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Tour de France 2025 stage 19 preview: Final high mountain test The last Alpine day features five categorised climbs and finishes above 2,000m at La Plagne Read more: l8r.it/Muds

Tour de France Femmes 2025 stage one preview: A punchy start A tough uphill finish kicks off the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, where the first yellow jersey is up for grabs Read the preview: l8r.it/IAMV

The Tour de France Femmes 2025 favourites: Who will win the yellow jersey? Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney, Reusser and Longo Borghini line up for the most important showdown of the year Read more: l8r.it/QiuZ

Live at the Tour: Who even is Tadej Pogačar anyway? In the latest podcast, @racheljaryy and @cmbreports take you inside the life of Tadej 👀 Listen now: l8r.it/YKon


‘They're just kids, they're here to race their bikes’ - Fun and enjoyment the secrets behind Arensman’s Tour wins The Dutchman claimed his second win at this Tour de France, beating Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard to La Plagne summit finish Read more: l8r.it/7uvy

Tour de France 2025 stage 20 preview: Attritional terrain favours a break A lumpy day in the Jura mountains provides a sting in the tail as the Tour nears its end Read more: rouleur.cc/blogs/the-roul…

‘Normally I plan tactics well, but yesterday was a f*ck up’ - What is going on at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe? Read more: l8r.it/pVnJ

“If he attacked earlier, Pogačar would have been in the wheel and countered him in the end" Where were the attacks? - Inside a GC stalemate at the Tour de France Read more: l8r.it/qPV6

Thymen Arensman takes his second stage win of the Tour de France on the shorten stage 19 to La Plagne. Like on his win on stage 14 to Suberbagnères, the Dutchman managed to hold off the top two GC riders, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar Full results: rouleur.cc/blogs/the-roul…

‘I’ve never done such a hard stage’ - Is this the endgame for Visma-Lease a Bike? The Dutch team failed to take time on race leader Tadej Pogačar again despite their best efforts across the brutally hard climbs on stage 18 Read more: l8r.it/Se0h

Red Bull, Oscar Onley and the Tour de France's complicated fight for the podium Oscar Onley put 1:39 into Florian Lipowitz on the Col de la Loze, after Red Bull were aggressive all day Read more: l8r.it/rSse

"Brutal honesty, perfectionism and hard work" Ben O’Connor’s recipe for Tour success Read now: l8r.it/E2zT

Ben O'Connor has just become the first non-European stage winner at this Tour de France, taking victory on the queen stage to the Col de la Loze. Find the full results: l8r.it/gLuv

Update: I found a full collection of these plates. And then wrote a feature about them for @Rouleur magazine. ‘Plat du Jour’ - in issue 136, the #TDF2025 special.
Tour de France 2025 stage 18 preview: The queen stage It's crunch time at the Tour de France, as the race enters the high Alps with three hors catégorie climbs on the agenda for the day Read more: l8r.it/k6TX

Jonathan Milan versus Tadej Pogačar - Is the green jersey still fit for purpose at the Tour de France? Read more: l8r.it/8pjA

‘Sprinting is not a PlayStation’ - How Lidl-Trek make their own luck at the Tour It was a second stage victory at the 2025 Tour de France for the team’s Italian sprinter, Jonathan Milan, on a wet day at the Tour from Bollène to Valence Read more: l8r.it/yLbA

As the Tour de France enters the Alps for the final mountain stages of the race, Lidl-Trek rider and Latvian National Champion Toms Skujiņš discusses his how relationship with the mountains has changed over the years. Read more: l8r.it/mqml

Tour de France 2025 stage 18 preview: The queen stage It's crunch time at the Tour de France, as the race enters the high Alps with three hors catégorie climbs on the agenda for the day Read more: l8r.it/j5FN

Jonathan Milan stomped to his second win at this Tour de France, winning the reduced bunch sprint on stage 17 Full results: l8r.it/Bbk1
