The last mountain stage and a sprint, 130km 95km to La Plagne.
Tour de France Stage 18 Preview
The biggest mountain stage of the Tour, with three big climbs, altitude and bad weather too.
Tour de France Stage 17 Preview
The chance for the sprinters. The way many stages have been ridden there’s a chance of breakaway.
Tour de France Stage 16 Preview
A dash to Mont Ventoux. If you want to watch on TV note today’s finish has an early arrival.
Tour de France Stage 15 Preview
A day for the breakaway which means frantic racing for all the riders and teams desperate for a result.
Tour de France Stage 14 Preview
The last day in the Pyrenees and the biggest, the breakaway has a good chance today but it depends how Tadej Pogačar feels at breakfast too.
Tour de France Stage 13 Preview
A mountain time trial. We seemed to witness one yesterday and a repeat result looks likely.
Tour de France Stage 12 Preview
The Tour takes on a new dimension today as it goes into the Pyrenees for the first summit finish. Can Tadej Pogačar deliver the big blow to Jonas Vingegaard or can Visma-LAB undo UAE and strike back?
Tour de France Stage 11 Preview
Don’t call it a sprint stage, today’s route has been revised to add more climbs and a series of steep roads, including some unmarked climbs await. Watch out for the Tramontane wind today too.
Rest Day Review
Who needs the Alps and the Pyrenees? The Tour’s reached the first rest day in the city of Toulouse and the time gaps are wide. It’s been a lively, long week.
Christian Prudhomme called these opening stages a trompe l’œil, an “optical illusion” as to glance at them was to imagine them as flat days for sprinters but several have proved to be GC days. Is the general classification with Tadej Pogačar over a minute clear of Jonas Vingegaard an illusion or a settled fact? We’ll get answers in the coming days.