Tour de France 2025

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) moves up in the GC but loses time to race leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) as the Tour turns into the high mountains

The wave of emotion that washed over Nibali on the podium reflects the realization that he's poised to win the Tour

After winning the last two editions of the Tour de France, Sky's hopes of repeating ended when Richie Porte faded at Chamrousse

The peloton suffers in the heat on an HC summit finish in Chamrousse, and Nibali prevails again

Tejay van Garderen finds himself in fifth at the Tour after a punishing ride up Chamrousse

After a sixth-place result last year, Bauke Mollema still has GC ambitions, sitting seventh overall, 6:17 down on Vincenzo Nibali

Results from the 197.5km stage from Saint-Étienne to Chamrousse

The team has a history of doping within its ranks, including its general manager Alexander Vinokourov

Katusha has two Canyon frames at its disposal, one for the high mountains and one for everything else

Alexander Kristoff wins his first stage of the Tour on a lumpy run to Saint-Étienne

The Spaniard has not garnered much attention yet, but that's poised to change as the Tour pedals into the race's first major climbs

Matthew Busche is riding his first Tour de France, and it's been quintessential thus far: Crashes, breakaways, and holding his spot

The American and BMC Racing captain is 3:56 behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali through 12 stages

Results from a 185.5km stage from Bourg-en-Bresse to Saint-Etienne

A day after battling through the pain of several crashes to make the time cut, the American decides to pull the plug

Andrew Talansky barely made time cut on stage 11, but he fought through the pain, and now Garmin looks to a new Tour strategy

Photos from an unpredictable 187.5km stage through the heat and hills of the Jura mountains

Richie Porte's tenacious style is further encouraging his Sky teammates to get behind him in his push for the Tour win

With the Alps looming, BMC is quietly confident that Tejay van Garderen has a real shot at the final podium in Paris

Results from the 187.5km stage from Besançon to Oyonnax

Trek is shopping for GC riders for 2015 and beyond, confirming that the Schleck era is winding down

Andrew Hood and Matthew Beaudin talk about the Tour's tumultuous first 10 stages

Ted King talks about leaving the Tour de France bloodied, bandaged, and bruised, and he muses on spirit animals

Monday's painful exit is the latest chapter in Contador's love-and-hate relationship with the Tour de France

Porte is not afraid to yell and push to get though the peloton in key moments. Doing so, Porte could fight Nibali for the Tour GC

Michal Kwiatkowski came out swinging at the Tour, in spite of his youth and overall GC ambitions

Cancellara: "I have done 59 days of competition this season so far and I have another big goal at the end of this season: the World Championships"

The 2014 Tour de France has been a cruel edition of the race, one that has seen dreams broken, almost daily

Two crashes in as many days proved too many for American Andrew Talansky to cope with, as he slipped of the back on stage 10

A brutal day with seven categorized climbs claimed a few victims, most notably Alberto Contador

Nibali: "I was ready for a big duel with Contador in the mountains. It's a pity the Tour has lost two big protagonists"

Contador's frame broke on the roof of his team car, not on the road

Rumors are flying about the future of Cannondale Pro Cycling as Sagan struggles to win a Tour stage

"I was just trying to hang on," van Garderen said. "When he (Nibali) went, I knew that if I tried to go, I would probably blow up"

Results from stage 10 of the 2014 Tour de France

The Tinkoff-Saxo captain goes down hard, but resumes racing, only to abandon a few kilometers further along, leaving the race wide open

The stage is set for an epic showdown between Nibali and Contador, the most experienced, wily, and headstrong riders in the Tour de France

Ride along with Movistar and Tinkoff-Saxo for a look inside stage 8 of the Tour

Cycling is the Gallopin family business, and the new leader of the Tour credits his kinfolk for helping him achieve his goals

Talansky's had some rough luck, but says he's relatively unscathed and eager to battle with the best as the Tour rolls skyward

Tony Martin smashed his pursuers on Sunday, and gave an aggressive Omega Pharma-Quick Step team its second win of the 2014 Tour

Photos from stage 9 of the 2014 Tour de France

Results from stage 9 of the 2014 Tour de France

Alberto Contador says the real Tour de France has begun, and he promises to continue his attacks on race leader Vincenzo Nibali

Cheng Ji started his athletic career as a runner, moved into cycling, and since has become the first Chinese to start all three grand tours

Photos from stage 8 of the 2014 Tour de France

Richie Porte made his way into third overall Saturday, with a persevering ride in the Vosges. What's up next for the new captain?

Alberto Contador and his Tinkoff-Saxo bank attacked to reshuffle the GC deck in the first of three hard days across the soggy Vosges

Results from stage 8 of the 2014 Tour de France

Talansky tangled with Simon Gerrans at the finish of stage 7. Who's to blame remains up for debate

With two grand tour victories to his name and a never-say-die attitude, Nibali has become the latest in a long line of Italian cycling stars

The peloton faced their second longest day of this year's Tour, and several key GC players were caught out in crashes

Usually playing the role of attacking instigator, Nibali will instead assume a defensive posture as the Tour heads to the mountains

Sky rider Chris Froome confirmed Wednesday that he abandoned stage 5 of the Tour de France with fractures to both his left wrist and right hand

Suffering his fourth crash of the Tour on stage 7, it's been a rough and tumble week for young BMC leader Tejay van Garderen

Though he leads the green jersey competition by a wide margin, Sagan needs a stage win to be satisfied with his Tour

Results from the second longest day of the Tour, stage 7, from Épernay to Nancy

Stage 6 was a mostly flat 194 kilometers from Arras to Reims, and it was a day for the sprinters

After blitzing the cobblestones, the Tour's yellow jersey needs to look no further for attacks than the climbing stages looming in the Vosges Mountains

Stage 5 of the 2014 Tour de France delivered rain, cobblestones, crashes, and chaos, and saw defending champion Chris Froome abandon

With rain, rough roads and multiple crashes, organizer ASO risked losing more than it gained Wednesday by including a cobbled stage in the Tour de France

Porte went from domestique to leader in seconds during a disastrous stage 6. Can he carry the hopes of Sky at the Tour?

Results from the 194km stage from Arras to Reims

Teams are scrambling to pull together deals to secure their futures, with a possible link between the Garmin and Cannondale teams

André Greipel is hoping to revive his sprint in the coming stages, following a dismal start to the 2014 Tour de France

On a day that felt more like a spring classic than a July Tour stage, Boom and Nibali took control

Alberto Contador lost considerable time on stage 5 in the battle for the GC at the Tour de France, while Alejandro Valverde fared slightly better

Vincenzo Nibali delivered the promised psychological blow to his rivals on a wet, muddy cobbled stage of the Tour de France, building on his GC lead

Stage 5 was a wet and wild mini Paris-Roubaix that did what most teams cannot: rattle the Team Sky machine

Young Americans keep GC hopes alive after surviving a brutal day of racing across the cobblestones of northern France and Belgium

Results from stage 5 of the Tour de France, a 155.5km stage from a 155.5km Ypres to Arenberg, Belgium

Belkin's Lars Boom solos to win, Astana's Vincenzo Nibali gains time on GC rivals, as Froome withdraws from Tour de France

Sky captain Chris Froome crashes twice in stage 5, abandons, and will not defend Tour title