cyclingCycling through Armenia: the Tour of Armenia begins on 10 SeptemberFrom 10 to 13 September, the first edition of the Tour of Armenia will take place. It will start in Gavar and finish in Yerevan after four stages, covering 568 kilometres and more than 5,000 metres of elevation gain. More than sixty years late, the riders will discover “the best country in the world for cycling training”.byGiovanni Battistuzzi7 SEP 26
cyclingThe impact of Tadej Pogacar’s withdrawal from the VueltaThe Slovenian champion fell 33 kilometres from the finish of the eighth stage and withdrew from the race he had been dominatingbyGiovanni Battistuzzi29 AUG 26
cyclingLorenzo Mark Finn’s future in cyclingThe Italian rider has also won the Tour de l’Avenir following the Giro d’Italia Next Gen: only Gibì Baronchelli had managed to do so before. Now there is another World Championship to aim for before having to endure the disappointments and frustrations of Italian cyclingbyGiovanni Battistuzzi26 AUG 26
cyclingJulian Alaphilippe’s farewell to cycling is worthy of LouLouThe French cyclist, a two-time world champion, has retired with immediate effect. On his bike, he was able to blend joy and melancholy, happiness and despair, in a way that few others in the history of cycling have managed to dobyGiovanni Battistuzzi21 AUG 26
cyclingThe commissioner, the Lega and cycling, which risks losing its identity (provisional)Interview with Marco Toni, the vice-president of the Professional Cycling League appointed by the Federation, who is breaking ranks over the administration order: “I was expecting chaos, but I found the accounts to be sound”. And now he fears that the entire movement will pay the price.byAndrea Trapani31 JUL 26
cyclingMontmartre was the missing piece in Pogacar’s Tour de France campaignsThe Slovenian has won his fifth Tour de France. Before him, only Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain had achieved this feat. The Butte de Montmartre is a generational addition, the best gift the Tour organisers could have given to this generation of cyclistsbyGiovanni Battistuzzi27 JUL 26
Il Foglio SportivoThe Tour de France dispels the usual suspicionsWith night-time doping tests on Pogacar and Vingegaard, fear is back. Even when the system works, a single shadow is enough to drag cycling back to its darkest yearsbyGiovanni Battistuzzi25 JUL 26
Tour de FranceTadej Pogacar’s Alpe d’HuezTadej Pogačar won at the summit of Alpe d’Huez and is now the rider to have taken the shortest time to climb the 13,800 metres of tarmac with an average gradient of 8.1 per cent leading up to the Alpe: thirty-five minutes and twenty-seven seconds, one minute and thirteen seconds faster than Marco Pantani’s time in 1995byGiovanni Battistuzzi24 JUL 26
cyclingRichard Carapaz has found his place in the Tour de FranceIn Orcières-Merlett, the Ecuadorian climber won the 18th stage of the Grande Boucle. His long journey through the mountains in search of the joy of victory has come to an endbyGiovanni Battistuzzi23 JUL 26
cyclingAfter a day of chaos, Jasper Philipsen restores orderThe seventeenth stage of the 2026 Tour de France was an inclusive stage, open to all. It resulted in just under four hours of chaotic fun, culminating in a sprint finish between a small group of riders and the Belgian, who was amazed to have finally managed to winbyGiovanni Battistuzzi22 JUL 26