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  • Tour de France Stage 19 Preview: First Strike in Alpe d’Huez Double-Header

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/4491c.jpeg”] Andrew Hood Published July 23, 2026 12:13PM Stage 19 — Gap to Alpe d’Huez: 127.9km/3500m START: 5:20 A.M. ET EST. FINISH: 10:11 A.M. ET This year’s Tour de France ends with a unique twist of a double dish serving of Alpe d’Huez, with the iconic climb closing out the final two mountain…

  • Tour de France Stage 18: Carapaz Gives EF Education-Easypost A Huge Tour Stage Win

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287330853.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 23, 2026 12:02PM Richard Carapaz turned EF Education-EasyPost’s Tour de France around on Thursday, winning stage 18 of the race. The Ecuadorian rider was part of the day’s break and was one of six to push ahead inside the final 46km of racing. He unleashed two surges inside…

  • Tadej Pogačar Short-Handed for Alpe d’Huez After Brandon McNulty Exit

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286773507.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 23, 2026 11:46AM Just two mountain stages stand between Tadej Pogačar and a record-tying fifth Tour de France title, but his powerhouse UAE Emirates-XRG team is suddenly running short of firepower. Brandon McNulty abandoned on Thursday in stage 18 and Tim Wellens limped home last to barely survive…

  • Tour de France Rider Knocked off Bike by Driver Who Then Blamed Him for It on Instagram

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Untitled-design-10.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 23, 2026 09:31AM There can’t be much worse for a Tour de France rider than having a driver knock you off the bike after a stage. Oh wait, maybe there is. Xandro Meurisse was rear-ended after the stage 16 time trial on Tuesday only to have the motorist…

  • No One Can Stop Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France. Here Are 5 Radical Ways to Even the Odds

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_6529-2-1.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 23, 2026 06:47AM Tadej Pogačar is closing in on a fifth Tour de France title, and nobody appears capable of stopping him. At 27, the Slovenian is at the peak of his powers. Rivals have thrown everything at him over the past few seasons, and nothing has worked.…

  • Weddings, Taxis and Video Games: The Tour Peloton’s Funniest Drug Test Stories

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2278782513-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated July 23, 2026 08:29AM Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar getting woken up at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. for International Testing Agency (ITA) mid-race tests has made headlines during the last week of the Tour de France. However, those would probably not even make it into the professional peloton’s…

  • Tadej Pogačar Is Already Plotting His Ultimate Tour de France Coronation on Alpe d’Huez

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286058441-scaled-e1784826042564.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 23, 2026 11:03AM Double Alpe d’Huez. 13,000m of high-altitude climbing. A rutted back road climb. The stage 18-19-20 triple header in the Alps that concludes this Tour de France is truly terrible. It’s so terrible that it might be the hardest finale the Tour de France has seen…

  • The UCI Just Fined a Tour de France Rider for Peeing in Public. It Was Inevitable.

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285319828-2-scaled.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 23, 2026 03:23AM One rider couldn’t wait any longer. After 17 stages, thousands of kilometers, and countless liters of energy drink, a Tour de France rider finally got fined for peeing in public. Hugo Page took the dubious honor of becoming the first rider in the 2026 Tour…

  • Tour de France Stage 18 Preview: The First of a Three-Stage Climbing Finale

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/stage-18.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 22, 2026 12:16PM Voiron to Orcières-Merlette: 185.2km/3900m This is the sort of Tour de France stage that breakaway riders circle months in advance. With Alpe d’Huez and the Tour’s final decisive mountain battles stacked up in the Alps, many of the yellow jersey contenders may be content to save their…

  • ‘This Is Effectively a Warrant’: Sports Scientist Speaks on the Tour de France Night Time Doping Tests

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_3977.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 22, 2026 10:44AM The news on Sunday that Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, then first and second overall in the Tour de France, were subjected to what is believed to be unprecedented anti-doping tests in the small hours of the morning has been dominating the news cycle in…