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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2227290229.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 25, 2026 09:40AM Wildfires impacted the Tour de France earlier in the race and will do so again on the final stage, with stage 21 in Paris cut from 133km to 89km and the route drastically modified. A joint announcement by Tour organizers ASO and the police prefecture…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Kuss-netting-crash.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 25, 2026 03:41PM A pair of late crashes cost Sepp Kuss what looked to be a Tour de France stage victory, but roadside safety netting helped him avert disaster Saturday. The American climber was alone off the front of stage 20 “queen stage” across the Alps when he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_4739-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated July 25, 2026 12:50PM Every time the Tour de France comes up Alpe d’Huez, it is walking a tightrope between the reward of entertaining sport and the risk of serious rider injury. As Tadej Pogačar raced to victory, a bloodied Einer Rubio abandoned the race with 20 stitches in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8B_4198.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 25, 2026 03:44PM Did Lenny Martinez, Richard Carapaz, and Sepp Kuss blow a chance of stopping what many are already calling the greatest climb in Tour de France history? They had the numbers and a big head start on Tadej Pogačar at the base of Alpe d’Huez in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-Untitled-Design-5.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 25, 2026 12:55PM Are crowds getting out of control when the Tour de France descends on Alpe d’Huez? It’s the question that circled the cycling world Friday after stage 19’s summit finish on the switchbacked climb. The ascent of the most celebrity slope in the Tour de France…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286806459.jpg”] Zach Nehr Updated July 25, 2026 07:23AM There is a reason that you feel a certain way about Tadej Pogačar. He is special in every sense of the word. There was no reason for him to attack with 12km to go on Alpe d’Huez. It was Stage 19 of the Tour de…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286808383.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 25, 2026 12:06AM Could Tadej Pogačar go on a winning spree like the 2024 Tour de France and take Saturday’s final mountain stage and, whisper it, maybe even Sunday’s concluder in Paris? Pogačar wasn’t ruling the former out after his record-breaking stage win atop Alpe d’Huez on Friday.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287474063.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 24, 2026 05:02PM Just as it did in 2020 and 2024, the battle for the Tour de France polka dot jersey is coming down to a big fight between Richard Carapaz and Tadej Pogačar. In 2020, the year Pogačar first won the Tour, the Slovenian overhauled Carapaz on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286808328-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated July 24, 2026 12:27PM Sepp Kuss came agonizingly close to a blockbuster win on Alpe d’Huez, in contention for victory until the last two kilometers. The last American to win a Tour de France stage, back in Andorra in 2021, nearly ended the five-year wait. He was part of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/stage-20.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 24, 2026 11:56AM Le Bourg-d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez: 170.9km/5400m  Just in case the peloton hasn’t suffered enough, ASO’s course designers pile on 5,400m vertical meters for the Tour de France‘s “queen stage.” The 2026 Tour’s final mountain stage strings together three of the most iconic climbs in the French…