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Three weeks of watching the Vuelta on Spanish TV (featuring niche anime reference)

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Sep Kuss always good value post-race in the Vuelta for his fluent Spanish interviews

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Top-10 on Stage 4 of the Vuelta

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Tadej Pogačar (UAE) wins Stage 4 of the Vuelta a España

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Pogačar drops Gall to go solo with 50km to go

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//INRNG: Andorra - high altitude, low taxes inrng.com/2026/08/ando...

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Several stories & pictures about the Igesa Mont-Louis hotel taking in the Vuelta riders yesterday. L'Equipe reports it happened in part because once the organisers announced the cancellation moto regulator Jean-Marc Marino (an ex-pro) knew the hotel and got riders to follow him towards the shelter..

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Peloton stopping in the hailstorm, Pogačar signalling things are halting. Riders seeking refuge

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Paula Blasi helping to fill the air time on Spanish TV as rain disrupts the coverage, and good at it too

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You can see from the way the trees lean that this is often a windy area. More often associated with kite/windsurfing #LaVuelta26

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Weather alert for storms for today's Vuelta stage. Doesn't mean it will happen, just that it can can in the area today

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 23/08/2026

NSN announce the signing of Kasper Asgreen from EF

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Matthew Brennan (Visma-LAB) wins Stage 2 of the Vuelta a España

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 23/08/2026

Missed the mid-season transfer of Del Toro to Lidl 😜

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 23/08/2026

Paul Magnier (Soudal-Quickstep) wins Stage 4 of the Deutschland Tour and Isaac del Toro (UAE) wins the race overall. Del Toro was away solo but caught in the final KM

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 22/08/2026

Tadej Pogačar (UAE) wins Stage 1 of the Vuelta ⏱️, beats Ethan Hayter by 0.09 seconds

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 22/08/2026

Jordan Labrosse with the fastest time in the Vuelta so far, only rider in the race who shares a name with consumer product

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One of several photos of Alaphilippe at his best, this one from 2021

Julian Alaphilippe wins Stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico in 2021, beating Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogačar

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Alessio Magagnotti (Red Bull) wins Stage 2 of the Deutschland Tour. The Devo rider is 19 and tipped as a big sprint talent, already delivering. Top-10

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Noa Isidore (Decathlon-CMA CGM) wins Stage 4 of the Tour du Limousin and Ewen Costiou (Groupama-FDJ) wins the race overall for the second year in a row

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A non-starter in the Tour of Britain today is probably* going to be last year's South African road race champ S'annara Grove. Follows a test for growth-hormone releasing peptide ipamorelin and provisionally suspended by the UCI * assuming the UCI notifies the Tour of Britain officials in time

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The "end of the rainbow" writes L'Equipe on the immediate retirement of Julian Alaphilippe

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Catching up on post-Tour de France Femmes podcasts and if it looked like it, now confirmation that a lot of FDJ-Suez riders were ill, eg Berthet and Le Net. Evita Muzic was twice ill, allergic reaction to insect sting at the start then later a virus in time for Mont Ventoux, via RMC Peloton 🎤

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Solid TV audiences for the Tour de France Femmes in France, daily average of 2.6 million, down from 2.7 million last year (no Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in yellow) but audience share goes up from 31.6% to 32.9%, a quarter of audience is 15-34 years old. Source: www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p... (🇫🇷)

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RIP Giancarlo Ferretti, the ex-team manager who has died at the age of 85. Started at Bianchi with Gimondi, then Ariostea, GB-MG, MG-Technogym, Riso Scotti and Fassa Bortolo. Known as the "Iron Sergeant" for his strict ways.

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No translation needed for the front page of today's L'Equipe

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Commissaire decisions + medical bulletin from today's Tour stage.

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Michel-Édouard Leclerc, boss of Leclerc supermarkets which sponsors the mountains competition, living his best life backstage snapping riders

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Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) wins Stage 9 of the Tour de France and wins the race overall

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Crash for Marlene Reusser on the descent of the corniche, via FranceTV

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