2014 Tour de France

Tour de France stage 21 in photos

Some people have labelled the 101st edition of the Tour de France as the battle that never was. Nibali may have never had the chance to prove himself against Contador and Froome after abandoning early in the race, but the point is that he made it to the end of the race and showed his […]

The Ultimate Job: tackling the mighty Col du Tourmalet

As the Tour de France made its way to Paris, our Ultimate Job winners Matt & Stefano got the chance to climb one of the most famous ascents in the Pyrenees: the Col du Tourmalet. Here’s their report from that ride.

Rocacorba Daily

In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: Nibali wins the 2014 Tour de France, Kittel wins the final stage; Vos wins inaugural La Course; Pieter Weening wins the Giro del Toscana; Cadel Evans still undecided on future; Bradley Wiggins to step away from road racing; Lotto-Belisol to become Lotto-Soudal; Specialized-Lululemon turns to […]

Sean Kelly Tour blog: Nibali dominates but other big guns absent

In the end, the Tour de France was dominated by Vincenzo Nibali, but it’s hard to know if that was always going to be the case. What stands out from the race is that two big favourites were lost with the crashes of Chris Froome and Alberto Contador; Mark Cavendish also went out, too. I […]

Nibali wins the 2014 Tour as Kittel takes another Champs-Elysees victory

Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) has become just the sixth rider in history to win all three of cycling’s Grand Tours, after winning the 2014 Tour de France in Paris on Sunday. Nibali finished safely in the bunch on stage 21 as Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) won the bunch sprint on the Champs-Elysees for the second year in […]

Marianne Vos wins the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France

Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv) has won the first ever La Course by Le Tour de France, sprinting to victory on the Champs-Elysees ahead of Kirsten Wild (Giant-Shimano) and Leah Kirchmann (Optum p/b Kelly Benefits). The reigning world champion stayed sheltered in a fast and aggressive race, only coming to the front in the closing kilometres before […]

Audio: Full Nibali press conference – Italian on Tour success and more

Vincenzo Nibali will today end a 16 year drought for Italy in the very top echelon of the sport, netting what will be the tenth Tour de France victory in history from that country. Nibali will join Ottavio Bottecchia (1924 & 1925), Gino Bartali (1938 & 1948), Fausto Coppi (1949 & 1952), Gastone Nencini (1960), […]

Tour de France stage 20 in photos

The fans would have loved to see today’s individual time trial come down to a fight for precious seconds for the General Classification, but since Vincenzo Nibali’s Tour de France victory was assured, stage 20 was all about the battle for podium honours with only 15 seconds between second and fourth place. For the first […]

La Course by Le Tour de France preview

Just hours before the 2014 Tour de France hits the Champs-Elysees on Sunday to finish the final stage of this year’s race, the best riders in the elite women’s peloton will ride the same circuit in the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France. CyclingTips editor Matt de Neef put together this preview of […]

Tony Martin: ‘Today it would have been hard for anybody to fight me’

Dominant in the stage 20 time trial in beating his nearest rival Tom Dumoulin (Giant Shimano) by 1 minute 39 seconds, Tony Martin was in a confident mood after netting his second stage victory in the Tour. The German rider acknowledged that several key names were missing but said he felt that his ride was […]