Lennard Kämna: Sunweb’s Tour de France debutant riding Grand Tour winners off his wheel 

Waiting for Gaudu? No longer. The young Breton seizes the day on the Tourmalet

ASO have been cleaning up their act when it comes to the environment at the races. How can they improve at the Tour de France...

Deceunink-Quick Step’s young Spaniard Enric Mas sneaks into the white jersey and gives Alaphilippe an ace card in the mountains

So near, yet so far for the Mitchelton-Scott fighter who made the running

They’re Dutch, they win when they want. Annemiek van Vleuten, Anna van der Breggen and Marianne Vos are the dominant doyennes of women’s cycling. Can...

A top team performance on tough terrain helps Simon Yates to his first Tour de France win – and yet another top ten for Matteo...

Mathew Hayman is enjoying his first Tour de France since retiring in January. The legendary Australian domestique – and Paris-Roubaix winner – shares his hottest...

King of invisibility, prince of stealth, Buchmann will ‘do a Zubeldia’ all the way to Paris

Welshman takes our French fancy and lands the fruit in crosswind chaos on the road to Albi

“My father took me to see live Felice Gimondi’s arrival in Milan, when he won the 1976 Giro d’Italia. That was the first time I...

Stage hunter par excellence, captain of the break and seldom far from the front of the race. There’s no-one quite like Thomas De Gendt

Sprinter, puncheur, breakaway artist, domestique – he was denied in Brioude, but the classy Jasper Stuyven is going to win a big race very soon

Stage winner Tenacious Thomas takes Top Banana in shock result

The Tour’s dazzling debutant has caught the eye throughout the first week. Why not a stage win for wondrous Wout?

They said he was playing second banana but his performance on La Planche proved Geraint Thomas is still top. In normal times it would be...

The Tour de France makes a good show of presenting itself as diverse and inclusive, but when it comes to making meaningful progress is it...

You say potato, Tom Skujiņš says potatoes. For overcoming gastronomic adversity, getting himself out of the basement and giving it a go, Top Banana. The...

Team Katusha Alpecin’s Marco Haller’s describes his lifelong sporting addictions and how following in his big brother’s footsteps made him a gooner

The things riders are forced to do for their teams, eh? For the lead-out and the Lidl, Deceuninck Quick Step’s Max Richeze is today’s Top...

A confidence boosting runner-up spot for the confused Australian. A stage win or two are on the cards for Matthews

Tony Martin was in the driving seat and a big part of another stunning win from Jumbo-Visma 

Hey, hey, GvA, what the heck did you do today? Smart racing from the Olympic champion bags a jersey

A dearth of sprinters, but plenty other big names missing out as well. A look at who’s missing out on this year’s biggest bike race...

Where would the Tour de France be without les agriculteurs? Keeping TV audiences amused through tedious transition stages, a look at the field art competition

“I never won a lot of big stuff, but to have that jersey hanging up in the wardrobe, and to be on that list of...

“The ‘us’ and ‘them’ mentality came from both sides, in all fairness. I don’t remember it getting too out of hand… until that championships.” Herety...

“All I concentrated on that year for the whole season was that one race. It gives you a lift for evermore.” 1989 British champion

Pippa has a rummage around in the loft for her 1995 national champs jersey

National championships weekend is brilliant but doesn’t have the profile it deserves. It should be front and centre, not a footnote