Tour de France 2025

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

EF Education First saw its solid opening week marred by a crash Friday involving van Garderen a day after Woods and Urán punched into the top-10 overall

On this episode of PYSO Gus and Bobby talk with Dr. Allen Lim about recovery and preparation

Tejay van Garderen abandons the Tour de France after breaking his left hand in a crash on Friday

Just three flat stages remain at this year's Tour de France, and the race's pure sprinters must survive the hills and hight mountains to reach them

With Landa and Quintana showing signs of life, Movistar enters the second week of the Tour de France with growing confidence.

We chose a selection of our favorite images from the opening week of the Tour de France

On this episode of Put Your Socks On, Bobby and Gus discuss climbing.

The Welshman put in a performance that helped quiet the chatter about his Tour form, and boosted his morale heading into the second week of racing.

The Frenchman can't explain why he fell off the pace so dramatically in the Tour's first GC test.

The Dutchman, rumored to be unhappy at Team Sunweb, will meet with management on Friday to discuss his future with the team.

Thursday's sixth stage of the Tour de France produced a classic battle, and helped further the mythology of the Tour's newest great climb: La Planche des Belles Filles

There were winners, losers, and big surprises on La Planche des Belles Filles. Did stage 6 live up to the hype?

On this episode of PYSO Bobby and Gus discuss tactics

Movistar is under pressure to perform in Thursday's first mountain stage in a Tour route that favors the team's fleet of climbers

Michael Matthews was disappointed after he finished seventh place in the sprint on Wednesday. Reporter Rob Arnold was there to chronicle the moment

The final kilometer of Thursday's climb to La Planche des Belles Filles includes a mix of gravel road and chip seal. Does gravel cycling have a place at the Tour de France?

The Slovakian knows he has a lot of work to do to get through what some are calling the hardest Tour in years. But mountains are the least of his concerns.

The first summit finish of this year's Tour will see GC contenders come to the fore to battle for precious seconds.

Two mountainous stages in the Vosges could determine Jakob Fuglsang's fate in this year's Tour de France

EF Education First assistant sports director Tom Southam calls in to talk about analog technology. And Bobby Julich and Gus Morton discuss failed nature-break ploys, getting jiggy with it, France vs. Italy on the subject of “legal usage” of champagne, high-speed praying mantes and more.

The Tour's first week is full of stresses, and riders work hard to eliminate unnecessary fatigue. The hardest days have yet to come, and cracks are already starting to appear.

With Julian Alaphilippe in yellow and Elia Viviani winning his first Tour stage, the team known as the "Wolfpack" continues to dominate.

On flat stages like Tuesday's stage 4, GC riders seek out an ideal position in the peloton. Unfortunately, the perfect place in the bunch does not exist.

Although he started the Tour almost unrecognizable in his trade team kit, Peter Sagan is back in the more familiar green jersey. Having won the points competition in every Tour he's finished, you might as well get used to seeing him in it.

We caught up with Joey Rosskopf, Mike Woods, and Jack Haig to discuss the unique personal and performance stresses of the sport's biggest race.

The Welshman admitted to purposely holding back on a technical, aggressive stage, and now sets his sights on the bigger climbs that suit him better in the days to come.

How long can Julian Alaphilippe hold the Tour de France race lead? And is Alaphilippe capable of one day winning cycling's biggest race?

France has been in desperate need of a rider capable of winning the Tour. Julian Alaphilippe has said it isn’t him. But do you believe him?

A look at the stories and photo galleries that you may have missed from this weekend's stages of the Tour de France

Egan Bernal could surpass the Tour's five-time winners, says Bernard Hinault

The Irish rider became a father and reunited with his old trainer in the off-season.

Wout van Aert has already helped Jumbo-Visma win two stages of the Tour de France in his debut at the race

Jakob Fuglsang and Adam Yates lost some time in Sunday's team time trial, but both GC threats are still in the hunt for the Tour overall

With Mark Cavendish's chances of matching Belgian's 34 Tour de France stage wins looking slim, Eddy Merckx's prowess is being given a new lease of life.

For many teams, the stage 2 TTT was all about limiting losses, as an early deficit can easily turn into a chasm with the smallest of issues later in the race.

Team Ineos's second place finish in Sunday's team time trial places Egan Bernal and Geraint Thomas in a perfect position for the upcoming mountain stages

Every few years a not-so-famous rider like Mike Teunissen wins a stage at the Tour de France and transforms his career