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All 166 riders left in the Tour de France underwent an anti-doping test on Monday evening, Cycling Weekly can reveal.

A day after Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) were woken up in the early hours of Sunday morning by doping control officers (DCO), every other bike rider in the race was visited by a DCO on behalf of the International Testing Agency (ITA) on Monday and made to provide a blood sample. They were also made to do so two days before the race started in Barcelona.

Riders were tested between 8 and 11pm on Monday, inside standard testing hours. In a statement to CW, the ITA said: “The International Testing Agency confirms that a comprehensive blood Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) testing mission was carried out during the Tour de France rest day.

This article was published by Cycling Weekly in July 2026. To read the full article click here.