The countdown to La Vuelta a Espaa 2026 has entered its decisive phase, and all eyes turn to one name: Tadej Pogacar. After sealing his fifth Tour de France with authority and completing a Grande Boucle with less fatigue than expected for a rider of his level, the Slovenian's decision to race the S...

The Tour of Denmark will be taking place from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August. After the Tour de France, it is the first high-level stage-race, suiting several different types of riders in a traditionally explosive race.Below, you'll find the stages, profiles, and the information on how to wa...

Another day, another live blog, another chapter of a doping story that Callum is left processing...

Whilst there are strong efforts to distance UAE Team Emirates - XRG away from the speculation of doping, it is something that does not go away and might have peaked during the Tour de France. One of Festina's former riders Jrme Chiotti, who raced in the same peloton as Mauro Gianetti, has criticiz...

While David Duffield may have clowned around, intentionally or not, during his 40-year career as a broadcast commentator, his many record-breaking achievements as a cyclist in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s deserve to be taken more seriously.True to form, Duffers weapon of choice was that most eccentric of cycles, the trike. Hurtling across fast-changing landscapes on his sturdy Higgins three-wheeler, Duffers successfully laid claim to multiple long-distance records, including a 1959 50-mile time of one hour, 57 minutes, and 4 seconds, a 1971 London to Cardiff time of 7 hours, 20 minutes, and 38 seconds and a 1960 End-to-End time of 2 days, 10 hours, 58 minutes and 29 seconds. All on a trike weighing 16.1kg/35.5lbs.No brakes at the back meant racing trikes came with extra stopping power up-front (Image credit: Future)Its a hell of a machine, a real beast, says current owner Richard Hoddinott of vintage specialists Velo Pages. He raced for 17 years on this trike, from 1955 to 1971, achieving 11 RRA records on it, which is staggering.Numbered 9230, this mid-fifties Higgins is predominantly built from oversized Reynolds 531 tubing. Duffield was a tall lad, well over 6ft, which explains the immense 26-inch (centre to seat tube top) frame size. Gearing is courtesy of a five-speed 14-23t block at the rear, and 49/45t chainrings at the front. The drive train on a tandem is a whole different kettle of fish (Image credit: Future)Both mechs are branded Benelux, from the once popular Cyclo Gear Company of Birmingham, with the front operated via a bar-end shifter. The Williams cranks and Constrictor Cobra pedals are steel, no doubt for strength, because Duffield knew how to put the hammer down.Twin-front brakes are commonplace on trikes because theres no rear brake, and the risk of going OTB is negligible. However, twin light mounts, one on each fork blade, are unusual clearly specified by a man destined to ride epic distances through many a dark night.

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UAE Team Emirates - XRG signed Rune Herregodts into the 2025 season, looking to turn him into a premium domestique. The Belgian rider has done a strong job but hasn't climbed into the top ranks of the team; and after confirming he is still very much at his prime with a victory at the Belgian nationa...

TNT Sports witnessed a 58% increase in viewership of the Tour de France in the UK and Ireland this month, in the first year of its exclusive broadcasting deal for the race. A report published on Wednesday by the channels parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), said it enjoyed a record number of viewers of this years Tour across its streaming, television and digital platforms. Although WBD did not provide specific numbers and refused to do so when contacted by Cycling Weekly it said that an audience of millions watched the race on TNT Sports, and record numbers streamed it on its HBO Max platform in the UK. This coincided with the first edition of the Tour de France in four decades that had no live coverage on free-to-air television in the UK. Last autumn, ITV dropped the rights to broadcast the race after 25 years. In its place, WBD signed an exclusivity deal in the UK, putting the race behind a paywall that currently costs 30.99 a month, or 25.99 a month on a 12-month contract. "Companies like us and Sky invest in sport, and that's why sports like the [football] Premier League have been going since day one behind a paywall," said WBD Sports Europes executive vice president Scott Young earlier this year."Theres a clear audience in this market that accepts paying for sport. Sport in this market generally sits behind a paywall one way or the other."A survey by Cycling Weekly last year found that 71% of respondents said they watched the Tour on ITV. Of those 1,273 people, 1,120 said they would not subscribe to TNT Sports to watch the race live in 2026, and almost half said they had never paid to watch cycling on TV. Although WBD did not provide free-to-air live coverage of this year's race, its free highlights show on Channel 5 recorded an average of 557,400 viewers per stage. Across Europe, the Tour was shown on WBD's Eurosport channel, which was absorbed into TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland last February. The company reported a general 9% increase in viewership across its territories on Eurosport for the race. France Tlvisions, the race's host broadcaster in France, announced on Monday it had beaten records with its coverage, reaching an audience of more than 46.5 million over the three weeks an increase of 600,000 from 2025. Tadej Pogaar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) won his fifth Tour title this July to equal the all-time record held by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurin.

