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Goldstone by 59 Hundredths, Hemstreet Beats Höll at Home: Leogang DHI in the Rain
Jackson Goldstone won the Leogang DHI World Cup by 59 hundredths of a second over Loïc Bruni in conditions that turned the track into a sliding puzzle. Gracey Hemstreet took back-to-back wins, holding off Valentina Höll on Höll's home circuit in the final ride of the afternoon.
By ZealZag TeamTour Auvergne Stage 7: The Grand Colombier and the Race Before the Race
Stage 7 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes sends the peloton from La Bridoire to the Grand Colombier summit — 8.4 kilometres at 10.2 percent, a finish so steep it forces every rider within striking distance of Luke Tuckwell's yellow jersey to show their cards a day before the finale.
By ZealZag TeamThree Weeks to Barcelona: Tour de France 2026 Sets a Route Built for Climbers
The 2026 Tour de France rolls out from Barcelona on July 4 for the first Grand Départ on Catalan soil in race history — a 3,333-kilometre route across 23 days with 54,450 metres of elevation, 8 mountain stages, 5 mountain finishes, and Alpe d'Huez on two consecutive days. The opening team time trial is the first since 1971.
By ZealZag TeamTrail 100 Andorra UTMB: The Ultra 105K Steps Into the High Pyrenees
The Ultra 105K — the flagship distance of the Trail 100 Andorra by UTMB — started today from Ordino with 105 kilometres and 6,900 metres of elevation ahead of each athlete. Rod Farvard, Thibaut Marguet, and Martina Valmassoi lead the seedings into Andorra's most demanding single-effort mountain race.
By ZealZag TeamLeogang XCC: Blevins Makes History, Pieterse Splits a Front Group in Seconds
Christopher Blevins took his fourth consecutive UCI Cross-Country Short Track World Cup win at Leogang on Friday, powering away from teammate Vidaurre Kossmann on the final climb. Puck Pieterse split a five-rider front group mid-race to win the women's race by 16 seconds — the kind of dominant move that makes the rest of the field look like they are racing a different event.
By ZealZag TeamEl Salvador Pro 2026: The Olympic Gold Showdown — Finals Day at Punta Roca
After Thursday's lay day, Punta Roca's quarterfinals launch at 6:30 a.m. CST Friday with the event's defining heat — Ítalo Ferreira vs Kauli Vaast, two Olympic gold medalists, on the wave that suits both of them. Medina, Moore, and Silva are also in the draw.
By ZealZag TeamTour Auvergne Stage 6: The Mountains Open and the GC Clock Starts Running
Stage 6 of the 2026 Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes rolls into the Alps today — 182.3km from Saint-Vulbas to the ski station at Crest-Voland, the first mountain finish of the race and the first real test of Alex Baudin's yellow jersey lead against a field that includes Paul Seixas, Isaac del Toro, Juan Ayuso, and Matteo Jorgenson.
By ZealZag TeamTrail 100 Andorra UTMB 2026: Trail 80K Climbs Andorra's Highest Peaks
The Trail 100 Andorra by UTMB Trail 80K launched from Ordino at dawn on June 12 — 79km and 3,900m of Pyrenean climbing across the principality's three major summits, with 3,800 athletes competing across four distances this weekend.
By ZealZag TeamTour Auvergne 2026 Stage 5: The Sprint Day Van Aert Has Been Waiting For
Stage 5 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes delivers the race's only true sprint finish — 195.8km from Saint-Chamond to the Parc des Oiseaux at Villars-les-Dombes, with all 2,200m of climbing front-loaded and a clean, flat run-in from the last bend 3km out.
By ZealZag TeamThe EPIC Opens: Training Day at Leogang as the MTB World Cup's Most Stacked Weekend Begins
The WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Round 4 opened in Saalfelden-Leogang today with practice sessions across downhill and cross-country — four disciplines, four days, one mountain, and a historic first: for the first time, the Elite Women's DH final is the headline event that closes Saturday's programme.
By ZealZag TeamPunta Roca Pauses: Quarterfinals Set as El Salvador Pro Takes a Lay Day
A lay day called Thursday at Punta Roca puts the Surf City El Salvador Pro on hold with the quarterfinal draw fully set — Medina through after beating Robinson, Ferreira advancing injured, and the women's bracket producing four loaded matchups before Friday's 6:30 a.m. CST competition call.
By ZealZag TeamAlfred Takes the 100m as Bislett Delivers: Oslo Diamond League 2026 Recap
Julien Alfred won the women's 100 metres at the 2026 Bislett Games as the Diamond League's sixth stop lit up Oslo's historic oval — a night that also featured Karsten Warholm's first 400m hurdles race of the season at home and Gout Gout's senior Diamond League debut in the 200m against Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo.
