Tadej Pogačar

Defending champion Pogačar and archrival Vingegaard animate finale and take early gains in hazardous opening stage: 'I'm just happy day one is done.'

GC riders and sprinters dropped after Vingegaard and Pogačar help force late echelons in high-tension grand départ.

Podium chasers or yellow contenders? Roglič, Evenepoel look to challenge Pogačar and Vingegaard whenever opportunities arise at the Tour.

The Double winner has put in the work and believes in his prospects: ‘If we were afraid of Tadej, we wouldn’t be here’.

Tour de Hoody: Will this Tour de France be the pivot point of the Pogačar era or Vingegaard’s revenge? All I want is a race that burns into week three.

Defending Tour champ Pogačar talks Netflix drama, competition, respect, rivalries. ‘I hope I can live up to the expectation’.

The Tour de France offers the biggest purse in pro cycling, but the reward for yellow is like pocket money in other sports. We break down what's up for grabs this summer.

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Tour de France: GC favorites, maps, start list, TV times. Who brings home yellow?

The Tour de France peloton eats more than ever before, both on and off the bike. It has fueled an upward spiral of training, recovery, and racing performance.

Who has a better support crew, Pogačar or Vingegaard? Here are the stats, stakes, and hot takes underlying the biggest Tour de France team brawl of the century.

Every rider comes into the Tour with different goals — their vastly different training plans reflect that.

After a few crash-marred DNFs, the Red Bull super team is tempering its ambitions with its star Slovenian: 'Roglič is focused, motivated, in top form.'

UAE Emirates-XRG confirms powerhouse backing band for Pogačar's quest for a fourth yellow jersey: 'I’m ready to give everything.'

Power data reveals who’s really ready for the 2025 Tour de France. Pogačar leads, but his direct rivals are refusing to buckle.

João Almeida climbs the Tour de France power rankings after an impressive Tour de Suisse comeback confirms his podium possibilities.

Is it possible to bring a rider to the level of Pogačar? Performance gurus across the WorldTour are still searching for the solution on the eve of the Tour de France.

Almeida overcomes huge deficit to win big Tour de France warmup race, but others also have reason to smile.

Remco Evenepoel enters the Tour de France with questions over his form and little support from an injury-plagued Quick-Step squad. Can he turn it around in time?

Bobby J muses on which of Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse works best, and recounts some juicy intra-team rivalries in the chase for Tour de France selection.

Trying to puzzle out what we learned about the top GC contenders from their final pre-Tour tune-up race requires some reading between the lines.

Tour de Hoody: Pogacar’s Dauphiné domination scrambles the Tour de France pecking order. Now it's not if he will win, but rather by how much.

Remco Evenepoel identifies two factors behind challenging Critérium du Dauphiné performance.

Tour de France favorites Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard drop other GC riders on final climb.

Closer time gaps between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard as the Dauphiné’s climbing battles rage.

Pogačar again drops Jonas Vingegaard but Danish rider limits his losses compared to Friday’s first summit finish.

The Tour de France is cycling’s Super Bowl, but the Critérium du Dauphiné offers a more relaxed way to get closer to the biggest stars.

Pogačar humiliates rivals to take control of the Critérium du Dauphiné and telegraph a message to the peloton ahead of the Tour de France: 'He showed he is the best in the world.'

American talent Jorgenson braces for GC fight in three straight summit finales that will decide the Dauphiné and set the stage for the Tour de France: 'We want to move up.'

'It's nothing, just some skin off': Race leader Evenepoel comes down in sprint 'safe zone' and pedals to finish, retains GC lead ahead of mountain triple-header starting Friday.

Warning signs are blinking red after Pogačar gives up big swaths of time to Evenepoel and Vingegaard, but was there something else to it than ‘pacing’? Ex-pro Tom Danielson raises some interesting points.

Evenepoel carves out stunning gaps to Vingegaard and Pogačar in the 17.4km time trial to surge into lead at Dauphiné: 'The time differences are a bit of a surprise.'

Romeo attacks out of power-packed breakaway to thwart top favorite Van der Poel; Pogačar, Evenepoel, Vingegaard cool their jets in the peloton.

In a rare superstar alignment, Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel square off only for the sixth time in their careers in pre-Tour de France tug-of-war of egos and form. Here's why it matters.

Critérium du Dauphiné: Lidl-Trek's Milan is dropped, battles back to beat Mathieu van der Poel and snatch yellow to prove he's ready for the Tour de France.

Opening day of Critérium du Dauphiné gives strong encouragement to Pogačar’s Tour de France rivals as well as Van der Poel.

Pogačar outsprints Vingegaard and Van der Poel as the race’s top names steal the win from the sprinters.

Huge battle with Pogačar and Vingegaard in store, with Remco Evenepoel in a determined mood: ‘I’m here with ambition.’

Tour de France champion Pogačar speaks on eve of Critérium du Dauphiné, talking Vingegaard, Evenepoel, reinvention and form.

Van der Poel cleared to race Dauphiné despite wrist injury from MTB crash, Picnic-PostNL loses two key riders for Tour de France as relegation battle heats up.

After a stunning Giro setback, UAE Emirates-XRG barrels into Dauphiné to remind the peloton who's boss with powerful team to support Pogačar.

