Cat Ferguson will miss the 2026 Tour de France Femmes after further medical checks revealed two fractures in her ankle following her crash on the opening stage of the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women. Movistar confirmed that the British rider had initially undergone tests to assess a possible traumatic brain injury...

The British presence at the 2026 Tour de France is smaller and more focused than the broad farewell-and-debut mix of 2025, but it still has several important storylines. There is no Geraint Thomas farewell this time, no Mark Cavendish sprint-history chase, and no expectation that Britain will control the...

Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to a national cycling project, a commercial force, a Grand Tour machine and a cultural phenomenon all at once. Its pink and later magenta colours cut...

Primož Roglič at the 2026 Tour de France is a complicated idea before the race even starts. On pure ability, his name still belongs in any serious Grand Tour conversation. On team structure, age profile and recent direction, his place is far less straightforward. Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe now have a...

The Tour de France 2026 reaches the Massif Central at an awkward point in the race. The Pyrenees have already bitten, the sprinters have had a run of opportunities, and the first rest day is close enough for riders to start thinking about survival. Then comes the terrain that...

Mads Pedersen goes into the 2026 Tour de France with a route that does not look made for him at first glance, but still gives him enough ways to shape the race. This is not a soft Tour for sprinters. The Pyrenees arrive almost immediately, the Massif Central, Vosges...

Jhonatan Narváez has signed a long-term contract extension with UAE Team Emirates-XRG, keeping the Ecuadorian rider with the squad until the end of 2029. The new deal secures one of the team’s most versatile riders through what should be the prime years of his career. Since joining UAE Team Emirates-XRG...

Shari Bossuyt has signed a three-year contract extension with AG Insurance-Soudal, keeping the Belgian rider with the Women’s WorldTour team until the end of 2029. The new deal is a significant long-term commitment in a part of the sport where multi-year agreements are still less common. For AG Insurance-Soudal, it...