Tour de France

UAE Team Emirates boss suggests Giro campaign could make Pogačar even stronger in the Tour: 'We have no pressure.'

Analysis: A relatively thin GC start list could tempt Pogačar and Co. to drop their guard, and that would be a mistake UAE cannot afford.

Top riders topped up their bank accounts with generous payouts during the one-days, but the Tour de France remains cycling's biggest payday.

UAE Emirates lifts the lid on how it plans to solve the puzzle of the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double: 'If any rider is capable of it, it's Tadej, with this program.'

Race jury hands down another relegation, and Cavendish among several top sprinters gapped on late climbs: 'I would have preferred the photo with my arms in the air.'

Sources confirm Evenepoel will train at altitude next month, while the future for Van Aert is less clear with no hints of a return to the Tour this summer.

Race program remains unknown for two-time Tour de France champion after he suffered broken ribs, fractured collarbone, collapsed lung.

Welsh veteran buoyed by solid spring training in advance of Tour of the Alps and a summer of swinging at Pogačar at the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France.

The Belgian cycling great is recovering at home after recent surgery.

‘The possibility now is much, much greater for winning Giro and Tour,’ says cycling expert.

Froome reflects on racing vs. Pogačar, Vingegaard in his prime: 'It would have been interesting to have raced against them in my best years'

With less than a month to go, here are 5 things that could trip up the Team UAE Emirates superstar's chase for the pink jersey.

Ketone supplier partners WorldTour team to prove its Tour de France-winning potential as uncertainties continue to linger over ‘fourth macronutrient.'

Remco Evenepoel returns home and Primož Roglič is 'feeling a bit better' as top stars show encouraging signs in recoveries from recent spate of crashes.

Game changers? New Belgian resort joins Denia's Syncrosfera as an altitude training alternative for the WorldTour elite.

'It will be a big loss': Merijn Zeeman to take role with AZ soccer club in 2025 after helping turn Dutch cycling team from minnows to megastars.

Manxman sidelined from Scheldeprijs after struggles with sickness, will not return to the peloton until mid-april.

Astana-Qazaqstan unable to confirm Manxman’s race program after Milan-Torino DNF continues illness-cursed early season.

Despite slow Paris-Nice start, Slovenian rider’s transfer in pursuit of Tour de France glory is raising German team’s game: 'We absolutely buy into it.'

Vingegaard, Pogačar also recon decisive race against the clock that some say could see a repeat of the Tour's famous LeMond-Fignon duel of 1989: 'It will be a great race come July.'

Is Philipsen set to leave the Alpecin-Deceuninck team that took him to the top? UAE Emirates and Bora-Hansgrohe sniff at super-speedster's signature.

Who's hot, who's not, and what next for the yellow jersey favorites after Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, Strade Bianche?

Bora-Hansgrohe could be bringing Red Bull-branded bikes and kits to the Tour in mid-season launch of new identity.

Tour de France dominators fear ban of helmet after it reportedly spent more than a year developing with Giro Sport.

Vingegaard, Pogačar, Roglič ... Evenepoel? Belgian's quest for Tour de France glory truly begins this week.

The first sparring amid the Big Four starts this weekend as European stage racing begins in earnest at Paris-Nice. Jeremy Whittle reckons history suggests Primoz Roglič, but momentum may say Remco Evenepoel.

The UAE Tour didn’t quite go to plan, but modest stage places there don’t give the full picture.

Pogačar's wildest season yet will drive a narrative through 2024 that will oppose any Visma victory parade.

After historic wins in 2022, he wants to reignite his classics success: 'I'm more ready now mentally.'

All-slaying Slovenian debuts season at race he won in 2022 in road toward Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double.

'We'll have to wait and see how Tadej does it': Vingegaard chews over possible Giro-Tour double, but he wants to know if it's achievable first.

The former teammates will clash at Basque Country and Dauphiné ahead of battle for yellow jersey: 'The best one will win.'

Evenepoel forged his GC advantage at Volta ao Algarve on a 62T time trial chainring, and nearly lost it a day later when his derailleur died.

Face-Off: Should rules allow that injured riders be swapped out of grand tours? Our editors argue out the 'replacement' theory.

Analysis: Nearly five years since its last yellow jersey, major restructuring at the British 'super team' reveals that billionaire team owner Jim Ratcliffe is pushing for return on his investment.

'Flanders is now a climber's race': Cobbles guru Wilfried Peeters believes Belgian superstar will race De Ronde when the time is right.

Sprinting in spring will set the tone as a phalanx of fast-finishers line up to derail Cavendish's chase for Tour de France history.

37-years-young Welshman believes he's still got more to give ahead of his Giro d'Italia-Tour de France 2024.

British rider Pidcock continues jumping between disciplines in what is a key season in his evolution as a pro road rider.

Tadej Pogačar's double Giro-Tour dare opens up road to Vuelta a España for favored wingman: 'I'm the last man in the mountains.'

