Tour de France 2025

André Greipel grabs his second win of the tour, while Tony Martin finishes in the pack to hold onto yellow

After four stages, Orica is down two riders and has several injuries, but that's not dampening the plucky Australians' optimism.

Cannondale-Garmin's Bauer forced to abandon Tour after third crash in three days

Wednesday's stage 5 route passes through several battlegrounds from the war

Nacer Bouhanni abandons the Tour de France after a crash early in stage 5

Tour de France cobbles result in a stalemate among GC contenders as Nibali, Froome, Contador, and Quintana escape mishaps in stage 4

In stage 4 of the Tour, Tony Martin and Thibault Pinot each suffered late-race mechanicals, but the two saw drastically different outcomes

Exciting moments in the Etixx-Quick-Step team cars caught on film as Martin rides to victory in Tour de France stage 4

With a stage set for ambushes and opportunistic attacks, the riders will be forced to stay fully alert

The Tour de France delivers an action-packed day on the cobblestones of Northern France as the maillot jaune changes hands yet again

Vincenzo Nibali and his Astana team threw everything they had at GC rivals on the Tour's cobblestone stage, but it wasn't enough.

Andrew Talansky escaped unscathed from the Tour’s most unpredictable day on the stage 4 cobblestones in Northern France.

American Tejay van Garderen survives four perilous days at the Tour de France, largely thanks to a BMC team stacked with burly hard-men.

WADA looks to begin nighttime raids to catch riders doping, but issues with French law may prevent the controls in this year's Tour.

After a breakaway in the final 5km, Tony Martin solos to a time bonus and the yellow jersey after three days in second-place overall

The Tour de France is a notoriously difficult race to predict. We ask expert oddsmakers how they read the race.

Early pavement and late pavé in Tuesday's stage 4 at the Tour de France led some teams to swap bikes halfway through

Catch glimpses of what goes on in the peloton during a massive crash. Also, see how steep the Mur de Huy truly is

As record-high temperatures plagued the early stages of the Tour, riders in the pits used any means necessary to stay cool

Andrew Talansky has a Cannondale Synapse for the Tour's cobble-strewn fourth stage

There has been a distinct trend toward shorter, more complicated stages in recent years

As cobbles specialists sit within striking distance of the yellow jersey, stage 4 will be a glimpse into the sacrifices teams make for GC

Who will ride for whom when the Tour hits the cobblestones? GC leaders rely on team workhorses to shepherd them through the rough stuff

Fabian Cancellara breaks two vertebrae in major stage 3 crash, forced to withdraw from Tour, one day after claiming yellow jersey

The riders head to Cambrai for stage 4, and with cobbles on the menu, the stage looks set for another hectic day of racing

Rodríguez blasts Tour route as packed with too many classics-style course just minutes after winning atop the Mur de Huy

Chris Froome sends a shot across the bow with second-place in stage 3 that earns him yellow jersey and puts GC rivals on notice

Orica-GreenEdge mechanic catches pandemonium at the scene of the massive crash during the Tour de France's stage 3

The Tour sees another overall lead change as the steep Mur de Huy blows up the race in the final kilometer of a crash-marred stage

The American crashed on the pave during stage 5 in 2014 and eventually abandoned the race; he's confident ahead of the 2015 cobble stage

Mur de Huy proves decisive as Rodriguez sprints to victory, and Froome grabs yellow jersey from crash-stricken Cancellara

The BMC rider took the race lead in stage 1 but opted to give it up in stage 2 as he helped teammate Tejay van Garderen

Due to a major crash, Tour de France officials temporarily stop the race ahead of stage 3's first notable climb near Huy, Belgium

The Swiss rider could lose the yellow jersey in Monday's stage 2, although he has hopes of taking it back Tuesday

Wearing a different kit, American Tyler Farrar is back at the Tour de France and looking for stage wins with his MTN teammates

Riders who disregard rules at level crossings will be kicked out of the race

"Everything that could go wrong, did," said Etixx-Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere

Tim De Waele was out in the breeze with the bunch as they fought the blustery Dutch winds

