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Tour de France 2025 stage 16 preview: Mont Ventoux
The Tour de France resumes after its second rest day with a summit finish on one of its most iconic climbs
The greatest race ever: The stories behind Kasia Niewiadoma's 2024 Tour triumph
The final stage of last year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift saw one of the most exciting and engaging finishes of a Grand Tour...
Remco Evenepoel's Tour de France dream is over - Where did it go wrong and what comes next?
The Soudal-Quickstep rider abandoned the Tour de France on stage 14
‘We’ve stepped up’ - How Shimano’s neutral service is saving dreams at the Tour de France
Rouleur spent a day inside the Shimano car alongside Servais Knaven to find out how he's implementing changes that make the service better than ever
Bold and brave: How Ineos Grenadiers got ahead of ‘those two freaks’ at the Tour de France
Thymen Arensman won stage 14 to Luchon-Superbagnères with an audacious solo hit out from the breakaway, managing to hold off a chasing Tadej Pogačar
Tour de France 2025 stage 15 preview: Breakaway specialists eye glory
A lumpy transition stage seems primed for a breakaway, but a versatile sprinter could prevail
From ski star to GC hope: Florian Lipowitz's convoluted journey to becoming Germany's biggest cycling talent
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's young German didn't start out cycling, but he showed promise from the moment he first started taking the sport seriously. Now he's one...
Inside the rise of Iraq’s national women’s cycling team
There is cycling everywhere, if you know where to look. Rouleur meets the Iraqi National Women’s Cycling team, a team of ambitious riders who are...
How to watch and live stream the 2025 Tour de France Femmes
Starting in Brittany, the fourth edition of the women's Grand Tour is set to be an explosive race from start to finish
‘Bad day, bad performance, no explanation’ - Remco Evenepoel is being burned by the Tour de France
It was another sub-par performance from the Belgian, who hoped for more as the race hit the Pyrenees
‘We will keep trying and keep believing’ - Jonas Vingegaard’s only option is to cling on to the Tour de France dream
The Danish rider put stage 12's time loss down to a one-off bad day and says he has already begun to bounce back in Friday’s...
Tour de France 2025 stage 14 preview: Four mighty Pyrenean climbs await
The peloton faces the Tourmalet, the Aspin, the Peyresourde and the Superbagnères
What does the Giro d'Italia Women tell us about the Tour de France Femmes GC battle?
An intriguing GC fight in Italy gives some indication about the form of potential challengers to the likes of Demi Vollering and defending champion Kasia...
Lipowitz, Vauquelin, Onley, Johannessen - The future of Grand Tour racing is bright
There is an exciting generation of new talent bursting through the ranks, ready to start winning as soon as Pogačar stops
Lost hope, broken dreams and perfect Pogačar - Is the Tour de France already over?
The world champion won stage 12 and reclaimed the yellow jersey in swashbuckling style on the Hautacam – and there was nothing his rivals could...
Yellow might have been decided, but what can other teams salvage from the Tour de France?
Pogačar’s domination has left his rivals scrambling to get whatever they can from a race that, barring a disaster, already seems decided
Tour de France 2025 stage 13 preview: A gruelling mountain time trial
The second Pyrenean stage is an all-out uphill effort against the clock
Three Mountains: The Pyrenean summit finishes of the 2025 Tour de France
The 2025 Tour de France will see three consecutive summit finishes in the Pyrenees: at Hautacam, Peyragudes and Superbagnères. Rouleur goes to explore the culture...
The ties that bind: a day of temporary and fast-changing alliances
Stage 11 was defined by the temporary alliances formed over the course of the stage, and the fight between two groups of five riders, working...
From breakaway specialist to domestique deluxe: Campenaerts reinvents himself at the 2025 Tour de France
Victor Campenaerts has long been renowned as a rider who thinks creatively in the pursuit of gains. But he also understands when the situation needs a bit of...
‘It’s fair play’ - Cycling and the complexity of the gentleman’s agreement
After his crash in the closing five kilometres of stage 11, Tadej Pogačar’s rivals waited for him to return to the peloton in the name...
‘A crazy, crazy day’ - Professional cycling no longer has any rules
Stage 11 of the 2025 Tour de France was one of the wildest ever with non-stop attacks – this is bike racing in 2025
Tour de France 2025 stage 12 preview: The first summit finish
The first mountain-top finish of the Tour to Hautacam looms
Tour de France 2025 team ratings: How all 23 squads stack up on the first rest day
Rouleur assesses the best and the worst-performing teams after 10 days of racing
Powerplay: Tadej Pogačar puts on show of strength in the face of Visma's numerical force
World champion may have relinquished the race lead for the second time at this Tour, but he still remains in the driving seat
‘We are the underdogs, so we have to be creative’ - A tactical masterclass or blunder from Visma-Lease a Bike at the Tour de France?
The Dutch team rode an aggressive race on stage 10 which ultimately gave them the day’s victory with Simon Yates, but failed to crack an...
‘His power file is extraordinary’ - Ben Healy and the magic of yellow
Inside the EF Education-EasyPost rider's monster effort on stage 10 of the Tour de France, which has put him in the yellow jersey going into...
Watts Occurring, Tour de France stage 10: A new yellow jersey and the best Yates we've ever seen?
Listen to the latest episode of Watts Occurring with Tom Fordyce and Luke Rowe
Tour de France 2025 stage 11 preview: Sprint or breakaway?
A smattering of climbs in the final half of the stage could be enough to foil the sprinters' chances of a rare bunch finish in...
Timepiece: A view of the Tour from the Puy de Dôme
The Massif Central is a testing playground for for the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. We look back at when...
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