Sport climbing involves three formats: bouldering, speed and lead. In the first discipline, athletes are tasked with climbing a nearly 5-meter wall -- without ropes -- under a time limit with as few ...

“Vous êtes des criminels!” Octave Lapize is said to have shouted in the general direction of race organisers at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet. Lapize would go on to win the 1910 Tour de France, ...

Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor on the Puy de Dôme The Puy de Dôme is simultaneously somehow a new and old legendary Tour de France. Its status was burnished decades ago, helped by battles ...

Details of the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France have been revealed, with three climbs of the cobbled Montmartre that featured in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games route set to feature. Tour ...

The Col de la Loze was destined to feature at the pinnacle of the Tour de France as soon as the asphalt was laid here in 2019 and after its 2020 debut, the new 'monster' of the Alps is back. It may be ...

On 24/09/2017 Margo Hayes made the coveted first female ascent of Biographie 9a+ at Céüse, France, first climbed in 2001 by Chris Sharma. This unprecedented success comes in the wake of the American's ...

The Tour de France will have a more traditional look next year. After a rare finish outside Paris this past July, cycling's biggest race is getting back to basics for the 2025 route that was unveiled ...