In contrast to the 2024 contest, when Tadej Pogacar obliterated the opposition, winning six stages and the general ...

The main hurdle was the beast of a mountain called the Col de Finestre, an 18km climb with an average grade of 9%. It’s the same grade going up to Marco Polo, but just 18k long. It is half paved and ...

Simon Yates has become the latest Brit to win a Grand Tour - and he did so on the slopes of a climb that has come to define ...