Tour de France 2025

Froome displays his dominance on the first big mountain stage of the Tour de France, and the battle for the green jersey heats up.

Sky's boss says Tejay van Garderen is riding strong and his biggest challenge is the unknown

The 2013 Tour de France champion says he'll let others make the moves in the first mountain stages of the race

Take a look back at the first nine stages of the Tour, which took the peloton through the Netherlands and Belgium before entering France

Tejay van Garderen altered his rest-day protocol, shortening his ride and keeping a careful eye on his food and fluid intake

Caley Fretz and Andrew Hood talk about the hectic first week of the Tour de France with The Cycling Podcast.

Team Sky is scrambling its lawyers to address a suspected case of data theft in which hackers may have stolen Chris Froome's power data

Nairo Quintana needs to pull back time on GC leader Chris Froome, but feels that the Tour's mountain stages ahead will offer opportunity

Can top GC riders from Spain collaborate for mutual gain at the expense of Froome's GC lead? It will play out in the mountains.

After 145km of racing, the stage will finish on the steep ascent up to La Pierre-St-Martin.

Defending Tour champ Vincenzo Nibali is confident with two weeks left in race, though he admits that Chris Froome is on great form.

Tejay van Garderen has turned the fab four' into the 'fab five' with a strong ride through the Tour's first week.

The Sky rider, who has a 12-second lead in the GC, is pleased with his preparations for the French grand tour

Adam Yates feels confident ahead of the Tour de France's first mountain stages, despite losing three teammates to crashes in week one.

Andrew Hood takes a look at what's worth remembering, and forgetting, at the Tour through the opening nine stages

Richie Porte says he's excited to finish the Tour de France with his friend Chris Froome, but he's ready to lead a team

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider announces that he has testicular cancer and will withdraw from the Tour de France immediately

The Tour de France enters the mountains this week, so Andrew Hood breaks down the race favorites before the road turns upward

Tim De Waele catches the action at the Tour's team time trial

Race leader Chris Froome calls Tejay van Garderen a man to watch, but the BMC captain says Paris is a long way off yet

The Tour leader thought 2014 champ Vincenzo Nibali would be taking time so far, not losing it, and he's got an eye on Tejay van Garderen

BMC Racing Team pips Sky for the team time trial victory, but Chris Froome holds firm to the yellow jersey

Alexis Vuillermoz takes France's first victory of the 2015 Tour atop the Mûr-de-Bretagne climb

Despite abandons by a third of the team's riders inside the first week of the race, Orica-GreenEdge remains upbeat at the Tour de France

Tejay van Garderen could nab the yellow jersey in Sunday's TTT as the Tour leaves a hard first week in the rear-view mirror

Cannondale-Garmin went deep into red to set up Dan Martin on stage 8, but the 28-year-old had to settle for second behind Alexis Vuillermoz

Alexis Vuillermoz gives the home crowd something to celebrate at the 2015 Tour de France

Vincenzo Nibali says he did not have legs to contend on final climb of Tour's stage 8

The Tour's 28-kilometer stage 9 team time trial could see a bit of a shakeup at the top of the general classification

Alexis Vuillermoz takes a hilltop victory ahead of Dan Martin in the Tour's eighth stage

Hardware and content producer GoPro hits the ground running at Tour de France, says it aims to offer live, on-bike footage in two years.

Mark Cavendish expressed his interested in staying with Etixx-Quick-Step after taking his first Tour de France stage win in nearly two years

Tinkoff-Saxo is sticking to its plan to protect Contador at the expense of Sagan's quest for a fourth green jersey, for now, at least

Defending Tour champion Vincenzo Nibali dispels rumors that there was any sort of violent confrontation between him and Chris Froome.

Stage 8 features an uphill finish with an average gradient of 6.8 percent over 2.2 kilometers, with sections of more than 10 percent.

Always a colorful personality at the Tour, Cavendish returns to winning ways in stage 7, says patience in the sprint was key.

Svein Tuft is among the toughest riders in the peloton, but a few plastic water bottles helped him avoid serious injury earlier this season.

Cavendish breaks his two-year winless drought at the Tour, claiming his 26th career stage victory in a fierce bunch sprint

Luca Paolini, winner of 2015 Gent-Wevelgem, tests positive for cocaine at Tour de France and is kicked out of race by Katusha team

Chris Froome is taking Tejay van Garderen very seriously in the race for yellow as the Tour nears the end of a nervous first week.

Sprinters deliver an exciting finale in stage 7 as GC remains unchanged.

The German crashed near the finish of Thursday's Tour de France stage 6 and was forced to abandon the race

Despite Tony Martin’s exit from the Tour, Chris Froome is still technically second on GC until he, or someone else, earns yellow Friday

Froome will inherit yellow after Friday, and history indicates that he's in good company among former champs

Etixx sport manager Rolf Aldag says Mark Cavendish is fit and producing usual power numbers, but he's still searching for a win this Tour

The sprint specialists will be fighting for a victory on stage 7, one of their few remaining opportunities in this hilly Tour route.

A domino-effect crash at stage 6 of the Tour de France finish ensnares three GC riders, but all avert major injury.

Midway through nervous, crash-filled week at Tour, Jim Ochowicz says that he feels the peloton is too big, with too many second-tier teams

Daniel Teklehaimenot (MTN-Qhubeka) took Africa's first ever polka dot jersey on Thursday with a breakaway ride across northern France

Carnage in the finale as yellow jersey crashes in last kilometer and his teammate wins the day. Teklehaimanot makes history with KOM jersey.

Tony Martin crashes, Zdenek Stybar takes win on stage 6, and the Tour sees its first ever African leader of the mountains classification.

Tour de France leader Tony Martin breaks his left collarbone in a crash in final kilometer of stage 6, abandons after two days in yellow

Davide Bramati was seen on a video celebrating Tony Martin's stage 4 win

Germans have found success at the Tour thus far, with Tony Martin and Andre Greipel winning a combined three stages

Cannondale-Garmin is now missing a crucial rider for Sunday's team time trial

Peter Sagan finished second in stage 5, as he continues to balance his own ambitions with his team obligations to Alberto Contador

A wet and slippery stage 5 of the Tour de France led to some hectic moments and major crashes

Three nervous days remain before the Tour begins to sort out with the TTT, then the mountains, and GC favorites hope to avoid disaster

Mark Cavendish is running out of opportunities for victory at the Tour as this year's pure sprint stages are few and far between.

André Greipel leads the charge as Germans dominate early stages of the Tour but says Sagan may still better him in points classification.

An uphill finish on stage 6 to Le Havre favors a puncheur more than a pure sprinter.

Tour de France stage 5 was a nervous affair that saw Cannondale-Garmin suffer crashes, but BMC Racing rode strong to protect van Garderen.

Rain and wind cause crashes and abandonments in stage 5 of the Tour, but the sprinters prevail to deliver an exciting finale

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

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