Tour de France

Welcome to Yorkshire's 2019 annual conference in Leeds. The organisation went out of business in 2022. Picture: James Hardisty

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On the rise: Ineos Grenadiers' Polish rider Michal Kwiatkowski, left, celebrates his win on Stage 13 of the Tour de France with Tom Pidcock, who finished fifth. (Picture: CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Tom Pidcock strengthens yellow jersey position but Ben Turner abandons

British rider Chris Froome of Israel-Premier Tech (Picture: DAVID STOCKMAN/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

Chris Froome a 'waste of money' blasts Israel Premier Tech boss

UAE Team Emirates' Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar (R) wearing the best young rider's white jersey cycles ahead of Jumbo-Visma's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard (L) wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey in the ascent of the Puy de Dome in the final kilometers of the 9th stage of the 110th edition of the Tour de France (Picture: BERNARD PAPON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Vingegaard v Pogacar - where the race for the yellow jersey will be won or lost

Daring descender: Tom Pidcock descending at breaknexk speed to win a stage of the Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez on his debut last year (Picture: Nico Vereecken/PN/Cor Vos/SWpix.com)

Tom Pidcock and Ben Turner flying flag for Yorkshire at the Tour de France

ON THE UP: INEOS Grenadiers' Tom Pidcock in action on the Via Santa Catarina climb on his way to winning Strade Bianche back in March.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Tour de France - Pidcock dialled in to join higher echelon of top racers

Settle-based writer Julia Chapman. Picture: Catherine Speakman.

Books which were an 'overnight success that took 12 years' will be made for TV

MAGIC MOMENT: Tom Pidcock winning last year's Stage 12 of the Tour de France on Alpe d'Huez Picture: Vincent Kalut/CorVos/SWpix.com

Leeds' Pidcock confident of good start in Tour de France

END OF THE ROAD: Mark Cavendish, pictured at Leeds Civic Hall on the eve of the Tour de Yorkshire back in May 2019. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Cavendish set to call time on career after 'living the dream'

Tom Pidcock of Leeds comes home second in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege Spring Classic (Picture: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)

Tom Pidcock satisfied with second place to Evenepoel at Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Kate Auld, who runs business The Personal Cyclist. Picture by Carl Summerscales.

Meet the Harrogate cyclist helping adults get back on their bikes

CONCERN: Lizzie Deignan has warned the race will leave a huge hole in the WorldTour calendar if it does not go ahead in June. Picture: Bradley Collyer/PA.

Deignan to consider her race options if Women’s Tour dropped

GRIND: Tom Pidcock of INEOS Grenadiers pus in the hard work on the Via Santa Catarina climb on his way to winning the Strade Bianche in Siena, Tuscany. Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Pidcock rewarded for bold move as he clinches Strade Bianche crown

PIONEER: Brian Robinson (right) leading fellow competitors Andre Darrigade of France (centre) and Swiss Fritz Schaer, near the end of the first stage of 138 miles from Rheims to Liege of the Tour de France back in July 1956 Picture: PA

Brian Robinson - cycling pioneer and Tour de France stage winner dies

Ned Boulting is bringing his Tour de France show to Yorkshire. Photo: Adam Lawrence

Ned Boulting on Tour de France and Tour de Yorkshire

Maratona dles Dolomites cycle route.
Picture : PA Photo/Alex Molingk.

Travel: Cycling the Italian Alps with 7,000 other riders for company

Sam Watson, right, with the Pidcock family Tom and Giles at the finish of the Tour of Britain stage in Helmsley recently. (Picture: Bruce Rollinson)

Sam Watson latest to emerge from Yorkshire, land of the rising cycling star

AJ Bell Tour of Britain - Stage 2: Hawick to Duns, Scotland - Jacob Scott of Team WIV Sungod retaining the Skoda KOM Jersey (Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

Redcar takes centre stage as Tour of Britain returns to Yorkshire

LEADING MAN: Leeds's Tom Pidcock on his way to winning the European Mountain Bike Cross Country title in Munich last week. Picture by Will Palmer/SWpix.com

Ambitious Pidcock relishes extra pressure that success brings him

MUNICH, GERMANY - AUGUST 19: Thomas Pidcock of Great Britain crosses the finish line to win the Men's Cross-Country during the cycling Mountain Bike competition on day 9 of the European Championships Munich 2022 at Olympiapark on August 19, 2022 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

Tom Pidcock storms to mountain bike gold at European Championships

Quirky handmade cycling ducks lead the way for gift ideas

The Tour de Yorkshire won't return in its present form, it's been announced

Tour de Yorkshire to be replaced with new-look event in the region from 2024

BRILLIANT: Tom Pidcock celebrates as he cycles past the finish line to win the 12th stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France Picture: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images

Pidcock makes history with Tour De France stage win

Leeds's Tom Pidcock celebrates his stage victory at the Tour de France. Picture: Vincent Kalut/PN/Cor Vos SWpix.com

Yorkshire’s Tom Pidcock rides into Tour de France history books

In the rhythm: Tom Pidcock at the start of stage five of his maiden Tour de France last week. (Picture: Zak Williams/SWPix.com)

Tom Pidcock exceeding expectation in maiden Tour de France

Tom Pidcock's new jersey in collaboration with Bioracer.

Tom Pidcock launches Bioracer jersey to mark rise to Tour de France status

Tom Pidcock - pictured competing in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Arkansas earlier this year. Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com

Pidcock set to show his ambitious streak on biggest stage of all

TOM PIDCOCK: The Olympic mountain bike champion from Leeds will compete at the Tour de France this summer. Picture: Getty Images.

