Thirty-five years after Bernard Hinault’s Tour de France win, the world champion carries slim home hopes

William Fotheringham: Friends Life Tour, that will include Lizzie Armitstead, Laura Trott and Marianne Vos in a high-class field, reflects the huge increase in participation

The team time trial returns as this year’s Tour starts in Barcelona for the first time in the race’s history

The team time trial returns as this year’s Tour starts in Barcelona for the first time in the race’s history

A rare cinema screening of sports documentary A Sunday in Hell + intro by William Fotheringham | Phoenix Leicester | Mon 23 Feb 2026, 7pm

Jorgen Leth’s classic documentary about the 1976 edition of Paris-Roubaix, with live intro and Q&A with The Guardian’s William Fotheringham, author of ‘Sunday in Hell: Behind …

Bernard Hinault was the last home champion as the sport has gone international, with winners from Colombia and Slovenia

From LeMond’s astonishing comeback to Cavendish’s four victories, the final dash up the great avenue is now part of race folklore

On the 50th anniversary of the first Tour finish on the Champs-Élysées, we could be in for a cliffhanger finish

Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz became distracted by each other, allowing the Lancastrian to claim a second Grand Tour

To develop and enhance our cycling facilities to build on what we have achieved to create a lasting legacy

Barry Hoban, the British cycling Icon and eight-time Tour de France stage winner has died aged 85

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.