The route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes has been announced this morning in Paris and it features a very difficult route which 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...

Cyclists are always chasing personal best. Can you eke out a faster climb? Can you push a bit more power? Or can you beat you mate to the town sign? For Charles Hall, who finished as the fastest amateur rider on the brutal 200km Icelandic gravel race The Rift last weekend, his PB was something else entirely. The event was sponsored by a hot dog factory, so it was essentially just endless hot dogs [at the finish]. So, I said hello to nine hot dogs, he explains confirming hes never eaten that many in one sitting before. I think that's got to be near an entire jar of hot dogs.I don't really think sports nutritionists around the world would advise it for recovery fuel. But, I think my body was craving something and it saw that and it thought that's what I needed, he says.Hall, who has a full time job working in a market research firm, wasnt even meant to be in Iceland that weekend, let alone trying to refuel from burning 7,000 calories in seven hours.The Rift were running a competition on Instagram. It was very much, comment, share, put something on your story for a chance to get in I was like, no one ever wins them, but I thought, you know what, why not?But Hall, who rides for Rule 28 Factory Racing, did win. With just three weeks to go he had to book a flight to Iceland. But all the accommodation in and around the start town of Hvolsvllur, home to just over 1,000 people, was booked, so in less than ideal race preparation hed sleep in a tent. (Image credit: Thrainn Kolbeinsson)Luckily for Hall he had been due to be in Essex for the ACME Grand West audax which takes them from Essex to the Welsh coast and so already had the day booked off work. I left work on the Thursday evening, arrived there basically midnight, pitched the tent, and then just kind of went from there. It was all quite a whirlwind of a weekend, he recalled.Hall wasnt totally unprepared. He tries to get at least two hours riding in each day, mostly on his way to and from work, and four hours a day at the weekend. But his hopes werent high.Obviously, I go into each race thinking you've got to give it a roll, especially when you spend so much money and time to go away. But I was feeling a bit rough. So I called my parents, and my girlfriend was like, you know what? It's such pretty scenery. I'll just [take mey] time and enjoy what's around me."But as soon as I got in the bunch amongst the other riders, riding shoulder-to-shoulder against some of the pros you can't. I just thought I'd see how long I can hold on to the front group.Contributing turns alongside a group of pros he recognised from their social media profiles Hall lasted much longer than he expected, only dropping from the front group 130km into the 200km race. I surprised myself quite a lot. My normalized power for the first two hours, was over 350 watts. I set my highest average power for 20 minutes near 370 watts, he says. By the time he dropped back, the race had climbed most of its 2,600m of ascent up onto the plains of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve and was descending slowly back towards the start. I was kind of in no man's land, like the next 70km. I was constantly looking over my shoulder, not really knowing where anybody was, he recalls. Occasionally, a rider would pass through, but they were an elite rider, not an age group rider. So, the last bit was quite tense. The terrain was also starting to take it toll. The terrain itself was by far the hardest terrain I've ever ridden. I train in around Richmond Park, so it's fairly champagne gravel in Richmond Park, so this was very much just like a surreal experience. It was quite open farm roads not like the fire roads that you would get up in [gravel race] The Gralloch in Scotland, no tricky single track, just hard terrain. Also, you had to constantly look out for big hard volcanic rocks because they were very much hiding in the soil. There would just be flat gravel, and suddenly a massive rock, he says. At the end, my hands were just covered with blisters from the constant vibrations.Having wrapped up an impressive result, he was also 22nd among the pro riders, it was time for a quick beer, nine hotdogs and packing his stuff up ready for an early morning flight back to the UK ready for a heros welcome in the office the next day.In the Monday morning meeting they ask, How's everybody's weekend? What do people get up to? I said, I went to Iceland and won a bike race," he recalls. "They said, Oh, nice. That's interesting. And then the conversation moves on.(Image credit: Tom Couzens)