It’s said that 176 riders from 22 different teams will fight it out for glory over the 21 gruelling stages, in what will be the shortest Tour of the century and the fifth that has set out from ...

Ever more popular year-on-year, the Tour provides its own platform in partnership with Tissot, awarding points based on riders’ performances in each stage and overall throughout the race.

In June, Swiss rider Gino Mäder died aged 26 following a crash on the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse. Almost 200 kilometers into the race, Mäder crashed at high speed with American rider ...