Tour de France 2025

The French success at this year's Tour de France has attracted throngs of local fans to the roadside in the Alps. Riders are seeing flags, homemade signs, and yes, even a few Borat costumes.

Movistar played chess high in the Alps on Thursday and came up big with a stage victory for Quintana at the expense of Landa

Egan Bernal's attack on the Col du Galibier was actually Geraint Thomas's decision, the Colombian told reporters after the stage

How does Egan Bernal's advantage change the dynamics heading into the final two stages? And what is the significance of Nairo Quintana's stage victory?

Thomas loses a key domestique leading into three decisive stages in the Alps.

After 17 stages the Tour de France riders are nearing exhaustion. Teams have multiple ways to overcome fatigue.

Wives and girlfriends. Missing the break. Pushing and shoving. And is rubbing still racing? Bobby and Gus sound off.

The inconsistent Basque climber has nothing to lose and vows to try to blow up the race in a bid for the final podium in Paris.

Geraint Thomas expects teams to increase the pace in the Alps to try and shed overall leader Julian Alaphilippe.

Rowe and Martin were both expelled from the race after it appeared the two men and their teams had an on-road spat in the final kilometers of stage 17.

The horrifying crash that defined the 2003 Tour de France and forever changed Joseba Beloki's career was the result of bad management, says Beloki's former teammate Jorg Jaksche.

Soaring temperatures in the south of France are making even the transition stages at the Tour a challenge.

French hero Alaphilippe is becoming a bigger problem by the day for the top favorites as the Tour enters its final battleground. And Pinot packs the punch that should worry all the other would-be winners.

Adversity. Injuries. Solo moves and last chances. It's a tough one today on Put Your Socks On.

The Tour de France's escape artists have one stage left to win. But attacking into a breakaway in week three is harder than you might think.

German rider Emanuel Buchmann is quietly positioning himself for a run at the Tour's final podium in Paris

The Welshman said he crashed when his gears jammed and he was thrown from his bike.

Four days after the crash that knocked him out of the Tour de France, Wout van Aert recalls the confusing moments following the accident.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of pro cycling's most exciting and indelible moments.

The Tour de France will be decided in the Alps. On this week's episode we devise a battle plan for Thibaut Pinot to try and win the race on the race's final three mountain stages.

Movistar manager confirmed rumors that both Carapaz and Quintana will be leaving the Spanish team next season.

The Tour's race director sits down with Rob Arnold to discuss the excitement of the 2019 race, the prospects of a bigger women's event, and who is the Tour's best domestique

Australian journalist Rupert Guinness speaks with five international colleagues about the Tour thus far, the biggest stories in each journalist's home country, and how the race will play out in the final week.

We highlight a selection of our favorite images from the second week of the Tour de France.

The Frenchman concedes his lead hangs by a thread, but he'll fight with everything he has to hold yellow to Paris.

A look at the stories that you may have missed from this past week's coverage of the Tour de France

The Pyrenees shook up the Tour de France's overall standings. Who is the strongest? How can Thibaut Pinot or Geraint Thomas win?

A combination of factors has transformed this year's Tour de France into one of the most unpredictable and engaging in decades.

The defending Tour champion says he'll call on teammate Egan Bernal if he needs his help in three critical mountain stages across the Alps.

“The best and worst thing to happen in cycling was the power meter.“ -Today's special guest Mike Lepp, a sports physiologist with 35 years experience, weighs in with a unique perspective from auto racing.

The sprinters fight from the first climb of every mountain stage to stay in the race as they gamble on the chance for a sprint and seek the prize of completing the biggest race of them all.

Though he carries the yellow jersey into the Tour's final rest day, Alaphilippe realizes how hard it is going to be to win the Tour de France.

After putting costly time losses behind him, Pinot is a riding a wave of momentum after three stellar days across the Pyrénées to surge back into contention for the yellow jersey

Reigning champion Thomas looked to have regained confidence and form on Stage 15 only to find his momentum curtailed by Monday's rest day.

Defending champion Geraint Thomas remains positive after showing weakness in the final kilometers of the Tourmalet, where he lost 36 seconds on the yellow jersey.

Across France, cycling fans and pundits are beginning to believe that Julian Alaphilippe is the man to end the country's 34-year drought at the Tour de France

Who's helping whom here? Episode 14 digs into team tactics, recon missions, saving energy and pre-race nerves. Also - there is no place to hide on the Tourmalet.

Movistar threw everything at the Tourmalet on Saturday only to see its GC hopes dissolve and the stage victory escape

Though the defending champion lost more time to GC rival Julian Alaphilippe on the Tourmalet, he is not ruling out his chances of taking a second Tour title.

Did Saturday's battle on the Col du Tourmalet live up to the hype? Which GC riders excelled and fell back in the Tour's first summit finish?

Alaphilippe defied all expectation to hold on to the yellow jersey in the stage 13 time trial. The mountains to come will tell us much about his prospects for not just the Tour, but also his career.

