Love and loss on the cobbles

Dream weekend for Alpecin-Deceuninck overshadowed as Philipsen crashes out

This 2025 edition has more of everything. There’s one more stage – nine instead of last season’s eight. There’s more climbing – over 17,000m, and a mountain-fest from stage five onwards. More anticipa

When Jasper Philipsen was a child, long before he was winning Tour de France stages on a regular basis, he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Despite hailing from the same town as Belgian

The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’

Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali… some of the best rivalries in sport have been a clash of styles, cultures and temperaments. Rocky IV was

In the early 1890s a young Victor Goddet was working at the Vélodrome de l’Est, Paris. Every day a twenty-something rider arrived and every day Goddet studiously checked his pass. One day the rider qu