Into battle

The Tour de France is skewing younger than ever, but can the peloton’s elder statesmen still cut it at the sharp end? James Shrubsall explores what it takes to age gracefully as a Grand Tour racer

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

It's the calm before the storm, but once the flag drops, can anyone stop the Slovene?

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