Tour de France 2025

From tiny handlebars and huge gears to performance engineers and AI: Aero is everything and data's the king in a race being redefined by science.

Tour de Hoody: Will this Tour de France be the pivot point of the Pogačar era or Vingegaard’s revenge? All I want is a race that burns into week three.

Defending Tour champ Pogačar talks Netflix drama, competition, respect, rivalries. ‘I hope I can live up to the expectation’.

4,000 bidons, 80 meters of bar tape, 40 bikes, and a whole lot more: A team's Tour de France packing list is insane. We break down the quantities and costs that power the peloton.

Five Americans and two Canadians: Stage wins or bust for North American contingent during the 2025 Tour de France.

Former winner Geraint Thomas pledges his full support for teammate in what is his swansong Tour.

With other nations now in the ascendancy, Thomas is the last man standing from a nation that once dominated the Tour de France podium.

The Tour de France offers the biggest purse in pro cycling, but the reward for yellow is like pocket money in other sports. We break down what's up for grabs this summer.

The Canadian was late to cycling, but was always inspired by the Tour de France. Then he became a stage winner. He writes about his relationship with the race in the first of his Tour rider diary entries.

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Tour de France: GC favorites, maps, start list, TV times. Who brings home yellow?

Cofidis, XRG-Astana, Lotto, and Total Energies are the latest teams to confirm their 'Tour 8' start list ahead of the July 5 start in Lille.

The Tour de France peloton eats more than ever before, both on and off the bike. It has fueled an upward spiral of training, recovery, and racing performance.

Who has a better support crew, Pogačar or Vingegaard? Here are the stats, stakes, and hot takes underlying the biggest Tour de France team brawl of the century.

Evenepoel cautious calling out ambitions in underdog chase for the yellow jersey against Pogačar and Vingegaard: 'I want do a good GC while taking it one day at a time.'

Every rider comes into the Tour with different goals — their vastly different training plans reflect that.

Simmons, Barta join a relatively thin US presence at the 2025 Tour de France, but one that makes up in quality for a lack in numbers.

Preparing for the Tour de France has become a precision science that's made 'racing to train' obsolete.

The opening half of this year’s race is angled towards the sport’s fastmen, making for very intense rivalries.

2024 King of the Mountains Carapaz hit by illness while training for Tour, Jonas Abrahamsen makes remarkable recovery from fracture.

After a few crash-marred DNFs, the Red Bull super team is tempering its ambitions with its star Slovenian: 'Roglič is focused, motivated, in top form.'

UAE Emirates-XRG confirms powerhouse backing band for Pogačar's quest for a fourth yellow jersey: 'I’m ready to give everything.'

More teams confirm Tour lineups: Girmay dreams of green repeat, no miracle return for Froome at stage-hunting IPT.

Watch the 2025 Tour de France live on television or streaming via NBC Sports, Flobikes, Discovery+, and more.

Here's what we have planned for the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes this July.

Power data reveals who’s really ready for the 2025 Tour de France. Pogačar leads, but his direct rivals are refusing to buckle.

Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel or Roglič? These are the stages of the Tour de France that will blow up the GC battle and blow you off the couch.

US stars Kuss, Jorgenson are key players in Visma's 'dream team' to support Jonas Vingegaard in bid for Tour de France supremacy.

João Almeida climbs the Tour de France power rankings after an impressive Tour de Suisse comeback confirms his podium possibilities.

Is it possible to bring a rider to the level of Pogačar? Performance gurus across the WorldTour are still searching for the solution on the eve of the Tour de France.

Michael Woods, Jonas Abrahamsen lose out as the peloton chases a Tour de France peak while risking injury and illness in 'necessary evil' racing at the Dauphiné, Suisse.

Remco Evenepoel enters the Tour de France with questions over his form and little support from an injury-plagued Quick-Step squad. Can he turn it around in time?

Roglič will be the Tour's ultimate wild-card while Uno-X leaves veteran sprinter Kristoff off its Tour 8 in a bid for a stage win: 'Hardest selection we’ve ever made.'

Tour de Hoody: Pogacar’s Dauphiné domination scrambles the Tour de France pecking order. Now it's not if he will win, but rather by how much.

Matthews' absence will leave a hole in Jayco-AlUla's Tour de France lineup built around O'Connor and Groenewegen.

Third and final series of hit Tour de France documentary to premiere early July – here's a look at what to expect.

'I expect chaos ... safety is being ignored': Peloton protests against a high-stress, high-stakes final while ASO chief defends hilly twist on Champs-Élysées procession.

Organizers put a radical spin on traditional Paris finale with three climbs of Montmartre before 7km dash toward the Champs. Will we see GC action on the very final day of racing?

