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The Giro d’Italia Women 2026 reaches one of its more tactically awkward days on stage 7, with 159km from Sorbolo Mezzani to Salice Terme on Friday, 5th June. After the flat sprint opportunity to Brescello, the race moves back into hillier terrain for a stage that looks less severe than the Dolomites or Sestriere, but still has enough late climbing to trouble tired legs.

Elisa Balsamo continued her remarkable Giro d’Italia Women with a fourth stage victory of the race, sprinting to win stage 6 in Brescello after a long, tense day that carried the peloton out of the hills and onto the Po Valley. The Lidl-Trek rider came around Maggie Coles-Lyster in the final metres after a superb lead-out from Lucinda Brand, adding another win to an already d...

Molteni is remembered through colour as much as results. The orange jersey, the black trim, the simple block lettering, the almost severe visual identity of a team that looked less like a sponsor’s experiment and more like a permanent fixture of the sport. In the early 1970s, that jersey became inseparable from Eddy Merckx, and in turn from one of the most dominant periods an...

The Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes 2026 arrives with a route built to expose real Tour de France conditions. The race may have a new name, but it keeps the old Dauphiné function: eight days of high-level June racing, a team time trial, awkward transition stages and a final mountain block that should be too hard for anyone still hiding form.

The decisive sequence comes ...

Copenhagen Sprint 2026 brings two days of WorldTour racing to Denmark, with the women’s race on Saturday, 13th June and the men’s race on Sunday, 14th June. Both races are built around fast roads, exposed Danish terrain and a city-centre finish in Copenhagen, making this one of the clearest sprint-focused weekends in the top-level calendar.

UK viewers should be able...