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Allen Lim measures the sodium concentrate of sweat in two Tour de France riders so they know how to replenish during the race.

The high mountains of the Tour de France deliver both ecstasy and agony to the peloton. We spoke to the riders to hear their stories of triumph and woe on the race's highest roads

It's heartbreaks and breakbeats on this episode, as Bobby and Gus are joined by Specialized human performance engineer Jesse Frank to go deep on TT technology.

The only person more surprised than Rob Arnold of Julian Alaphilippe's time trial win was Alaphilippe himself

American Marianne Martin won the first edition of the women's Tour de France in 1984. She reminisces about her experience 35 years later.

Geraint Thomas and other GC riders now believe Julian Alaphilippe is a serious threat to win the Tour de France overall

Wout van Aert has been forced to abandon the Tour de France after suffering a scary crash in the final kilometers of Friday's individual time trial

Representatives from McLaren, partners in the Bahrain-Merida team, say there are no easy answers in a complicated situation concerning Rohan Dennis's abandonment from the Tour.

Despite a promising first week, hopes of a tightly bound GC battle have succumbed to the suffocating dominance of Team Ineos.

Geraint Thomas needs to pull back three seconds per kilometer on Julian Alaphilippe to take yellow

Why did Rohan Dennis abandon the Tour de France on Thursday? Australian reporter Rob Arnold went searching for answers

Tour de France rookies Michael Woods, Joey Rosskopf, and Jack Haig check in after a chaotic opening half of the race

Ketones, a popular supplement, have made their way to the WorldTour peloton, and some question whether they have a place in pro cycling.

Rohan Dennis abandoned the Tour de France midway through Thursday's stage; Bahrain-Merida plans to investigate why he quit

Dr. Brianna Stubbs explains Ketones in cycling before Bobby, Gus and Jens Voigt give pro tips on hotel life.

What's it like for a Tour de France journalist to watch the race from the couch? Andy Hood and Fred Dreier link up to discuss

Stage 12 features two major climbs and a long, fast descent to the finish. Teams and riders are preparing for anything and everything.

Rohan Dennis will try to break the UCI hour record, likely after the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

The Dutchman believes he and his team have the goods to challenge in the mountain stages that loom.

After a relatively smooth first half of the Tour, Egan Bernal will have pressure to move as the race tilts into the first major climbs this weekend.

Nine years after his thrilling ride on the Tourmalet, Andy Schleck sat down with Rupert Guinness to talk about his career, his retroactive Tour victory, and how he wants to help the new generation of riders

Thibaut Pinot took the blame for his disastrous ride during Monday's stage 10. "I have a bit of anger about what happened yesterday," he says

Daredevil mountain biker Valentin Anouilh jumped the Tour de France peloton on his mountain bike on Monday

The French superstar is realistic about his chances to defend the yellow jersey as the race finally tilts into the longer climbs looming in the Pyrenees and the TT challenge

Team Ineos have Dutch rider Steven Kruijswijk in their sights as the Tour de France heads into the mountains

This year the Tour de France's first rest day falls a day later than normal, and after an opening week of challenging stages

Is it nature or nurture? Are riders born sprinters, or can riders be trained to be great sprinters? The legendary Rod Ellingworth weighs in.

A touch of wheels sent Mikel Landa to the ground as the peloton broke into echelons. The Basque favorite ended up losing important time.

It was a day that many expected would be mellow, and end in a mass gallop. Nope. Stage 10 dished up chaos, and the GC battle was blown apart.

While several of his main rivals stayed in the lead group, a number of others lost significant time. Thomas now sits atop the virtual GC lead.

French fans have embraced Julian Alaphilippe throughout this year's Tour de France. Alaphilippe's yellow jersey on Bastille Day boosted his popularity even further

Zombies, soggy baguettes, sprinters, Nutella... there's a little bit of everything in today's episode of Put Your Socks On.

The success of a team's whole season can be defined at the Tour de France. Some teams opt to change their goals for the race over a number of seasons, while some are forced into action by misfortune or poor form. We spoke to riders about how it's done.

George Bennett is one of the more charismatic riders in the pro peloton. He’d dearly love a chance to race for himself but, this July, he’s committed to the cause of helping Steven Kruijswijk.

After powerful performances in the key stages of the Tour so far, team boss says there's 'no limit' to what Pinot can achieve.

French fans are celebrating Bastille Day with Alaphilippe in the yellow jersey and Pinot moving up.

Tour rookie Woods wasn't injured in a late-race crash Saturday but he lost valuable time that took him out of the GC picture

Things get loose on the PYSO podcast today! Gus agrees with the UCI? What does “Snacks on Stage" mean? And soigneur Therese Sundstrom weighs in from Girona, Spain.

Geraint Thomas crashed at a crucial moment in Saturday's stage 8, however quick thinking by his Ineos teammates helped him regain the peloton before the finale