Yorkshire's Tom Pidcock and Connor Swift to appear at Tour de France this summer

Sam Watson: Beaten only by Mark Cavendish at the British road race championships but consoled as the winner of the Under-23s race (Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWPix.com)

Sam Watson eyes pro cycling ranks after runnng Cav close

The Tour de Yorkshire will not be taking place next year.

Tour de Yorkshire 2022 is called off 'by mutual consent'

The next Tour de Yorkshire event is set to take place in May 2022. Picture: Gary Longbottom

The five big questions overshadowing Tour de Yorkshire 2022: Susan Briggs

Record equaller: Mark Cavendish celebrates winning his 34th stage of the Tour de France to pull alongside Eddy Merckx. Picture: Christophe Ena/AP

‘Exhausted’ Mark Cavendish draws level with stage record of Tour de France legen...
Mark Cavendish matched the record of the great Eddy Merckx as he won his 34th Tour de France stage in Carcassonne.

Team Ineos Grenadiers' Geraint Thomas of Great Britain (2nd-R) attends a training session two days ahead of the first stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, near Brest on July 24, 2021. (Picture: Philippe LOPEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

Geraint Thomas part of Ineos Grenadiers’ four-prongued attack on Tour de France

Nigel Murray COO for Booths.

Booths COO on opening new stores and riding the Tour de France

Gary Verity and Christian Prudhomme, general director of the Tour de France, in front of thousands of spectators as the Grand Depart weekend got under way in Leeds in 2014. Picture: PA

Agency's long road to restoring reputation after Tour de France legacy went sour

Harry Tanfield: Unexpected opportunity. Picture: PA

Harry Tanfield ready for Grand Tour debut at snow-threatened Vuelta Espana

Connor Swift of Arkea Samsic descends off the Col des Aravis on Stage 18: Meribel to La Roche-sur-Foron (Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

Connor Swift eager for Tour de France return after surviving his first edition

Farmers Leigh Weston and Neil Heseltine with their Belted Galloway cattle above Hill Top Farm in the shadow of Malham Cove. The couple have a bunkhouse and are among the tourism businesses in the Dales hoping to benefit from the new series of All Creatures Great and Small. Picture Tony Johnson

All Creatures Great and Small tourism opportunity must be seized - The YP says

Connor Swift of Arkea Samsic before the start of stage five of the 2020 Tour de France (Picture: Alex Whitehead/SWPix.com)

Connor Swift eager to keep Nairo Quintana safe on Tour de France road to Paris

Yorkshire's Connor Swift. Picture Tony Johnson.

Swift rise to Tour de France action for Yorkshire rider

Britain's Adam Yates pictured at the start of last year's Tour de France. Picture: AP/Thibault Camus.

Ambition remains but Adam Yates realistic about his Tour de France chances

The winner of the 2019 Tour de France - Colombia's Egan Bernal - leads the pack down the Champs Elysees in Paris (Photo: ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)

2020's Tour de France kicks off this weekend - here's everything you need to kno...

Team Europe captain Catriona Matthew (top) celebrates with her team and the trophy after winning the 2019 Solheim Cup at Gleneagles Golf Club, Auchterarder. (Picture Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Solheim Cup part of plans to make Yorkshire an international golfing hotbed

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France started in Leeds in 2014 and was a high point for Welcome to Yorkshire.

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York-based musician Alistair Griffin. Pictures courtesy of Alistair Griffin

Yorkshire singer to do lockdown tour of driveways and gardens in tribute to fans

Carol Costello of Costellos Good Food Shop on Bishopthorpe Road. (Gary Longbottom).

Bishopthorpe Road - how this popular high street in York is getting back on its ...

Chris Froome in Leeds at the finish of the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

Tour de France great Chris Froome to leave Team Ineos

Mr Critchlow, or Critchley, from York, photographed by the Tommy Simpson memorial on Mont Ventoux in 1985

A couple are trying to trace a tourist from York they photographed in France in ...

Planning: Coach Dean Downing with cyclist Jake Womersley, left. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Coronavirus to have final say over cycling’s new calendar, fears Dean Downing

Tour of Britain: Race director Mick Bennett.

Plotting route to keep Tour of Britain on track

Yorkshire challenge: The peloton during the 2019 Asda Tour de Yorkshire Women’s Race climbs out of Sandsend on the road from Bridlington to Scarborough. This year’s race should have been starting today in Beverley, but has been postponed due to coronavirus. (Picture: Bruce Rollinson)

Tour de Yorkshire could move to 2021 and be ‘catalyst for economy and civic prid...

Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins of Sky Pro Racing (yellow jersey), follows team mate, Chris Froome (left), in the Tour de France.

New Tour de France dates are ‘light at the end of the tunnel’

2018 winner: Team Sky's Geraint Thomas celebrates winning the Tour de France.

Tour de France spoked by coronavirus

Grand depart: Mark Cavendish and Chris Froome lead the way.

Why covering Yorkshire’s Tour de France stages was most memorable event

The view from the front garden of The Farmhouse (photo: Joe Cooper).

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Oliver Norwood: Bike test.

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Crowning glory: Ben Swift rounds the final bend on his way to the British National championshp title.

In it for the long haul as coronavirus puts a spoke in plans of top cyclist Ben ...

Sir Gary Verity (right) and james Mason - the past and present chief executives of Welcome to Yorkshire.

Why Welcome to Yorkshire needs this wider tourism rethink after Sir Gary Verity ...

James Mason, the new chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire at the Tour de Yorkshire race route reveal at Leeds Civic Hall. (Picture: Tony Johnson)

Tour de Yorkshire future uncertain as hopes for Tour de France return suffer set...

This was the scene in Harrogate during the UCI World Championships which were blighted by bad weather.

Harrogate can cash in on growing reputation as cycling capital of Britain: Yorks...