A few months after winning on a raucous Alpe d’Huez wearing the yellow jersey, Geraint Thomas snuck back to the place of his greatest triumph to check if it had really happened. Signposts on each of ...

ALPE D'HUEZ, France -- As the Tour de France has been televised live to the United States in the last few years, American viewers have become familiar with the great climbs in the Alps that ...

1979 The Tour was so enamoured with Alpe d'Huez that it was decided to climb it twice. The first time up was stage 17, which ran 167 kilometres from Les Menuires. The first trip was won by Joaquim ...

Massive crowds pressed in on Tom Pidcock and the rest of the peloton Thursday on the famed 21 switchbacks on Alpe d’Huez in the return to the most famous climb at the Tour de France. Riders were awed ...

The picturesque switchbacks and enthusiastic crowds on the ride to Alpe d’Huez make it the most famous climb in cycling. By Victor Mather Tadej Pogacar held his fire on the Galibier. He waited through ...

PARIS (Reuters) -The 2026 men's Tour de France will for a second year include a final stage up Paris’ Montmartre hill, and that will follow two gruelling Alpe d’Huez summit finishes, organisers said ...

With mega-sponsors like UAE, Lidl and INEOS, the richest WorldTour teams keep pulling further ahead. Beneath that top tier, ...

The sight of a seemingly impregnable race leader loosening his grip on the Tour de France atop the Col du Granon inevitably brought up memories of 1986 and all that, and the nostalgia continues on ...

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ALPE D’HUEZ, France — In his first Tour de France, 22-year-old Tom Pidcock became the youngest winner of a stage on the iconic Alpe d’Huez mountain after crossing the line solo at the ski resort on ...

ALPE D'HUEZ, France -- In his first Tour de France, 22-year-old Tom Pidcock became the youngest winner of a stage on the iconic Alpe d'Huez mountain after crossing the line solo at the ski resort on ...