Tour de France

Lappartient speaks out to reassure that UCI is working to piece together the season as quickly as possible.

2018 Tour de France champion left frustrated as he enters peak years, speaks of importance of Tour for cycling's financial prosperity.

James Startt visited a desolate Champs-Élysées to revisit the scene of the heralding of yellow jerseys past, while Paris waits out its lockdown.

Frenchman would rather see the Tour postponed to later in the year than have it raced without fans.

French star admits that a Tour 'behind closed doors' is better than no Tour, but 'prefers not to imagine' the prospect.

Tour de France would be vital for both economy of cycling and morale of the French nation, says Groupama-FDJ boss.

The Team Bora-Hansgrohe rider answers questions about trainer workouts, non-cycling hobbies, and the Tour de France.

We pick over the major talking points arising from this week's news of the postponement of the Olympic Games and rumors of a bare-bones Tour de France. Let's roundtable!

Movistar captain would be 41 next summer if the Olympic Games are rescheduled during the same window, but vows to race in 2021.

French minister not making a call on the Tour yet, but sees model of funding from television rights rather than ticket sales as a point in its favor.

Deceuninck-Quick-Step boss speaks of economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, and his doubts over the Tour and re-scheduled monuments.

Belgian ProTour outfits using government unemployment benefits to pay staff, riders still being paid by teams.

Bardet focuses on concerns over humanity and health rather than sports as coronavirus crisis deepens.

WorldTour pros left trying to find balance between holding fitness and keeping fresh as they wait to hear when next race will be.

Pro cycling managers have told The Outer Line that the COVID-19 pandemic could spell financial ruin for professional teams as their sponsors weather the uncertain economic future.

French government officials are in contact with ASO to study ways to hold a stripped-down version of the Tour this summer.

Mura was impossible to ignore in the press rooms of the Tour de France, a race he first covered in the 1960’s, and remained by far his favorite race.

Veteran Belgian manager warns that if the Tour de France cannot be held, the fallout could be costly for team budgets.

Dutch races this weekend seeing increasingly-powerful line ups as teams scramble to find opportunities for riders scheduled to start northern classics.

Cobbles, 18 kilometers of bridge crossings, an individual time trial, and two, pancake-flat days for the sprinters.

The story of Primož Roglič’s unimaginable rise to the top of Grand Tour racing.

The reigning world time trial champion doesn't get into details, but said he was becoming a person he didn't like ahead of his abrupt Tour exit

The four-time Tour winner joins his teammates at a training camp after finishing a decisive phase of his recovery

Six French teams will line up in this summer's Tour as ASO gives B&B its first shot of racing in July

The Colombian sprinter wants to put the bumpy 2019 season behind him as he targets a return to the Tour de France in his second season with UAE-Team Emirates

The 2019 Tour winner vows to race the Italian grand tour some day, but it won't be in 2020 as the Tour and the Olympics will be at the center of his calendar.

From Issue 87 • Words by John Wilcockson, Images by Graham Watson

Deceuninck-Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere feels Alaphilippe should target other races before Flanders or the Tour - but isn't going to hold him back either.

Colombia's first yellow jersey-winner is taking the heat off himself as he prepares for 2020 with big ambitions.

The Spanish worker eyes the Olympic Games without losing the team's focus on the yellow jersey.

From issue 87 • Words by James Startt, Images by James Startt and Graham Watson

Long stages, high mountains, and unpredictable weather have become part of the Giro d'Italia's identity and throw riders challenges not faced at the Tour de France or Vuelta a Espana.

Cycling's generational shift was on full display in 2019, with Remco Evenepoel, Egan Bernal, and others winning big. Andrew Hood examines the how Generation Z has changed the sport.

The French nearly-man is among the last of the legends when black-and-white photography documented cycling's golden era.

Dennis left out of contract and only in the running for a low-value deal as teams either out of space or question Australian's reliability.

Poulidor was seen as a 'real face of cycling' in France as a result of hard-working attitude and wealth of victories

From issue 87 • Words and Image from Brett Horton/Horton Collection

From Issue 88 • Words and Images by James Startt

Direct Energie won the season rankings to earn automatic bids for the major races, but team changed tactics to do it.

The 2020 Tour de France route boasts nine mountain stages, and plenty of climbing. The Outer Line says the race will be won during the sole individual time trial on stage 20.

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will undergo another operation as part of his ongoing recovery.

Tour de France organizer to launch a new race in Saudi Arabia in 2020.

Peter Sagan will race the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in 2020 for the first time in his career.

Mitchelton-Scott enjoyed a banner season in 2019, with four stage wins in the Tour de France that sport directors admit will be hard to match.

Bernal happy to let the road decide who will lead the Tour de France, but first he has to decide if he will even be at the start line in Nice.

The high point of next year's race at 2300m could prove decisive in the highly unconventional route

Words by John Wilcockson, Images by A.S.O./Thomas Colpaert

Will the route end the Ineos stranglehold? What is the impact of a mountain TT? We roundtable a Tour de France route that destroys the rulebook.

Our grand-parents would not recognize the unconventional and surprising Tour route revealed Tuesday in Paris

Race organizers reveal dynamic route packed with innovations, new climbs, and fewer long stages.

The stars in Ineos are already positioning themselves for leadership at next year's Tour de France

2020 Tour set to be packed with medium and high mountain stages while enabling sprinters to stay in the mix throughout.

Who has had a better season: Egan Bernal or Primoz Roglic? Il Lombardia could feature a showdown between the two stars of 2019.

2020 route could contain plenty of unusual twists including early mountain tests, a Planche des Belles Filles time trial, and a final phase in Jura and Vosges mountains.

Italy's fall classics don't get the attention they deserve, but a new project could help revive some of cycling's most prestigious races

Spain's Basque Country could host the 2023 Tour de France while Euskadi targets a jump to the Pro-Conti level next season.

The 2019 racing season is just winding down, but details of next year's grand tours will be revealed last this month with surprises galore.

Chris Froome continues on his comeback trail as he rides on open roads for first time since June crash. He is set to race Japan's Saitama Criterium at the end of October.

The Slovenian wasted no time after winning the Spanish grand tour to say that the Tour is at the center of his ambitions.

Chris Froome hopes to race again in 2019 and will participate in the Saitama Criterium in October.

From issue 87 • Words by James Startt with images from Graham Watson

With 11 stage wins in 2019, the Irish sprinter is among the fastest men in the peloton. But he still feels like the third-string sprinter on his own team.

The Colombia superstar suggests his impending team change will bring him more support than he received at Movistar

For the first time in six years, our own Dave Everett missed covering the Tour de France. What did he learn about the race watching on TV from home?

Julian Alaphilippe revived French dreams with his thrilling Tour ride, but this writer hopes "Loulou" stays just the way he is.

The 22-year-old phenom was welcomed by 10,000 fans in his home town of Zipaquirá to celebrate his historic win.

With his season all but over, the Dutch star is mulling a change of team colors to kick-start his suddenly stalled career

In this week's episode of The VeloNews Podcast we speak to Team EF Education First CEO Jonathan Vaughters about his new book: 'One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels.'

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Egan Bernal won the Tour de France, but for a few stages, it appeared that Thibaut Pinot was poised for victory. Shane Stokes examines what such an outcome would have meant for pro cycling, and argues that both the race and the sport would have been boosted by a Pinot victory in Paris.

Team Ineos again won the Tour de France. But, the British team showed rare signs of weaknesses in the Tour's high mountains. And, with the rise of Egan Bernal, who will lead the team at the 2020 Tour?

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Pinot vows to return to the Tour de France next year to make amends for his tearful departure

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