The Tour de France will regain a free-to-air television presence in the UK from 2026, with 5 confirming daily coverage of both the mens race and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The announcement arrives after a major shift in how British viewers follow the sport. Full live Tour de France cover...

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Two years ago Warner Bros. Discovery secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Tour de France from 2026 and through to 2030. The deal left British cycling fans frustrated that the worlds biggest cycling race was disappearing from ITV and going behind a paywall. But today there is some consolation. TNT Sports, owned by Warner Bros. Discover, and 5 have reached a landmark multi-year deal that will deliver exclusive free-to-air highlights coverage of the Tour de France in the UK, and just in the knick of time with the race starting on July 4 in Barcelona. Reemah Sakaan, president of 5, says the channel is delighted that it will be the new free-to-air home of cycling in the UK. Sakaan says 5s daily highlight show will be broadcast at 7pm throughout July. The highlights will be fronted by sports presenter and journalist, Rebecca Charlton. And not just the Tour TNT Sports deal with 5 includes highlights of all three mens Grand Tours. Following the 2026 Tour de France, 5 will cover the 2026 Vuelta a Espaa followed by the 2027 Giro dItalia. 5 will also broadcast highlights of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. According to TNT Sports, the agreement means 5 will broadcast free-to-air highlights of the UK for the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espaa in 20262028. 5 has the rights to broadcast Giro dItalia highlights from 20272029. Scott Young, executive vice president of Warner Bros. Discover Sport, says: "This partnership with 5 represents a major step forward in expanding the reach of elite cycling across the UK. As the Home of Cycling, we are committed to bringing fans closer to the biggest races in the world across both men's and women's cycling, and this agreement ensures even more viewers can experience the drama, emotion and storytelling that define Grand Tour racing. Live coverage of the 2027 Tour de France on 5 If free-to-air highlights werent enough cause for celebration (currently it costs 34.99 per month to watch cycling in the UK), youll be able to watch live coverage on 5 of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift next year. In 2027, the Grand Dpart of the mens and womens races will take place in the UK with stages held across Scotland, England and Wales. Paul Bush OBE, Grand Dpart GB managing director, says: We want to bring the 2027 Grands Dparts to as wide an audience as possible, so it is fantastic news that fans can look forward to following this years edition with free-to-air coverage to build their excitement for what to expect when the Grand Dpart arrives in Britain in 2027. Read more: Ned Boulting reacts to the end of ITVs coverage of the Tour de France Buy the Official Tour de France Guide out now! The UKs only official Tour de France Guide is available now order your copy for delivery in time for this years race. This year's 204-page Official Race Guide includes: All the stages, maps, itineraries and profiles from the biggest race in womens and mens cycling Full breakdown of each race team Interviews with the stars of this years race Official A2 route map posters Our exclusive Galibier special magazine Exclusive Tour de France beer mats Buy the 2026 Official Tour de France Guide now!

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Irish cycling is mourning 16-year-old Shane OBrien, a rising junior talent from Co Cork who died after a training crash in Co Waterford on Tuesday. OBrien had already taken major steps in 2026, his first season as a junior. He had earned selection for the Irish junior team at Course de la Paix Jun...

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The Irishman was part of the British junior team Camsmajaco

The Tour de Suisse has changed shape because the modern Tour de France build-up has changed shape. Prestige alone no longer protects a June stage race if it does not fit the altitude-camp rhythm used by the riders targeting July. That is the context behind the Swiss races new five-day format, which...

In MemoriamIrish cycling mourns Shane OBrien2009 2026Irish cycling is in mourning following the death of Shane OBrien, one of the brightest young talents this country has produced in a generation, who has been taken from us at the age of just 16.No list of results can hold what Shane was on a bike. But for those who only got to see him race, the results at least point to it. A Fermoy boy through and through, he learned his trade at Fermoy Cycling Club the same club, the same roads, that shaped his older brother Liam before stepping up to ride for CAMS Majaco this season.He announced himself last autumn in the kind of way that gets people talking in club car parks for weeks afterwards. A first-year junior, barely up from the U16s and riding his very first cyclocross races, he won the junior mens event at the opening round of the National Cyclocross Series at Falls Park in Belfast. That alone would have been a fine days work. What made hardened observers sit up was the clock: Shane put in the two fastest laps of the entire day across every category the senior mens race included and held lap times that matched or bettered the best seniors on the course, even with the older men racing more laps. First season at the level, going toe to toe on the watch with established names. You dont see that often. When you do, you remember the name.And he was no flash in the pan. On a treacherous, icy circuit at the closing round of the series, a couple of small slips cost him a place on the days podium but he dug in, crossed the line within seconds of third, and did just enough to take the overall National Series title. A national champions jersey in his debut cyclocross campaign as a junior. That tells you as much about his head as his engine.The road season carried the same steepening curve. Settling in quickly at CAMS Majaco, he picked up two podiums in National Single Grade racing and went abroad with his team to test himself against the best. He held his own against C1-level fields, taking second in the Lacey Cup and third in the John Drumm Cup, and lined up at Rs Mumhan as he stepped into the senior bunch.That body of work earned him the jersey every Irish rider dreams of. Only last month, Shane pulled on the green of Ireland for the first time on the road, making his international debut at the Course de la Paix Juniors in the Czech Republic one of the most prestigious junior stage races on the calendar. National team coach Martyn Irvine had named him among a group of debutants precisely because of the promise hed shown all season long. He had every right to be there.He was, as so many in the bunch will tell you, well known and well loved and a rider of real, rising promise. The OBriens are one of the most gifted cycling families in the country: Shane and his brother Liam, now a professional with Lidl-Trek Future Racing, both products of Fermoy CC and that tight, generous cycling community in North Cork that turns up in the rain, year after year, to make riders like these.Shane OBrien died on Tuesday following a collision while out training in Co Waterford. He was 16.Everyone here at ICN extends our deepest sympathy to Shanes parents, to Liam and Aidan, and to all his friends, teammates and coaches at Fermoy Cycling Club, at CAMS Majaco, and across the Irish national setup. The roads will feel emptier for a long while. A talent, and a young man, taken far too soon.Ar dheis D go raibh a anam.