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• Vingegaard’s and Pogacar’s night-time doping tests authorised by Paris judge

  20-07-2026 22:24 via theguardian.com
  International Testing Agency petitioned for testsDuo tested outside of normal 6am to 11pm windowA Paris judge authorised the night-time doping tests of the Tour de France leader, Tadej Pogacar, and his nearest rival, Jonas Vingegaard, in the early hours of Sunday morning.The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Monday that the International Testing Agency (ITA) petitioned the “Paris judge specialising in liberty and detention matters … to authorise the anti-doping tests that
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Pogacar devours Alpe d’Huez to win stage 19 and stretch lead – as it happened

  24-07-2026 18:42 via theguardian.com
  Tadej Pogacar broke the record for the fastest Alpe d’Huez ascent, earning a dominant stage win and extending his GC lead beyond seven minutes127km to go No rest for the wicked, we’re straight on to the category Col Bayard, a 4.8km drag at 7.2%.There’s Christian Prudhomme popping out of the sunroof and waving his little yellow flag, we’re off. Continue reading...
  
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• Pogacar conquers Alpe d’Huez in record climb to win stage 19 and extend Tour de France lead

  24-07-2026 18:25 via theguardian.com
  Slovenian only second man to win in yellow on mountainLeader opens up gap of more than seven minutesTadej Pogacar put further distance between himself and his last few rivals, winning the Alpe d’Huez stage of the Tour de France and extending his overall lead to more than seven minutes.There was a brutal inevitability about the defending Tour champion’s record-breaking win on the legendary climb of the Alpe, despite all the rumours of illness and gastric problems within his UAE Emirat
  
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• Tour de France 2026: stage 19 from Gap to Alpe d’Huez – live

  24-07-2026 15:49 via theguardian.com
  The 127.9km mountain stage starts at 2pm CEST / 1pm BST
  Stage 18 report | share your thoughts with Tom via email127km to go No rest for the wicked, we’re straight on to the category Col Bayard, a 4.8km drag at 7.2%.There’s Christian Prudhomme popping out of the sunroof and waving his little yellow flag, we’re off. Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Richard Carapaz roars clear to win stage 18 – as it happened

  23-07-2026 19:06 via theguardian.com
  Ecuadorian takes impressive victory at Orcières-Merlette as Tadej Pogacar maintains overall lead despite illness concerns in his team161km to go The five riders up the road are Mathis le Berre (TotalEnergies), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), Nikolya Vinokurov, Aaron Gate (XDS Astana) and Lewis Askey (NSN). They managed to get 45secs on the main bunch but that is about to disappear rapidly.174km to go Five riders have broken away and churned out a lead of around 20 seconds. That is unli
  
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• Tour de France worries emerge for Tadej Pogacar after illness sweeps through team

  23-07-2026 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Richard Carapaz roars clear of breakaway to win stage 18McNulty abandons, Wellens and Vermeersch struggleRichard Carapaz won stage 18 of the Tour de France after a breakaway group of six riders duelled their way to the winter sports station at Orcières-Merlette, but uncertainty surrounds the health of race leader Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates XRG, which has been swept by a virus since Monday’s rest day.After Adam Yates’s stage-long calvary on the road to Voiron, Poga
  
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• Tour de France director rejects accusations of bias towards French riders

  23-07-2026 17:55 via theguardian.com
  Christian Prudhomme also defends night-time drug testsPrudhomme said ITA practices did not favour any ridersChristian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, has rejected accusations of bias towards French riders and launched a staunch defence of the night-time drug tests that were carried out during this year’s race.Speaking at the start of stage 18 in Voiron, Prudhomme insisted that the International Testing Agency’s (ITA) testing practices did not favour any riders. Continu
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Richard Carapaz roars clear of breakaway to win stage 18 – live

  23-07-2026 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Ecuadorian takes impressive victory at Orcières-Merlette
  Anti-doping chiefs reject Seixas favouritism | Mail Tom161km to go The five riders up the road are Mathis le Berre (TotalEnergies), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), Nikolya Vinokurov, Aaron Gate (XDS Astana) and Lewis Askey (NSN). They managed to get 45secs on the main bunch but that is about to disappear rapidly.174km to go Five riders have broken away and churned out a lead of around 20 seconds. That is unlikely to last when th
  
