Tour de France 2024: full team-by-team guide

Our in-depth look at every team, the main riders to watch and the cast of characters racing through France this summer

Ineos look to put pressure on Pogacar with range of Tour de France leaders

Geraint Thomas admits Ineos cannot ride for glory like Team Sky in previous years

Tour de France 2024: stage-by-stage guide to this year’s race

A Grand Départ in Florence and a finish in Nice rather than Paris will not please traditionalists, but there is plenty of familiar terrain in between

Double Olympic gold medallist Geraint Thomas dropped by Team GB for Paris

The former Tour de France winner was hoping to make a fifth Games but British Cycling insists he is ‘not in great form’

How Chris Boardman changed the game for the Tour de France in 1994

The rider blazed a trail for aerodynamic bike design in a Tour 30 years ago that widened the race’s horizons

Italian cyclist Andrea Piccolo suspected of transporting human growth hormone

Andrea Piccolo, who briefly led the Vuelta a España in 2023, has been sacked by EF Pro Cycling over the allegations

Katie Archibald to miss Paris Olympics after breaking leg in garden accident

Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald will miss Paris 2024 after suffering a double leg break in a freak accident

Adam Yates wins Tour de Suisse after holding off teammate João Almeida

Britain’s Adam Yates held on to win the Tour de Suisse after finishing second to UAE-Team Emirates colleague João Almeida in Sunday’s closing time trial

Arise, Sir Cav: Mark Cavendish awarded knighthood in king’s birthday honours

The British cyclist Mark Cavendish, winner of 34 Tour de France stages, has been knighted in the king’s Birthday honours

Lotte Kopecky wins Tour of Britain Women in emphatic style

Lotte Kopecky of Belgium was a comfortable winner of the reborn Tour of Britain Women, ahead of GB’s Anna Henderson

Tour of Britain Women: Wiebes takes stage three as Kopecky holds lead

Lotte Kopecky maintained a 17-second lead going into Sunday’s final stage after helping her sprinter teammate Lorena Wiebes win on Saturday

Tour of Britain Women: Kopecky wins again but bike thefts cloud stage two

The Lifeplus-Wahoo cycling team were able to start stage two of the Tour of Britain Women despite 14 of their bikes being stolen

Lotte Kopecky wins gruelling opener at Tour of Britain Women in photo-finish

The world road race champion Lotte Kopecky had to endure a 20-minute wait to learn that she had won the opening stage of the Tour of Britain Women

Leading UK cyclist out of Tour of Britain after being struck at ‘high speed’ by 4×4

One of the UK’s leading young cyclists has been forced to pull out of this week’s Tour of Britain after being hit at ‘high speed’ by a 4x4 driver

Lizzie Deignan faces rival Kopecky in reborn women’s Tour of Britain

Former world champion leads home hopes as four-day event starts in Wales after a ‘monumental effort’ to secure its future