James Startt

We want your questions about the 2020 Tour de France for our daily Active Pass roundtable! Submit them at the bottom of the page.

While Voeckler was never considered one of the strongest riders in the peloton, he was revered as one of the smartest.

We answer your questions about the 2020 Tour de France. Today, the biggest question is whether Peter Sagan's relegation on Wednesday was the right call.

Is Tadej Pogačar in trouble now that two of his teammates have dropped out? And what's your take on Peter Sagan's decision to skip Paris-Roubaix to race the Giro d'Italia? Let's roundtable!

Caleb Ewan wins stage 11 of the Tour de France with little to spare

Darrigade was one of the most prolific Tour sprinters of his era and a right-hand man to Jacques Anquetil. VeloNews spoke to him shortly before this year's race.

How is the September weather impacting the race? And what do we make of the Col de la Loze coming up on stage 17? Let's roundtable!

Cofidis' GC star balances Tour ambitions with studying philosophy and writing books, but is looking to be known as more than a 'philosopher cyclist.'

Can one of France's current riders ever win the Tour de France? And how has the racing shutdown impacted tactics at the 2020 Tour de France? Let's roundtable!

Is the Tour de France's crowd control strategy working? Also, which GC stars looked strongest in the Pyrenees?

This year is a very different Tour de France as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

In today's Active Pass roundtable, we field your questions about Neilson Powless, Wout van Aert, and the UCI's ruling on Julian Alaphilippe.

The unheralded Roger Walkowiak caused one of the biggest upsets in the Tour de France with his 1956 victory.

James Startt tells the story behind his photograph of Neilson Powless and Alexey Lutsenko from Thursday's stage 6 of the 2020 Tour de France.

Our sixth Active Pass roundtable focuses on the Tour de France race jury's controversial decision on Wednesday to penalize Julian Alaphilippe for taking an illegal feed.

On today's Active Pass roundtable, readers have questions about the generational shift in the sprint ranks. Will Mark Cavendish ever win another Tour de France stage?

A veteran of the Tour for the past decade, Pommerie and her team have been working overtime behind the scenes simply so the Tour could take place.

James Startt scouts the best spot to shoot the maillot jaune on the historic Tour de France climb to Orcières Merlette.

Our fourth Active Pass roundtable features reader questions about the sprint battles. Why hasn't a rider emerged to challenge Peter Sagan for the Tour de France's green jersey?

I like the way the sunlight almost serves as a spotlight on the riders. It’s a finishing shot for sure, but at least today I felt like I managed to come up with a certain variation on a theme.

Our third Active Pass roundtable features reader questions about tire choice. And, which French rider is best suited to win the 2020 Tour de France? We want your questions, so please submit them at the bottom of the story.

Gouvenou constructs the race route — linking start towns and finish towns in the most original way possible — to exploit the beauty of France as well as provide challenging racing.

From getting around gendarmes to hitching up a telephone pole, James Startt got the shot – though it wasn't as he planned it.

Our second Active Pass roundtable features a reader question that cuts to the heart of the 2020 race. Do we think all stages will be raced this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic?

French filmmaker Julien Camy's documentary 'Le Roi Melancolique' captures a career encompassing both flashes of brilliance as well as remarkable tragedy.

Our first Active Pass roundtable features questions from our readers. The biggest question on everyone's mind: Will Chris Froome ever win the Tour de France again?

The Italian remains the only rider to finish in the top ten in all three grand tours in the same year after finishing 3rd in the Vuelta a España, 4th in the Giro d’Italia, and 6th in the Tour de France in 1965.

Frenchman stronger and more confident after dramatic abandon in last year's race.

Arkea-Samsic, Cofidis, and Total Direct Energie finalize squads and road captains for the Tour de France.

An intimate Q&A with the Badger — the five-time Tour winner and three-time Giro champion who also won Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Giro di Lombardia, and worlds.

‘He has already taken his first steps and that is a victory,’ his father Patrick Evenepoel said.

Bardet originally planned to focus on the Giro d’Italia this year, but in the end, he is returning to the Tour in the post-COVID-19 calendar.

All-in for Pinot as the Frenchman returns to the Tour after emotional abandon in 2019.

While not all stages will shape the GC battle, every day of racing promises some intrigue. James Startt selects five special days at this year's Tour.

Growing up in a land of climbers, Gaviria has become one of the world’s top road sprinters who dreams of riding the cobbles of the great northern classics.

While the world grappled with the spread of COVID-19, Paris-Nice was held on empty roads.

The French rider is increasingly worried that injuries sustained on stage 1 of La Route d'Occitanie are more serious than originally expected.

We caught up with Bauer for an Out of the Saddle interview, and listened to him talk about his first mountain bike, music, and cleaning house.

I knew that this year’s race would be like no other. I didn’t know what to expect, but still somehow, I expected greatness. I did not leave disappointed.

Only 26, Latour is considered one of the best French riders of his generation after winning the white jersey for the best young rider in the 2018 Tour, as well as a stage in the Vuelta.

North American veteran recalls his 'best ride' in a one day race having finished seventh in Siena.

Dust, heat, and lockdown legs set to add even more spice to the first race of the restarted WorldTour calendar.

The Australian known as ‘Bling’ has worn the maglia rosa in the Giro d’Italia and won the green points jersey in the Tour de France.

We find out about the world champion's life beyond the bike in the first of our new series of interviews.

Winner of stage 13 of the 1949 Tour de France recalls racing in Nazi-occupied France and winning his national championships.

At 35, Nibali is still one of pro cycling's most exciting riders. He shares his favorite Giro d'Italia memories, as well as his thoughts on this year's race.

French legend might have won six Tours de France if persistent knee pain didn't force an early exit from 1980 edition.

The star Mitchelton-Scott rider has a packed schedule when racing resumes in late July and continues into November.

Young Slovenian quells hype but refuses to rule himself out ahead of first-ever Tour de France appearance.

‘Personally, I am asking myself, just what I can do at my level to help the situation.’

The Bora-Hansgrohe climber recognizes that with an abbreviated season he'll have to ‘give everything.’

The Bahrain-McLaren pro regularly recalls his 2019 victory atop La Planche des Belles Filles as motivation.

Texan speaks of hopes and expectations for the season, family life, and testing his time trial on Zwift.

The Australian who races for Team Sunweb looks back on the coronavirus lockdown, and looks ahead to riding Milano-Sanremo with no racing in his legs.

Vasseur said that the team leaders would have two paths to the Tour — one for sprinters and punchers, and one for climbers.

Belgian classics specialist Philippe Gilbert still dreams of winning Milano-Sanremo — it is cycling’s only monument that he has yet to win.

This year’s climb-riddled Tour appears perfectly suited for the 30-year-old hopeful.

Thew 2019 Tour of Flanders winner is still working out his racing calendar in what promises to be an action-packed end of the season.

'I will prepare for it completely, but I don’t want to come with set objectives.' Bardet heads into Tour de France with high ambitions but no concrete goals.

Although the 26-year-old speedster has already won no less than five stages in the Tour de France, he was not been slated for the French race this year.

As soon as stage 20 of the 1960 Giro attacked the Gavia, it became a climb of legend.

Unlike at Movistar, where he was constantly sharing team leadership, the Colombian star is clearly the leader at Arkea-Samsic.

In 1980, the Giro was also struggling with an identity crisis, as it was often accused of favoritism and downright nationalism.

The tension between Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong during the 2009 Tour de France was perhaps the most memorable intra-squad rivalry of the last 15 years.