July 31: Clásica de San Sebastián July 31: San Sebastián - San Sebastián Start list and course profile posted July 29 - 31: Tour de l'Ain July 30, Stage 2: Lagnieu - Saint Vulbas 1. Georg Zimmermann 2. Michael Storer 3. Harm Vanhoucke GC leader: Georg Zimmermann July 29: Vuelta a Castilla y León July 29: Leon - Ponferrada 1. Matis Louvel 2. Stefano Oldani 3. Mauricio Moreira July, August: Tokyo Olympics July 28: Women's Time Trial 1. Annemiek van Vleuten 2. Marlen Reusser 3. Anna Van der Breggen July 28: Men's Time Trial 1. Primoz Roglic 2. Tom Dumoulin 3. Rohan Dennis July 25: Women's Road Race 1. Anna Kiesenhofer 2. Annemiek van Vleuten 3. Elisa Borghini July 24: Men's Road Race 1. Richard Carapaz 2. Wout van Aert 3. Tadej Pogacar   July 20 - 24: Tour de Wallonie July 24, Stage 5: Dinant - Quaregnon 1. Fabio Jakobsen 2. Rudiger Selig 3. Milan Menten Final GC leader: Quinn Simmons June 26 - July 18: Tour de France July 18, Stage 21: Chatou - Paris 1. Wout van Aert 2. Jasper Philipsen 3. Mark Cavendish Final GC leader: Tadej Pogacar July 14 - 18: Settimana Ciclistica Italiana July 18, Stage 5: Cagliari - Caglieri 1. Pascal Ackermann 2. Jhonatan Restrepo 3. Sep Vanmarcke Final GC leader: Diego Ulissi Use the menu above to access all the other races and everything else in our site.

Latest feature post: July 27: Larry Theobald offers his thoughts on the 2021 Tour de France and why we should celebrate a kinder, gentler "Cannibal", Tadej Pogacar. News: July 31: Team Deceuninck-Quick Step reports on Tour de l'Ain stage two; BORA - hansgrohe retains Jordi Meeus for the long term; INEOS Grenadiers signs Luke Plapp July 30: Peter Sagan and Pascal Ackermann to leave Bora-hansgrohe at the end of the season; Simon Yates to lead Team BikeExchange at Clasica San Sebastian July 29: Olympic time trial reports from the UCI, men's winner Primoz Roglic and 2nd place Tom Dumoulin's Team Jumbo-Visma, women's bronze medalist Anna van der Breggen's Team SD Worx & men's bronze medalist Rohan Dennis' Team INEOS Grenadiers; Patrick Konrad, Ide Schelling and Matteo Fabbro extend contracts with Bora-hansgrohe July 28: Swiss sweep women's Olympic mountain bike race; Team DSM's upcoming racing; Deceuninck-Quick Step to Clasica San Sebastian July 27: Tom Pidcock wins Olympic Men’s Mountain Bike Race; Team DSM announces Vuelta a España roster; Janus Cycle Group — owner of Merlin and Dean — sold to former real estate executive BikeRaceInfo's Cycling Glossary McGann Publishing homepage and bookstore

Professional cycling has been around for more than 100 years, more than enough time for nearly anything imaginable to have happened. Whether it's the Tour de France racer who thought the worst thing that could happen to him was being forced to wear the Yellow Jersey, or the communist team director who insisted, on a whim, that a rider have a toe amputated or the fit of jealousy that started the Giro d'Italia, the sport has an endless supply of examples of human folly. Les Woodland has the perfect knack for telling these improbable, silly, crazy and absurd stories. Cycling's 50 Craziest Stories is available both in print, eBook and audiobook versions. You can get all the info on Cycling's 50 Craziest Stories here. Or go straight to Amazon to get the book here in Print. Kindle eBook or Audiobook.

Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of the Tour de France, in year order. For this week, here is 2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador racing the stage individual time trial. He was second and first of all the real contenders for yellow in Paris. Lance Armstrong came out of retirement and vied with Alberto Contador for supremacy within the Astana team, of which they were both members. Contador, in scintillating form, was not to be denied victory in 2009. The Schleck brothers provided the principle challenge to Contador. Armstrong lacked the punch he had in previous Tour rides and finished a very credible third. We have results for every stage of every edition of the Tour de France. You can find them here.

What you'll find in our site:

The Tour de France. Lots of information, including results for every single stage of every Tour.

Other important bike races: the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a España, along with the classics, stage races, national championships, world records, and Olympics.

We keep a running record of the races going on in the current year, with results, photos, maps, etc. We've been doing this since 2001, so the results for this year as well as previous years are available here.

This site is owned and run by McGann Publishing. We're a micro-publisher specializing in books about cycling history. Interested? Here's information on our titles in print.

We are devoted to cycling and all of its characters and events. The sport's past matters to us. We've been interviewing anyone who will sit down and talk to us, then writing up the interviews, and collecting other stories about cycling. We have rider histories—the stories of individual riders, many by the great cycling writer Owen Mulholland. We have our oral history project—the results of our interviews. And we've collected lots of photos over the years, of racers, racing, manufacturing, etc., which we have arranged into photo galleries for your enjoyment.

Being in the bike business for many years, we had to opportunity to travel a lot in Europe, riding bikes, attending trade shows, etc. We've written up many of our travels, and had some contributions from others whose travels differed from ours.

What would the day be without the funnies? Our friend Francesca Paoletti has drawn a series of comics about bike related stuff, poking fun at us along the way.

If you are interested in bikes, sooner or later you will want to know some technical information about bikes. We have articles here about bike weight, how bike frames are prepped and assembled, selected bike parts, and others.

And then there's food! The bicycle runs on the human engine, and the human engine runs on food, so of course we're interested in that.

Along the way we've been privileged to meet many people in and around the bike business who do things we like. The folks whose ads are up there on the right are friends of ours who we believe conduct their business knowledgably and honorably; here are a few others who do stuff we like.