Distance
165km
Back
To
Winning
Five months after Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne — and after a spring of crashes, illness and a team ordering him to stop — Matthew Brennan is a winner again. Visma | Lease a Bike controlled the opening stage of the Vuelta a Burgos all day, Ben Tulett led him into the ramp to the castle, and the 20-year-old Brit did the rest: a 200-metre surge up the Alto del Castillo, a one-two for the team, and the first leader's jersey.
Climbing
—m
Duration
—h
Avg Pace
—km/h
Category
Hilly
Date
04·08·26
Stage 0202
La grande boucle
Finished · See you next July
100%
21 / 21 stages3,321 / 3,321 km0 stages to Paris
- 01Barcelona → Barcelona
- 02Tarragona → Barcelona
- 03Granollers → Les Angles
- 04Carcassonne → Foix
- 05Lannemezan → Pau
- 06Pau → Gavarnie-Gèdre
- 07Hagetmau → Bordeaux
- 08Périgueux → Bergerac
- 09Malemort → Ussel
- 10Aurillac → Le Lioran
- 11Vichy → Nevers
- 12Magny-Cours → Chalon-sur-Saône
- 13Dole → Belfort
- 14Mulhouse → Le Markstein
- 15Champagnole → Plateau de Solaison
- 16Évian-les-Bains → Thonon-les-Bains
- 17Chambéry → Voiron
- 18Voiron → Orcières-Merlette
- 19Gap → Alpe d'Huez
- 20Le Bourg-d'Oisans → Alpe d'Huez
- 21Thoiry → Paris
Stage 0303
From the peloton,
this week
Race ReportCover · Iss. 47
Back to Winning: Brennan Conquers the Castle in Burgos
Five months after Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne — and after a spring of crashes, illness and a team ordering him to stop — Matthew Brennan is a winner again. Visma | Lease a Bike controlled the opening stage of the Vuelta a Burgos all day, Ben Tulett led him into the ramp to the castle, and the 20-year-old Brit did the rest: a 200-metre surge up the Alto del Castillo, a one-two for the team, and the first leader's jersey.
Read the full stage
Race Report
04·08·26 · Race Report
No Stopping Him: Milan Makes It Two From Two at the Tour de Pologne
Two stages of the 83rd Tour de Pologne, two bunch sprints, two wins for Jonathan Milan — both of them over Paul Magnier, both of them not particularly close. The Italian champion opened in Koszalin after 234 km, doubled up in Szczecin after surviving a 180-degree corner over tram tracks 400 metres from the line, and keeps the yellow jersey while the sprinters behind him start rethinking their August.
Race Report
04·08·26 · Race Report
Cutting the Mustard: Reusser Times Her Way Into Yellow in Dijon
Movistar called it Project Dijon, and they had been planning it since Christmas: win the stage 4 time trial in the mustard capital, take the mustard-coloured jersey. Marlen Reusser delivered both, beating Lieke Nooijen by four seconds over 21 km while defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot haemorrhaged more than two minutes. The Tour de France Femmes has a new race on its hands.
Race Report
26·07·26 · Race Report
One Last Launch: Van der Poel Steals Paris as Pogačar Joins the Immortals
The truce lasted exactly as long as the first cobbles of Montmartre. Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogačar went clear on the final climb of the Tour, were hunted down to five seconds at the flamme rouge — and then Van der Poel somehow launched again to win on the Champs-Élysées. Behind them, a fifth yellow jersey, and 159 survivors of the hardest three weeks of the year.
Étape 04Race Report25·07·26
Race Report
Inches from the Ravine: Kuss Crashes Twice, Carapaz Collects the Queen Stage
Sepp Kuss attacked the queen stage 24 km from the line and led it over the Col de Sarenne. Then a dark tunnel put him on the ground, and a stone wall nearly put him in a ravine. Richard Carapaz rode past the wreckage to his second win in three days — proof that on the hardest day of the Tour, staying upright is a talent too.
Continue
Étape 05Race Report24·07·26
Race Report
Hunting the Ghost: Pogačar Runs Down the Break and Takes Pantani's Alpe Record
Three minutes down with one climb left, no teammates, forty-two riders up the road. Tadej Pogačar attacked at the bottom of Alpe d'Huez, climbed it in 35:27 — two minutes faster than Pantani ever did — and caught the last survivor 900 metres from the line. Some records aren't broken; they're executed.
Continue
Étape 06Race Report23·07·26
Race Report
Fifty-Five Years Later: Carapaz Conquers Orcières-Merlette as UAE Crumbles
On the climb where Ocaña once put five minutes into Merckx, Richard Carapaz gave the breakaway its first mountain win of this Tour. Behind him the GC slept — but Pogačar’s team is quietly falling apart: McNulty out, Wellens last on the road, and the Alpe d’Huez doubleheader still to come.
Continue
Étape 07Race Report22·07·26
Race Report
The Fastest Last Dance: Philipsen Wins in Voiron as the Green Jersey Tightens
Billed as the sprinters’ last dance, stage 17 turned into a 47 km/h street fight that shattered the race for 50 kilometres and left Pogačar without a single teammate. Jasper Philipsen finally got his win from a forty-rider breakaway sprint — and cut Mads Pedersen’s green jersey lead to seven points.
Continue
Étape 08Race Report21·07·26
Race Report
Alone Against the Clock: Evenepoel Doubles Up as Lipowitz Crashes Out
The Tour’s only solo time trial, and the world champion made it look like a formality: Remco Evenepoel covered the 26.1 km from Évian to Thonon 28 seconds faster than Tadej Pogačar. Then the race lost another podium contender — Florian Lipowitz crashed out on the descent.
Continue
Étape 09Race Report19·07·26
Race Report
Cruelty and Class: Evenepoel Wins on Solaison as Vingegaard Crashes Out
The Tour lost its second-placed rider to a broken collarbone and gained a new one inside an hour. Jonas Vingegaard crashed out 20 km from the line — then Remco Evenepoel beat Tadej Pogačar in a two-up sprint on the Plateau de Solaison.
ContinueStage 0404
On the wire
LIVE · ON-AIRSTG · 01 · 2:51
March 12, 2026
Up next · Queue
6 in queue Stage 05 05
By the numbers
Stories filed
Since we started this thing in a Montréal café, late 2024.
Kilometres ridden
Reporting on the road — not from a press tent.
Coffees consumed
Mostly espresso. Some doppios. One regrettable Americano.
Subscribers in the bunch
Email subscribers. We never sell your address. We barely sell anything.