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BARCELONA, SPAIN - JULY 05: (L-R) Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia - Polka dot Mountain Jersey and stage winner Isaac Del Toro of Mexico and UAE Team Emirates - XRG celebrate at finish line during the 113th Tour de France 2026, Stage 2 a 168.5km stage from Tarragona to Barcelona 109m / #UCIWT / on July 05, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Isaac del Toro's stage-winning Colnago V5Rs may sit exactly on the UCI weight limit

UAE heir apparent’s V5Rs is less aero but lighter than Pogačar‘s second-place Y1Rs
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A Tour de France breakaway only has a 2% chance of winning, so why join one?

Breakaways animate the Tour de France, but they rarely lead to victory. We explain why the pros make these foolhardy moves
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A Canadair CL-415 water bombing aircraft of France's Civil Security services drops water on a wildfire in the southern France departmennt of Pyrenees-Orientales where 700 hundred firefighters backed by special aircraft battled to control a "gigantic" blaze spreading in a hard-to-reach remote area, with more than 10,000 local residents evacuated, near the town of Bouleternerre on July 6, 2026. Wildfires raged across southern Europe, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and prompting officials to ban spectators from a stage of the storied Tour de France cycling race. (Photo by Jc Milhet / AFP via Getty Images)

Fans told to avoid Tour de France stage 3 due to ‘major wildfires’

Tour organisers issued a statement on Sunday night outlining adjustments to stage 3 and asking the public not to gather along the route or near the finish
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BOULDER, CO - APRIL 19: Dr. Inigo San Millan takes a blood sample from triathlete Zach Barber with a lactate take meter during a metabolic and physiologic test in a lab at the University of Colorado Sports Medicine Performance Center April 19, 2017 in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

This home lactate device fine-tunes your endurance with lab-grade data – but with one significant caveat

Charlie Allenby experiments with an at-home lactate-measuring device to see how it compares with more expensive lab tests
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Ned Boulting and Matt Stephens cycling commentators

Why is the Tour de France not on ITV?

The Tour de France was a fixture on ITV, providing free-to-air viewing of the world's biggest bike race. But that's all changed with coverage moving to TNT Sports
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Netcompany-Ineos with arms in water tubs.

‘Cycling just got weirder’ – Netcompany-Ineos adopt peculiar tactic for Tour de France team time trial

Netcompany-Ineos turned to a novel cooling technique ahead of yesterday’s team time trial in Barcelona
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