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2025 Tour de France will start in the north

It will be the first start on French roads for four years

History as 300-km race in France no one had finished gets first winner

Sports teacher and ultra distance runner completed the mountainous course in 71 hours, as five racers complete superhuman feat

US ultra-trail runner shares fun and pain of winning Mont Blanc race

We spoke to the American who lives and trains in Mercantour national park in the south of France about how a geologist becomes an ultra runner

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French election candidate Eric Zemmour found guilty of hate speech

The far-right polemicist has been fined €10,000 for comments he made about unaccompanied migrant children

British rider Lizzie Deignan wins first women’s Paris-Roubaix

The cyclist made history as she took victory in the notoriously difficult ‘cobbles’ race in treacherous rain. It was the first-ever women’s version of the event, 125 years after the men’s began

Two France-based women to tackle all woman Sahara Desert off-road race

The pair from the UK and New Zealand, who live in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France, will drive around 1,500km across the desert as part of the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles

170km Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc marathon begins in French Alps

The 170km race will see 10,000 competitors race on mountain tracks. Completing the route in under 20 hours is considered extremely fast

Video: Sam Davies' Vendée Globe race ends

The British sailor, who was racing in her third attempt at the solo, non-stop, round-the-world race, said she had ‘no choice’ but to stop after a crash damaged her boat

Briton Sam Davies is sailing in her third Vendée Globe

One woman, one boat, two buckets, seven seas in the solo round-world race dubbed 'the Everest of the seas'

Who is Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar?

A brief history of the 22-year-old rider, who took the 2020 race by storm

Wacky race of bosses and workers on mopeds at Le Mans

This Saturday hundreds of business managers and teams made up of their employees dressed in blue capes will race vintage mopeds against each other around Le Mans race track to have some fun outside of the office.

Riders and fans gear up for 2019 Tour de France

Key absences mean the 106th Tour is regarded as the most open for several years

Banned French race horses drugged due to ‘old hay’

Two race horses in the Haute-Loire (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) that tested positive for the banned drug boldenone had the substance in their system due to inadvertently eating old hay, it has been confirmed.

Paris street artist paints over ‘cowardly’ swastika

A street artist has hit back after his painting of late French politician and anti-Holocaust campaigner Simone Veil was defaced with the anti-semitic symbol of a swastika this week.

Obama celebrates diversity of French World Cup team

Former US President Barack Obama has commended the victorious French World Cup 2018 football team for its diversity, in a speech celebrating 100 years since the birth of late South African icon Nelson Mandela.