Tadej Pogacars Tourmalet demolition and 2:42 advantage over Jonas Vingegaard have left the 2026 Tour de France already looking close to decided, but UAE Team Emirates XRG sports manager Joxean Matxin Fernandez is refusing to celebrate. The Spaniard has invoked Pogacars collapse on the Col du Gra...

Uno-X Mobility launched three attacks inside the final 22 kilometres of Stage 7, only for Soren Waerenskjold to finish second when the 2026Tour de France reached Bordeaux. Former sports director Brian Holm was left wondering whether a fully committed sprint strategy could have turned the Norwegian...

Biniam Girmay has hit back at criticism of quieter Tour de France sprint stages with a pointed comparison to Tadej Pogacars Tourmalet demolition. The Eritrean believes flat stages can offer greater uncertainty than mountain days dominated by one rider. I can completely understand why viewers think...

Lucas Lillistone timed his move to perfection at Ballyallia Lake, winning Stage 5 of the Quanta Capital Junior Tour of Ireland and seizing the yellow jersey on the eve of the finish.The Halesowen AcademyMapei rider covered the 108.6kilometres from Ennis in 2h2231, at a rapid 45.72kph, taking the sprint from a five-rider group ahead of Matthew Crabbe (Hot Tubes2) and Rab Drummond (Team Rauland). It was his second stage win of the week, and the ride of the race: Lillistone began the day third overall and ends it in the leaders jersey, three seconds clear of Rian McCrystal with only the closing circuit stage to come.Aillwee decides itThe race turned, as expected, on the Category1 climb of Aillwee Caves. Cormac Nagle (Hot Tubes) went over the top first for 12 points, from Kaison Smith and Rocco Schumacher, and the selection that formed on the climb never came back together. A front group of five reached the run-in with around twelve seconds in hand over the chase, and stayed clear to the line, with Lillistone, Crabbe, Drummond, Nagle and Nils Hummel all credited with the winners time.McCrystal, the four-day race leader, came home 20th in a group nine seconds down enough to cost him the jersey by the barest of margins, but keeping him firmly in contention for tomorrow.Three seconds, three ridersThe general classification could hardly be tighter. Lillistone leads McCrystal by three seconds, with Nagle third at 13 and Drummond fourth at 14. Hummel completes the top five at 22 seconds. Barring accident, the Tour will be decided among that group on the final circuit.Lillistone also moved into the lead of the Esmark Finch first-year junior classification, so Nagle wears the white jersey on the road. McCrystal holds the Cross Insurances points jersey on 48, and Hugh g Mulhearne keeps the Wicklow200 mountains jersey on 31 points after a gritty day he finished last of the 106 classified riders but did enough on the climbs earlier in the week to stay in red.Hot Tubes stay in frontHot Tubes lead the team classification by 15 seconds from Cycling Ireland, with EF EducationONTO third at 28 seconds, and took the stage team prize on the day.One hundred and six of the 108 starters finished. Jacob Steed and Desmond Mohr abandoned; Harper Johnson and Karl Bryan did not start.Stage 6: the final reckoningThe Tour concludes on Sunday with a circuit race, where the commissaires have confirmed that riders who are lapped, or about to be lapped, will be retired and credited with an adjusted time. With three seconds covering the top two and a further eleven back to fourth, the fast, punchy nature of a closing criterium leaves everything to play for. Lillistone has the jersey; McCrystal, twice a stage winner this week, will not give it up easily. 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Tim Merlier claimed his second consecutive victory at the 2026 Tour de France on Stage 8, coming through late to beat Biniam Girmay and Olav Kooij in Bergerac. Liam Slock had threatened to deny the sprinters after carrying a slender advantage into the final three kilometres, but the Lotto-Intermarch...

Tim Merlier has won his second consecutive sprint stage, coming from the back of the bunch to assert his claim on the green jersey.As the peloton turned the final corner onto the finish, the Soudal Quick-Step rider was so far behind edged out on the corner that he barely appeared in the television shots. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin Premier-Tech) started his final lead-out for teammate Jasper Philipsen, stringing the group out. Merlier was forced to launch early, riding the slipstream and hopping forward, rider by rider.Buoyed by his momentum, Merlier sprung out on the left-hand side, ahead of Philipsen, ahead of Biniam Girmay (NSN Cycling Team) and ahead of Olav Kooij (Decathlon CMA GCM). As he crossed the finish line, in front by a comfortable distance, he punched the air. I needed to fight for my position all the time until the last minute, said Merlier after the race. Before the corner, I was a bit boxed in, and then they almost crashed and I thought it was over. I gave it a try to come back on the guys who did the lead-out, and I was coming with so much speed. It was 250 [metres] then. I gave it a try until the finish, but in the last 50 metres, I couldnt push anymore.Mostly, if you win one [stage], you can win a second. Im happy that on three [sprint] stages, I claimed two of them.Girmay finished second, with Kooij completing the podium. Merliers win puts him second in the points classification, behind Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek).More to follow

The 2026 Tour de France classifications will shift across three weeks of racing, from the Grand Dpart in Barcelona on 4 July to the final stage in Paris on 26 July. Across time trials, sprint stages, breakaway opportunities and the high mountains, each day can alter the shape of the race for yellow...

Sunday's ninth stage of the Tour de France has been shortened due to a severe heatwave alert in the Corrze department. The stage between Malemort and Ussel will now be 30km shorter than planned, reduced from 185.5km to 155.5km. Temperatures in excess of 40C are forecast for during the stage.The organiser of the Tour de France, ASO, announced the change moments after Tim Merlier won stage eight in Bergerac. A press release read: "Mto-France has placed the department of Corrze on red alert due to an exceptionally intense heatwave. "In light of this, it has been decided to adjust the route of Stage 9 of the Tour de France, from Malemort to Ussel, on Sunday 12 July 2026. "This decision has been made necessary by the exceptional weather conditions. It aims to ensure that the race can take place under conditions compatible with the red heatwave alert."As a result of the change, the stage will start 10 minutes later, at 13:45 CET (12:45 BST). The riders will take a small diversion out of Malemort, while the rest of the stage, including the finish, will be unchanged. The stage is now expected to finish at 17:30 CET."It's not a bad idea for me," said Merlier, informed of the announcement during his winner's press conference. "Maybe others will disagree because they see an opportunity for tomorrow, but weve now done one week of racing where its always above 35C." "Its hard to have enough drinks and ice to cool down, so its a good idea to shorten the stage," the Soudal Quick-Step sprinter added. "Theres not a lot of other things they can do, so thanks to the organisation for trying something." This is the second time ASO has been forced to adapt stages at this year's Tour. On stage three to Les Angles, the race organiser asked fans to stay away from the finish due to wildfires in the Pyrnes-Orientales department.According to ProCyclingStats, stage four into Foix was the hottest at the race since the websites records began in 2007: an average of 36.5C for more than four hours. "It just feels airless," Netcompany-Ineos rider Josh Tarling told Cycling Weekly the following day.

Mathieu van der Poel believes Alpecin-Premier Tech could have done little more after another carefully constructed lead-out failed to deliver a Tour de France stage victory for Jasper Philipsen. Van der Poel guided his teammate through the technical finale of Stage 8 and released him with approximat...