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• Slim hopes: Will anyone deny Pogacar fifth Tour title?

  03-07-2026 21:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tadej Pogacar's new hairstyle makes the cycling superstar look rather like US rap star Eminem. As the Tour de France begins in Barcelona, will his rivals please stand up?
  
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• Pogacar takes Tour yellow with sweltering stage three win

  06-07-2026 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Defending Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar takes victory on stage three of the Tour de France with a late acceleration to the line.
  
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• Tour fans urged to stay away from stage because of wildfires

  06-07-2026 08:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tour de France fans are urged not to attend the end of the third stage because of wildfires in the south of France.
  
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• Tour debutant Del Toro wins stage two as Vingegaard retains lead

  05-07-2026 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Debutant Isaac del Toro claims victory on stage two of the Tour de France as Jonas Vingegaard retains the leader's yellow jersey.
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Mexican debutant Isaac del Toro wins stage two in Catalonia – as it happened

  05-07-2026 19:07
  Isaac del Toro and Tadej Pogacar teamed up for a UAE Team Emirates one-two in Barcelona as Jonas Vingegaard held on to the yellow jersey.141km to go. After initial resistance from the peloton, a breakaway has established itself. The three leaders are Alex Molenaar (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Frank van den Broeck (Picnic PostNL) and German champion Felix Engelhardt (Jayco Alula).Lotto Intermarché rider Baptiste Veistroffer is briefly stuck in no man’s land as the bunch slows for a &ldq
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Mexican debutant Del Toro wins stage two with help of Pogacar

  05-07-2026 18:49
  Vingegaard keeps yellow jersey with six-second leadFires mean no spectators and ‘adapted route’ for stage threeIsaac del Toro took a victory orchestrated by Tadej Pogacar on stage two of the Tour de France in Barcelona as Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey.A day after Vingegaard’s Visma-Lease a Bike squad had their moment winning the opening team time trial, stage two belonged to their rivals UAE Team Emirates-XRG as they engineered a one-two with Pogacar allowing his
  
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• Vingegaard denies Pogacar to win opening Tour stage

  04-07-2026 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard took the yellow jersey on the opening stage of the Tour de France following a tense team time trial.
  
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• Tour de France 2026 stage one: Vingegaard in yellow after team time trial success – as it happened

  04-07-2026 20:15
  Jonas Vingegaard scored an early victory over Tadej Pogacar as his Visma-Lease a Bike squad won the team time trial ahead of Netcompany Ineos.The team time-trial route wends around Barcelona, taking in several landmarks.The Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s Parc Guell, the Camp Nou footballl stadium, La Rambla and the Tour Glories. Who knows, maybe some punters will be tempted to visit this charming, off-the-tourist-trail place… Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Jonas Vingegaard in yellow after Barcelona team time trial

  04-07-2026 20:05
  Vingegaard leads Visma–Lease a Bike to stage one winGanna second for Ineos; Pogacar third for EmiratesJonas Vingegaard stunned Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion, by taking the first yellow jersey of the 2026 Tour de France after his Visma-Lease a Bike team won the opening stage of this year’s race, a 19.6km team time trial in Barcelona.Two years after a life-threatening crash, Vingegaard, who won this year’s Giro d’Italia, looks back to his best. “It feels amazi
  
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• Boy who would be king: Seixas carries weight of a nation at Tour de France

  04-07-2026 09:00
  Teenage sensation is a fearless racer but taking on Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard is setting the bar very highPaul Seixas may be the youngest Tour de France debutant since 1937, but he is not lacking in confidence. Reminded of the scale of the challenge facing him, in hoping to usurp the dominant four-time champion, Tadej Pogacar, he said calmly: “There are different ways to win a cycling race.”Seixas fever is running high in Barcelona on the eve of the Tour, even if the 19-year
  
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• Tour de France quiz: Can you name every winner since WW2?

  03-07-2026 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 113th edition of the Tour de France begins on Saturday, 4 July in Barcelona. How many past overall winners can you name?
  
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• Can Girmay recreate past Tour de France glories with new team?

  03-07-2026 13:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Biniam Girmay, who is now backed by a World Cup winner, is aiming to reclaim the green jersey two years after the Eritrean made history at the Tour de France.
  
