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The Namibian
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar in a sprint finish to take Sunday’s 15th stage of the Tour de France, as former winner Jonas Vingegaard crashed out. …
Olympic champ Evenepoel wins Tour de France 15th stageThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar won an “unforgettable” mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France amid huge crowds in the Vosges on Saturday to extend his lead over Jonas Vingegaard to four and a half minutes. …
Pogacar wins ‘unforgettable’ Tour de France 14th stage to extend overall leadThe Namibian
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid said that he had to overcome cramps before he beat Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-man sprint finish to win the 13th and longest stage of the Tour de France on Friday. …
Swiss rider Schmid cramps up but wins Tour de France stage 13The Namibian
Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold launched a long-range sprint to claim victory at the Tour de France on Wednesday in the fastest stage in the race’s history. …
Waerenskjold wins fastest ever Tour de France stageThe Namibian
Cobbled classics specialist Mathieu van der Poel claimed his third Tour de France win on Sunday with victory in the ninth stage, which was shortened due to intense heat. …
Van der Poel stays calm in the heat to win Tour de France stage nineThe Namibian
Tour de France organisers for the first time in the race’s history have decided to shorten a stage due to intense heat, as Belgian sprint king Tim Merlier doubled up in Saturday’s flat eighth stage. …
Tour de France stage to be shortened amid heatwave as sprinter Merlier doubles upThe Namibian
Belgian Tim Merlier won the Tour de France seventh stage in a sprint finish at the end of a 175km run from Hagetmau to Bordeaux on Friday. …
Merlier wins Tour de France seventh stage in sprint finishThe Namibian
Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar stamped his authority on the Tour de France on Thursday, winning the mountainous sixth stage and reclaiming the race leader’s yellow jersey. …
Pogacar reclaims Tour de France yellow jersey with stage six winThe Namibian
Dutch debutant Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday in a chaotic sprint finish sparked by a crash five kilometres from the line which scuppered several teams’ hopes. …
‘Unbelievable’ Kooij wins Tour de France 5th stage in chaotic sprint finishThe Namibian
Norwegian Torstein Traeen claimed the coveted race leader’s yellow jersey as Denmark’s Mads Pedersen won the fourth stage of the Tour de France on a day of Nordic delight on Tuesday. …
Nordic joy as Traeen takes yellow, Pedersen wins Tour de France 4th stageBastien Tronchon won the bunch sprint on stage 10 of the Vuelta a Espana, with Enric Mas retaining the red jersey in the general classification ahead of Primoz Roglic and Felix Gall.
1 September 2026 · The Namibian →
Bastien Tronchon won the bunch sprint on stage 10 of the Vuelta a Espana, with Enric Mas retaining the red jersey in the general classification ahead of Primoz Roglic and Felix Gall.
1 September 2026 · The Namibian →
Enric Mas won Sunday's mountainous ninth stage of the Vuelta a Espana and extended his overall lead to 1min 18sec over Primoz Roglic, a day after five-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar crashed out of the race with a broken collarbone.
30 August 2026 · The Namibian →
Race leader Tadej Pogacar abandoned the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday after suffering shoulder and face injuries in a fall 31km from the stage-eight finish, handing overall lead to Spaniard Enric Mas. The Slovenian's withdrawal marks his first failure to finish a Grand Tour.
29 August 2026 · The Namibian →
Stage three of the Vuelta a Espana was abandoned in the final kilometres on Monday after a dangerous hailstorm in the Pyrenees forced riders, including race leader Tadej Pogacar, to seek shelter. The 174-kilometre stage from Gruissan was cancelled while riders were approaching the penultimate climb with around 25km remaining.
24 August 2026 · The Namibian →
Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar won the individual time trial opening stage of the Vuelta a Espana, beating Briton Ethan Hayter by 0.09 seconds to claim the leader's red jersey. Pogacar, competing for the first time in the Vuelta since 2019 and aiming for a career Grand Tour treble, clocked 10 minutes 57 seconds on the 9.4-kilometre course in Monaco.
22 August 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro, 22, won the white jersey for best young rider at the Tour de France, narrowly edging 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas to third place overall. Seixas became the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937 and finished fourth, mounting a close challenge that saw just 24 seconds between them before the final alpine stage.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar, 27, became the fifth cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain. His rivals Vingegaard and Evenepoel have called him the greatest cyclist of all time, though debate remains over how he compares to predecessors like Merckx.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won stage 19 of the Tour de France on Friday with a record-breaking time of 35min 26sec on Alpe d'Huez, breaking Italian Marco Pantani's 31-year-old record and extending his overall race lead.
24 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Jasper Philipsen won stage 17 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, ending what he described as a "horrible" run of near misses at the race. The 28-year-old won his 11th Tour stage victory overall, and has now won at least one stage in each of the last five editions of the Tour.
