The 2023 Tour de France will start in Bilbao, race organisers ASO have confirmed, 31 years since the last Spanish Grand Départ in 1992. An agreement is said to have been reached by Bilbao and race organisers ASO, with €10 million reportedly set aside to fund the event, and newspaper El Correo reporting that talks
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The Dutch cities of Rotterdam and The Hague have put themselves in the running to co-host the Grand Départ of the 2024 or 2025 Tour de France. If they were picked it would be the third time in 15 years that the Netherlands had hosted the Tour. Rotterdam wishes to be the host for the
Primož Roglič won’t race either the Critérium du Dauphiné or the Tour de Suisse in preparation for another yellow jersey bid at the 2021 Tour de France. The Slovenian, who came second at last year’s French Grand Tour, will race the Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège over the coming seven days but after
Jonas Vingegaard has been chosen to take the place vacated by Tom Dumoulin in Jumbo-Visma’s 2021 Tour de France squad. The young Dane has impressed this early season, winning a stage of the UAE Tour, the overall and two stages at Settimana Coppi e Bartali, as well as riding to second on GC at the
The biggest race of the season, the 2021 Tour de France begins on Saturday, June 26 in the city of Brest in the region of Brittany, 184 riders will be on the start line ready to tackle the three weeks. Reigning champion, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is returning to try and defend his title
The Tour de France is undoubtably the biggest bike race in the world – and the prize pot on offer certainly reflects that. In 2020, the total prize money available is €2,293,000 – an increase on the €2,291,700 available in the 2019 race. The greatest prize of all is to wear the yellow jersey on
Mark Cavendish now sits second in the Tour de France stage winners list with 31 victories. He started winning in 2008 at Chateauroux and quickly became the dominant sprinter at the race each year. A successful come back in 2016 when riding for Dimension Data looked set to be his swansong as illness and injury
The Tour de France is the most prestigious race in the cycling calendar and is known around the world even with non-cycling fans. Stage one was a very hectic one with two massive crashes. But it was world champion Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) who kicked clear with around 2km to go and stayed away
The Tour de France has many prizes available, but it isn’t all about the yellow, green, polka-dot and white jerseys. A red number is up for grabs as well. Every day a rider will be awarded with the ‘most combative rider’ award that usually goes to the rider who was the last man to be
The 2021 Tour de France has now been revealed with confirmation of its four stages in Brittany to begin the race as well as two time trials, a double ascent of Mont Ventoux, and a visit to Andorra during the race. The 108th edition of the Tour will begin in Brest in Brittany on June
Primož Roglič ‘happy with the legs’ at Tour of the Basque Country just weeks after two hard crashes Wout van Aert’s trainer says Tirreno-Adriatico ‘was so tough, it was not a build up week’ for the Classics Primož Roglič powers to victory on opening time trial of Tour of the Basque Country 2021
Tom Dumoulin on return to the cobbled Classics: ‘Wout van Aert is our leader, but anything can happen in the final’ Tom Dumoulin abandons Vuelta a España 2020 ‘I consider myself an optimist and a good bike handler, I started to doubt that’ – Mike Teunissen suffers heavy crash while training in Tenerife
Primož Roglič on Tour de France defeat: In hindsight we were calculating too much as a team Tour de France broadcaster NBC Sports shutting down at the end of the year ‘I’m just a kid from Slovenia’: How the Tour de France yellow jersey failed to change the life of Tadej Pogačar
Threats to Dylan Groenewegen are unacceptable and race barriers are to blame for crash, says riders’s union Sepp Kuss: I like the Grand Tours, but I have a lot to work on to become a contender Dylan Groenewegen reveals he received death threats and needed police protection after Fabio Jakobsen crash
‘I’m just a kid from Slovenia’: How the Tour de France yellow jersey failed to change the life of Tadej Pogačar Champs-Élysées to be turned into ‘extraordinary garden’ in €200m makeover Tadej Pogačar will defend title at Tour de France 2021 before taking on Vuelta a España