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Mathieu van der Poel – The King Of The North Lights Up Tour de France with Grit, Glory, and Attack. Mathieu van der Poel has delivered a thrilling first 10 days at the 2025 Tour de Francewinning stages, wearing Yellow, and attacking relentlessly despite fatigue. A true cycling showman.Mathieu van der Poel showed us why is he a three-time winner of both the Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix – as well as a World Champion over the opening days of this Tour. The Dutchman set up his teammate Jasper Philipsen for the Stage One win that came along with a Yellow Jersey, capturing it for himself the next day with a fine win over Tadej Pogaar.The high-speed classics nature…

2025 Tour de France Stage 7 Report: Tadej Pogaar (UAE Emirates XRG) took his second 2025 Tour de France stage victory on the summit of the Mur-de-Bretagne. The Slovenian beat Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) and took the leader’s yellow jersey from Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who was dropped early on the final climb. Four years after Mathieu van der Poel’s legendary victory, the Tour peloton returned to the Mur-de-Bretagne. Van der Poel said it was a “special stage,” but he wasn’t sure whether he could compete for the stage win again, like in 2021. On stage 6, the Dutchman had worked all day in the break to earn him the yellow jersey by just 1 second….

No breakaways and no action is the best way to sum up the first 110km of stage 3…Despite the lack of action the crowds were out in force to see the peloton with many villages decorated for the occasion.After an action packed first two stages of Le Tour the riders weren’t keen on making an exciting race with the weather and parcours certainly playing a big part.Today’s stage – 178km almost completely flat and a block headwind for the last 50km. Not an encouraging day for a breakaway!The riders did set a record though – the least active stage in history! The race jury who nominates the combativity award every day took the extraordinary decision of not awarding a winner…

Watch the Tour de France official Teams’ presentation live right here – right now!Click PLAY to see the livestream… Pez Cycling News

Only a few days to go before the biggest bike race on the planet starts in Lille, and we have loads of news from the race, the riders and the teams. The National road and time trial championships were last week and we have as many of the results as we could fit in an enormous EUROTRASH Monday.TOP STORY:It’s Tour time, baby!2025 Tour de France news:Richard Carapaz out of Tour de France due to illnessDavid Gaudu to miss the Tour de FranceNo place for Tao Geoghegan Hart in the Lidl-Trek Tour de France teamUAE Team Emirates-XRG and Tadej Pogaar aim for fourth Tour de France titleBlending experience and fresh talent: Primo Rogli leads Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at the Tour de FranceIntermarch-Wanty:…

As the excitement rises for the 2025 Tour de France, we have a full EUROTRASH with all the latest news from the French behemoth. Plus video, race report, result and rider quotes from the Giro dell’Appennino.TOP STORY:Evenepoel, Vingegaard and Rogli take a look at the Col de la LozeRider news:No National Champs for Julian Alaphilippe before the Tour de FranceMathieu van der Poel training under the Spanish sunThibau Nys can resume training for the Tour de FranceJordi Meeus received permission from the UCI to start the Copenhagen SprintOlav Kooij has His Lead-Out Train for Decathlon AG2RSuspension for Oscar Riesebeek after two yellow cards in Baloise Belgium TourOscar Riesebeek: “I accept the consequences of my actionsMattias Skjelmose gains confidence for the…

As someone who has a bookshelf groaning with volumes dedicated to a certain now-non-Tour de France-winning Texan and even three autobiographies of Mark Cavendish, it has always seemed odd to me that books dedicated to the Greatest Cyclist of the 20th Century, according to the UCI, are fairly scarce in English, or pretty much any other language. There is an old joke that the only famous Belgians anyone can name are Hercule Poirot and Tintin and both are fictitious. However, not only has Belgium produced celebrated cyclists (and, of course, many notable people in other fields) but it has given us the best one of all: douard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx. Merckx 525 is a particularly good book published by…

One of the hottest topics in endurance science the past half decade or so is understanding durability the ability to still put out strong efforts despite a lot of accumulated fatigue.We all know the feeling. The first interval (or hill) of a workout or ride can feel almost effortless. The same effort during the 10th interval can feel absolute agony. The same with a small rise at the end of a century ride feeling like Alpe dHuez.This concept of fatigue resistance or durability is often what separates even elite amateurs from the top pros. Sure an elite amateur can generate a single hard effort often when fresh as a pro. But can they replicate that effort with a lot of…