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  • Wout van Aert Went Gravel Crazy After Tour de France Infection Shock

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Untitled-design-9-1-e1784369089604.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 18, 2026 05:00AM Wout van Aert was devastated that he couldn’t race the Tour de France. So he’s been finding other ways to have fun instead. The beloved Belgian logged a slightly insane mountain gravel ride on Wednesday while his Visma-Lease a Bike teammates were racing the fastest…

  • Tom Pidcock Back in Tour Podium Battle After Bittersweet Time Gain

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Q4A7792-scaled.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated July 17, 2026 01:04PM Number thirteen: it’s lucky for some. Britain’s Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) will certainly like it a bit more after his huge gains on today’s Tour de France stage. On stage 13 into Belfort, the all-action, multi-discipline star launched himself back into the race GC conversation, gaining…

  • Tour de France Stage 13: Schmid Overpowers Tejada for Huge Breakaway Win

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286524431.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 17, 2026 11:55AM Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla) captured a superb breakaway win on stage 13 of the Tour de France, outsprinting Harold Tejada (XDS Astana) after the duo darted clear of the day’s big escape. He took the first Swiss win at the Tour in six years, with…

  • Rohan Dennis Faces Possible Jail Sentence for Driving While Disqualified

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1177078688.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 17, 2026 07:10AM Former top professional Rohan Dennis is facing possible jail time, just over a year after avoiding a harsh sentence over the death of his wife Melissa Hoskins. Dennis pled guilty this week to driving while disqualified. He was pulled over by police last month while…

  • Interview: Kate Courtney on the Call She Couldn’t Refuse

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/K-Courtney-Cover-Image.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated July 17, 2026 07:01AM Effective immediately, Kate Courtney is a full-time road racer for one of the best women’s teams in the world, after debuting on the road this May. It is a massive pivot for the off-road privateer who came to prominence as a mountain biker, winning the…

  • Tadej Pogačar Cracked Before at the Tour de France. Rivals Won’t Get Another Chance.

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8B_7634.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 17, 2026 06:29AM Tadej Pogačar has a vise grip on the 2026 Tour de France and shows no signs of letting go. The only hope at the Tour’s halfway point is a repeat of the Col du Granon crisis. That’s where Jonas Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma famously broke Pogačar…

  • High Tensions, Imperfect Process: Inside Evenepoel and Lipowitz’s Fragile Leadership

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284905705-scaled-e1783758885888.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated July 17, 2026 05:29AM It only took 20 minutes of the 2026 Tour de France for the first signs of trouble between Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s two leaders, Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz. Evenepoel distanced his teammate on the final climb to the Olympic Stadium on Montjuïc in the TTT, putting…

  • Vingegaard Thinks He Can Beat Pogačar in the Tour de France Mountains. Now It’s Time to Prove It.

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284861748-scaled-e1784280408433.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 17, 2026 05:29AM Jonas Vingegaard has been talking tough so far at this Tour de France. Now it’s time for his legs to do the talking. Already 3:36 back on Tadej Pogačar, a weekend through the Vosges could make-or-break Vingegaard’s chances to reel in his rival in week…

  • New Bike Tech: the Soloist Gets Faster and Cycling Specific Coat Hangers

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/New-bike-tech-5.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published July 16, 2026 05:29PM At what point can a road bike be considered a race bike if it will never be close to seeing a WorldTour start line? As we go through this week in new bike tech, that is the question I am asking myself as we see…

  • FoCo Fondo Turns It Up for Year 11

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1-scaled-e1784220512454.jpg”] Published July 16, 2026 02:20PM At 6 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, before Fort Collins has fully woken up, the elite men’s field will roll out of New Belgium Brewing and into the open range of Northern Colorado. A regional heat wave has settled over the Front Range, but the forecast hasn’t…