Stage 3 finishes on the famous Mur de Huy climb, which should offer plenty of fireworks on its steep, short pitch

Vigilance and quick thinking pays off as Tejay van Garderen, Chris Froome and Alberto Contador land on the right side of a big split

Two of the five-star Tour favorites lose ground — Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana — as echelons form against the howling North Sea wind

Andre Greipel takes the first sprint victory of the 2015 Tour de France as Fabian Cancellara grabs the leader's jersey from Rohan Dennis

The defending champion was 18 seconds faster than Colombian Nairo Quintana, with Chris Froome and Alberto Contador in between

Seaside echelons, the Mur de Huy, and cobblestones will seek to separate Dennis from his yellow jersey in the first week of the Tour

BMC is sticking to its plan to ride for Tejay van Garderen for the GC, despite Rohan Dennis's huge win Saturday in the opening time trial to score yellow

A short, flat time trial in Utrecht is raced in brutal heat. Dennis delivers the fastest-ever average speed for a Tour de France TT

The race faces a pan-flat, but potentially windy, second stage along the coast of the Netherlands

Tour kicks off with a sizzling hot day of time trial racing, and a young Australian smokes the course with fastest-ever TT average speed

MTN-Qhubeka promises to attack and hunt stages in its historic Tour appearance as Africa's first squad to appear in the race

Dutch meteorologists warn that Saturday's weather will be especially hot for the first stage of the Tour de France

Rapha rolls out new garments for the Tour de France's foul weather and a skinsuit that's said to be even more slippery in the wind

If the young British twins Adam and Simon Yates were not already in the spotlight, they will be after beginning the Tour together for the first time

Low cortisol levels are at the center of a yet another conflict between a team and the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC)

Astana will start Dutch rider Lars Boom in the Tour de France despite low cortisol levels

The 2015 Tour gets underway July 4; here's a list of likely starters for the season's biggest grand tour, which will be updated regularly

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A more relaxed Froome isn't carrying the burden of defending yellow and enters the Tour feeling more confident than ever

Vincenzo Nibali says his goal is the podium, but admits it will be a tall order to repeat as overall Tour de France winner

Nairo Quintana doesn't consider former Tour champ Chris Froome to be his biggest rival on the eve of a race tailor-made for the Colombian

American Andrew Talansky started summer on the back foot due to illness but says he's riding the momentum of building form ahead of Tour

Defending Tour champ Nibali makes waves implying Quintana is dodging anti-doping tests in Colombia; Movistar leader refutes rumors

Utrecht, Netherlands welcomes the Tour de France teams and riders with boat rides, water stunts, and big crowds

Mark Cavendish happy to be back to racing after aborting Tour with crash in 2014, says he's not concerned about Kittel or overall win tally

Global Cycling Network breaks down who to keep an eye on during the Tour de France

BMC Racing thinks American Tejay van Garderen has a legitimate chance of landing on the Tour de France podium

With no two stages alike, the route for this year's Tour de France plays to all types of riders in the peloton

The Tour has plenty of big name firepower, but there are several riders not at the French grand tour

The veteran is no longer the king of time trials, and Saturday's stage 1 TT at the Tour de France is packed with potential victors

The French ministry of the interior says it is prepared for the threat of terrorism on the eve of the world's third-largest sporting event

Peter Sagan will have to play second-fiddle to Alberto Contador as the Tinkoff-Saxo team is solely focused on the battle for yellow jersey

If world champion Michal Kwiatkowski can stay close to the lead through the opening time trial, he could take yellow on the Mur de Huy

Alberto Contador comes to the Tour de France fit, rested, and ready to write his name into the history books with a Giro-Tour double

Ride along with BMC Racing as the riders preview the Tour de France's cobblestone stage. Watch out for that tractor!

All-rounder John Degenkolb is confident he can fill the shoes of Giant-Alpecin sprinter Marcel Kittel at this year's Tour de France

The Swiss superstar has a chance of winning Saturday's stage 1 and wearing the yellow jersey

The officers are seeking higher pay, and they initially planned to hold up the peloton during stage 2

Be sure to tune in and watch these dramatic moments during the Tour, which kicks off Saturday in the Netherlands