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A running tracker of what I am following in professional road cycling, updated when something noteworthy happens.

Last updated. 2026-07-18.

Right now

Tour de France 2026. Stage 14 today, race runs through July 26 in Paris. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is in yellow and turning the GC into a procession: he crested the Tourmalet alone on stage 6 to win by 2’38” and take the jersey, then soloed again today over the Col du Haag into Le Markstein to stretch his lead. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) is second at 4’30”, Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) third at 5’04” on his Tour debut, and the story of the race is behind them: 19-year-old Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) sits fourth and holds the white jersey, ahead of Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro. The Grand Départ was in Barcelona — the first stages in Catalonia were ridden past wildfires, and stage 9 into Ussel was cut by 30 km under a red heatwave warning and raced in roughly 38°C, which set off another round of arguments about moving the race calendar out of high summer. Mathieu van der Poel has taken a mountain-breakaway stage; Mads Pedersen leads the green jersey comfortably, winning the sprint duel over Tim Merlier and Olav Kooij on the flatter days.

Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Dauphiné) 2026. Finished June 13. Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates XRG) took the overall in a race run without Pogačar or Vingegaard, which turned it into a genuinely open week rather than a Tour tune-up. Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost) had lit it up early, spending 120 km in the break on stage 1 and riding the final 28 km solo into Saint-Ismier to lead the GC, but UAE’s strength through the mountains told in the end. Wout van Aert used the race as his return to competition after Paris-Roubaix.

Giro d’Italia Women 2026. Finished June 7. Demi Vollering (FDJ United-SUEZ) won the title in dramatic fashion, overturning Anna van der Breggen’s 1’10” GC lead on the final stage. Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM) finished second overall; van der Breggen dropped to third, saying “I tried, and I kept the pace in it, but it was not enough.” Vollering said before her decisive move: “I had to dare to lose it all.” Elisa Balsamo took the points classification, Isabella Holmgren the white jersey, and Lidl-Trek the team prize. The win also completes what has been an extraordinary women’s spring for Vollering — Omloop, Flanders, Flèche Wallonne, Liège, and now the Giro.

Giro d’Italia 2026. Finished May 31 in Rome. Jonas Vingegaard took the maglia rosa with five stage wins, ahead of Felix Gall at 5’22” and Jai Hindley at 6’25”. Afonso Eulálio held the young rider jersey after starting the race in pink and surviving the final week’s mountains. Giulio Ciccone won the mountains classification, Paul Magnier the points jersey, and Visma-Lease a Bike the team classification. Sepp Kuss took stage 19 into Alleghe; Jonathan Milan won the bunch sprint into Rome.

2026 men’s spring classics

  • Milan-San Remo (21 March). Tadej Pogačar finally wins MSR, holding off Tom Pidcock by half a wheel on the Via Roma after riding much of the final 30 km on a cracked frame from an earlier crash. His first MSR after four straight near-misses.
  • Tour of Flanders (5 April). Pogačar wins his third Flanders, joining the all-time tied lead of Boonen, Cancellara, Museeuw, van der Poel, and the historic three-time greats. Remco Evenepoel takes third on his Flanders debut, the first sign that his winter transfer to Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe came with a real cobbled program.
  • Paris-Roubaix (12 April). Wout van Aert finally wins, outsprinting Pogačar in the velodrome on the fastest edition in the race’s history at 48.91 km/h average. First Belgian winner since 2019. Mathieu van der Poel finishes fourth, ending his three-year Roubaix run.
  • Amstel Gold Race (19 April). Evenepoel wins his first Amstel, the second new race on his palmarès in two weeks.
  • Liège-Bastogne-Liège (26 April). Pogačar wins his fourth LBL, drawing closer to Eddy Merckx’s record. The 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas finishes second, the kind of ride that has the French cycling press calling him the most credible grand tour prospect the country has produced in a decade. Evenepoel takes third for his second Ardennes podium of the spring.

2026 women’s spring

Demi Vollering’s first season at FDJ-Suez has been a sweep. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Tour of Flanders, Flèche Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège all in one calendar. Paris-Roubaix Femmes went a different way, with Franziska Koch taking a surprise win over Marianne Vos and defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in a sprint after a late three-rider break. Lotte Kopecky won Milan-San Remo Women, and Elise Chabbey took Strade Bianche Donne.

What I’m watching for next

  • The Tour’s final week. Barring a crash or an off day, the yellow jersey looks settled, so the interest is in the fight behind: Vingegaard, Evenepoel, Seixas, Ayuso, and del Toro are separated by under two minutes, and the Alpe d’Huez summit finishes still to come will sort the rest of the podium. Whether Seixas can hold the white jersey — and the second week’s climbs — into Paris is the sub-plot worth following.
  • The green jersey math. Pedersen is arguably the slowest of the pure fast men here, and yet he is in green — because he is relentless at hoovering up intermediate-sprint points and generous with his legs for teammates when they need him. Mads is a madman. The remaining mountain days and intermediate sprints could still let Merlier or Milan claw back points if the flat finishes fall their way, but you would not bet against him holding it to Paris.
  • The Tour de France Femmes later in the summer, with Vollering chasing the title she lost by four seconds in 2024. After this spring and the Giro, she is in the form of her career.