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Tour de France 2025 stage 16

‘Just chaos and completely bananas’ - The changing nature of breakaways at the Tour de France

Valentin Paret-Peintre and the breakaway prevail on the Mont Ventoux to claim stage 16 of the Tour de France

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Tour de France 2025 stage 17 preview: A rare sprint opportunity

Tour de France 2025 stage 17 preview: A rare sprint opportunity

The sprinters' teams will have their work cut out to control a breakaway, but they won't want to let a stage-winning chance slip away up...

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Demi Vollering

‘I struggled in the past because I could not be myself’ - Demi Vollering on controversy, new chapters and shouldering pressure

Signing for a new team, becoming a Nike athlete, being the favourite for yellow at this year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift – it’s...

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Tour de France 2025 team ratings: The winners and losers from a week of mountains and breakaways

Tour de France 2025 team ratings: The winners and losers from a week of mountains and breakaways

Rouleur analyses the performances of the 23 squads during the second week

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Roger Legeay

Everyone should be active in the fight against doping, by MPCC president Roger Legeay

Roger Legeay is the president of the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC), a voluntary organisation created in 2007 following a series of high-profile doping cases....

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Meandering of the soul - Stubbleman on his Mont Ventoux-inspired album

Meandering of the soul - Stubbleman on his Mont Ventoux-inspired album

Stubbleman is the alter ego of music producer Pascal Gabriel, who had a number-one hit in the UK in 1988 with The Theme from S’Express,...

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Kim Le Court

All or nothing: Kim Le Court’s meteoric ascent through the pro cycling peloton

After just two years in the WorldTour, Kim Le Court has shot to stardom, taking her biggest win so far at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes earlier this...

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Exploring Mont Ventoux, cycling's eternal icon

Exploring Mont Ventoux, cycling's eternal icon

The ‘Giant of Provence’ has inspired poets, walkers and cyclists for generations. What it is about Mont Ventoux that has such a hold on our sport? 

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Tour de France 2025 stage 15 sprint

A popped shoulder, a lost radio, and a broken dream - Julian Alaphilippe’s Tour de France tragedy

While the Frenchman looked almost back to his best in the breakaway of stage 15 of the Tour de France, the day ended in embarrassment...

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No friends but plenty of wins: UAE Team Emirates’s Tour de France stranglehold leaves nothing for the rest

No friends but plenty of wins: UAE Team Emirates’s Tour de France stranglehold leaves nothing for the rest

Stage 15 of the Tour de France brought yet another stage victory for the team, but this time it was thanks to a solo hit...

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Tour de France 2025 stage 14

Tour de France 2025 stage 16 preview: Mont Ventoux

The Tour de France resumes after its second rest day with a summit finish on one of its most iconic climbs

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The greatest race ever: The stories behind Kasia Niewiadoma's 2024 Tour triumph

The greatest race ever: The stories behind Kasia Niewiadoma's 2024 Tour triumph

The final stage of last year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift saw one of the most exciting and engaging finishes of a Grand Tour...

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Remco Evenepoel

Remco Evenepoel's Tour de France dream is over - Where did it go wrong and what comes next?

The Soudal-Quickstep rider abandoned the Tour de France on stage 14

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‘We’ve stepped up’ - How Shimano’s neutral service is saving dreams at the Tour de France

‘We’ve stepped up’ - How Shimano’s neutral service is saving dreams at the Tour de France

Rouleur spent a day inside the Shimano car alongside Servais Knaven to find out how he's implementing changes that make the service better than ever

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Bold and brave: How Ineos Grenadiers got ahead of ‘those two freaks’ at the Tour de France

Bold and brave: How Ineos Grenadiers got ahead of ‘those two freaks’ at the Tour de France

Thymen Arensman won stage 14 to Luchon-Superbagnères with an audacious solo hit out from the breakaway, managing to hold off a chasing Tadej Pogačar

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Tour de France 2025 stage 15 preview: Breakaway specialists eye glory

Tour de France 2025 stage 15 preview: Breakaway specialists eye glory

A lumpy transition stage seems primed for a breakaway, but a versatile sprinter could prevail

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Florian Lipowitz

From ski star to GC hope: Florian Lipowitz's convoluted journey to becoming Germany's biggest cycling talent

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's young German didn't start out cycling, but he showed promise from the moment he first started taking the sport seriously. Now he's one...

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Inside the rise of Iraq’s national women’s cycling team

Inside the rise of Iraq’s national women’s cycling team

There is cycling everywhere, if you know where to look. Rouleur meets the Iraqi National Women’s Cycling team, a team of ambitious riders who are...

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Kasia Niewiadoma

How to watch and live stream the 2025 Tour de France Femmes

Starting in Brittany, the fourth edition of the women's Grand Tour is set to be an explosive race from start to finish

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‘Bad day, bad performance, no explanation’ - Remco Evenepoel is being burned by the Tour de France

‘Bad day, bad performance, no explanation’ - Remco Evenepoel is being burned by the Tour de France

It was another sub-par performance from the Belgian, who hoped for more as the race hit the Pyrenees

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Jonas Vingegaard

‘We will keep trying and keep believing’ - Jonas Vingegaard’s only option is to cling on to the Tour de France dream

The Danish rider put stage 12's time loss down to a one-off bad day and says he has already begun to bounce back in Friday’s...

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Tadej Pogacar on Hautacam

Tour de France 2025 stage 14 preview: Four mighty Pyrenean climbs await

The peloton faces the Tourmalet, the Aspin, the Peyresourde and the Superbagnères

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Elisa Longo Borghini

What does the Giro d'Italia Women tell us about the Tour de France Femmes GC battle?

An intriguing GC fight in Italy gives some indication about the form of potential challengers to the likes of Demi Vollering and defending champion Kasia...

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Tour de France stage 12

Lipowitz, Vauquelin, Onley, Johannessen - The future of Grand Tour racing is bright

There is an exciting generation of new talent bursting through the ranks, ready to start winning as soon as Pogačar stops

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Lost hope, broken dreams and perfect Pogačar - Is the Tour de France already over?

Lost hope, broken dreams and perfect Pogačar - Is the Tour de France already over?

The world champion won stage 12 and reclaimed the yellow jersey in swashbuckling style on the Hautacam – and there was nothing his rivals could...

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Felix Gall and Primož Roglič at the Tour de France 2025

Yellow might have been decided, but what can other teams salvage from the Tour de France?

Pogačar’s domination has left his rivals scrambling to get whatever they can from a race that, barring a disaster, already seems decided

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Remco Evenepoel

Tour de France 2025 stage 13 preview: A gruelling mountain time trial

The second Pyrenean stage is an all-out uphill effort against the clock

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Three Mountains: The Pyrenean summit finishes of the 2025 Tour de France

Three Mountains: The Pyrenean summit finishes of the 2025 Tour de France

The 2025 Tour de France will see three consecutive summit finishes in the Pyrenees: at Hautacam, Peyragudes and Superbagnères. Rouleur goes to explore the culture...

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The ties that bind: a day of temporary and fast-changing alliances

The ties that bind: a day of temporary and fast-changing alliances

Stage 11 was defined by the temporary alliances formed over the course of the stage, and the fight between two groups of five riders, working...

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Victor Campenaerts

From breakaway specialist to domestique deluxe: Campenaerts reinvents himself at the 2025 Tour de France

Victor Campenaerts has long been renowned as a rider who thinks creatively in the pursuit of gains. But he also understands when the situation needs a bit of...

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