'When you see what Pogačar does, it’s obvious we have to try to understand it.' The peloton is scrambling to unlock the secrets of fatigue resistance, the kingmaker of modern racing.

Vingegaard expected to be joined by Jorgenson, Kuss, Van Aert, Yates for box office brawl with Pogačar. UAE Emirates isn't intimidated: 'We're not afraid of anyone.'

Tour de Hoody: Simon Yates' raid elevates Visma-Lease a Bike into class of its own and saves the 2025 Giro d’Italia from itself.

Dauphiné brawl between Vingegaard, Evenepoel, Pogačar will paint only half the picture of Tour de France form: 'Nicer to need to make one more step.'

Visma-Lease a Bike boss Richard Plugge comes out swinging ahead of Dauphiné-Tour slugfest with Pogačar: 'I have no reason to believe we can't go for yellow again.'

Tour de France titans Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel face off in all-star dress rehearsal in June's Dauphiné.

Tour de Hoody: Why UAE Emirates-XRG needs this Giro d’Italia victory to prove it can dominate grand tours without Tadej Pogačar.

Pogačar enjoys an F1 weekend, Del Toro lives la dolce vita and a Giro fan's dreams come true.

Visma-Lease a Bike’s curse of injury and illness continues as all-terrain French ace Laporte ruled out with ongoing, long-term sickness.

Organizers put a radical spin on traditional Paris finale with three climbs of Montmartre before 7km dash toward the Champs. Will we see GC action on the very final day of racing?

News nuggets: Vingegaard not overawed by Pogačar's 2025 rampage: 'Just because you’re the best in the spring, doesn’t mean you’re going to be the best in the Tour de France.'

Tour de Hoody: This Giro won’t give us the fireworks-a-minute Pogi Show we’ve grown accustomed to, but it will deliver tension, suspense, tactics, a hard-fought race, and maybe even a surprise winner.

Heat training is the blood-boosting buzzword of modern endurance. But is the hype for heat putting athletes at risk of overcooking?

We dive into the the inflection points that have led to the speeds we see today, and why 2020 marks the new era for pro cycling as we know it.

Cycling’s latest craze? Lifetime contracts. Pedersen joins Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos in the peloton's newest elite club.

Footage emerges of Pogačar and Vingegaard laying the founations for the next chapter in their sprawling Tour de France rivalry.

Tour de Hoody: How the Giro d'Italia could be the most exciting race of the season without Tadej Pogačar to obliterate the field.

'It can be interesting for the race without such a dominant rider': GC contenders forecast a wild and wide-open race in absence of peloton pulverizer Pogačar.

Under the name 'super_bock,' a cycling fan is lighting up social media with a string of hilarious and delirious AI-generated reels.

Assessing the world’s best rider and his rivals in cycling’s top one-day races this spring.

Roglič rides into Giro d'Italia with Pogačar as a reference and the pressure to paper over Bora-Bull's miserable spring: ‘He can totally turn around our season.’

Can Ayuso become Spain's first men's grand tour winner since Alberto Contador in 2015? 'Juan is ready to win a grand tour.'

Watch video: Tadej Pogačar has been popping some outrageous wheelies when he’s not crushing monuments or tuning for the Tour de France.

Performance and menstruation, bike checks, and proud papa moments in this week's Social Digest.

Riders refuse race in downpour at the Tour of Turkey, while Geraint Thomas left gobsmacked by Tadej Pogačar at Liège-Bastogne-Liège: 'He's at another level.'

With 8.4 w/kg climbs and a 7.4 w/kg late in the race, Pogačar’s LBL numbers are straight up absurd.

Trainer backs controversial altitude-heavy, race-lite approach as Vingegaard scrambles back from concussion: 'We know this works.'

5 takeaways from the cobblestone and Ardennes classics, including the inevitability of Pog, the potential of Puck, and why Paris-Roubaix always rules.

Podium finishers Giulio Ciccone and Ben Healy had a common strategy going into Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Remco Evenepoel fades to 59th at Liège-Bastogne-Liège after under-cooked star becomes undone: 'I haven't trained much, and that showed today.'

Pidcock leaves the Ardennes empty-handed and will reload for the Giro d'Italia: 'Quite disappointed about that actually.'

World champion Pogačar solos home after La Redoute stomping, Evenepoel cracks and is dropped.

Both riders are double winners of Liège-Bastogne-Liège but have never truly gone head to head in race.

The episode in which we discuss how surprised Mattias Skjelmose to win Amstel Gold and much, much more.

Bobby Julich is a former Team Sky race coach who had an inside view to trying to beat Contador at his peak.

Brutal weather at Flèche Wallonne served as a stark reminder that cold, rain, and cycling's outdoor arena can upturn any marginal gain in an instant: 'I was wearing too much, or too little.'

Liège-Bastogne-Liège preview: Closing out the spring classics campaign of 2025, La Doyenne should be a thrilling capstone to a wild season of racing.

After crashing out of Paris-Nice with a concussion, Vingegaard says he's fully recovered and focused on a Tadej Pogačar rematch: 'Leaving nothing to chance.'

Amstel Gold Race was hands down one of the best battles of the season.

Coming off second places at Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race, an unforgiving Pogačar reminded everyone he's still king of the hill.