Ludovico Crescioli (Polti-Malta) signs with Groupama-FDJ for 2027, 22 year old won the Giro dell'Appennino earlier this year and rode his first Giro in May. French team also extends contract of Josh Kench, the New Zealander had joined on a 1 year deal, via L'Equipe www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur... (🇫🇷)

The Col de Sarenne on Stage 20 of the Tour de France will be closed to the public to preserve the space for nature. Race goes to Alpe d'Huez where the route will be open to all

RIP Saïd Haddou. Twice winner of the Tro Bro Leon, the ex-pro worked as a moto pilot at the Tour de France and other races for his old team mate Thomas Voeckler, and would have been back at the Tour next month...

Carrefour de l’Arbre restaurant on Paris-Roubaix route catches fire www.lavoixdunord.fr/1714821/arti... (🇫🇷)

Top-10 + Final GC in the Tour de Suisse

Tadej Pogačar (UAE) wins Stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse and wins the race overall

Visual reminder that while the UCI is pro cycling's governing body, it's all run out of small offices on the side of a velodrome located behind a retail park in rural Switzerland (nice spot, staff can ride a mountain pass in their lunch break, but it's not a big seat of power)

Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) l'emporte sur la 2e édition de l'Andorra MoraBanc Classica ! Bien aidé par son coéquipier Chris Harper, le Britannique (26 ans) bat Carlos Verona (Lidl-Trek), qui est co-organisateur de l'épreuve. Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease a Bike) est 3e. #LaClàssicaAd

Tadej Pogačar (UAE) wins Stage 4 of the Tour de Suisse ⏱️, just. Top-10

Davide Piganzoli (Visma-LAB) wins Stage 3 of the Route d'Occitanie and wins the race overall. Top-10 on the stage + Final GC

Some rule tweaks for the upcoming Tour de France. First the points competition sees more points awarded on flat stages, 70 for the winner instead of 50 and this should tilt the green jersey contest more towards the sprinters (NB Pogačar came close in third week last year)...

"The strange sacred cult of the cyclist Mikel Landa", an exploration of Landismo and the veneration of what isn’t and what could have been www.letemps.ch/sport/cyclis... (🇫🇷, soft paywall)

Two wins in one day for Groupama-FDJ, including their first World Tour win of 2026. Just Movistar, Jayco and Picnic-PostNL as WorldTeams without a win in the World Tour this year

Roman Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) wins Stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse

Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ) wins Stage 1 of the Route d'Occitanie

Too many headlines along the lines of "Partner of Tadej Pogačar, Urška Žigart, crashes in the Tour de Suisse". Anyway, hope she is well and recovers quickly

He's back*. Romain Bardet joins Decathlon-CMA CGM as a manager overseeing the World Tour team and the development teams. Will act as a bridge bridge between the senior management and the sports directors. * He starts in January 2027.

Preposterous headline... but a good read on altitude training camps and how many riders are spending a lot of time at training camps instead of being at home or racing, by @stephenfarrand.bsky.social www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

No Tour de France for Wout van Aert

Happy Birthday to Eddy Merckx who turns 81 today

//INRNG: The Shrinking Tour de Suisse inrng.com/2026/06/the-...

//INRNG: UCI team rankings inrng.com/2026/06/uci-...

Trivia: G7 leaders were gifted a Look road bike fitted with Shimano Ultegra and painted in their flag at the summit in Evian, France. It's also linked to the 2027 Worlds which will be held in the region next year. The Tour de France will visit Evian next month for its TT stage

Tom Pidcock out of the Tour de Suisse following a bout of illness recently, small blow for Q36.5 in their home race. Team reports he'll do the one day Andorra MoraBanc Classica instead this weekend instead

With the Tour de Suisse shrinking to 5 days, small gain is teams don't have to send one support crew to Dauphiné & another to Suisse as the races no longer overlap. After racing finished in France yesterday, many team buses and trucks etc made the journey to Italy* last night * TdS starts in Italy 🤷

Report that Kern Pharma riders free to sign for other teams even if they have a contract for next year. Sponsor is quitting and this means management have told teams the squad will come to and end. Elsewhere no news on new sponsors to replace Visma, EF and TotalEnergies yet.

Crash for Paul Seixas earlier. He got up but slowly and took a while to get going. Now trying to chase back

Today's Aura stage take place in the Jura mountains and uses the same roads as the Ain Bugey Valromey Tour, a junior stage race. Last year saw 16 year Benjamin Noval finish 3rd and he’s signed for Netcompany-Ineos already. Albert Withen Philipsen won 2024, ahead of Paul Seixas and Lorenzo Finn...

Broken collarbone for Josh Tarling and Oscar Onley to hospital for scans

🇫🇷 #TourAuvergneRhoneAlpes, Stage 6 — 📷🏁 Photo finish recorded frustration too.

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Top-10 on Stage 5 of the Aura Tour

Wout van Aert (Visma-LAB) wins Stage 5 of the Aura Tour

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Corbin Strong (NSN) wins the Circuit Franco-Belge

Top-10 on Stage 4 of the Aura Tour

Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) wins Stage 4 of the Aura Tour, the breakaway just holds off the bunch

Just got a PR email to announce that Chris Froome, Jakob Fuglsang and Filippo Pozzato will take part in "The Crossing", a charity race on "water bikes" that goes from Viareggio on the Italian coast to Monaco, a 225km journey across the Mediterranean

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LA Olympics road races and time trials to finish outside the Griffiths Observatory on Mount Hollywood says the IOC la28.org/en/newsroom/... No more details on exactly which road up but it's typically 2km at 7%, 5min effort eg

Jorgenson "it's seven times better" to win with team mates than individually (translated as he's giving a good interview in French to Thomas Voeckler)

Top-10 on Stage 3 of the Aura Tour

Team Visma-LAB win Stage 3 of the Aura Tour ahead of Netcompany-Ineos. Alex Baudin stays in yellow thanks to EF Education-Easypost finishing third

For international viewers, Visma DS Wijnants was just about to elaborate on Van Aert's role during the TTT, during a prerecorded interview, saying "we need him for the final stretch to 800m", when the TV coverage showed Van Aert losing touch after just 9k. 👀 Defenitly behind in his Tour build-up.

Second dropped chain for Netcompany-Ineos after Sam Watson, this time it's Oscar Onley so they wait for him

Trivia: which future pro cyclist currently inside the UCI Top-20 is this? (answer later)

It's a terrible reg -- "especially important for..." -- so what's the status of an event not "expected" to finish in a bunch sprint? If there's a bunch sprint incident on a bendy finish, is it OK that a sprint wasn't expected? It's a guideline dressed up as a regulation.

New UCI rule for road races says "The finishing straight should be as long as possible, at least 200 meters". The rule 2.2.017 in English is written in the conditional so it *should* be 200m but doesn't have to be which is not great for a rule book...

TotalEnergies team looking for a replacement sponsor for 2027. "We're confident, but..." www.directvelo.com/actualite/12... (🇫🇷). Time running out fast as their best riders will have signed elsewhere already or will do soon

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