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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Untitled-design-6.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 14, 2026 05:58AM Hotel rooms are the great leveler of the Tour de France. In a race split between $60 million superteams and minnow squads funded by scraps, riders get the rooms they’re given, and they have to make do. Race organizers ASO assign hotels to teams at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_9581-scaled.jpg”] Julia Dowd Updated July 13, 2026 12:59PM After nine brutally hot and chaotic stages, we’ve made it to the first rest day of the 2026 Tour de France. Naturally, there has been no shortage of drama and excitement in this edition. We saw a much happier, Jonas Vingegaard land back in yellow…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Kate-Courtney-Cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated July 13, 2026 12:48PM Kate Courtney has taken a major step on her journey from mountain to road cycling, signing a contract with FDJ United-Suez, one of the top teams in the women’s peloton, led by Demi Vollering. Starting her career on the mountain bike, Courtney won the cross-country…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8A_1775-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 13, 2026 05:19AM Jonas Vingegaard is sitting second overall as of the first rest day of the Tour de France. He almost wasn’t there at all. Vingegaard revealed to Danish outlet TV2 on Sunday that he nearly quit cycling at the end of 2025 after reaching a mini-burnout…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285748498.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated July 13, 2026 04:00AM Tadej Pogačar has won more than nine teams, one sport director is being naughty, and the race has suffered one high-profile DNF. That’s the top-line summary of the prize monies, penalties, and abandons of the first block of the Tour de France. Here’s who’s winning…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8C_9492-2.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 12, 2026 11:35PM It’s the first week of his first Tour de France and Isaac del Toro is sitting third overall. He’s 2:27 off his teammate Tadej Pogačar and just 45 seconds behind two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). Consider he also picked up a stage…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Z8C_5235.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 12, 2026 06:07PM Given the manner and quantity of his 61 victories, particularly his eight monuments and his 2023 world championships win, Mathieu van der Poel has never had anything like the same level of success in the Tour de France. Prior to Sunday he had taken just…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285771340.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 12, 2026 12:14PM Tom Pidcock might not have beaten Mathieu van der Poel anyway, but a shifting problem ruined any chance of finding out if he could at the Tour de France. The Pinarello-Q36.5 star was briefly gapped on the day’s final climb after his chain jammed and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/stage-10.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published July 12, 2026 11:31AM Aurillac – Le Lioran: 166.6km / 3800m+ Two years ago at the Tour de France, Jonas Vingegaard pulled off an improbable sprint win against Tadej Pogačar. Vingegaard profited after his rival put in a big attack on the first category Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol but…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285695158.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published July 12, 2026 10:59AM Matteo Jorgenson already knows exactly how he’ll spend the Tour de France rest day. “I will not even touch the bike tomorrow,” he told Velo. “I will just stay inside and get some AC.” After nine heat-ravaged stages working for Jonas Vingegaard, the Idahoan has…