Tour de France organizers throw a firework into love-or-hate traditional sprint stage with inclusion of paved climb used in 2024 Olympics.

Sprinter clocked up eight stages in the Tour and is the only Briton to win Gent-Wevelgem.

The opening stage of next year's Tour de France will be a 19.7km team time trial, the first in the Tour since 2019.

Yates, Campenaerts are key additions in Visma-Lease a Bike's bolstered lineup for this summer's epic 'super team' clash with Pogačar and UAE Emirates XRG.

Visma Lease a Bike team leader clear on challenge: ‘To beat him I need to reach a new level’.

Double Tour winner left ‘smashed’ after turbulent and testing season.

Defending champ says bring it on after Tour organizers revisit scenes of his past weaknesses.

Four-time Tour de France winner Froome is thinking about calling time on his storied career, aiming to compete in one last Grand Tour.

Briton in action at the Saitama Criterium in Japan, receives most aggressive rider award.

Ventoux chronicler Jeremy Whittle charts the history and challenges of the most notorious climb of the Tour de France.

The Tour goes 'back to the future' in 2025 with leg-sapping mountain sufferfests and few modern gimmicks - is that a good thing?

Next year's Tour is loaded with climbs where Vingegaard stomped on Pogačar – but Visma-Lease a Bike accepts it needs to 'close the gap'.

Cavendish appears to leave door open to another Tour ride, Evenepoel weighs up ‘mythical’ course, and more.

No cobbles or gravel, but plenty of drama should be delivered in a route heavy on uphill finals and explosive breakaway stages.

On Tuesday, the long-awaited launch of next year’s Tour de France takes place in Paris, but the host nation seems to be becoming increasingly disenchanted with cyclists and cycling.

Can't wait for the official route reveal to see what Pogačar will face in the 2025 Tour de France? We dug through the French press to find out what's coming.

'We'll see what happens in the future': Cavendish floats possibility of another season in the pro peloton following new all-time Tour de France record.

After a number of quiet seasons, four-time Tour de France winner wants to say farewell on a high note.

A two-time US national time trial champion, he raced 10 grand tours and finished 3rd in the 2014 Amgen Tour of California.

Team mechanics have been working around the clock this season thanks to new team gear and sponsor changes.

The race saw huge triumphs and crushing disappointments, but the human side of the Tour is what persists.

Uncertainty over Vuelta a España after an off-key debut with Red Bull 'super team' leaves 34-year-old at risk of losing the wheels of the Pogačar era.

Three-time Tour winner’s swashbuckling season sees more and more records fall.

Breaking down what a dominant performance tells us about Tadej Pogačar's historic greatness and the challenge of defeating him at future Grand Tours

For this Workout of the Week, we’ll do a time trial simulation of the final stage of the 2024 Tour de France.

'My bike is 1kg too heavy': Guillaume Martin didn't use a power meter at the Tour for fear of adding extra weight to his Look 795 bike frame.

History was made and records were broken, but this year's Tour de France wasn't all awesome. Here are the disappointments and duds of a three-star three weeks.

There was high action and intense racing through the Alps during the third week of the Tour de France

North Americans in the Tour de France: 3 Americans and 3 Canadians lit up the race from start to finish with attacks, top-10s, near-misses.

In this column, we dive into the power numbers of Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard, and more at the Tour de France.

Third overall behind Pogačar and Vingegaard marks a stunning debut, but Belgian cycling history tells a cautionary tale.

Tadej Pogačar finds himself in good company — and has outperformed a certain Eddy Merckx.

Richard Carapaz is a deserving polka-dot champion, but the points system needs changing and timed segments on climbs could shake up Tour racing.

From Cavendish's 35th to high-speed bunny-hops, to Jorgensen's MVP ride and Girmay's breakthrough, here are the best moments of a Tour de France that never stopped delivering.

UAE Team Emirates won nearly one-third of the €2,282,200 prize pot, with a surprising name at the bottom of the list.

We take a look at this year’s L’Étape du Tour winner's performance and see how it compares to the Tour de France peloton.

‘To get second in the Tour de France is still a very very big result.’

Pogačar reached behind his back with his hand to show 1-2-3, a sign of his third yellow jersey by age 25: 'This is the real Tadej.'

Slovenian tears up TT course, beating Vingegaard and Evenepoel into second and third on stage.

‘We got a win, and got the win we wanted. Like everything, you live a rollercoaster in the Tour.’ Cavendish's epic Tour journey is over.

All four competition leaders at the Tour have access to custom-tailored apparel from Tour sponsor Santini.

What crank arm lengths do the pros use in the Tour de France?