Analysis of the eighth stage of the 2025 Tour de France, which took the peloton from Saint-Meen-le-Grand to Laval

Italian rider Jonathan Milan timed his attack perfectly, adding a stage victory to the Olympic gold he won in the team pursuit at the 2021 Tokyo Games.

The 2025 Tour de France rolls on and runs through Sunday, July 27. Live coverage of all 21 stages will be available on Peacock. See below to find the 2025 Tour de France standings as well as additional information on how you can watch the historic event on Peacock.

During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.

Britain and France have agreed to a pilot plan that will send some migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France as the U.K. government struggles to tamp down criticism that it has lost control of the country’s borders.

Hosts New Zealand thump France 43-17 to win the second Test in Wellington and clinch the series with a game to spare.

Following high-profile accusations of undue political influence in Brazil and Germany, France has launched a criminal investigation into Elon Musk's X.

Ben Healy surged out on his own to win Stage 6 at the Tour de France. Mathieu van der Peul also took back the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar.

He says small boats migrants will be returned to France, in exchange for asylum seekers who have not tried to enter the UK illegally.

France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between June 1 and July 2 this year, an increase of 58% over the same period last year, blaming it on unusually warm weather at the end of June.

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving Elon Musk's platform X.