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William Fotheringham

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William Fotheringham is the Guardian's cycling columnist

July 2025

  • Tadej Pogacar passes the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur in Paris during the final stage of this year’s Tour de France

    Pogacar’s rivals must work out how to defeat a champion at the top of his game

  • Jonathan Milan comes home to win stage 17

    Tour de France 2025: Jonathan Milan wins stage 17 sprint finish after late crash – as it happened

  • Tadej Pogacar descends from Mont Ventoux during the 2021 Tour de France

    Terrifying Mont Ventoux ready to create the unexpected again in Tour de France

  • Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team Emirates - XRG celebrates at finish line as stage winner.

    Tour de France 2025: Pogacar blows field away on stage 12 summit finish in Pyrenees – as it happened

  • double quotation markTour de France’s phoney war gets dose of reality as Pogacar v Vingegaard hits the mountains

    William Fotheringham
  • double quotation markFrance’s wait for Tour win rumbles on with no prospect of victory in sight

    William Fotheringham
  • Tour de France 2025: full team-by-team guide

  • Tour de France 2025: stage-by-stage guide to this year’s race

  • Quel triomphe! Tour de France celebrates 50 years of finishes on Champs-Élysées

June 2025

  • Simon Yates (centre) took advantage after title rivals Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz cancelled each other out on Saturday’s crucial stage.

    Simon Yates rides away with improbable prize of Giro d’Italia while rivals lose plot

    Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz became distracted by each other, allowing the Lancastrian to claim a second Grand Tour

April 2025

  • Barry Hoban<br>British cyclist Barry Hoban peddles away on a footpath, during the third stage of the Tour de France, 2nd July 1968. (Photo by Agence France Presse/Getty Images)

    Barry Hoban obituary

  • Barry Hoban receives his trophy after winning the 18th stage of the 1968 Tour de France in Bordeaux

    Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85

December 2024

  • Street race world championship 1961: Winner Rik van Looy (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    Rik Van Looy obituary

    Belgian cyclist and the first to triumph in the five great one-day classics known as the Monuments

October 2024

  • Chris Hoy at the Manchester Velodrome in 2015.

    Chris Hoy: a remarkable, determined human being unchanged by success

    The courage with which he faces his diagnosis is typical of a man who engages with life in his own way, with perspective

September 2024

  • Tadej Pogacar poses on the podium.

    Tadej Pogacar lands world road race championship to complete triple crown

  • Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men 2024 - Stage Six - Lowestoft to Felixstowe<br>Tour of Britain overall winner Israel-Premier Tech rider Stephen Williams celebrates following stage six of the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain from Lowestoft to Felixstowe. Picture date: Sunday September 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story CYCLING Mens Tour. Photo credit should read: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire.
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    Steve Williams wins Tour of Britain title as Govekar takes frantic final stage

  • Paul Magnier crosses the finish line at Northampton

    Williams keeps Tour of Britain lead as Magnier kicks to hat-trick on stage five

  • Paul Magnier wins the fourth stage of the Tour of Britain.

    Paul Magnier exploits ‘mousehole’ to take fourth stage of Tour of Britain

  • Steve Williams wins ‘chaotic’ Tour of Britain third stage to extend race lead

  • Williams outsprints Alaphilippe for Tour of Britain stage two success

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