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• The Badger, the Professor and the teenager: France’s long wait for a Tour champion | William Fotheringham

  03-07-2026 11:42
  The hype around Paul Seixas is fully justified as the 19-year-old bids to end four decades of French disappointment When you write about the Tour de France for the best part of (deep breath) 40 years, the same themes recur, constantly evolving and mutating. The contorted fortunes of France’s finest cyclists have been a constant narrative since 4 July 1990, when the late Laurent Fignon put foot to tarmac in the feed zone somewhere in the bocage between Avranches and Rouen. It was cold, dank
  
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• Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome confirms cycling retirement

  03-07-2026 09:53
  ‘There was that fall last summer. I knew it was over’Injuries hampered the final years of rider’s careerChris Froome, the four-time winner of the Tour de France, who also took the 2018 Giro d’Italia and 2011 and 2017 Vuelta a España titles, has confirmed his retirement from professional cycling.The longest retirement saga in the sport finally ended on Friday when the 41-year-old, speaking in Barcelona at the Grand Départ of this year’s Tour, said: &ldq
  
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• Four-time Tour de France winner Froome retires

  03-07-2026 09:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain's Chris Froome, who won the Tour de France four times, brings an end to his illustrious career in professional cycling.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: World Cup, Ben Stokes, Wimbledon and LeBron James

  03-07-2026 09:00
  Have you followed the big stories in football, cricket, tennis, rugby union, basketball, cycling and Formula One? Continue reading...
  
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• Seagrave ends World Cup campaign early

  02-07-2026 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Downhill mountain biker Tahnee Seagrave bows out of World Cup season following injury.
  
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• Tour de France braced for historic stage cancellations amid 44C European heatwave

  02-07-2026 19:39
  
  ‘It’s very much on our mind’: Tour’s technical directorExtreme weather could affect the peloton on SundayThe 2026 Tour de France, which starts in Barcelona on Saturday, is steeling itself for climate change disruption with another extreme heatwave predicted to return to Europe in the coming days which could lead to stages being cancelled.“It’s something that’s very much on our mind,” said Thierry Gouvenou, the Tour’s technical director. &ldqu
  
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• Tour de France 2026: full team-by-team guide

  02-07-2026 16:25
  Jonas Vingegaard is coming off a Giro d’Italia victory, but Tadej Pogacar remains favourite and can take his fifth titleTwo strings to the Dutch team’s bow: Jasper Philipsen to add to his 10 stage wins and repeat his 2023 points jersey, Mathieu van der Poel to do VDP things: crazy breaks, forceful lead-outs, sniffing out openings. Philipsen has just won the Tour of Belgium; his co-leader hasn’t won since March but was a force in the spring Classics, then after time out from rac
  
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• Tour de France 2026: stage-by-stage guide to this year’s race

  01-07-2026 15:00
  The team time trial returns as this year’s Tour starts in Barcelona for the first time in race’s historyThe first team time trial since 2019, past many of Barcelona’s prime tourist sites – La Rambla, Sagrada Familia – but with a novel format: riders’ times will be taken individually at the uphill finish. So rather than trying to finish four or five riders together, teams will wear out non-climbers early on, then have lighter men peeling off one by one in the f
  
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• Tarling - from hospital bed to Tour de France in three weeks

  01-07-2026 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Josh Tarling's Tour de France hopes appeared over when he broke his collarbone in a crash three weeks ago - but he will make his debut in cycling's biggest race.
  
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• Tour de France 1966: ‘No longer a jaunt in knickerbockers from Paris to Nice’

  01-07-2026 13:00
  While the French nation is still excited by the Tour, it has become a grim, scientifically controlled commercial operationBy Peter Lennon30 June 1966 Continue reading...
  
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• British champion Backstedt eyes Tour de France debut

  29-06-2026 12:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zoe Backstedt aims to ride her first Tour de France Femmes in August after an "incredible" double title-winning week at the British Road Championships.
  
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• Backstedt seals double with road race victory

  28-06-2026 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zoe Backstedt wins the British elite women's road race in Aberystwyth to complete a double following her success in the time trial.
  
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• Barker reclaims title at National Road Championships

  26-06-2026 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Megan Barker reclaims her British elite women's circuit race title as the second day of the National Road Championships produces its second Welsh winner.
  
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• Deignan to take sporting director role at GB cycling

  26-06-2026 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former world champion Lizzie Deignan returns to Great Britain's cycling team in a sporting director role which "will play a pivotal role in supporting the road squad at major events through to the LA 2028 Olympic Games".
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: heat, animals, money and a big week at the World Cup

  26-06-2026 14:38
  Have you followed the news in football, cricket, tennis, rugby, golf, athletics and cycling? Continue reading...
  
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• Backstedt retains British time trial title on all-Welsh podium

  25-06-2026 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zoe Backstedt retains her British national elite women's time trial title, topping an all-Welsh podium at the 2026 championships in Lampeter.
  
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• Onley ruled out of Tour de France with injury

  25-06-2026 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oscar Onley has been ruled out of next month's Tour de France with a shoulder injury, his team Netcompany-Ineos have confirmed.
  
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• Pogacar and Reusser clinch Tour de Suisse titles

  21-06-2026 21:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tadej Pogacar and Marlen Reusser secure the Tour de Suisse titles as each wins the final stage of their respective races.
  
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