Tour de France

Peter Sagan doesn't mean sharing the wealth every once in awhile, now with a healthy lead in the Tour de France's points classification.

Bad luck finally catches up with Tom Dumoulin in Tour stage 6. He loses time due to late mechanical and a penalty from race jury.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Though he is Olympic champion, a winner of Roubaix, and currently in yellow, Greg Van Avermaet is scrambling to find a team for 2019.

With two stage wins in four chances, the three-time world champion has already met Bora-Hansgrohe’s target coming into the race.

American Lawson Craddock crashed hard in stage 1 and broke his scapula. He has vowed to press on.

Axel Domont, a crucial lieutenant for Romain Bardet, crashed out of the Tour de France this week.

The five-time Tour de France champion recently called on riders to strike over Chris Froome's inclusion in the race.

Check out Iain Treloar's author page.

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

On stage 6's Mur de Bretagne, the climbers will finally come to the fore after several hectic days at the Tour de France.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Some pundits say Sagan won't win any more stages this Tour. We roundtable on that, BMC's strategy, and how to handle hecklers.

We speak with Dr. James Morton, Team Sky’s head of nutrition, to learn more about what it takes to fuel a team at a grand tour.

The Tour's lumpy stage 5 was tailor-made for opportunist Toms Skujins who took Trek-Segafredo's first big prize of the 2018 race.

Luke Rowe says the incident with a French fan prior to Tour de France stage 5 was not a big deal, that there was no malicious intent.

Riders are skeptical that a smaller peloton, prompted by a UCI rule change, is any safer for the Tour de France.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Outside the Team Sky bus on Wednesday, Luke Rowe confronts fan who was holding a sign telling the British team to go home.

BMC Racing is facing closure at the end of this season over a lack of sponsorship.

The defending points classification champion fell ill Wednesday morning and had to abandon the race.

Check out Iain Treloar's author page.

Racing for Team Sky has doomed Geraint Thomas to second-banana status behind Chris Froome despite his immense talent.

Words: John Wilcockson/Images: James Startt

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

From issue 65 • Words: James Startt with images by Startt and Yuzuru Sunada

Quick thinking, good teamwork, and hard effort helped save Rigoberto Urán from losing time after crash in stage 4 of Tour de France.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Take a closer look at the power data of EF Education First-Drapac captain Simon Clarke and Mitchelton-Scott captain Mat Hayman.

Mark Cavendish said he was chasing Eddy Merckx's all-time stage win record at the Tour. So far, his results have been dismal.

In the pandemonium of stage 4's sprint finale, Zakarin goes down, his team unaware, and he loses time to Tour rivals.

Tejay van Garderen is oh-so-close to the Tour's yellow jersey, but it isn't meant to be this year with classics-style stages on tap.

Although Egan Bernal is touted as Colombia's next big thing, he's content to play a support role to Chris Froome in Tour de France.

How do riders and team doctors decide when an injury is too severe to continue racing the Tour de France?

Team time trials are boring, right? Wrong! The Tour de France's stage 3 TTT was an important part of the battle for the yellow jersey.

Are Tour de France teams stacking their squads with classics riders for stage 9's cobblestone Roubaix stage? Not exactly.

Lennard Zinn addresses questions pertaining to the Tour de France, which kicked off July 7.

While fans have been awed by Lawson Craddock's heroics after crashing hard on stage 1, the ethics of his continued participation are complicated.

The fourth stage of the Tour de France is expected to end in a bunch sprint along the Brittany coast.

Check out Matt De Neef's author page.

Words/Images: James Startt

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Check out Caley Fretz's author page.

Whatever advantage Romain Bardet carried into Monday's team time trial evaporated on the hot tarmac surrounding Cholet, France.

The Tour de France decided to put a TTT early in this year's race. Does it make the battle for yellow more exciting?

Although Movistar was well off the pace of BMC and Team Sky, Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa are still in the hunt.

Rigoberto Uran's EF Education First-Drapac team delivers a solid sixth-place result to keep him in touch on Tour GC.

Vincenzo Nibali and his Bahrain-Merida team are content to have the Tour's team time trial behind them with minimal time lost.

Quietly cruising through the Tour de France's first three days, Tom Dumoulin is well-positioned to ride for GC after racing the Giro.

Chris Froome says his stage 1 crash wasn't as bad as it looked. Sky's performance in team time trial puts him back in the mix for yellow.

After disastrous first stage, Adam Yates is back in GC conversation after a strong showing in the team time trial by Mitchelton-Scott.

Monday's team time trial could also shake up the general classification standings.

Check out Matt De Neef's author page.

Monday’s stage 3 team time trial was meant to be a race-breaker in this year’s Tour de France, but early setbacks to major favorites have muted the stage's significance.

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

Words: John Wilcockson | Images: James Startt

“F---------ck,” Lawson Craddock screamed, or cried maybe, every time the pack slowed and a fistful of brake threw his weight forward onto a scapula that screamed back.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Who would have guessed that a simple sprint stage could mix up the Tour de France's GC race more than a summit finish?

Andrew Hood and Dane Cash have the rundown on the crazy lead-up to the season's big race, as well as its chaotic first stage.

After months of dread and angst leading up to the Tour de France, Peter Sagan reminded everyone Sunday why July can be so much fun.

A team time trial that starts and finishes in Cholet could see several GC contenders take a tumble down the overall leaderboard.

Five riders across four teams are flying the American flag in this year’s Tour, which is about average for U.S. representation.

Tom Dumoulin is poised to emerge as the winner of the first three days of the Tour following the TTT on Monday.

Check out Iain Treloar's author page.

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

Take a look at the faces focused on day one of the 2018 Tour de France, check back as the race goes on to see how the race wears on the riders.

Check out Shane Stokes's author page.

Velonews caught all the tech worth talking about prior to the first stage of the 2018 Tour de France.

An opening-stage crash has thrown a wrench into Chris Froome's plans to win a record-tying fifth Tour title.

Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana are both bona-fide Grand Tour winners. Do they have what it takes to beat Chris Froome?

From issue 05 • Words by Ben Atkins with illustrations by Deborah Davis

Check out Neal Rogers's author page.

Agence France-Presse combs through the record books to find key benchmarks that have stood the test of time at the Grande Boucle.

A day after being booed by roadside fans, Tour de France favorite Chris Froome appealed for understanding from the French public.

With back-to-back sprint stages to start the Tour, fast finishers are in prime position to wear cycling's most coveted jersey.

Fernando Gaviria goes all-in with disc brakes on his new Specialized S-Works Venge for the tour de France.