44 h. ago Jasper Philipsen emerges from the chaos to win stage 1 of Tour de France in Lille

The Belgian collected the 10th Tour de France stage of his career as Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic lost valuable time after splits in the crosswinds

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65 h. ago Pogacar and Vingegaard renew Tour rivalry in tricky and tortuous opening

The Slovenian is aiming to hammer home his recent supremacy when the pair lock in battle through the raceIt was not so long ago that Tadej Pogacar was Jonas Vingegaard’s whipping boy. It came on the brutal Col de la Loze, in July 2023, when the Slovenian, dropped by another violent Vingegaard acceleration, announced wearily into his team radio: “I’m gone, I’m dead.”By last summer, as the recent Netflix series Unchained reveals, the tables had turned. Pogacar barked angry insults at the Dane after Vingegaard refused to make the pace with him on the gravel stage around Troyes. He went on to dominate the race and win his third Tour de France by more than six minutes. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago France seeking end to years of hurt and internal conflicts at Euro 2025

Squad strife and a lack of team ethic have left a talented nation laden with doubt as they hunt a first major trophy“I want people to stop asking me: ‘Why haven’t France won anything when you’re one of the best teams in the world?’” Marie-Antoinette Katoto, like all her teammates, has only one dream this summer: to win the Euros.To do that, though, they have to come to terms with a history of tournament failures with the most recent one coming at the home Olympics last year, when they were knocked out by Brazil at the quarter-final stage. “We have had opportunities and twice failed to win it at home in France. We have to have the humility to admit that,” admits Sakina Karchaoui, one of the team’s vice-captains, referring also to the 2019 World Cup on home soil, when they lost to the USA in the quarter-finals. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘He reminds me of Raul’: Xabi Alonso lauds young Real Madrid striker after Club World Cup win

The Los Blancos boss celebrated his team’s group stage win with praise for Gonzalo Garcia

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2 w. ago Friday’s briefing: Lionel Messi stars at Club World Cup and Botafogo stun PSG

The Herons closed in on the knockout stage, while Chelsea will look for a second Group D win on Friday.

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3 w. ago Tadej Pogacar goes solo for Dauphiné stage win to reclaim yellow jersey

Slovenian ‘super happy’ after beating Jonas VingegaardWorld champion now holds 43-second lead overallTadej Pogacar soloed to victory in the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Friday to reclaim the yellow jersey and put himself firmly in contention for overall victory.With this 97th victory of his career, the Slovenian, who cruised in 1min 1sec ahead of Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, becomes the active rider with the joint-most victories – on a par with French sprinter Arnaud Démare. Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who was leading the overall classification, finished fifth at 1min 50sec. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jake Stewart sprints to Dauphiné win on stage five as Evenepoel holds lead despite fall

First victory in World Tour race for 25-year-old BritonRemco Evenepoel goes down but loses no timeThe British rider Jake Stewart won a sprint finish to triumph in the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Thursday as Remco Evenepoel held on to the race lead.Stewart claimed his first career victory in a World Tour race, edging the bunched finale ahead of Axel Laurance and Søren Waerenskjold after the hilly 183km run from Saint-Priest to Macon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Iván Romeo breaks rivals’ hearts to claim lead at Criterium du Dauphiné

Spanish rider escapes breakaway to win stage threeTime-trial specialist hails his ‘best day of the year’Spain’s Iván Romeo won the third stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné when he streaked clear at the end of a 207km run from Brioude, claiming the overall lead. Romeo surprised his breakaway companions, including the Dutch world champion Mathieu van der Poel, to drop them in the final kilometres and lead the dash into the town of Charantonnay.“I’ve been thinking about this stage for a month now. I can hardly believe it. It was one of the hardest days of my life, I wasn’t feeling well,” said time-trial specialist Romeo. “But I followed my instincts in the final. It’s the best day of the year for me. Hard work pays off.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jonathan Milan surges to stage win in Critérium du Dauphiné and snatches lead from Pogacar

Italian sprinter collects victory and takes yellow jerseyBritain’s Fred Wright is runner-up on second stageThe Italian sprinter Jonathan Milan surged away from the pack to win the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné in Issoire and take the overall lead from Tadej Pogacar.Milan (Lidl-Trek) had to battle to keep up on a hilly 204.6km run through central France from Prémilhat. When the pack hit the home straight, he rocketed away from his rivals to collect a 10-second victory bonus and the yellow jersey. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Ally Wollaston pips British teenager Cat Ferguson to Tour of Britain title

New Zealander claims overall victory at the lastLorena Wiebes takes the stage win for SD Worx-ProtimeThe teenage prodigy Cat Ferguson came within a hair’s breadth of executing a memorable overall win in her debut Tour of Britain, but was outsprinted by her rival Ally Wollaston at the climax of the final stage in Glasgow.The pair came into the final sprint tied on time, after Wollaston had erased the 19-year-old Ferguson’s overall lead. Bonus seconds for third place in the final sprint, behind the stage winner, Lorena Wiebes, was enough for the New Zealander to snatch the overall win. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘I had no idea’: Chris Harper happy to share spotlight after Simon Yates banishes Giro d’Italia demons | Martin Pegan

The Australian cyclist was on the ride of his life to a breakthrough Grand Tour stage win as the decisive story of the 2025 race unfolded behind himAustralian cyclist Chris Harper is yet to properly soak up the ride of his life and first Grand Tour stage victory by watching a replay of his long-range and daring solo attack over the Colle delle Finestre and up the Sestrière. But the 30-year-old climber won’t have to look too hard to find highlights in the future after his ride was a major subplot as the decisive story of the 2025 Giro d’Italia unfolded behind him.Harper arrived in Albania for the opening three stages of the Giro with ambitions to prove himself as a general classification contender. A top-10 placing by the time the three-week race finished in Rome was the realistic goal. But a bout of illness hit the Team Jayco AlUla rider on the second rest day and Harper had to lift himself in the third week just to turn his focus toward chasing a stage win. Continue reading...

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