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  • Remco Evenepoel Coach Details How Tour de France Runner up Can Improve Further

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288621066.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated August 7, 2026 08:03AM Remco Evenepoel had a career-best performance at this year’s Tour de France, taking two stages and finishing second overall in Paris. It’s a step up from his 2024 debut and vastly better than last year’s disappointment, where he took one time trial but was a…

  • The Power of Anger and Ignorance: Longo Borghini Goes Fourth

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289209048-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated August 7, 2026 07:27AM Elisa Longo Borghini has had a lot of reasons to be pissed off during this Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. She hit back at journalists and media speculation about Paula Blasi’s role and any insinuations of tensions within Team UAE L’IMAD. The Italian all-rounder…

  • Anna van der Breggen Exits Tour de France Femmes After Brutal Week

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289209077.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 7, 2026 04:59AM Anna van der Breggen said goodbye to her yellow jersey ambitions Friday and pulled out of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift just hours before the race tackles the giant of Mont Ventoux. The 36-year-old Dutch rider was expected to be in the hunt…

  • Wildfires Force Removal of Crucial Sectors from Leadville 100 MTB Trail Race

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Elite-Race-197-scaled-e1785810862701.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 7, 2026 08:27AM Organizers of the Leadville Trail 100 MTB confirmed the iconic course will be rerouted for this year’s race after wildfires wrought havoc on the local region. Life Time revealed Thursday a 102.1-mile route for 2026 that closely follows the iconic trail but loses several key…

  • Gianni Moscon Kicked Out Again: What Happened at the Vuelta a Burgos?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289021129.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 7, 2026 03:33AM Gianni Moscon was thrown out of the Vuelta a Burgos on Thursday in the latest flashpoint of his career, though few details have emerged about the incident that triggered his expulsion. The UCI race jury cited the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe rider for “improper conduct and behavior…

  • Tadej Pogačar Commits to Total Dominance with 2028 Roadmap – Team Preference or Not

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8B_4205-Edit-e1786091789528.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 7, 2026 03:40AM Tadej Pogačar has won five Tours de France, two road world titles, and four of the five monuments. He’s poised to obliterate the Vuelta a España and hit a rainbow jersey three-peat. But that’s not enough for a Mercxkian GOAT with a monster VO2 Max.…

  • Reusser Versus Vollering: Race Leader Ready for Spicy Showdown on Ventoux

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288506774-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated August 6, 2026 08:30PM Mont Ventoux looks set to be the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift decider. The gap between race leader Marlen Reusser (Movistar) and closest rival Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) is just 12 seconds, barely 80 meters on the 21-kilometer climb which concludes stage 7 Friday. “It…

  • Ferrand-Prévot Backs up Claim Tour de France Femmes Level Soared Since Last Year

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8A_9633.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated August 6, 2026 02:47PM It might have sounded like an excuse of sorts but after Pauline Ferrand-Prévot lost 2:35 to Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser and Kasia Niewiadoma on Wednesday’s stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, she said something truly unexpected afterwards. It wasn’t, she said,…

  • Italian Rider Giovanni Carboni Banned Four Years in Latest Biological Passport Doping Case

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anti-doping-control.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published August 6, 2026 10:57AM Italian rider Giovanni Carboni has been banned for four years for an anti-doping violation linked to abnormalities in his biological passport, the International Testing Agency said Thursday. The case centers on abnormal readings recorded during and after the 2024 Tour of Langkawi that experts said…

  • Tour de France Femmes Stage 7 Preview: Ventoux Time

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-7-Profile-2026.jpg”] Jim Cotton Published August 6, 2026 10:38AM Stage 7, 146.8km / 3,500m+: La Voulte-Sur-Rhône – Mont Ventoux Stage 7, it’s the moment that we’ve all been waiting for. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will climb the mythical Mont Ventoux for the first time on this centerpiece stage of the race.…