With 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 years

Tadej 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 1995

The Belgian champion was the fastest to complete the 26.1-kilometre 16th stage of the 2026 Tour de France, the only individual time trial in this year’s race. Tadej Pogačar had to settle for second place

The Belgian had never before won a mountain stage at the Tour de France. On the Plateau de Solaison, which featured on the Grande Boucle route for the first time today, he managed to finish ahead of Tadej Pogačar and Isaac Del Toro. Jonas Vingegaard withdrew after a crash

Tadej Pogačar won the fourteenth stage of the 2026 Tour de France. A stage that treated us to the spectacle of the Col du Haag, Richard Carapaz’s determination, Jonas Vingegaard’s desire to take centre stage, Remco Evenepoel’s tenacity and the talent of Paul Seixas and Isaac Del Toro

The Slovenian champion won at Le Lioran after riding alone for sixteen kilometres. Richard Carapaz’s tenacity was not enough, having launched his attack thirty-eight kilometres from the finish. That same tenacity helped Remco Evenepoel to stay in contention and, indeed, gain seconds on his rivals