You can have uphill finishes in the massif central that drag on without ever getting too steep. But this is 6.7km long and the slope averages 7.1% and that includes a brief downhill and flat section ...

The traditional opener to the west of Paris. The Route: 156km and on familiar roads towards the Chevreuse valley, the habitual start of the race and also crossing the Olympic road race route from last ...

NINOVE, BELGIUM - MARCH 01: (L-R) Rune Herregodts of Belgium and Antonio Morgado of Portugal and Team UAE Team Emirates lead ...

Race winner Soren Waerenskjold of Norway and Team Uno-X Mobility, Jasper Philipsen of Belgium and Team Alpecin-Deceuninck and Paul Magnier of France and Team Soudal Quick-Step sprint at finish line ...

If the Tour de France is a business, who are its clients? Certainly TV audiences and roadside spectators alike. But there’s third group: mayors and local government officials. While President Macron’s ...

This is Belgium’s version of the Galibier, Tourmalet or Stelvio. It might not be the highest nor the hardest but its name is celebrated as a place central to the sport’s history. What’s it like to ...

Openingsweekend? The season has been raging for the best part of two months now but things go up a level here. Gone are the empty highways in the desert, in come the narrow roads, cobbles and bergs of ...

In Italy the Ronde has been collecting steadily some 800K in terms of average single viewers, despite the general relative ...

Jacques Augendre has died at the age of 99. He covered 55 editions of the Tour de France, a record which he of all knew well as the Tour de France’s in-house historian but he took little pride from it ...

The race started in the 1970s thanks to Roland Fangille. It’s taken place the week after the French season-opening GP La Marseillaise and worked because of this, close to Marseille and benefitting ...