The 2022 Tour de France embarks from Denmark, pushes into Switzerland and Belgium, visits Dunkirk and Lourdes, and features five mountain slogs.

Ineos will field two newly crowned Olympic champions, Richard Carapaz and Tom Pidcock, in its team at the Vuelta a España which start on Saturday in Burgos.

The 2021 Vuelta a España runs this Aug. 14 to Sept. 5 and includes many stars who could compete for the final overall victory when the race wraps up in Santiago de Compostela.

The 2019 and 2020 editions of the Tour de France were won by two of the youngest riders in the history of the race. Tadej Pogacar and Egan Bernal are at the forefront of a new generation of young cyclists which are continually raising the bar and upsetting the established favorites. The 2021 Tour de France will be another battle between the dynamic youth and the experienced establishment.

Words by Alex Stieda, the first Canadian (and North American) to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Chris Froome says he will help Israel Start-Up Nation leader Michael Woods in the same manner he himself was helped as he won the Tour de France four times on his return after a two-year gap.

Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko led Spaniard Ion Izagirre in an Astana 1-2 in Wednesday's fourth stage of theCriterium du Dauphine, a 16.4km time-trial between Firmigny andRoche-la-Moliere.

Lukas Postlberger of Bora-Hansgrohe won a hilly second stage of the Criterium du Dauphine on Monday to claim the overall leader's yellow jersey.

The Tour de Suisse, June 6 to 13, will be the last opportunity for the classification stars to shine ahead of the Tour de France. So who are the favorites for the eight-day Swiss race, the cyclists we could see fighting also for the Tour victory a month later?

The 108th edition of the Tour de France kicks off on June 26. The race will travel 3,383 kilometers across windswept plains, and mountain peaks from the seaside town of Brest, Brittany, to the finish in Paris.

The Critérium du Dauphiné reliably reveals who is on form for the Tour de France, which comes just three weeks later. While it is not the only preparatory race for the Tour, the Critérium du Dauphiné is used every year by many of the top general classification contenders to catapult themselves to success in the Tour.

The 2021 Tour de France will begin as far away from the mountains as possible but promises exciting battles already from day one when it departs in Brest.

The 2021 Tour de France covers 3,383 kilometers. Any one of those kilometers can provide the right mixture of circumstances for a race-winning attack, or a race-losing mishap. Such is the nature of the sport.

The Belgian Classics season is in full swing, with the 83rd edition of Gent – Wevelgem this Sunday. 

Two-time former world champion Rohan Dennis powered to victory for Ineos in a challenging 18.5km individual time trial on stage two of the Tour of Catalonia on Tuesday.