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  • 2028 Tour de France Will See Super-Early Start to Avoid LA Olympic Games

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2227977589.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 18, 2026 09:09AM The 2028 Tour de France is making special room for the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Race organizers ASO revealed Monday the 2028 Tour de France will start at its earliest date since 1966 to avoid a clash with the Summer Olympic Games. And when Tadej…

  • A Pro Cyclist Accidentally Wore Women’s Kit at the Giro d’Italia. The Fit Was Perfect.

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Enric-Mas-women-jersey-Giro.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 18, 2026 02:39PM Enric Mas knew his Movistar team-issued kit felt especially snug and aero, but he did not realize why until a few days later. The Spanish climber, racing his first-ever Giro d’Italia, has already discovered how brutal the corsa rosa can be after losing serious time…

  • Jonas Vingegaard is Poised to Bury the Giro d’Italia in One Time Trial

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2225825040-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 18, 2026 03:02AM Jonas Vingegaard stands to win the Giro d’Italia in just 42 kilometers of flat Tuscan tarmac. The Giro’s one and only time trial arrives Tuesday, and it will totally reconfigure the GC fight. Filippo Ganna is favorite for victory over Magnus Sheffield and Mikkel Bjerg…

  • The Giro d’Italia Just Had to Tell Pro Cyclists to Stop Peeing in Their Water Bottles

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/water-bottle-uci-warning-pee-scaled.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 18, 2026 02:32PM Be careful the next time you scramble to grab water bottle tossed by your favorite pro bike racer at the Giro d’Italia. There might be more than sports drink inside. The UCI commissaires issued an unusual warning during the Giro d’Italia buried deep in the…

  • Bredewold Finally Cracks Itzulia Women Puzzle with Daring Descent

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276689540.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 17, 2026 01:25PM Mischa Bredewold dug deep into all reserves of courage and bike handling to win the Itzulia Women Sunday, pushing herself almost to the point of collapse to overcome what had been a serious gap to her rivals. The SD Worx-Protime rider was distanced on the…

  • Giro d’Italia Stage 9: Vingegaard Vanquishes Gritty Gall yet Doesn’t Get Pink

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276154194.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 17, 2026 10:57AM Jonas Vingegaard underlined his status as the top Giro d’Italia favorite Sunday, landing his second stage win in three days atop the summit finish at Fermo. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider tracked Felix Gall when the Decathlon CMA GGM rider attacked the GC group with…

  • Report: Chloé Dygert To Step Away from Euro Road and Focus on LA Olympic Gold

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2163196108.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 17, 2026 06:14AM Chloé Dygert is set to pivot her career away from road racing in Europe and point it directly at the LA Olympic Games. According to reporting by Daniel Benson, the Indianan star is close to signing a two-year deal with U.S. conti team Virginia’s Blue…

  • Tour de France Roadmap: What the Favorites Are Doing and What That Means for the Yellow Jersey Fight

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Z8A_9427.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 17, 2026 01:59AM In case you missed the memo while you’ve been watching Jonas Vingeagaard at the Giro: The countdown to the Tour de France has officially begun. Vingegaard, Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel, and new kid on the block Paul Seixas will be on the start line in…

  • Giro d’Italia Stage 8: Narváez Continues UAE Fightback from Disaster

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2275943488.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 16, 2026 10:04AM UAE Emirates-XRG showed it is turning the page after a catastrophic start to the Giro d’Italia, with Jhonatan Narváez picking up the team’s third victory in eight stages on Saturday. The Ecuadorian champ slowed off his climbing talents in the tough finale of the stage…

  • What’s Going on with That Weird Celebration by Jonas Vingegaard?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276409889.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 16, 2026 08:50AM It’s one of the weirdest celebrations in cycling, so what exactly is Jonas Vingegaard doing? Many winning riders cross the line with extravagant gestures, outstretched arms and sometimes even primal roars of satisfaction and dominance. Not Friday’s Giro stage winner, who instead performed one of…