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The more the Tour de France changes, the more Geraint Thomas stays the same. This year’s Tour felt like the latest, perhaps most significant, iteration of this grand old race’s bold new era. Now it is Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar – the freshly crowned champion and the winner of the previous two editions –

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard secured his first Tour de France victory as Jasper Philipsen of Belgium won the sprint on the final stage in Paris. Philipsen was an easy winner on the Champs-Elysees while Vingegaard, 25, finished alongside his Jumbo-Visma team-mates after three weeks of racing. He beat last year’s champion Tadej Pogacar by two minutes

Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes won the first stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, edging compatriot Marianne Vos in the final sprint in Paris. Wiebes, of Team DSM, swept past three-time road world champion Vos to clinch the leader’s yellow jersey with the historic win on the Champs-Elysees. Belgian Lotte Kopecky beat Italian Rachele

Jonas Vingegaard is set to win the 2022 Tour de France after finishing second to Wout van Aert in the stage 20 time trial on the penultimate day. Van Aert clocked 47 minutes 59 seconds to finish 19 seconds ahead of his Jumbo-Visma team-mate. Denmark’s Vingegaard, 25, now has an overall advantage of three minutes

Lizzie Holden is a Manx rider for the British Le Col Wahoo team and will be competing in the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, which takes place from 24-31 July. When I was growing up in the Isle of Man, I used to rush home from school every day to watch Mark Cavendish in the

Former winner Geraint Thomas says he has “proved a few people wrong” with his performance in this year’s Tour de France. Thomas, who won Le Tour in 2018, is all but guaranteed to finish third with two stages remaining. The Ineos Grenadiers rider has endured a difficult few years, disrupted by crashes, injuries and bad

Christophe Laporte sprinted to victory on stage 19 as overall leader Jonas Vingegaard moved another day closer to winning the 2022 Tour de France. Frenchman Laporte beat Jasper Philipsen and Alberto Dainese to claim his first stage win at the Tour in Cahors. Denmark’s Vingegaard remains three minutes 26 seconds clear of defending champion Tadej

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard is one step closer to winning the 2022 Tour de France after he extended his overall lead with a stunning stage 18 victory. Defending champion Tadej Pogacar finished second, one minute and four seconds behind, after being dropped on the final climb on the Hautacam. In a brilliant act of sportsmanship earlier

The Tour de France Femmes begins in Paris on July 24 and finishes atop La Planche des Belles Filles on July 31. While there have been variations of the event over the years until 2009, the new eight-stage race is the first time since 1989 the race has officially been held and hosted by the

Britain’s Chris Froome has been forced to withdraw from the Tour de France after testing positive for Covid-19 before Thursday’s stage 18. The four-time champion had shown signs of a return to form as he aims to get back to full fitness after being seriously injured in a crash in 2019. Israel Premier Tech rider

The Tour de France Femmes officially returns to cycling for the first time in 33 years on Sunday. The eight-stage race begins on Paris’ Champs-Elysees on 24 July, the same day as the men’s race concludes in the French capital. While various races equivalent to the women’s Tour were held across France until as late

Tadej Pogacar edged out Jonas Vingegaard to win stage 17 of the Tour de France – but was unable to break the race leader on an epic mountain stage. Defending champion Pogacar won the uphill sprint but only cut Vingegaard’s overall lead by four bonus seconds. The Dane now leads by two minutes and 18

Canada’s Hugo Houle claimed his first Tour de France stage win with a brilliant solo ride to victory in Foix. The 31-year-old Israel-Premier Tech rider became the first Canadian to win on the Tour since Steve Bauer in 1988. Bauer is now the sporting director of Houle’s team, who saw another Canadian rider, Michael Woods,

Record-equalling Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish says he has no plans to retire, despite his absence from this year’s event. But he missed out on selection for 2022 after his Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl team favoured Dutch sprinter Fabio Jakobsen. However, the Manxman says he still has ambitions to ride the event in future,

Former champion Geraint Thomas has played down his chances of winning the Tour de France again, but says “it can all change” heading into the Pyrenees during the final week of the race. Before Tuesday’s 16th stage the Welshman is third overall, 2min 43sec behind leader Jonas Vingegaard and 21 seconds behind Tadej Pogacar. “We

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen sprinted to win stage 15 of the Tour de France as race leader Jonas Vingegaard survived a crash but lost two key team-mates. Primoz Roglic abandoned through injury before the stage began, and another Jumbo-Visma rider Steven Kruijswijk crashed out with 65km to go. Vingegaard came off his bike in a pile-up

Australian Michael Matthews produced a brilliant ride to win a tough and hilly stage 14 of the Tour de France from Saint-Etienne to Mende. Matthews went on a solo attack from the breakaway with about 50km of the 192.5km stage left before Felix Grossschartner, Luis Leon Sanchez and Andreas Kron joined him. He shook them

Mads Pedersen produced a powerful final burst to claim victory on stage 13 of the Tour de France. The Dane won a three-way sprint against Britain’s Fred Wright and Canada’s Hugo Houle, who were all part of a seven-man breakaway at the start of the day. It is a first Tour stage win for Pedersen,