Jonas Vingegaard

The Slovenian, a five-time Tour de France champion, will begin his bid for a first Vuelta title in Monaco on Saturday, with the opening 9.4-km individual time trial taking place in the city where he lives

This year’s Grande Boucle went almost entirely as expected, offering few real surprises or diversions from the status quo, as the marauding Slovenian won another five stages en route to his record-equalling fifth title

UAE Team Emirates XRG rider adds one more feather to his decorated cap

Pogacar will now join Jacques Anqueil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain as the only men with five Tour titles to their name

Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard and race leader and four-time winner Tadej Pogacar were both woken in the small hours of Sunday for out-of-hours doping tests

Belgian Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar to the finish line to win stage 15 of the Tour de France on Sunday after Jonas Vingegaard, who was second in the overall rankings, was forced to abandon following a crash

It was the world champion's fourth stage win in this 113th edition of the Grande Boucle as his team-mate Isaac Del Toro pipped teenager Paul Seixas to second place, with Vingegaard fourth at the end of the 155 km stage from Mulhouse to Le Markstein Fellering

Dutchman Olav Kooij took second ahead of Belgian Jasper Philipsen at the end of the 161-kilometer 11th stage from Vichy to Nevers

French teenager Paul Seixas produced a fine performance on Bastille Day to finish third in a group of favourites also including Vingegaard, who was 44 seconds back in seventh

Merlier seemed out of contention when he was caught out of position in the last few hundred metres but launched a long-range charge to reel in all of his rivals and beat Eritrean Biniam Girmay into second with Dutchman Olav Kooij third

Pogacar reclaimed the yellow jersey from Torstein Traeen after starting the day on the same time as rival Jonas Vingegaard

The Norwegian’s diagnosis was revealed after a random doping control showed abnormalities

Del Toro’s team-mate and defending champion Tadej Pogacar finished second, cutting Jonas ​Vingegaard’s overall lead to six seconds

Vingegaard took 12 seconds out of his rival on the 19.6km circuit, delivering victory for Visma-Lease a Bike and donning yellow for the first time since he won the Tour for the second time in 2023

In taking on Pogacar as well as his longstanding rival, Jonas Vingegaard, winner of the 2026 Giro d’Italia and a double Tour champion, the teenager is setting the bar almost unfeasibly high

Vingegaard took 12 seconds out of his rival on the 19.6km circuit, delivering victory for Visma-Lease a Bike and donning yellow for the first time since he won the Tour for the second time in 2023

As Chris Froome announced his long-awaited retirement from cycling, the man who matched his four Tour de France titles arrived at the sport’s biggest race in search of a record-equalling five

Tadej Pogacar’s quest to write yet more cycling history begins on Saturday 4 July as he aims to equal the record of five Tour de France victories

Philipsen has just won the Tour of Belgium; his co-leader hasn’t won since March but was a force in the spring Classics, then after time out from racing, ran Pogacar close in the Tour de Suisse time trial

Jonas Vingegaard’s achievement in completing a grand slam of Grand Tours lifts him into a select club of champions that have recorded victories in the tours of Italy, France and Spain

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard launched an attack during the punishing final climb to clinch victory in stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia, ensuring that he will win the race provided he reaches the finish line in the final stage in Rome

Michael Valgren powered to victory on stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia after launching an attack just over a kilometre from the finish in Andalo

Norwegian Dversnes crossed the line ahead of three Italians -- Mirco Maestri, Martin Marcellusi and Mattia Bais -- as a widely expected bunch sprint never materialized

Vingegaard’s third stage victory of his debut Giro came by a gap of 49 seconds from Felix Gall

Alberto Bettiol attacked at the top of the final climb to ride solo to victory on stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday, five years after his last stage win, with Portugal's Afonso Eulalio maintaining the overall lead

Toon Aerts won the sprint for second place, 3 seconds behind his compatriot at the end of the mainly flat 175-kilometer (109-mile) route from Imperia to Novi Ligure

Filippo Ganna dominates Giro d’Italia stage 10 as Jonas Vingegaard loses time to key rival

The Visma-Lease a Bike rider tracked race rival Felix Gall (Decathlon) when the Austrian attacked near the end of the 184km stage from Cervia to Corno alle Scale, but Vingegaard powered away in the closing kilometre, with his Visma teammate Davide Piganzoli coming in third

Jonas Vingegaard puts wind up Giro rivals as he masters blustery conditions

Giulio Pellizzari, 22, came of age at this race two years ago, and now he’s back as one of the challengers to red-hot favourite Jonas Vingegaard

Jonas Vingegaard’s team have pleaded with amateur riders to show professionals respect after the two-time Tour de France champion was left with a bloodied face following a training crash on Monday