At the end of an exciting Il Lombardia Tadej Pogačar repeated his win of last year in Lombardy, this time out-sprinting Enric Mas with Mikel Landa a hundred metres behind in third place. Sergio Higuita and Carlos Rodríguez were at 52 seconds and Alejandro Valverde at over 1 minute in 6th place.

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Tadej Pogačar won a tough edition of the GP de Montréal on Sunday. After 221 kilometres of racing in the Canadian city, he was the first to finish on Avenue du Parc. The Slovenian from UAE Team Emirates beat Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) in a hard sprint from a leading group of five. Andrea Bagioli finished third.

Ever since Eddy Merckx hung up his racing wheels there have been many pretenders to his throne, but all have come up short. Our regular contributor, Nikolai Razouvaev – ‘The Russian Crank’ has sent his thoughts on the subject of the 'next Merckx' to fellow 'ranter' Ed Hood. Can Tadej Pogačar measure up to 'Big Ted'?

Tadej Pogačar won stage 17 after his team punched much harder than everyone expected, but he couldn't dislodge Jonas Vingegaard from his wheel and is still 2:18 behind the Dane on GC. There were a few changes on the overall standings, but everyone lost time to the two top men - Vingegaard and Pogačar.

We are now in the most important part of any Grand Tour, the third and final week. It could all be turned upside down in one stage. First Ed Hood looks back at week 3 and all the stories that caught his Tour de France eye. Stage 10 through to stage 15.

Two stage wins in a row for the Super Tadej Pogačar. It looked like Lennard Kämna might take the stage win on the super steep Super Planche des Belles Filles with its 24% final. But it was the duo of Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard who passed him in the last metres for the yellow jersey to cross the finish-line first again.

Stage 6 certainly wasn't an easy day after the chaos of the cobbles. The longest stage started with attack after attack, mostly including the yellow jersey Wout van Aert. After a solo, Van Aert was caught with 11 kilometres to go, the race hit the final short climbs and it was Tadej Pogačar who dominated the finish to take stage and overall.

It's July, so that only means one thing... The Tour de France! The biggest bike race on the globe starts in Copenhagen this year before it visits the cobbles, the Alps and the Pyrenees before the Champs-Élysées finish-line. Ed Hood gives us his preview of the French behemoth - His Tour history, course and riders.