Tour of Britain Women Preview: Top UK Stars vs. Faulkner and the World
Kristen Faulkner, Lorena Wiebes, and Lizzie Deignan — racing in her final edition — headline the field at the four-stage Lloyds Tour of Britain Women.
Andrew Hood, aka “EuroHoody,” is European editor for Velo. Since joining the title in 2002, he’s been chasing bike races all over the world. He’s covered dozens of editions of the spring classics and the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, and Vuelta a España, as well as numerous world championships in road, track, and mountain biking. He’s also covered six Olympic Games and reported on bike races across six continents. Beyond the Outside cycling network, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Outside, SKI, Traveler Magazine, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, and Denver Post. He’s a voting member of the Velo d’Or prize committee, and he’s appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR, and BBC. Chances are, if there’s a bike race, EuroHoody’s been to it, or will be going soon.
Kristen Faulkner, Lorena Wiebes, and Lizzie Deignan — racing in her final edition — headline the field at the four-stage Lloyds Tour of Britain Women.
Tour de Hoody: Simon Yates' raid elevates Visma-Lease a Bike into class of its own and saves the 2025 Giro d’Italia from itself.
How the North Americans fared: Beyond the headlines of Isaac del Toro, Derek Gee and Brandon McNulty both hit GC career-bests in the Giro d’Italia.
Yates celebrates a spectacular GC revival Sunday in Rome, Del Toro and Carapaz scrape for answers in the ashes of their own disappointment: 'I gave everything I had.'
A few favorites crashed or faded, and rising stars like Del Toro and Gee confirmed GC promise in a wild three weeks at the Giro d'Italia.
Del Toro, Carapaz were left reeling after Yates and Visma-Lease a Bike unleashed a devastating tactical ambush on the Colle delle Finestre at the Giro d’Italia.
Del Toro survives attritional stage across the Italian Alps to carry pink into the final mountain showdown in a Giro d'Italia still too close to call.
The bulking Belgian ex-pro hit a career highlight when he won a stage in the 1999 Tour de France in the national champion's jersey. He died Thursday at 60.
No Giro stage win so far, but a top-10 is within reach for Pidcock, and maybe a bigger grand tour future: 'GC is harder than anything else I’ve done.'
Isaac del Toro bounces back to win stage and tighten grip on pink jersey in well-timed surge after surviving the Mortirolo: 'I have nothing to lose.'
Tour de France titans Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel face off in all-star dress rehearsal in June's Dauphiné.
UAE's near-perfect Giro in danger of unraveling as Ayuso cracks and Carapaz closes in on Del Toro: 'I hope to have better legs tomorrow.'
Carapaz crashes, attacks, and claws back onto the virtual podium, now third at just 31 seconds off pink after the day's big GC fireworks in San Valentino.
Tour de Hoody: Why UAE Emirates-XRG needs this Giro d’Italia victory to prove it can dominate grand tours without Tadej Pogačar.
Marlen Reusser returns to form with commanding GC victory at Vuelta a Burgos Féminas: 'A beautiful return to time trialing.'
Slovenian star loses 1:30 to del Toro and drops to 10th, and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe faces tough call ahead of final week: 'The team doctor will decide.'
Verona delivers Lidl-Trek's sixth stage win of this Giro as Roglič cedes more time with GC still wide open going into decisive final week.
VIDEO: Fans capture different angles of decisive crash at the Giro d'Italia that shakes up GC as Van Aert denies unfair advantage: 'We were here to win the stage.'
Italian GC hopes crumbled in Giro d'Italia stage 14 as Tiberi loses time, Caruso hit with yellow card, Ciccone crashes out: 'It hurts to leave the Giro like this.'
Van der Breggen back on the bike after crash while SD Worx-Protime out to prove it's still on top: 'Every race matters now.'
After a few misses, Dutch sprinter ace Olav Kooij blasts to victory after perfect leadout from Wout van Aert. Isaac del Toro widens lead with time bonuses in a relatively quiet day at the Giro d'Italia.