The season-opener success will only heighten expectation for his season-long chase to better Eddy Merckx's all-time Tour stage win record.

Why isn't the WorldTour topper to be seen in the early season? Jonas Vingegaard's crew is already on Teide and tuning for the the Tour de France.

Unzué confirms Movistar's participation in 'Super League' talks: 'The sport hasn't changed in 40 years.'

The WorldTour rookie is already making waves as new hot prospect from Eritrea: 'I will not sleep, now is the time to work even harder.'

To 'cross or not to 'cross? The outcome of MVDP's far-stretching 2024 season could crush or confirm the multi-discipline dream.

Mads Pedersen fastest in France, and Jonathan Milan hits out in Spain for debut wins in sneak preview of the team's ambitions: 'It’s a huge confidence boost for what’s to come.'

Kuss carries winning high-volume training framework into boosted role with the Visma-Lease A Bike WorldTour bulldozer in 2024.

The unknown Canadian burst into prominence with no less than seven breakaways in the 2023 Giro d'Italia: 'That left me hungry for more.'

Jayco-AlUla star on racing as an underdog: 'I am still hungry to do more, to improve, and to do better.'

With a stage in the AlUla Tour his next goal, Dutch sprinter is aiming to reach July in giant-killing form: 'Hopefully my fastest legs are in the Tour.'

Veteran rider says UK super team isn't resting on laurels: 'We are still there, we are still challenging. We want to win the Tour de France.'

Officials signed off on the high-profile partnership between energy drinks giant and German-backed WorldTour team that could transform professional cycling: 'We have cleared an important hurdle.'

'It's too bad to miss the Tour, but the Olympics are the Olympics': Ganna puts gold medal quest ahead of Italian start of the Tour de France in 2024.

Pidcock's coach is convinced a multi-discipline approach is no waste of time as the Brit wrecking ball quests for Tour de France fame.

The Vuelta a España champion returns to action with a pair of one-days and the Volta ao Algarve: 'That Vuelta victory did something to him. He gained so much confidence.'

'A massive challenge': Soon-to-be-retired warhorse to make Strade Bianche debut and join Pogačar in targeting cycling's most troubling double in 2024.

Team Sky caused a stir with its fasted and low-carbohydrate training strategies, but new findings add fuel into the high-carb revolution that's shifting pro cycling.

The popular American climber raced 14 grand tours and won a stage in the Giro d'Italia during his 11-year pro career.

New CEO John Allert insists GC racing remains the squad's North Star as he kick-starts mission to catch up to Visma-Lease a Bike, UAE Emirates.

'It's part of the plan': The 21-year-old American could be heading to the Giro d'Italia in what could be a breakout season.

Analysis: Points and rankings dictate the Tour de France wild-card selection process that's now almost devoid of drama and intrigue.

Will the new Red Bull-Bora superteam get wings with the arrival of Van Aert and Evenepoel in 2025?

'We have a team that can deliver him in the best way. I know many doubt that, but I like to be underestimated.' Quick-Step vows to come out swinging in Evenepoel's Tour debut.

Despite an acrimonious split in 2018, Jayco-AlUla always had an eye on bringing back the Aussie sprinter: 'I always stayed in touch with him.'

Roglič to see stripped-back schedule and heavyweight backing in an all-out push for the victory that would complete his palmarès.

First bike, first win, first contract: Mørkøv's unlikely rise to become the peloton's most dangerous leadout man and Madison gold medalist.

'We'll always be important in the classics, but we’re making a transformation for grand tours': The Wolfpack shifts identity for Evenepoel's bold ambitions.

'I just want to perform.' Two years after catastrophic accident, former Tour de France winner talks about his 2024 goals.

'The Tractor' saw the writing on the wall with Evenepoel's GC rise at Quick-Step: 'I would have never thought I'd change teams.'

US national champ stunned by tragedy: 'I was pretty convinced I was never going to race a bike again.'

UAE patiently grooming the 25-year-old to be one of the team's future GC anchors: 'Brandon has no limits.'

French climber says that winning the Giro d’Italia is a big dream, limits his future Tour de France ambitions.

A.I. has been creeping into pro cycling for years. Tadej Pogačar's team is taking it a step further: 'A.I. analysis could reveal anything.'

A botched sprint in the final stage of the 2021 Tour de France put the wheels in motion for the Danish leadout ace to return for last chance at history.

From mud of Belgium to the Alps of France, Matteo Jorgenson's debut season with Visma-Lease a Bike is a race calendar brimming with quality.

Bora-Hansgrohe hops onto the 1X hype-train as German team undergoes Visma-Lease a Bike-inspired overhaul in 2024.

Gear tests and team bonding: Sunny Spain is everyone's choice for the WorldTour's off-season training camps.

UAE star is targeting the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, but it doesn't stop there: 'Tadej will focus on winning his first race of the season, and the last.'

In this latest installment of Velo's predictions for 2024, European editor Andrew Hood looks into cycling's crystal ball for sweeps, doubles, triples, and other new historic markers.