Tour de France 2025

With the 2017 Tour de France finished, it's time to hand out the official VeloNews Tour de France awards!

Bora-Hansgrohe still seeks vindication for Sagan's early expulsion from Tour. Bodnar redeems team with stage 20 time trial win.

Mikel Landa rides an exceptional Tour de France, but he regrets a missed opportunity to stand on the final podium — by one second.

Michal Kwiatkowski is an essential part of Sky's Tour de France team that led Chris Froome to his fourth yellow jersey.

VeloNews editors sound off on the Tour route, whether Uran and Bardet missed opportunities, and if cycling needs a budget cap.

Even though the 2017 Tour de France was won by less than a minute, the racing was conservative and defensive. Here's how to fix that.

Chris Froome captured his fourth Tour de France win on Sunday and is already looking at adding to his pile of yellow jerseys.

After finishing his first Tour de France, Nate Brown presented a polka-dot jersey to his dad with a handwritten note.

Chris Froome has four Tour de France victories. A fifth win would put him in a select group of legendary cyclists.

The 32-year-old Briton from Team Sky crossed the finish line on the Champs-Élysées as a four-time Tour de France winner.

Belgian Thomas De Gendt blasted an all French jury for naming Warren Barguil as the race’s most aggressive rider.

The last week of the Tour delivered thrills and spills and plenty of drama. It was capped off by Saturday's decisive Marseille time trial.

Rigoberto Urán saved his runner-up spot in the Tour de France after near-miss in the closing curves of the stage 20 Marseille time trial.

Romain Bardet revealed he'd been suffering from "fragile" health as he fought to hold onto a podium finish on stage 20 Saturday.

After a light racing schedule in the first half of 2017, plus some misfortune, Andrew Talansky comes up short at the Tour de France.

After the frustrating loss of sprinter Mark Cavendish to an early crash, Boasson Hagen gets redemption for Dimension Data team at Tour.

With a 22.5-kilometer time trial standing between Chris Froome and a fourth Tour de France victory, the Brit is cautiously optimistic.

Romain Bardet's Ag2r teammates are confident the rising French star will ride into the yellow jersey in future Tours de France.

Chris Froome is still winless in 2017. What can the Tour champ in waiting do the prove himself to the peloton and fans?

Mikel Linda is slated to leave Sky for another team at the end of this year as he seeks to be a team's top rider.

Chris Froome and Team Sky are confident with only one final test left in the Tour de France, their favored time trial discipline.

Cannondale-Drapac has been public about its search for a new sponsor, and Rigoberto Urán's magic Tour de France may aid the effort.

Frenchman Romain Bardet and his Ag2r La Mondiale team did everything they could to wrest yellow from Chris Froome. It wasn't enough.

Mikel Landa tried for a stage win on the Col d'Izoard, but Team Sky's myriad objectives kept him from flying truly free.

The Quick-Step Floors rider clawed his way back after losing time in a crash earlier in the race and has attacked several times.

The contenders for the yellow jersey believe Thursday's finishing climb will likely determine who wins the Tour de France.

The 2017 Tour de France has seen eight first-time stage winners and the emergence of a few smaller teams, a treat for cycling fans.

Fabio Aru and his Astana team recognize that the Tour's yellow jersey may be out of reach but promise a fight on the Izoard in stage 18.

Rigoberto Urán's tactical wisdom helps the Colombian slip onto the Tour podium in the race's penultimate mountain stage.

Team Sky imposed its will on the peloton in stage 17, escorting Chris Froome over the Telegraph and Galibier to protect the yellow jersey.

Kittel was leading the points competition and had won five stages before he exited.

With three riders within 29 seconds of Chris Froome, the Sky riders hope to keep their leader in yellow as the race hits the Alps.

Insiders suggest that Alberto Contador may end his Tour de France career this week with a potential Giro/Vuelta plan for 2018.

BrakeThrough Media has an unusual opportunity to photograph the Tour de France on the lonely Mur de Péguère.

The race for the Tour's green jersey pits two very different sprinters: Michael Matthews and Marcel Kittel. Can Kittel hang on to the lead?

Did GC rivals miss a chance to take yellow away from Froome on stage 15? Who does Landa work for? Plus, Taylor Phinney's takes!

John Degenkolb appears to take a swing at Michael Matthews after a close sprint finish in Tour de France stage 16.

Tiesj Benoot finds himself just outside of the top 20 on GC with a handful of stages left in the Tour de France.

