Tour de France Femmes: World famous cycling race plunged into bra row Sport Business For penis injections at the Winter Olympics, read bra padding at the Tour de France Femmes, where officials are making extra checks on riders to ensure they are not cheating by inflating the size of their chests. The move comes after unnamed teams raised suspicions that some cyclists were using padding on their chests – [...]
Inside the untapped commercial potential of the Tour de France Sport Business The Tour de France is the most attended annual sporting event with over 12m people attending roadside every year for the historic three-week race. Its UK audience is growing too, with the 2026 broadcast attaining 41 per cent more viewers than the previous year. Despite that scale, many brands still underestimate the breadth of commercial [...]
Beyond the Tour de France: How Girona became a cyclist’s paradise Life&Style Girona quietly welcomes the world’s best cyclists – and the Tour de France. Damien Gabet rides through Spain’s bucolic countryside D’you remember the Festina scandal in 1998? The whole cycling team was caught bang to rights for doping. And because parts of it fell under French criminal law, les flics got involved and the soigneur [...]
Ratcliffe’s Ineos signs £85m deal with Netcompany for grand tour cycling team April 28, 2026 Ineos has struck an £87m deal with Netcompany which will see the IT services firm become co-title partner of the Grenadiers grand tour cycling team. The Netcompany Ineos Cycling Team will debut at next week’s Giro d’Italia and see the cycling team – once Team Sky – have a third-party sponsor besides Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s [...]
Aston Villa facing Premier League scrutiny over £55m Warehouse sale April 22, 2026 Aston Villa’s latest accounting manoeuvre – selling “The Warehouse” to the club’s owners for £55m – is yet to be signed off by the Premier League. Some top-flight clubs have avoided breaching spending rules in recent years by selling their stadiums and women’s teams to companies within the same ownership group. In a new twist, [...]
London set for £12m boost as host of Tour de France Femmes team time trial April 20, 2026 London is set for a £12m boost when the Tour de France Femmes heads to the capital for the grand tour’s first ever team time trial in 2027. Both the men’s and women’s Grands Depart will take place in the UK in July and August next year, but only the women’s peloton will ride around [...]
London role revealed for historic 2027 Tour de France Grand Departs January 15, 2026 London will play a key role when the Grand Departs of both the men’s and women’s editions of the Tour de France are held in the UK for the first time next year. The men’s Grand Depart – a short series of stages that begin the world’s most famous cycling race – will begin with [...]
Chris Froome facing uncertain future after breaking back in training crash August 28, 2025 Four-time Tour de France-winner Chris Froome is set to undergo surgery after breaking his back and five ribs and suffering a punctured lung in a crash during training. Froome, 40, was airlifted to hospital in Toulon after sustaining the injuries on Wednesday. Britain’s most decorated Grand Tour cyclist is said to be in a stable [...]
Women’s Rugby World Cup shows UK’s love of live sport August 21, 2025 The Women’s Rugby World Cup arriving in England is a timely reminder of what live sport can do. Sporting events forge some of the most positive and enduring moments of our lives, whether we’re stood on the terraces of our local club or sat in the stands at the biggest events on the planet. Live [...]
Wimbledon, Euros and Test cricket set to boost pubs and supermarkets July 12, 2025 Pubs and supermarkets are bracing for a bumper weekend thanks to the heatwave and a deluge of live sport on TV including Wimbledon finals, Test cricket and the Lionesses. A British and Irish Lions tour match, England and Wales rugby internationals, other Women’s Euros fixtures, Tour de France cycling and a trilogy fight between Katie [...]