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The most famous cycling race in the world gets underway on July 4, with 184 riders from 23 teams set to take part in the 2026 Tour de France. Barcelona hosts the Grand Depart and the champion will be crowned on the Champs-Elysees on July 26. Where to watch the 2026 Tour de France TNT Sports have exclusive UK rights to the 2026 Tour de France, with all the action to be shown across the TNT Sports and HBO Max network.

In the last 50 years, the world has seen a lot of change From the invention of the World Wide Web to the launch of The Hubble Space Telescope and the cloning of sheep, the list is endless. But 2026 also marks a historic milestone for closing the gap within sport. For the first time in Olympic history, women were able to compete at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada.

As the UK sizzled under the heatwave sun, British athletes made their opponents sweat with World-leading performances in June. Collecting strong results on home soil and on the continent, here’s what Team GB athletes got up to. Defending 800m Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson set a new personal best and broke the British 800m record at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in Sweden.

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This time last year I could not look at a diving board without my stomach turning. Right now I am falling back in love with the sport I have given my life to. This is how I got here. I had been struggling with diving for the whole year after Paris. From the outside you would not have known. I opened the season with World Cup bronze in Mexico, the first time the team had competed since the Games, and I stood on that podium genuinely proud of the diver I still was.

There is nothing more daunting than walking out to compete at an Olympic Games – or so five Team GB stars thought until they had to catwalk in front of RuPaul. The world of the Olympic Games and the worldwide phenomenon that is RuPaul's Drag Race is an unlikely Venn diagram to occupy the middle of. But the semi-final of Drag Race UK vs The World Season 3 changed all that with a makeover challenge worthy of a gold medal.

Beth Shriever has always been about making history, and she is ready to write some more in 2026. The BMX rider is eyeing up a European and world double this summer, as she looks to add to her illustrious medal collection. Shriever pulled off the impressive feat last year, winning her second European crown in Valmiera before clinching a third world title in Copenhagen.

“When you lose a parent, you wish you could have one more conversation with them. This has allowed me to do that.” Adam Wilkie is embarking on a remarkable challenge to honour his dad, former British Olympic champion David Wilkie MBE, while raising money for the next generation of British athletes.

When Keely Hodgkinson takes to the start line at the UK Athletics Championships this weekend, things will look a little different. The 800m Olympic champion is set to race in the 400m. It is all part of a larger plan that saw Hodgkinson start her outdoor season at the same distance at the Rome Diamond League at the start of the month, clocking a time of 51.41 seconds. It was a personal best but it is not the dream, with Hodgkinson noting pre-Rome that she is targeting a sub-50-second run.