Tom Thewlis

Hope the "thank goodness the Premier League is back!!" takes are kept to a minimum this week – the past few days has been football at its best & purest.

My book, Tadej Pogačar: Unstoppable, is out today!

It is the first in-depth biography of modern cycling's greatest, charting his dazzling rise to the top, full of fresh stories, insight and interviews with those close to him.

Order it here: tinyurl.com/Pogibook 📙 @bloomsburysport.bsky.social

And I thought Luton away was bad!

Remco Evenepoel leaves Soudal Quick-Step, moves to Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe for 2026 Double Olympic champion's contract to be ended by mutual agreement ahead of move to Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/remco...

A statement from our team regarding Remco Evenepoel.

𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗰𝗼 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗲𝗹

➡️ www.soudal-quickstepteam.com/en/news/7147...

Confirmed - Remco Evenepoel will leave Soudal Quick-Step at the end of the season and join Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Story on @cyclingweekly.com

Ineos carer David Rozman leaves Tour de France after investigation launched by anti-doping authorities ITA to interview Ineos carer David Rozman over alleged historical messages in 2012

Confirmed: David Rozman has left the Tour and will be interviewed by ITA again.

My story👇👇

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Not a surprise.

Cheers for sharing this. I can vividly recall watching that stage and becoming hooked on the race after seeing Otxoa do what he did on Hautacam.

Javier Otxoa, 1974-2018 - WilderMedia Upon reading about the news of Javier Otxoa’s death at age 43 after a long illness, I recalled this piece I wrote back in 2002. I was an editorial intern at VeloNews; it was the first piece I ever had...

Stage 12 finishes at Hautacam, a 16km climb first used at #TourdeFrance in 1994. At the 2000 Tour, Spaniard Javier Otxoa soloed to victory in the rain, holding off a hard-charging Lance Armstrong. Here's a piece I wrote about Otxoa and tragedy that was soon to follow. wildermedia.com/javier-otxoa...

Totally agree with you

'It's not something I expected' - Oscar Onley finishes third to Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard at Tour de France Kelso-born rider now seventh on GC after tough test on Mûr-de-Bretagne

Oscar Onley is continuing to shine at this Tour de France and is growing quietly more confident by the day.

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/its-n...

'Where once we were at the top of the heap, we’re not anymore' – Can Ineos Grenadiers survive another Tour de France flop? Once the dominant force in Grand Tour racing, Ineos Grenadiers now look lost in the era of Pogačar and Vingegaard. What went wrong, and can they ever pull it back?

Ineos Grenadiers haven't got off to a great start in the Tour de France – can they afford another flop? I investigate and analyse for @cyclingweekly.com

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/tour-...

'He had the idea and believed in it' - how Ben Healy and his team plotted victory on stage six of the Tour de France EF Education-Easypost explain the work that went into Irishman's 40km solo win in Vire Normandie

What a ride from Ben Healy.

Reaction on the ground from EF’s Tom Southam, Charly Wegelius and Michael Valgren in Vire Normandie. 👇🏻 #TDF2025

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/he-ha...

'He was a victim' - Jasper Philipsen breaks collarbone after 'stupid' crash at Tour de France Alpecin-Deceuninck don't blame Bryan Coquard after 'racing incident' on the road to Dunkirk

Jasper Philipsen crashes out of the race on the road to Dunkirk.

My story from stage three 👇🏻

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/he-wa...

😂 you’ve got it mate!

'I did it for fun' - Jonas Vingegaard goes on the attack at Tour de France Two-time winner launched a surprise attack on the road to Bolougne-sur-Mer, later admitting that it had been purely for his own entertainment

Jonas Vingegaard is attacking purely for his own entertainment at this Tour de France. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-did...

Today’s expert analysis: it ends up! If Pogačar and Van der Poel don’t attack on the preceding climbs, surely they’ll be tempted on this final uphill drag (photo taken with 500m to go). Still the heart yearns for Roglification… #TdF2025

Good question. There’s always a chance anyone can crash, nobody is immune to that possibility, but I think Pog will be kept well out of trouble by his team until the finish. He’ll really fancy the stage today.

Pouring down with rain at the start this morning. A Pogcineration ala Fléche Wallone is definitely on the cards in Boulogne.

I’m on the ground in Lille and ready for the start of another Tour de France. Check out my stories on @cyclingweekly.com over the next few days. 🇫🇷

'The majority of riders say that this is not the biggest issue' - UCI to test gear limits at races from August, effectively banning most SRAM chainsets Change made after recommendation from SafeR commission, trials thought to take place at Tour of Guangxi

“It goes against the whole idea of racing” CPA President Adam Hansen on the planned move from the UCI. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-maj...

Yates attacks on the Finestre. It was on these same hairpins that he abandoned the maglia rosa in 2018

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Powless

Ayuso finishes stage 16 13+ minutes down. Matxin and Giantti wait for him at the finish.

Yikes

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@labeler.radial.racing 11 please

'I feel pain in my sprinter's heart': Marcel Kittel reacts to Tour de France final stage shake-up in Paris Retired German sprinting great says inclusion of cobbled climb to Montmartre before Champs-Élysées finish will be 'very stressful' and would leave him 'disappointed as a rider'

Marcel Kittel wasn’t too impressed with the plans for the final stage of the Tour de France when we spoke yesterday. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-fee...

Definitely

Was just thinking the same. Brilliant to watch and really gets you off your seat.