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• Cyclist who switched countries targeted after comparing Australia to ‘high school’ and England to ‘Hogwarts’

  23-07-2026 08:35 via theguardian.com
  Matt Richardson left Australia to compete for England after winning three Olympic medalsThe track star says he has much better resources with his new national teamMatt Richardson may have become public enemy No 1 in Australian cycling when he decamped to ride for the country of his birth – but the Commonwealth’s fastest man on two wheels reckons it’s all had “zero effect” on him.And if the flyer now in Team England colours thinks there’s any lingering animosit
  
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• Anti-doping chiefs reject claims of Paul Seixas favouritism as Tour rivals cry foul

  22-07-2026 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Home rider Seixas yet to be tested at night, unlike some rivalsAuthorities deny French doping agency plays role in who is testedAnti-doping authorities at the Tour de France have rejected accusations of preferential treatment towards Paul Seixas, the teenage French rider and home favourite who is placed fourth overall.Seixas and his Decathlon CMA CGM team were tested, with the rest of the peloton, on Monday evening as part of the biological passport testing programme, but the 19-year-old has not
  
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• Philipsen sprints to stage 17 win as UCI defends night tests

  22-07-2026 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belgium's Jasper Philipsen wins stage 17 of the Tour de France following a bunch sprint.
  
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• Why are cycling's anti-doping tests being carried out at night?

  22-07-2026 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drug testing at cycling's biggest race, the Tour de France is in the spotlight following a series of night-time anti-doping tests on the sport's biggest names.
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Jasper Philipsen wins stage 17 as Adam Yates struggles with illness – as it happened

  22-07-2026 18:19 via theguardian.com
  Jasper Philipsen got his first Tour stage win this year in a reduced sprint while Tadej Pogacar’s teammate Adam Yates was affected by a stomach bug162km to go: Astana rider Davide Ballerini has suffered a crash and is working to catch up. Ahead of him, Florian Vermeersch (Emirates) is making up ground after a puncture.The peloton is passing Lac du Bourget, which looks an absolutely lovely place to spend a Wednesday afternoon. The route will then loop to cover all four climbs before passing
  
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• Tour de France 2026: stage 17 updates and a big day for the breakaway – live

  22-07-2026 17:01 via theguardian.com
  Route runs 174.7km from Chambéry to Voiron
  Stage-by-stage guide | Team guide | Email Niall162km to go: Astana rider Davide Ballerini has suffered a crash and is working to catch up. Ahead of him, Florian Vermeersch (Emirates) is making up ground after a puncture.The peloton is passing Lac du Bourget, which looks an absolutely lovely place to spend a Wednesday afternoon. The route will then loop to cover all four climbs before passing back through Chambéry. Continue reading...
  
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• Evenepoel pips Pogacar again as Tour de France night-time doping test row deepens

  21-07-2026 21:19 via theguardian.com
  Belgian wins time trial, says chase of leader ‘not over yet’Florian Lipowitz, third last year, quits race after crashingRemco Evenepoel took back-to-back stage wins in the Tour de France, and eroded some of Tadej Pogacar’s overall lead, with victory in the stage 16 time trial from Evian to Thonon-les-Bains.The Olympic road and time trial champion, now second overall in the Tour, won on the Belgian national day from Pogacar by 28 seconds, to reduce the Slovenian’s advantag
  
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• Evenepoel cuts Pogacar's lead with time-trial win

  21-07-2026 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Remco Evenepoel cuts Tadej Pogacar's lead at the top of the general classification by 28 seconds with a dominant victory in the time-trial on stage 16 of the Tour de France.
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Evenepoel wins stage 16 time trial but Lipowitz crashes out – as it hapenned

  21-07-2026 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Evenepoel beat the race leader by 28 seconds to eat into the yellow jersey lead and make it back-to-back stages for the BelgianWe could have a new leader here, Mattia Cattaneo (Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe) is on a heater. He’s gone through the 1km to go marker with a nine second advantage on Armirail. Can he hold it?There are five points on offer in the polkadot race today for the rider that posts the quickest time up the Côte de Larringes. Pogacar is the current leader in the mountains
  
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• Speed, skill and strategy: BMX racing world championships – in pictures

  21-07-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Australians Jesse Asmus and Olympic champion Saya Sakakibara make the podium as Brisbane hosts 3,000 riders from 41 nations for the global eventThe best Australian sporting moments – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Richardson unfazed by any Australia animosity over Team GB switch

  21-07-2026 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cyclist Matt Richardson says he has "moved on" from a storm over his nationality switch as he aims to defend his Commonwealth Games titles.
  
