Jeremy Whittle

United Kingdom

Journalist at Freelance

Correspondent at The Guardian

Guardian cycling correspondent. Author, dog walker. https://t.co/SF69jnEDk0

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Articles

Four-stage 2025 Women’s Tour of Britain set for northern England and Scotland

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The 2025 women’s Tour of Britain will go ahead in northern England and the Scottish Borders in early June, despite speculation that this year’s event was in difficulty. Buoyed by news that the men’s and women’s Tour de France will start in Britain in 2027, this summer’s four-day women’s race will start in Yorkshire on 5 June and end in Glasgow four days later.
Edinburgh and Yorkshire set to host Tour de France Grand Départs in 2027

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales. It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the last 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014, and the most logistically demanding Grand Départ in the century-long history of the race.
‘I feel like I’ve been let off the lead’: Tom Pidcock on his Ineos exit, Netflix editing and not riding Le Tour

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

It’s July 2022 and Tom Pidcock is flying down the towering Col du Galibier at 100km an hour, pushing the boundaries of what is achievable on a road bike, his rear wheel sliding through each snaking vertiginous bend, leaving his peers far behind and French TV commentators aghast. A couple of hours later, he raises his arms at the top of Alpe d’Huez, one of the Tour’s most feared climbs, taking an exhilarating stage win in his debut Tour de France. A new star is born.
Lizzie Deignan to bow out in 2025: ‘I showed you can be a professional athlete and a mum’

Nov 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Lizzie Deignan, the London 2012 silver medallist and former world road race champion, has confirmed that 2025 will be her final year in the women’s peloton. “Next year will be my final season,” said Deignan, who has moved back to her native Yorkshire after a long period based in Monaco.
Mont Ventoux returns for 2025 Tour de France with Pogacar aiming for No 4

Oct 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Mountains, crosswinds, cobbles and time trials: none of the hazards of the 2025 Tour de France route, unveiled in Paris on Tuesday, are likely to derail the seemingly unstoppable Tadej Pogacar, winner of almost every race worth winning in 2024.
Remco Evenepoel retains world time trial title with victory in Zurich

Sep 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

The double Olympic gold medallist Remco Evenepoel successfully defended the world time trial title he won in last year’s World Road Championships in Glasgow, with victory in this year’s event in Zurich.
Close finish can fire Tour de France Femmes to greater heights

Aug 19, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Kasia Niewiadoma’s nail-biting success in the Tour de France Femmes on Sunday was long-awaited, wholly deserved and came after countless near-misses in other major races. The Polish rider’s thrilling victory, late on an Alpine afternoon as a chilly sunset enveloped Alpe d’Huez, came at the expense of a crestfallen Demi Vollering. The defending champion lost her title by four seconds.
Kasia Niewiadoma wins Tour de France Femmes by four seconds in epic finale

Aug 18, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland took a career-defining overall victory in the Tour de France Femmes, beating defending champion Demi Vollering by just four seconds –the closest ever margin in the history of the Tour – after a tense final climb to Alpe d’Huez. On Saturday, the Canyon-SRAM rider had said that “four seconds was nothing,” but in the end, for her and her team, it turned out to be everything.
Justine Ghekiere reaches new heights with Tour de France Femmes stage win

Aug 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Justine Ghekiere of the AG Insurance Soudal team won the 166.4km seventh stage of the Tour de France Femmes and consolidated her lead in the Queen of the Mountains standings, after a six-rider breakaway disintegrated on the approach to the final climb of Le Chinaillon. Behind the Belgian, the defending champion, Demi Vollering, snuck past the race leader, Kasia Niewiadoma, in the final 200 metres, to take third place on the stage and reduce her deficit to the Polish rider by four seconds.
Kerbaol makes Tour de France Femmes history after downhill attack

Aug 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jeremy Whittle

Cédrine Kerbaol took the first-ever stage win by a French rider in the modern Tour de France Femmes, with a daring attack 15km from the finish in Morteau, to move up to second in the overall standings, with two mountain stages of the race remaining. “First French winner on the Tour de France Femmes, that’s something super-cool,” Kerbaol said. “I hope it gives a lot of motivation to the next generation. That’s what I’m thinking about.” Her Ceratizit-WNT team’s social-media feed was more succinct.