By ZealZag TeamTwelve Seconds: Baudin and EF Roll Yellow Into Stage 4 at Montrond-les-Bains
Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost) carries a twelve-second yellow jersey lead into Stage 4 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes today — a 167.5-kilometre transition stage from Le Puy-en-Velay into the Loire plain, with Vauquelin, Onley, and Jorgenson sitting just behind and Stage 5's first summit finish waiting tomorrow.
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Trail 100 Andorra by UTMB 2026: 6,900m Into the Pyrenean Roof
Four days before the Ultra 105K gun goes off at Ordino, Trail 100 Andorra by UTMB is already generating the quiet intensity of a race that knows exactly what it is: 105 kilometres and 6,900 metres through the highest country in the Pyrenees.
By ZealZag TeamMignot Beats the World Champion on the Best Swell of the Week
On Day 4 of the El Salvador Pro, French-Mexican rookie Marco Mignot produced another Punta Roca buzzer-beater — this time over reigning world champion Yago Dora — as the swell climbed toward its biggest pulse of the event window. Day 5 brings the quarterfinals with the forecast in the eight-to-ten-foot range.
By ZealZag TeamYellow on the Clock: Alex Baudin's EF Squad Faces the TTT at Perreux
Stage 3 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a 28.4-kilometre team time trial circuit in the Loire Roannais — the first direct GC test of the race, a Tour de France dress rehearsal, and the day EF Education-EasyPost must defend Alex Baudin's thirty-two-second yellow jersey against Visma, UAE, INEOS, and Decathlon.
By ZealZag TeamQuarterfinals at Punta Roca: WSL El Salvador Pro Day 4 and the Bracket That Got Us Here
The 2026 WSL El Salvador Pro reached its quarterfinals on Day 4 at Punta Roca with clean overhead surf and the bracket nobody expected after the Day 1 upsets. The eight heats that decided the semifinals, and the men's and women's draws heading into Day 5.
By ZealZag TeamPogačar Arrives in Switzerland: Tour de Suisse 2026 Preview and Start List
The 2026 Tour de Suisse begins Saturday in Frauenfeld and finishes June 21 in Andermatt. Tadej Pogačar leads a UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad built around a one-week peak. The preview, the start list, and the three stages that will decide it.
By ZealZag TeamSkjelmose Slips the Leash on the Matheysine: Stage 2 Shifts the Tour Auvergne's GC Already
Mattias Skjelmose attacked from a six-rider move on the Col du Festre and held the line into La Mure to win Stage 2 of the 2026 Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Paul Seixas kept the yellow jersey. Isaac del Toro lost 38 seconds. The race has begun.
By ZealZag TeamThe Old Race Opens Under a New Name: Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Stage 1 Sends the Tour de France Field Into the Chartreuse
The renamed Critérium du Dauphiné opens in Vizille today with an unprecedented opening-stage ambition — five categorised climbs and 3,000 metres of climbing over 146 kilometres into Saint-Ismier — and a startlist that includes Paul Seixas, Isaac Del Toro, Wout van Aert, and Juan Ayuso, all using Stage 1 to begin telling the Tour de France story four weeks early.
By ZealZag TeamPrague Closes with a Sweep: Anraku Takes Lead Gold as Grossman Tops the Wall at the Last Clip
The 2026 World Climbing Series Prague closes today at Štvanice Stadium with lead finals that delivered a clean narrative: Grossman claimed women's gold with a last-minute top, Anraku swept both boulder and lead to claim his fourth consecutive WCS gold of the season — the most dominant single-event performance in Prague's competition history.
By ZealZag TeamFifty Seconds: The 2026 Giro Donne Comes Down to Saluzzo
Van der Breggen leads Vollering by 50 seconds entering the final stage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women — a loop through the Cuneo hills that ends in Saluzzo this afternoon. The gap is large enough to manage. The Montoso is hard enough to close it.
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WSL Surf City El Salvador Pro 2026: Day 3 at Punta Roca — Hanneman's Masterclass and Lelior's Upset
Day 3 at the WSL Surf City El Salvador Pro delivers: Eli Hanneman posts a 16.16 two-wave total, rookie Anat Lelior upsets 8x World Champion Stephanie Gilmore, and Ramzi Boukhiam announces his candidacy at perfect Punta Roca.
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Transvulcania 2026: Sinclair and L'Hirondel Shatter Records on La Palma
David Sinclair wins Transvulcania 2026 in 6:32:24 — a 19-minute course record — while Blandine L'Hirondel breaks the women's mark by 22 minutes. All six race formats set new records on a historic day in the Canary Islands.
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