2026, the time trials are back at this year's edition, and we will have a m...

The 2026 Tour de Pologne takes place between the 3rd and 9th of August and gives continuation to the World Tour calendar. Between the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espaa, it often sees a few riders that participate in both; whilst providing opportunities for many different kinds of riders. We tak...

Geraint Thomas has refused to hide behind Netcompany INEOS disrupted preparation after the team left the 2026 Tour de France without a stage victory, an individual podium or a rider inside the top 19 overall. The failure arrived in the middle of an otherwise encouraging season for the British team....

Somebody must have forgotten to show Riejanne Markus the script for stage two of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Destiny had written it as follows: Lorena Wiebes wins a routine bunch sprint and takes her first victory in the yellow jersey. That, in the end, was the closing scene, but not without Markuss best efforts to foil it. Peeling off the front of the breakaway with 39km to go, the Lidl-Trek rider charged solo to the finish, skirting around the shore of Lake Geneva and into the Swiss city. Her gap stayed steady at around a minute. Until, closing in towards the line, it began to fall, the seconds trickling away rather than tumbling. Along the finishing straight, fans in their thousands tilted onto their tiptoes to see if shed hold off the pack. It would have been, they thought, the perfect antidote to a foregone conclusion. But with 400m to go, Wiebes and the sprint trains barrelled over the top, and Markus was absorbed into the swell of the bunch.The Dutchwoman's result on the day read 76th, but it didnt tell the story of how narrow the finale was. I came pretty close, and I honestly didnt expect that, Markus said afterwards. Of course, we wanted to be part of the game, but I knew that the sprinters really wanted to get a chance today because this was the most suitable stage for a sprint. But then I came actually pretty close, so it was actually pretty disappointing in the end. Stage two was, as many correctly tipped, a day made for Wiebes. She is the most dominant sprinter of her generation perhaps of all time who has collected 133 career wins at the age of 27. Seven of those have now come at the Tour de France Femmes a tally bettered by no one. Did Markus think she could have starved her of her latest one? In the last kilometres, I was not thinking about the win really, the Lidl-Trek rider said. I was just trying to go all-out, and be as quick as possible. Actually, 1km before the finish, I thought, Theyre still not here. When are they coming? Then with 500m to go, I felt like, Ooo. Then at 400m, they came. It was really disappointing, actually, but Im really proud of the effort. It was a credit to the Dutchwoman's strength that Wiebes's SD Worx-Protime chose to chase her down with their GC leader Anna van der Breggen and former world champion Lotte Kopecky. It was a gap I couldnt close really easily, Kopecky told the TV cameras. We rode full gas, and we didnt come any closer.We know Riejanne and we know that we cannot give her two minutes. But she had a really good moment where she attacked. It always takes some time to organise ourselves. In the end it was quite close, but I think the girls did an amazing job today to close the gap. By way of consolation, Markus was awarded the combativity prize as the days most daring rider. As she stood on the podium, she smiled out to the fans gathered road, and was greeted with the loudest cheer of the day. It was really nice to be on the podium, she said, but I really hope Ill come closer than I did today on some of the next stages. The script, next time, may have Markus in a starring role.

The 2026 Tour de Pologne takes place between the 3rd and 9th of August and gives continuation to the World Tour calendar. Between the Tour de France and theVuelta a Espaa, it often sees a few riders that participate in both; whilst providing opportunities for many different kinds of riders. We tak...

The route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes has been announced this morning in Paris, and it features a very difficult route that differs quite a lot from this year's. The time trials are back at next year's edition, and we will have a mythical first-time summit finish at Mont Ventoux, with a finale...

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...

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...

After an emphatic victory on the opening stage, Lorena Wiebes took another win on stage two of the Tour de France Femmes, as she dominated the bunch sprint to claim back-to-back stages and retain the maillot jaune.The Dutch sprinter was left without a leadout and had to find her way through in the final few hundred metres, as her SD Worx-Protime team were left depleted after being forced to chase down a solo move from Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) in the closing kilometres.However, once she emerged from the slipstream into clean air, Wiebes was able to launch her explosive sprint and once again proved to be a level above the rest of the sprinters, with Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) finishing a distant second and third respectively.

Natnael Tesfatsion admitted his Circuito de Getxo victory had taken even him by surprise after the Movistar Team rider completed an impressive comeback to win the Basque one-day race. The Eritrean was distanced on the decisive climb but fought his way back into contention before beating Pau Miquel o...