22 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 26.1km individual time-trial stage 16 at the Tour de France, finishing 28 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar and cutting the reigning champion's overall lead to 4min 32sec. The victory marked Evenepoel's second successive stage win and came on Belgium's national day.
21 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 15th stage of the Tour de France, outsprinting race leader Tadej Pogacar at the finish of an 11km climb. Vingegaard, who was second overall, crashed out 20km from the finish.
19 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, extending his overall lead to four and a half minutes over Jonas Vingegaard. It was Pogacar's fourth stage win in the 113th edition of the race and his 25th Tour stage victory since his 2020 debut.
18 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid overcame cramps to beat Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-man sprint finish to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France on Friday. Briton Tom Pidcock finished third and moved up to fourth overall, now 4 minutes 15 seconds behind race leader Tadej Pogacar.
17 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Soren Waerenskjold of Norway won the 11th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday at an average speed of 50.91kph, the fastest road stage in the race's 113 editions. Dutchman Olav Kooij finished second and Belgian Milan Fretin third.
15 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mathieu van der Poel claimed his third Tour de France stage win on Sunday in the ninth stage, which was shortened due to intense heat, beating Tobias Johannessen and Tom Pidcock in a sprint amongst breakaway companions. Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar maintained his overall lead, six seconds behind the stage winner.
12 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tour de France organisers have shortened the ninth stage by 30km for the first time in the race's history due to an intense heatwave in central France, following Belgian sprinter Tim Merlier's victory in the eighth stage.
11 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Belgian Tim Merlier won the Tour de France seventh stage in a sprint finish over 175km from Hagetmau to Bordeaux on Friday, with Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold second and Eritrean Biniam Girmay third. Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar retained the race leader's yellow jersey.
10 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous sixth stage and reclaimed the race leader's yellow jersey, now leading Jonas Vingegaard by 2min 42sec. Pogacar achieved his 23rd Tour stage victory and broke the record for fastest time up the Tourmalet.
9 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Dutch 24-year-old Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday in a chaotic sprint finish after a crash five kilometres from the line disrupted teams' lead-out strategies. Norway's Torstein Traeen retained the yellow jersey despite being brought down in the crash.
8 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Torstein Traeen of Norway claimed the Tour de France race leader's yellow jersey while Mads Pedersen of Denmark won the fourth stage, a 182km stage from Carcassonne to Foix. Pedersen, the 2019 world champion, also took the green points jersey with his victory in the sprint finish.
7 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the third stage of the Tour de France to take the leader's yellow jersey from rival Jonas Vingegaard. The reigning champion and world champion finished two seconds ahead of Vingegaard and earned bonus seconds to overtake his six-second deficit from the start of the day.
6 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro won the second stage of the Tour de France in Barcelona on Sunday, ahead of reigning champion Tadej Pogacar, while Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead.
5 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike team won the opening team time-trial in Barcelona, giving the 29-year-old Dane the Tour de France yellow jersey. Vingegaard finished 8 seconds ahead of Filippo Ganna, with reigning champion Tadej Pogacar placing third.
4 July 2026 · The Namibian →
The Tour de France launches this weekend in Barcelona with a team time trial—the first in seven years and the first opening stage of its kind since 1971. The innovation is individual timing for each rider rather than the traditional approach of awarding the team's time based on the fourth or fifth finisher, creating tactical opportunities for teams to position time-trial specialists and climbers strategically.
3 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Teenage cyclist Paul Seixas's participation in the Tour de France has raised hopes of a first French victory in 41 years, since Bernard Hinault's 1985 triumph. France also faces long droughts in Paris-Roubaix (30 years since 1997) and Roland Garros men's tennis (since Yannick Noah in 1983).
30 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar claimed overall victory at the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after catching French climber Lenny Martinez on the final climb, securing his third stage win of the week and his first victory at the race in his first appearance.
21 June 2026 · The Namibian →
World champion Tadej Pogacar won the opening 144km stage of the Tour of Switzerland with a solo breakaway effort, finishing 2min 14sec ahead of Richard Carapaz and ending suspense in a week of mostly mountainous racing.
17 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Visma team announced that Belgian rider Wout van Aert will not compete in the July 4–26 Tour de France after an elbow injury sustained in training developed an infection, requiring hospitalization. Van Aert said the decision was a disappointment but necessary for his recovery.
17 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Tour de France favourites Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, and Paul Seixas are using different pre-Tour build-ups and have largely avoided racing each other this season, with Pogacar and Vingegaard — winners of the last six Tour editions — facing off only once since last year's race. The Tour begins July 4 in Barcelona.
4 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard won the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, becoming the only active rider to have won all three Grand Tours—joining the Giro victory with previous Tour de France titles in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta a Espana from 2025. He is the eighth man overall to achieve this cycling feat.
31 May 2026 · The Namibian →