32 m. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees with Evenepoel in trouble – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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93 m. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 12 route updates to summit finish in Pyrenees as Tadej Pogacar reveals crash injuries

The Tour de France hits the high mountains with a feast of climbing in the Pyrenees, finishing on the summit finish at Hautacam

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2 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 12 route updates with Pogacar, Vingegaard and Healy set for fireworks in the Pyrenees

The Tour de France hits the high mountains with a feast of climbing in the Pyrenees, finishing on the summit finish at Hautacam

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3 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 takes the race to summit finish in Pyrenees – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 12 route and updates with fireworks expected in the Pyrenees today

The Tour hits the high mountains with a feast of climbing in the Pyrenees, finishing on the summit finish at Hautacam

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16 h. ago Tour de France stage 12 preview: Route map, profile and start time on blockbuster day of climbing as race enters Pyrenees

After an opening week of skirmishes expect battle to seriously commence among the GC contenders today as the race hits the mountains

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23 h. ago Tour de France 2025: Abrahamsen wins fast and furious stage 11 as Pogacar falls in Toulouse – live

Updates from Wednesday’s stage around ToulouseStage-by-stage guide | And you can also email AmyThere’s about 8km left of the neutralised start. On the TV coverage, reporters have been asking the riders how they spent the rest day. Both Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar say they had haircuts. Pogačar seemed very pleased that he’d had a ride with a proper cafe stop as well.Bill has emailed in with his thoughts on today’s stage:Given the profile of the parcours, I can’t see any breakaway thrilling heroics ending well, as the day sets in for the bunch sprint.I’m genuinely pleased that Healy is in yellow, he got a proper stomp on on Monday, and seems to be in a position to keep hold of the jersey today. If he keeps his wits about him, it’s only his Toulouse. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 11 result and standings as Jonas Abrahamsen seals maiden Tour de France win

A 157km route starts and ends in Toulouse as the Tour de France returns after the first rest day

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24 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 11 route and updates with Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel chasing win on chaotic day in Toulouse

A 157km route starts and ends in Toulouse as the Tour de France returns after the first rest day

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25 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 11 route and updates with Ben Healy in yellow jersey on chaotic day in Toulouse

A 157km route starts and ends in Toulouse as the Tour de France returns after the first rest day

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27 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 11 updates as race resumes around Toulouse – live

Updates from Wednesday’s stage around ToulouseStage-by-stage guide | And you can also email AmyMatt Stephens on TNT Sports spoke to Ben Healy (EF Education-EasySport) before today’s stage. Healy said he reckons it’s a day for the break, “hopefully” he added with a conspiritorial grin. He described the final climb before the finish as a “real kicker”.There’s also an official stage 11 briefing by Continental and French former professional cyclist, Jean-Marc Marino. He said:Stage 11, Toulouse to Toulouse, 156.8km – this is a special stage because it comes right after the first rest day, and it’s a tough one with five categorised climbs, but also a good amount of flat terrain overall.We call this the Lauragais hills, with beautiful views of the Pyrenees, and especially the final climb: 900m at 12.4%, with the first 200m reaching 20%, and the summit is 8km from the finish. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 11 route updates as Ben Healy takes up the yellow jersey in Toulouse

A 157km route starts and ends in Toulouse as the Tour de France returns after the first rest day

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32 h. ago Tour de France stage 11 preview: Route map, profile and start time as Ben Healy wears yellow in Toulouse

The Tour de France road book has stage 11 down as a flat day for the sprinters, but there are plenty of lumps and bumps along the way to make for an unpredictable outcome

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43 h. ago Tour de France’s phoney war gets dose of reality as Pogacar v Vingegaard hits the mountains | William Fotheringham

There are questions around the race contenders’ teams but Wout van Aert’s form could be key for the Danish challengerThere is always a sense of phoney war in the run-in to the Tour de France’s first stage in the high mountains, and at least one debate of the opening 10 days of this year’s race fits that context to a T. Has Jonas Vingegaard’s Visma-Lease a Bike team at times been towing the bunch deliberately in order to ensure that Tadej Pogacar retains the yellow jersey? It’s a gloriously arcane question, the kind that only comes up in the Tour’s opening phase, but it distracts from a point that could be key in the next 10 days: how the two teams manage the race will probably be decisive.Firstly, a brief explainer. The received wisdom in cycling lore is that holding the yellow jersey early in a Grand Tour can be as much a curse as a blessing, because the daily media and podium duties cut into recovery time. Hence the thinking goes that Visma might have been chasing down the odd mov...

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44 h. ago Future British & Irish Lions tour of France on the agenda at Melbourne summit

French federation puts forward hosting 2027 warm-upMeeting before second Test over new Lions modelA British & Irish Lions tour of France could move a step closer next week when executives hold talks over “a new business model” in Melbourne before the second Test of the series against Australia.Abdel Benazzi, the vice-president of the French federation (FFR), held informal discussions with Lions executives in Dublin before the warm-up match against Argentina, and he will travel to Australia next week to further press his nation’s claims of facing the touring side again, having previously done so in 1989. France have emerged as leading contenders to face the Lions in a warm-up match before the tour of New Zealand in 2029 and, according to Benazzi, could also fulfil the same role before the inaugural women’s tour in 2027, also to New Zealand. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Who is Ben Healy? The master tactician with an explosive kick leading the Tour de France

The Tour de France has an unexpected leader, with Ben Healy pulling on yellow after stage 10

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69 h. ago Ben Healy dethrones Tadej Pogacar to take yellow jersey as Simon Yates wins stage 10 at Tour de France

A monster Bastille Day stage through the Massif Central delivered the fireworks as UAE Team Emirates-XRG came under pressure

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2 d. ago Tour de France 2025: Ben Healy rides into yellow as Simon Yates storms to stage 10 win

Healy becomes first Irishman in 38 years in maillot jauneGiro winner Yates takes his third career Tour stage winBen Healy rode himself into the ground in a nail-biting finale to become the first Irishman in 38 years to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, as Britain’s Simon Yates claimed victory in stage 10 on Monday with a perfectly timed attack.Giro d’Italia champion Yates emerged from the day’s breakaway to secure his third career Tour stage win, pulling away on the final climb to beat Thymen Arensman of the Netherlands and Healy, who finished second and third, respectively. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Tour de France 2025: Simon Yates wins epic stage 10 as Ben Healy takes yellow jersey – live reaction

Updates from the first mountain stage of this year’s raceEmail Amy | Stage-by-stage guideMatt Stephens on TNT Sports spoke to Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) before today’s stage. He asked if he and his team would be the aggressors today, to which Pogačar replied:Like I said we will see. We can decide after a few climbs. We can see if we’re riding strong or not I think we are ready today.I think the whole Tour are talking about today. It’s the national day of France, I think everyone wants to be in the break today. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 10 result, standings and reaction as Ben Healy dethrones Tadej Pogacar in yellow on Bastille Day

Race favourites Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard could clash on this undulating road to the finish line atop Puy de Sancy, the highest peak in France’s Massif Central region

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