Tadej Pogačar is back in yellow. Watch the Stage 3 highlights as UAE Team Emirates chases down the breakaway and Isaac Del Toro sets up Pogačar to seize the Maillot Jaune from Jonas Vingegaard in a brutal final-kilometer sprint.
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with two decades of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
The grand, heroic narrative of elite professional cycling is a heavily mediated corporate lie. In our latest deep dive into Chapters 6 and 7 of Striking the Sun, we strip away the romantic illusions of the peloton to expose the brutal, unglamorous reality of physical degradation, corporate hazing, and penny-pinching team management.
A disciplinary meeting at The Globe pushes Susan into hiding, while Dominic learns a gross but essential lesson about the reality of riding in the pro peloton. Read Chapter Seven.
The experimental new team time trial rules immediately shattered the general classification on day one. Watch the Stage 1 highlights as Visma | Lease a Bike perfectly executed the Barcelona finale, delivering Jonas Vingegaard to the first yellow jersey of the 2026 Tour de France.
Happy 4th of July. To celebrate the 2026 Tour de France Grand Depart sharing a birthday with America, we objectively ranked every single American Tour winner in history. Yes, we included the one who got shot, the one with zero official victories, and the one who snitched on him.
Richard Mille and Breitling just dropped their Tour de France luxury cash-in watches. We break down Breitling’s stunning Eddy Merckx tribute and relentlessly mock Richard Mille’s $1,000,000 Colnago collaboration that looks entirely like a plastic children’s toy.
The corporate spin cannot hide the empty conference halls. Eurobike attendance officially cratered by over 50% this year, forcing organizers into a desperate “transformation” that slides the historic cycling trade show into a biennial, every-two-years schedule.
A viral video from the Tour, a disastrous first meeting with the LaxRelief squad, and Susan nursing a seven-can hangover. Read Chapter Six of Striking the Sun.