Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas says the Tour de France holds "special memories" after his final ride in the sport's showpiece event.

By its final week, the 2025 Tour de France had devolved into a meander through Whine Country—this edition was too long, too hard, too wet, too unlucky with injuries and illnesses to be compelling in the way the sport’s grandest competition habitually was.

Every year the Tour is a slice of a French summer – these are some of the most evocative images from the 2025 edition

A professional cyclist has completed this year's Tour de France for the first time. Jake Stewart, 25, from Coventry, took on the three-week and 3,500km (2,175 miles) race with the Israel-Premier Tech team. He crossed the finish line on the Champs Elysee in Paris on Sunday.