Isaac del Toro is showing a mix of composure, exuberance that could see him keep the pink jersey at the Giro d'Italia into the decisive final week: 'We'll see what the future holds.'
Shmidt and Ehrlich claim elite U.S. time trial titles in Charleston on a slick and windy course.
The 2019 pink jersey Carapaz pounced on the closing climb to surprise the GC favorites to win the stage and revive his overall ambitions: 'I saw people were suffering.'
Tour de Hoody: This Giro won’t give us the fireworks-a-minute Pogi Show we’ve grown accustomed to, but it will deliver tension, suspense, tactics, a hard-fought race, and maybe even a surprise winner.
UAE’s ‘Three Musketeers’ strategy is paying off so far in the Giro d'Italia: 'We will race to keep the pink jersey on the team and win the Giro.'
Giro GC in the balance: Del Toro leads, UAE dominates, and Roglič reeling as Week 2 brings time trial and big climbs in crunch time for maglia rosa.
Isaac del Toro is the first Mexican to wear pink at the Giro. At just 21, the UAE rider is one of the brightest young stars in pro cycling.
'We will see in the end what it means': Roglič losses time in pink jersey quest after crashing in a chaotic gravel stage, slipping to 10th overall in drama on the white roads of Tuscany.
Crashes, protests, yellow cards, stage 6 of the Giro sunk into total chaos: Hindley's exit leaves Red Bull scrambling ahead of mountains.
Two brutal crashes at the Tour de Hongrie and the Giro d'Italia see nearly a dozen riders abandoning both races.
Follow along with the latest news, updates, and results from stage 6 of the 2025 Giro.
Cycling’s latest craze? Lifetime contracts. Pedersen joins Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos in the peloton's newest elite club.
Rohan Dennis given suspended sentence and driving ban after fatal incident involving wife Melissa Hoskins in December 2023.
All the latest updates, results, and breaking news from the year's first grand tour.
Tour de Hoody: Roglič hits new milestone, Vollering reclaims GC throne, Pedersen sprints into record books, plus yellow cards, goats, and chaos in Albania.
Pedersen and Lidl-Trek leave Albania flying high, Van Aert and Visma-Lease a Bike return to Italy searching for Giro salvation.
The new mark bests her previous hour record set in October 2023 when she became the first woman to breach the mythical 50-kilometer barrier.
All the latest updates, breaking news and results from the year's first grand tour.
Watch the 2025 Giro d’Italia live in the United States, Canada, and beyond on MAX, Eurosport, Discovery+ and more.
Tour de Hoody: How the Giro d'Italia could be the most exciting race of the season without Tadej Pogačar to obliterate the field.
Under the name 'super_bock,' a cycling fan is lighting up social media with a string of hilarious and delirious AI-generated reels.
Del Toro, Gee, McNulty headline a 7-rider North American contingent chasing pink, stage wins, and glory at the Giro d'Italia.
La Vuelta Femenina Stage 3: Echelons, tension, crashes, and a big sprint win.
Visma-Lease a Bike delivers Marianne Vos to the line for a sprint finish in a chaotic, crash-marred finale, Letizia Paternoster punches into race lead.
Sofia Gómez Villafañe and Mads Würtz Schmidt win the Traka 200 with decisive late-race attacks.
The 2025 Vuelta Femenina could be a blockbuster, with reigning champ Demi Vollering facing off against a resurgent Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
The Dane dropped the hammer with more than 100km to go to win the men's edition, Migoń attacks late to make it two in a row in Europe's biggest gravel race.
The Traka 360 is underway and you can watch it live and follow the live tracker.
World champion reveals knee injury: ‘Sometimes it is hard to hear everything people are saying without having any clue what’s happening in our lives.’
Riders refuse race in downpour at the Tour of Turkey, while Geraint Thomas left gobsmacked by Tadej Pogačar at Liège-Bastogne-Liège: 'He's at another level.'
Europe's biggest gravel event takes over Girona as The Traka 2025 welcomes 4,500 riders across four brutal races.
