From Boels-Dolmans to SD Worx-Protime, this is the story of the women’s cycling super-team that rewrote the rules of dominance. On the eve of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, we trace the roots, riders, rivalries and rainbow jerseys behind a squad that shaped the modern era — from Lizzie Deignan, Anna van der Breggen and Chantal Blaak to Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes and Lotte Kopecky.

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Nine stages. Nearly 19,000 metres of climbing. A time trial. Mont Ventoux. And perhaps the deepest field the Tour de France Femmes has ever assembled.

Gary and Chris look ahead to the jewel in women’s cycling’s glittering crown.

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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Or something. What did happen? Time trial, a double helping of Alpe d'Huez and one final Parisian flourish over Montmartre.

The team picks over a decisive final week of this year's race. Who were the big winners (yes, apart from the one in the yellow jumper)? Who surprised us? And just how will this edition be remembered?

Let’s do it all again next year, huh?

📸 Le Cote de la Butte de Montmatre made its race debut at the 2024 Olympic Road Race before featuring for the first time in the 2025 Tour. As can be seen from this view from that edition, it was an instant hit with fans. (ASO/Aurélien Vialate)

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No rest day for - (stop it, stop it right now - Ed.) Two down, one to go and Chris, David and Gary have much to discuss after a week that began smack in the middle of France and ended knocking like a new salesman at the front door of the Alps.

Speaking of Alps, the team also looks breathlessly ahead to a final week that serves up a generous portion of the things, but only after a none-too trifling aperitif against the clock.

📸 Even the Cannibal needed a day off, but this one is particularly notable. The second rest day of the 1975 Tour came immediately after THAT stage on the Puy du Dome when Merckx was punched by a spectator while leading the race. Merckx finished third that day, losing over 30s to Bernard Thevenet and would cede the Maillot Jaune to the Frenchman on the following stage.  (Jean-Pierre Prevel/Getty)

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Denmark is one of modern cycling's superpower nations but it wasn't always that way. For the first part of the Tour de France's history, Danish riders barely featured at all. In this second Tales from the Tour de France, Chris Sidwells tells a tale of pioneering, determination, and redemption that began in 1913.

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No rest day for the wicked (didn't we use that one last year? - Ed) as the team look back on the first week of this year's Grande Boucle.

From Barca to Ussel, it's been a battle against the clock, against the Pyrenees and (probably) against the blazers. And there's another fortnight where that came from.

Magnifique!

📸 This year’s Barcelona Grand Depart is only the third time that the Tour has begun in Spain. The first was in San Sebastián in 1992 where reigning champion Miguel Indurain (pictured) took a hotly contested prologue ahead of Alex Zulle. (Presse Sports)

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Many champions dominate by force or aggression, but Jacques Anquetil seemed to glide into the centre of things, immaculate and compete. Anquetil had substance but he also had style - on and off the bike.

Join Chris Sidwells throughout this year’s race for more Tales from the Tour de France.

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Sacre bleu! Has it really been a whole year since we last did this?

Join Chris, David and Gary as they look ahead to the 113th Tour de France Hommes sans Zwift. The course, the climbs, the favourites and the dark horses plus some throwbacks along the way.

Can anyone stop defending champion Tadej Pogacar from joining the greats with a 5th maillot jaune? We can only wait and see. Le Tour est ici!!

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In this episode of Cycling Family Trees, we trace the remarkable Rabobank lineage: from Jan Raas’s post–TI-Raleigh breakaway and the Kwantum roots of the 1980s, through Rabobank’s rise as the great Dutch talent factory, to its collapse amid cycling’s doping reckoning and its rebirth as the powerhouse now known as Team Visma | Lease a Bike.

Along the way, we follow the men’s and women’s branches of the story — from Michael Boogerd, Erik Dekker, Óscar Freire and Denis Menchov to Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Primož Roglič, Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard — and ask how one of cycling’s most complicated family trees became one of its most successful.

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Birth(day)s, deaths and marriages! Welcome to the evening edition of your local newspaper. Thankfully cycling content is a-plenty as Chris, David and Gary cast their eyes over another fascinating few weeks in pro cycling.

📸 The Dauphiné Libéré (okay, the Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, if you must) is often seen as a Tour de France indicator, yet in 78 editions only 12 Dauphiné winners have taken the Maillot Jaune in July. The first was Louison Bobet, pictured embracing first wife Christiane after the 1955 finish in Grenoble. Already a two-time Tour winner, Bobet later earned praise from race founder Georges Cazeneuve for “haloing the race with prestige”. (Photo: Dauphine Libéré)

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