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Untouchable and a world apart: cycling world reacts to Pogacar’s fifth Tour win

Tadej Pogacar has quickly drawn level with the Tour de France greats and Paul Seixas, the young home hope, is keen to acknowledge the Slovene’s dominance

The Guardian - UK

Tadej Pogacar’s ability to win unopposed stands champion out among Tour legends

The Slovene is the youngest of the five riders to win five Tours de France and few would bet against him claiming a sixth victory next year

The Guardian - UK

🔴 Pogacar wins fifth Tour de France as teen Seixas seals stunning fourth place

Tadej Pogacar claimed his record-equalling fifth Tour de France title as Mathieu van der Poel won a sensational 21st and final stage around Paris on Sunday. Two-time world champion Pogacar joined Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain as the most successful riders in Tour history.

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Riders with the most Tour de France stage wins

Mark Cavendish sits at the top of the list, but for how much longer?

Cycling Weekly

Pogacar has discovered Tour de France fans love heroic defeat more than crushing victory

This year’s dominant leader shouldn’t take the boos personally – even Eddy Merckx didn’t always get red carpet treatment

The Guardian - UK

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome announces retirement

He has not raced since suffering a life-threatening injury during a training incident in August 2025.

The Independent UK

Tour de France 1966: ‘No longer a jaunt in knickerbockers from Paris to Nice’

30 June 1966: While the French nation is still excited by the Tour, it has become a grim, scientifically controlled commercial operation

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'Maybe the first to win a sixth' – All-time great Eddy Merckx backs Tadej Pogačar for 2026 Tour de France victory, and possibly more

Belgian star says 'perhaps we shouldn't expect too much' from Paul Seixas in first-ever Tour

Cycling News

Club des Cinq: How Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain won their fifth Tour de France, and the history that Tadej Pogačar seeks to emulate

Alasdair Fotheringham takes a look back into the history books to explore how the famed fifth Tours were won, what they meant for their winners, and how the record has evolved

Cycling News

The brilliant Michael Olise represents a key faultline in history of French football

Unusually in this France side, he plays with a sense of freedom and joy and has not yet submitted fully to Deschamps’s tactical yoke

The Guardian - UK

Tour de France past winners

A full list of champions from 1903-2025

Cycling News

From Anquetil to Vollering, here are all the riders who have won the Giro, Tour and Vuelta

Jonas Vingegaard becomes the eighth male rider to have won all three Grand Tours in their career, while Demi Vollering is the second woman

Cycling Weekly

Giro d'Italia past winners

Giro d'Italia winners from 1909 through 2025

Cycling News

Tadej Pogačar has never been nominated for BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year – why not?

The Slovenian is arguably the greatest sportsperson in the world right now, but has been snubbed

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Tadej Pogačar eyes Paris-Roubaix victory and historic fifth Tour de France title as focal points of confirmed 2026 racing programme

World Champion chasing a fifth yellow jersey to equal the sport's greats alongside Miguel Induráin, Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx, and Jacques Anquetil

Cycling Weekly

Tadej Pogačar harassed and 'stickered' at European Championships: is this the start of a backlash against the world champion?

The Slovenian faced fan hostility on the way to another emphatic victory

Evening Standard

Chris Froome recovering in hospital after 'successful' surgery on crash injuries

British rider suffered a serious crash in the south of France

The Independent UK

Chris Froome recovering in hospital after ‘successful’ surgery on crash injuries

The 40-year-old crashed while on a training ride on Wednesday and was airlifted to hospital in Toulon.

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Tour de France winning bikes: Which brand has won the most Tours in history?

A history of the most successful bike brands at the Tour de France

Cycling News

Sean Kelly, Erik Zabel, and Tom Boonen and... Diego Ulissi? Italian racer joins cycling legends in setting a record with one-day race victory in Italy

35-year-old's triumph at the Giro dell'Appennino puts him in rare company in cycling history

Cycling Weekly

'I wanted one classic bike for each of the four decades I raced - now, I've got 37': Inside a collector's paradise

British Cycling president and retro bike lover Bob Howden opens up his treasure trove and shares stories of his favourite finds

Cycling News

Bernard Hinault: Tadej Pogačar winning at least six Tours de France 'is no pipe dream'

French champion celebrates 70th birthday, predicts Pogačar could win three Grand Tours in one year

Cycling Weekly

From Fausto Coppi to Demi Vollering: here are the eight male and two female riders who have won the Giro Tour double

Long thought to be impossible in modern cycling, Tadej Pogačar ticked off the double in 2024, and now the female peloton have it in their sights too

The Guardian - UK

Pogacar v Vingegaard has makings of the finest Tour soap opera of them all

As if custom made for the Netflix era, the pair bring contrasting personalities and styles to their repeat head to heads

Cycling News

Obituary: Federico Martín Bahamontes, ‘The Eagle of Toledo’

Erratic but brilliant climbing star who won Spain’s first-ever Tour de France

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