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• Evenepoel criticises 'inhuman' night doping tests as Vingegaard crashes out

  19-07-2026 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Remco Evenepoel criticises "inhuman" middle-of-the night doping tests at the Tour de France after winning stage 15, while two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard crashes out.
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Vingegaard crashes out before Evenepoel wins on stage 15 – as it happened

  19-07-2026 18:26 via theguardian.com
  A dramatic day 15: Jonas Vingegaard’s Tour in ruins, Remco Evenepoel takes his first road win.The peloton will pedal away from Champagnole in about five minutes, with kilometre zero at 12.20.Doping control have been visiting in the night – Pogacar at 5am and Vingegaard at 2am – he isn’t impressed. Continue reading...
  
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• Vingegaard crashes out of Tour de France after ‘inhuman’ 2am doping control

  19-07-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
  Dane was woken by doping control at 2am on day of stageRemco Evenepoel outsprints Pogacar to claim victoryJonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France on the first Alpine stage on Sunday, only hours after being woken up in the early hours to undergo doping controls. He will have collarbone surgery in the next few days.The double Tour winner, who also won the Giro d’Italia this year, climbed gingerly into a race ambulance, his right arm in a sling, after falling as the main peloton ex
  
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• Backstedt retains Baloise Ladies Tour title

  19-07-2026 17:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Welsh rider Zoe Backstedt successfully retains the 2026 Baloise Ladies Tour title after becoming the youngest winner of the race a year ago.
  
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• Shriever wins historic fourth BMX world title

  19-07-2026 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Beth Shriever becomes the first BMX racer to win four elite world titles as extreme weather curtails the UCI BMX Racing World Championships in Brisbane.
  
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• Thousands watch Pogacar extend lead with dominant win

  18-07-2026 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tadej Pogacar extends his overall lead in the Tour de France after another dominant victory on the mountainous stage 14.
  
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• Tour de France stage 14: Pogacar powers clear to win his fourth stage of 2026 race – as it happened

  18-07-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
  A fourth stage win of the Tour for unstoppable Tadej Pogacar, as Paul Seixas takes the white jerseyThey are mulling over the possibilities in the studio. “I like to see Jonus go for a stage win, be nice to see the underdog get one.” says Robbie McEwen. The panel think he should keep on riding for first place.Meanwhile the battle for that third podium place is wide open. Continue reading...
  
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• Pogacar attacks ⁠on steepest climb to clinch fourth ⁠Tour de France stage win

  18-07-2026 17:58 via theguardian.com
  Slovene now 4min 30sec ahead of VingegaardPaul Seixas takes lead in young rider classificationTadej Pogacar’s rapacious appetite for stage wins was in evidence yet again in the climbs of the Vosges on Saturday, as he raced to his fourth victory of this year’s Tour de France at Le Markstein.Pogacar’s attack came 1.6km from the summit of the final climb, the Col de Haag, and 7.5km from the finish line and once again left Jonas Vingegaard, Paul Seixas and Remco Evenepoel in his wa
  
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• Pidcock up to fourth as Schmid wins Tour breakaway

  17-07-2026 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Tom Pidcock is up to fourth place overall in the Tour de France standings after a breakaway from which Switzerland's Mauro Schmid wins stage 13.
  
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• GB's Shriever looks to make history at BMX Racing World Championships

  17-07-2026 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of elite riders will battle it out at the BMX Racing World Championships in Brisbane this weekend, and you can follow it on the BBC.
  
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• Tour de France 2026: Mauro Schmid wins stage 13 as Tom Pidcock surges up GC – as it happened

  17-07-2026 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Mauro Schmid edged out Harold Tejad, while Tom Pidcock finished third to move into the top four in the general classificationThere’s no exlplosion off the start but it’s a narrow road to navigate from the flag drop.We’re still about 3.5km out from the flag drop. Adam Yates is in need of some technical assistance, but should have time to get that sorted before we begin racing. Continue reading...
  
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