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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-1-preview-2026.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 1, 2026 02:50AM Stage 1 | Lausanne–Lausanne | 138km / 1,700m The 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift opens with a deceptively tough first stage. The rolling circuit around Lausanne features four categorized climbs, and an uphill finish means that it might not end in a pure…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/rsalanovatraka25-103.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 31, 2026 11:01AM Organizers of The Traka gravel brand and the Titan Desert mountain bike race are linking up in a deal that could reshape Europe’s fast-growing off-road scene. Klassmark, the Girona-based company behind The Traka and the Gravel Earth Series, announced Thursday it had reached an agreement…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/photo-finish-van-aert.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 31, 2026 11:32AM Wout van Aert thought he’d lost and Jensen Plowright was convinced he won. Turns out, nobody knew. After one of the wildest photo finishes of the season, officials needed nearly 10 minutes to study the replays before awarding stage 2 of the Tour of Denmark…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Femmes-Bikes-Cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published July 30, 2026 11:35AM The Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift is here. Like the men’s race that wrapped up at the end of July, the race brings all the best riders in the world together for the ultimate cycling test on the calendar. This year, the race begins…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tour-de-france-femmes-2025-stage-5-gruber-images.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published July 30, 2026 10:23AM The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns Saturday for its fifth edition with its deepest field and most challenging route. Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, former winners Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma, rising star Paula Blasi, and a deep field of contenders promise another week…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_9381.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 30, 2026 08:21AM Forget any withdrawal symptoms: as the dust settles on the men’s Tour de France, the biggest race on the women’s calendar gets underway this Saturday in Lausanne, Switzerland, and promises to be every bit as good. The top riders in the sport will clash across…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/0318.jpg”] Josh Ross Published July 30, 2026 07:00AM COROS is launching a firmware update and I am excited. In my world, one of the biggest missing pieces with the COROS ecosystem has always been live tracking. There’s a meme about why people need it and the joke is that for endurance athletes it’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287793942-scaled.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 30, 2026 05:10AM There’s no better way to brush off the hangover of the Tour de France than to start mulling who’s racing the Vuelta a España. And now’s a good time to do it. The evidence pointing toward Tadej Pogačar returning to the Spanish tour is mounting…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1333116465.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published July 30, 2026 02:54AM Chinese track cyclist Junhong Lin, a four-time world championships medalist, has accepted a four-year ban after anti-doping authorities retested samples collected nearly a decade ago, the International Testing Agency  said Wednesday. The doping case dates back to urine samples collected during the UCI Track World…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_1202-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 30, 2026 04:22AM Pauline Ferrand-Prévot returned to road racing in 2025 with one specific goal – to win the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. And since she did it in such spectacular fashion on her first time of trying, she’s back to do it again in 2026.…