"We were expecting a stage like this one in Châteauroux. The heat made it harder, and having Mathieu Van der Poel up the road didn’t help either. It turned out super hard for a flat stage. We expect a very hot, hard stage tomorrow. There will be a huge ...

In the battle of the “shadow leaders” at this Tour de France, Visma | Lease a Bike landed an important blow on Friday in Mur-de-Bretagne – although perhaps not exactly in the way they had hoped. While Joao Almeida (UAE) crashed hard and lost ten minutes,

João Almeida, a key teammate of Tour de France leader Tadej Pogačar, has abandoned the race. Almeida, who fractured a rib during Stage 7, was dropped early during Sunday's ninth stage between Chinon and Châteauroux,

Tadej Pogacar may be concentrating intensely on winning his fourth Tour de France, but in the middle of Saturday's stage eight he was just as focused on how his partner Urska Zigart was performing in the Giro d'Italia Women.

When you mention the Tour de France, doping is often associated with it because the two are unfortunately forever linked by a dark history in cycling. In recent years, cycling has been claimed to be cleaner than ever,

"It was a much more relaxing stage than the previous ones. I would have wished to have some more straight roads, as we went through so many villages and that ma