France

Panini launches first Tour de France sticker book

Fans of the most respected cycling race in the world will have to gather 352 stickers to complete the inaugural Tour de France album.

3 May 2019

Ecotech

Air pollution: this new mode of transportation could change everything

A Rotterdam-based innovator has created a bicycle whose green credentials go a notch further.

17 April 2019

Earth News

Cycling in Amsterdam: our guide

Taking in a new city is all the more fun - and eco friendly - on wheels. We took to the saddle and biked around Amsterdam.

3 April 2019

Earth News

Cycling Guide to Lisbon

We took to the saddle and biked around Portugal’s capital.

19 March 2019

World

Turbo women: cyclists show their endurance in BikingMan Oman

Cyclists from across the world have come to compete in an unsupported ultra-cycling race taking place along Oman’s rugged terrain.

8 March 2019

Denmark

Wheely happy: Danish delight at hosting start of Tour de France 2021

The world’s best city for cycling will host the start of the planet’s biggest bike race, it was confirmed today.

21 February 2019

Sport

UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup: Vos leads at Pontchâteau

UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup, Vos set to win the tournament

20 January 2019

Italy

Raw Politics: Bologna rewards cyclists with free beer and ice cream

A city in Italy has hit on an innovative way of cutting its pollution problem.

5 November 2018

Spain

Euroviews. Seville: How a small Spanish city became a cycling hub for all | View

As tackling climate change and our dependence on fossils fuels becomes more urgent than ever, city planners are turning the bicycle as a healthy, environmentally-friendly mode of transport.

12 October 2018

Spain

Vuelta a Espana: Britain's Simon Yates takes a lead into Sunday's final

The 26-year-old will take a lead of one minute 46 seconds. Spain's Enric Mas and Colombia's Miguel Angel Lopez finished first and second to put themselves onto the general classification podium with one stage remaining

15 September 2018

Italy

The Tour de France winner who helped save hundreds of Jews

Gino Bartali was not only Italy's champion cyclist. He also saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II.

27 July 2018

France

Tour de France: Primoz Roglic wins stage 19

Geraint Thomas was in prime position to win his maiden Tour de France after he retained the overall leader's yellow jersey in a lively 19th stage won by Slovenian Primoz Roglic as defending champion Chris Froome slipped down to fourth on Friday.

27 July 2018

Cinema

Italian National Hero made into an animation

Cyclist Gino Bartali helped around 800 Jews escape the holocaust because he smuggled fake documents in the frame of his bike. He pretended to be training but was carrying messages and photographs for passports to the Italian Resistance

27 July 2018

Sport

Chris Froome's dream of a fifth Tour de France title fades

Chris Froome was hoping to join the likes of Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Miguel Indurain and Bernard Hinault, as the only riders in the Tour de France's history to win the race five times.

25 July 2018

Sport

Tour de France: Alaphilippe wins on day of protest and pain

Julian Alaphilippe's descending skills made the difference as the Frenchman claimed his second victory in this year's Tour de France to take the 16th stage.

24 July 2018

France

Tour de France briefly halted by protestors

Tear gas fired by police forces riders to stop

24 July 2018

Sport

Tour de France steps up fight against motorised doping

The Tour de France and cycling's governing body, the UCI, are taking steps to verify that riders are not cheating by using bikes that have hidden motors.

23 July 2018

Sport

Danish sprinter Magnus Cort Nielsen wins Stage 15 of the Tour

The Astana rider comfortably beat Spain's Ion Izagirre and Dutchman Bauke Mollema, who were second and third.

22 July 2018

Sport

Peter Sagan keeps the green jersey

A late but perfectly timed sprint finish helped Peter Sagan to his third stage victory of this year's Tour de France at Stage 13

20 July 2018

Sport

Geraint Thomas has grabbed yellow jersey after winning stage 11

Thomas now has a one minute 25 second lead over second-placed Chris Froome in the General Standings of the Tour de France

18 July 2018