Sarah Storey retires at 48: ‘It’s always about leaving something better than you found it’

After a stellar career that began in the swimming pool as a 14-year-old before five Games hoovering up cycling golds, Britain’s Paralympic dame tells Donald McRae: ‘I want to put my energy into something new’

Olav Kooij claims Tour de France stage five with Tourmalet test looming large

The Dutch debutant Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France in a chaotic sprint finish after a crash just over five kilometres from the line

Tour de France 2026: Olav Kooij sprints to stage five victory in Pau – as it happened

Dutch debutant Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France in a chaotic sprint finish after a crash just outside the stage finish in Pau.

Tour de France 2026: Mads Pedersen surges clear to win stage four in extreme heat – as it happened

Mads Pedersen outsprinted his breakaway rivals to win stage four of the Tour de France as Torstein Traeen took the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar in Foix

‘Grateful’ Træen takes yellow jersey after Pedersen wins stage four amid 40C heat

Max Pedersen wins sprint in Foix to seal stage four victory while Træen takes the yellow jersey in 40-degree plus conditions

Tour de France 2026: Pogacar surges clear to win stage three and take yellow jersey – as it happened

The defending champion powered away at the deserted finish to a stage with wildfire threats hanging over it

Pogacar rises above wildfire restrictions to take yellow jersey in deserted Les Angles

Tour de France organisers have insisted that the stage on Tuesday, from Carcassonne to Foix, will go ahead after Tadej Pogacar won stage three amid wildfire restrictions

Tour de France 2026: third stage to go ahead without spectators; Del Toro wins stage two

The third stage of the Tour de France will take place without spectators due to wildfires in the eastern Pyrenees

Tour de France 2026: Mexican debutant Isaac del Toro wins stage two in Catalonia – as it happened

Live updates: This year’s Grand Départ continues with a 168.5km ride along the coast from Tarragona to Barcelona. Andy McGrath has the latest

Tour de France 2026 stage one: Vingegaard in yellow after team time trial success – as it happened

Jonas Vingegaard scored an early victory over Tadej Pogacar as his Visma-Lease a Bike squad won the team time trial ahead of Netcompany Ineos.

Tour de France 2026: Jonas Vingegaard in yellow after Barcelona team time trial

Jonas Vingegaard took the first yellow jersey of the 113th edition of the Tour de France as his Visma-Lease a Bike team won Saturday’s opener

Boy who would be king: Seixas carries weight of a nation at Tour de France

Teenage sensation is a fearless racer but taking on Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard is setting the bar very high

The Badger, the Professor and the teenager: France’s long wait for a Tour champion

The hype around Paul Seixas is fully justified as the 19-year-old bids to end four decades of French disappointment

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome confirms cycling retirement

Following on from a bad fall last summer, Chris Froome has called time on his professional cycling career on the eve of this year’s Tour de France

Tour de France braced for historic stage cancellations amid 44C European heatwave

‘It’s something very much on our mind,’ said Thierry Gouvenou, the Tour’s technical director, with extreme weather likely to affect the peloton on Sunday