Marcel Kittel has won five stages at this Tour de France and is expected to contend for No. 6 Wednesday in Romans-sur-Isere.

At the time, Fabio Aru rued an injury that kept him out of the 100th Giro d'Italia. Now he reaps the rewards of the forced rest in May.

Orica-Scott has carefully developed twin brothers Adam and Simon Yates into true Tour de France contenders — and they're just 24.

After feeling the pressure in Tour de France stage 16, Chris Froome says he'd like a bigger time buffer before the Tour's stage 20 time trial.

Fred Dreier's takeaway from riding a Tour de France stage on the back of a moto is the passion French people have for the Tour.

Frenchman Romain Bardet is 23 seconds behind race leader Chris Froome in the Tour's final week.

With one week of racing left at the Tour de France, Rigoberto Urán sits 29 seconds out of first place.

Mikel Landa said he's at the Tour de France to help Chris Froome win yellow, but he wouldn't mind a podium finish for himself.

Nairo Quintana admits that he's too far off the leading pace to challenge for the yellow jersey in the final week of the Tour.

With a bit of quick thinking and strong teamwork, Team Sky averts disaster when Chris Froome has a mechanical in the heat of stage 15.

With a remarkable recovery from back injury suffered in stage 9, Dan Martin is riding aggressively and taking back time in the overall.

Michael Matthews is thriving on his new Sunweb team, where he has increased support for sprint stages, like the one he won Saturday.

Fabio Aru lost the Tour de France lead in stage 14's chaotic, tough uphill finish in Rodez. This takes pressure off his weakened Astana team.

The high-stakes game of aiming for Tour de France stage wins has favored only a few in 2017, notably Quick-Step, which has five wins.

The Tour de France podium is closer on time than it's ever been this far into the race. Here's what to expect in the final week of racing.

Tour de France stage 13 delivers as one of the race's most thrilling days. There are three key components that made it must-see TV.

Spanish cycling fans have a new star to cheer in Mikel Landa. In stage 13, he links up with Contador, long the patron of the Spanish peloton.

The French press has mostly ignored race leader Fabio Aru. The Italian, for his part, plans to leave a mark on this Tour de France irregardless.

Team Sky looks to be holding a hand of winning cards with Froome and Landa very close on GC. But is there discord between the two?

The 2017 Tour de France is shaping up to be one of the closest in history. After 13 stages, the top-four riders are within 35 seconds of yellow.

Rigoberto Uran proves he's really handy with just one gear. Riders can't decide if they should wait for Froome, and bottles, oh the bottles!

The stage 13 profile is jagged and short (101km) as it rides into the Pyrénées.

The race jury reverses course and axes time penalties it handed to a trio of riders during stage 12 at the Tour de France.

Was Peyragudes the beginning of the end for Froome? Probably not. But we aren't done talking about the UCI jury's bad decisions.

After escaping a scary crash in stage 9, Dan Martin is hobbled but undeterred in his aim to ride onto the Tour de France podium.

Mikel Landa says he'll be a loyal lieutenant to Chris Froome at the Tour, but the stage 12 finish called the Spaniards motives into question.

Romain Bardet credits a reconnaissance trip in May for his gritty stage win atop Peyragudes in Tour de France stage 12.

Chris Froome's weakness has been spotted. The aura of invincibility is gone. The Tour de France, dear bike fans, is on.

Nairo Quintana rues his attempt at the Giro-Tour double after tumbling down the Tour de France overall standings in stage 12.

Fabio Aru is elated to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey. The Italian remains wary of a short, tough day in stage 13, however.

There are 23,000 police officers keeping watch on the Tour de France to ensure safety for everyone involved.

Chris Froome said Thursday's stage 12, which ends with a summit finish, will go a long way at determining who wins the race.

The 29-year-old German has dominated the sprint stages in this Tour de France. Now he needs to survive until Paris.

Jakob Fuglsang will carry on riding the Tour de France despite suffering two small fractures in his left wrist in a fall on stage 11.

Bouhanni should be back home watching the remainder the Tour on TV. It doesn’t matter whether or not he connected with Bauer’s face.

With young cyclists coming through and the continued dominance of Froome, a eighth grand tour win appears impossible for Contador.

If Froome rides out of the Pyrénées with his advantage in minutes, the race will be on for the podium in the Tour de France.

Tour of California winner George Bennett wasn't expecting to be in the GC picture at the Tour de France, but after 11 stages he sits 10th.

Le Tour de France has a day at the race track, the Spa-Francorchamps Formula 1 track, that is.