Jacob tipper ben healy and the magic of the breakaway

The British Isles have two new Tour stars, Ireland’s Ben Healy and Scotland’s Oscar Onley . Can their contrasting talents take them all the way, asks Adam Becket

In an era dominated by Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, how do the underdogs of the peloton summon the courage to keep hoping and attacking?

The speed, power and excitement of the 2025 Tour is spelled out by the drama of its data

FAVOURITE Tour de France moment “The stage 20 time trial in 2020, on La Planche des Belles Filles [between Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar]. I’d never seen a stage 20 reversal on GC and I didn’t see t

E ddy Merckx won the Tour de France ...

Something occurred to me when reading Ned Boulting’s latest book – it was possible that ITV’s long-serving commentator and reporter has never watched the Tour de France on television. So, I put it to