Tour de France 2025

VeloNews asked a local rider on his take of the Col de la Loze and Grand Colombier. The verdict: drama and pain

A radical Millennial Tour de France: What Gus would do (gravel!), what the organizers have done (epic climbs), and what Bobby thinks about all of this (make it fresh but keep it classy).

The high point of next year's race at 2300m could prove decisive in the highly unconventional route

German sprinter sees few pure sprint opportunities in 2020 Tour's unconventional parcours.

Mitchelton-Scott sport director sees 2020 Tour providing fireworks throughout.

A 2020 Tour de France short on time trials and packed with surprises leaves French GC hopefuls motivated to raise their nation's hopes.

2020 sees an atypical Tour route packed with opportunities and risks for the GC riders - and here are five stages that could prove crucial.

Will the route end the Ineos stranglehold? What is the impact of a mountain TT? We roundtable a Tour de France route that destroys the rulebook.

Our grand-parents would not recognize the unconventional and surprising Tour route revealed Tuesday in Paris

Race organizers reveal dynamic route packed with innovations, new climbs, and fewer long stages.

2020 Tour set to be packed with medium and high mountain stages while enabling sprinters to stay in the mix throughout.

2020 route could contain plenty of unusual twists including early mountain tests, a Planche des Belles Filles time trial, and a final phase in Jura and Vosges mountains.

The Colombia superstar suggests his impending team change will bring him more support than he received at Movistar

Julian Alaphilippe revived French dreams with his thrilling Tour ride, but this writer hopes "Loulou" stays just the way he is.

The 22-year-old phenom was welcomed by 10,000 fans in his home town of Zipaquirá to celebrate his historic win.

In his first major interview since his career-threatening crash in June, four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says his recovery is ahead of schedule

Nairo Quintana, Vincenzo Nibali, and Tom Dumoulin are just a few of the big names that will switch teams after 2019.

Latin American riders could match the UK sweep of all three grand tours this year, setting up a new Ineos era of domination

Egan Bernal won the Tour de France, but for a few stages, it appeared that Thibaut Pinot was poised for victory. Shane Stokes examines what such an outcome would have meant for pro cycling, and argues that both the race and the sport would have been boosted by a Pinot victory in Paris.

Team Ineos again won the Tour de France. But, the British team showed rare signs of weaknesses in the Tour's high mountains. And, with the rise of Egan Bernal, who will lead the team at the 2020 Tour?

Pinot vows to return to the Tour de France next year to make amends for his tearful departure

The Colombian superstar was humble in congratulating Bernal for making history, but vows to keep fighting for his own shot at yellow.

Egan Bernal's long journey to the 2019 Tour de France victory included a few moments when the young Colombian seized the opportunities that were in front of him.

How should we rate this year's Tour de France, and what were the most exciting and important moments of the race? Our final roundtable addresses the talking points from the Tour.

A year after winning, the Welshman prefers to celebrate Bernal’s victory instead of being bitter of his missed chance to defend.

The 'lanterne rouge' - the last-placed rider in the Tour - used to be a lucrative and sought-after prize. Although riders no longer seek to be the last man on GC, the 'red lantern' is still an important symbol in the Tour.

In a Tour jam-packed with surprises, the penultimate stage features a team time trial of sorts as Jumbo-Visma then Bora chase Vincenzo Nibali up a mountain.

The final sprint battle in Paris is as much a test of positioning through the vital final chicane and a rider's ability to endure 20 grueling stages as it is of their top top-end speed.

Jumbo-Visma caps its best season ever by pushing Steven Kruijswijk onto the final podium, with Sunday's sprint yet to come.

Bernal puts a cap on a stellar season after winning Paris-Nice and Tour de Suisse, and at only 22 years old, has a long career ahead of him.

Turns out predicting the Tour de France is like predicting the weather - who knows what will happen!

Weather turned the Tour de France upside Friday and not in ways that will please anyone. But, as Andrew Hood writes, that's simply part of the sport.

Tour organizers have eliminated most of Saturday's 20th stage of the Tour de France, and will instead stage a 59km route from Albertville to Val Thorens. Organizers cite landslides and more expected bad weather for shortening the stage.

The 22-year-old Colombian is poised to be the first from his nation to win the yellow jersey.

On one of the wildest day's of racing in recent Tour history, the race was upended, first by Pinot's abandonment, then by the weather-shortened stage.

Organizers neutralized stage 19 after a hail storm dumped ice on the descent from the Col de l'Izeran

Pinot was in pain, physically and emotionally, and abandoned stage 19 in tears.

You’re familiar with the all-important strength-to-weight ratio, expressed as w/kg. But what about strength-to-wait? Bobby and Gus explain.

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.