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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Untitled-2400-x-1600-px.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 5, 2026 02:55AM When cyclists cheat at Tour de Guadeloupe, they don’t take half measures. Two riders were caught clinging to a speeding team car as they attempted to regain contact with the peloton on stage 4 of the Caribbean stage race. Images captured by the X user…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/l-twoo.jpg”] David Everett Published August 4, 2026 05:55PM What a day of running around the pits at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift! With the only time trial of the race being run today in Gevrey-Chambertin, stage 4, I took the opportunity to check out all the kit being tested against the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8D_3033-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Published August 4, 2026 12:45PM It was not a shock that defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot lost time to Tour de France Femmes rivals in the stage 4 time-trial between Gevrey-Chambertin and Dijon. It was her first race against the clock since her comeback to the road scene. But the deficit…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Hannah-interviewing-at-the-tour.jpg”] Hannah Gross Published August 4, 2026 12:40PM Welcome to Dropped, a new weekly road and gravel cycling newsletter from Velo that brings you the latest ideas we’re debating endlessly on group rides, and a look behind the scenes of our coverage.   Sign up for Dropped Hello, Velo! This is Hannah Gross, your…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288255206.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 4, 2026 05:24PM Marlen Reusser (Movistar) powered to victory and into the yellow jersey in Tuesday’s stage 4 time trial at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift as the 21km test against the clock reshuffled the overall standings. The race’s lone time trial promised to shake up…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-5-Profile-2026.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published August 4, 2026 09:57AM Stage 5, Mâcon to Belleville-en-Beaujolais 140km / 2,850m The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns to the hills with an Ardennes-style burner of a stage that could reignite the GC battle. Seven categorized climbs are packed into 140km, meaning this one could blow up…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288240943.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 4, 2026 09:24PM The bra-boosting checks imposed on riders by the UCI on the eve of Tuesday’s time trial at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift incurred both the acceptance and wrath of the CPA riders’ group. In a communique sent to the UCI and subsequently shared…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Elite-Race-197-scaled-e1785810862701.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated August 4, 2026 07:07PM The Leadville MTB 100 will return on August 15, but the route remains a mystery. The Willow Fire swept through Lake County earlier this summer, burning large swaths of the course around Leadville. With limited options to work with in the high altitude valley that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288390914.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 4, 2026 05:38PM Tadej Pogačar is finally returning to the Vuelta a España after seven years away, but the bigger question is why the most dominant rider of this generation waited so long. Since bursting onto the scene with three stage wins and a podium finish in 2019,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2285578740-2-scaled.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 4, 2026 02:21AM The UCI came out in defense of the late-night dope tests that rocked the recent Tour de France. Speaking to The Guardian, UCI president David Lappartient said the “out of hours” tests performed on Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar – the race’s biggest stars – served…