British para-cyclist Tom Staniford chose to help others in what was his last ride before the excruciating decision to have a double leg amputation.
Paul Manning brings gold-medal pedigree both as a racer and a coach as he takes over for the retiring Gary Sutton as USA Cycling already begins building for the 2028 Olympic Games.
Analysis: WorldTour relegation/promotion tightens up as the action shifts into the points-rich grand tours. For teams on the bubble, every sprint is now a race for survival.
Evenepoel hits back after a journalist suggests his wife and her family might be affecting his performances: 'That is complete nonsense.'
The Dutch superstar revealed her menstrual cycle held her back from racing at full strength: 'I am a woman, sometimes you suffer with your hormones.'
Video: A rogue spectator disrupted Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes by briefly riding alongside the race leaders, the latest in a growing problem with fan behavior.
Remco Evenepoel fades to 59th at Liège-Bastogne-Liège after under-cooked star becomes undone: 'I haven't trained much, and that showed today.'
Pidcock leaves the Ardennes empty-handed and will reload for the Giro d'Italia: 'Quite disappointed about that actually.'
Brutal weather at Flèche Wallonne served as a stark reminder that cold, rain, and cycling's outdoor arena can upturn any marginal gain in an instant: 'I was wearing too much, or too little.'
After crashing out of Paris-Nice with a concussion, Vingegaard says he's fully recovered and focused on a Tadej Pogačar rematch: 'Leaving nothing to chance.'
Uno-X Mobility is pushing special-edition, one-off looks to new levels with a 7-Eleven-inspired kit and a special-edition Ridley that also pay homage to Eddy Merckx.
Vollering looked to be in the driver's seat only to have Pieterse bound past her for the victory: 'It was wait, wait, wait, and then attack.'
Coming off second places at Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race, an unforgiving Pogačar reminded everyone he's still king of the hill.
Life in the bike lane: Few places are as bike-friendly as Belgium, especially when you're on a city bike exploring pathways, cafés, beer halls, and cycling museums.
Powless began his pro career in 2018 thinking he would become a GC rider, then one brutal day across the cobblestones of northern France upended everything.
Tour de Hoody: Is winning the only thing that matters in professional cycling? Probably not, but it's usually the only thing that anyone remembers.
Pogačar takes another run at one of cycling's milestones with the 'Ardennes Treble.' With the Cauberg slotted in as the final climb at Amstel Gold, who can stop him?
Van Aert and Evenepoel go to the line in thrilling finale at Brabantse Pijl in comeback victory for the double Olympic champion: 'Incredible to open season with a win.'
Elisa Longo Borghini returns with a fury with a searing late-race attack to win Brabantse Pijl to fend off late chase: 'I felt very good.'
Evenepoel reveals nerve damage in the same shoulder he injured at Itzulia last year will require heavy taping: 'I'm for sure behind my top shape.'
Fan who struck Van der Poel with water bottle during Paris-Roubaix begs forgiveness: 'I'm glad he didn't crash. I've been really ashamed.'
Q&A with longtime coach Kurt Bogaerts on Pidcock's unbridled ambition, Giro plans, and the Ardennes rematch with Remco and Pogi.
Flamboyant double Olympic champion reveals he hit rock bottom after being 'doored' in December: 'I doubted a lot of my future.'
Watch: Check out new videos of the Pogačar crash and of a mechanic taking out a former Paris-Roubaix runner-up.
Tour de Hoody: Paris-Roubaix weekend saw records fall, yellow cards doled out, fines imposed, brutal crashes, flying highs, and riders missing time cuts.
Tadej Pogačar overcooked a corner, crashed and lost Van der Poel's wheel: 'If it wasn't for that mistake it would have been the two of us on the velodrome.'
Nils Politt says Pogačar's horsepower will translate well to the pavé: 'If you can attack like this on Kwaremont, then you can also do it in Roubaix.'
With a few key names missing, SD Worx-Protime starts as the five-star favorites: 'Everything has to be right to win.'