Dan Bigham and his Team Ribble colleagues will not ride the RTTC National 25 mile time trial this weekend, and the aerodynamicist has called for the governing body to push the discipline into reform. The course – which uses the A50 – has come under scrutiny before, with residents petitioning for...
Investigators are trying to find the driver who struck Andrew Bernstein on Saturday as the local bike racer and bicycle industry veteran was riding home from a velodrome workout. Bernstein, an account director at True Communications and a former journalist and marketing director at Bicycling magazine, is in critical condition...
Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) has abandoned the Tour de France 2019, where he sat fifth in the overall classification, 1-50 down on Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step). The Frenchman went to the medic car early on in stage 19, getting his left leg re-bandaged up just above the knee, before then...
Organisers of the Tour de France have been forced to cut out more than half of the final mountain stage of the race, shortening stage 20 from 130 to just 59 kilometres after storms caused landslides along the route. Stage 19 was halted at the top of the Col de...
Egan Bernal made history today at Val Thorens, set to become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France and the youngest in the post-war era. With the help of Ineos team-mate and 2018 victor Geraint Thomas, he defended his yellow jersey at the Val Thorens summit finish. Thomas...
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) says he is “exhausted, happy and proud” of his Tour de France after dropping down the GC on Saturday’s final mountain stage. The Frenchman dropped from second overall to fifth after cracking on the final climb of stage 20 to Val Thorens, losing three minutes to the...
A mudslide and freak hailstorm high in the French Alps on Friday might have cost Geraint Thomas (Ineos) a chance to defend his Tour de France title. The world will never know how the truncated stage 19 to Tignes would have played out. Ever the loyal teammate, the 2018 Tour...
Chris Froome has posted a video of himself back on the indoor trainer, six weeks after an awful crash during the Critérium du Dauphiné. The Team Ineos leader fell at almost 60km/h during a time trial recon during the French stage race and was left in intensive care. Froome suffered...
Luke Rowe and Tony Martin have both been kicked off the Tour de France after an altercation on stage 17. Jumbo-Visma workhorse Martin was filmed swerving in front of the Welshman, almost causing Rowe to fall in the final of the run to Gap. The footage then shows Rowe putting...
America is a country rich in sporting tradition, and in the annals of American sports there have been many stories of amazing comebacks – by both individuals and teams. However, perhaps no story is bigger than Greg LeMond’s comeback to win the 1989 Tour de France – exactly 30 years...
Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) took the summit victory on the Tourmalet after edging ahead of the group of favourites on stage 14 of the Tour de France 2019. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) strengthened his position in yellow as he finished in the front group and Geraint Thomas (Ineos) lost time...
Movistar bet everything on blowing up the Tour de France on the Tourmalet but ended up only self-imploding. The Spanish WorldTour team came out blazing Saturday, slotting a rider into the day’s early break and putting four riders on the front to pace the bunch to the base of the...
The second rest day of our Tour meant time for bike maintenance. Where the pros have mechanics to do that for them, I spent my own time treating to my bike to a full bath and a new chain. We were treated to a massage, for the first time after...
Something special is unfolding this month in France. For the past several years, cycling’s greatest race ended in near pre-ordained predictability. In 2019, the script is deliciously upside down. After two weeks of racing, consider this: five riders are within one minute of each other behind yellow jersey Julian Alaphilippe....
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) surprised his doubters to win Friday’s 13th stage of the Tour de France, a 27.2 kilometer time trial in Pau. Known more for his punchy accelerations on steep climbs, Alaphilippe blazed a impressive individual time trial to defeat defending champion Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) by 14...
Chris Froome is officially the winner of the 2011 Vuelta a España, taking the title from Juan José Cobo who has had his results disqualified after the UCI banned him for an anti-doping violation. The Spaniard had been sanctioned in June by the UCI, which said he used a banned...
Rohan Dennis (Bahrain-Merida) has abandoned the Tour de France, climbing off the bike 80 kilometres from the end of stage 12 to Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Bahrain-Merida indicated in a post on Twitter that the team staff were unaware of the reasons why Dennis pulled out of the race, but they have launched...
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) – stage 11 winner “To be honest I can’t believe it. I’ve been close in the last four sprints I’ve done, and my team never lost faith in me. I never lost faith in my sprint. I knew if everything came together then I can be...
Nairo Quintana’s time at Movistar will end this year with a three-year deal at Arkéa-Samsic on the table for 2020. Cyclingnews has learned that negotiations between the Colombian and his current team ended in failure and that Arkéa-Samsic first sat down with the rider to begin talks on a deal...
Jumbo-Visma are the latest team linked to the use of the dietary supplement ketones that are thought to improve recovery for endurance athletes. Team manager Richard Plugge confirmed that his riders use the supplement in a report published in De Telegraaf on Monday. “Ketones are a dietary supplement. You can use...
After 10 stages of racing and more than half of the total Tour de France race distance, the yellow jersey of Julian Alaphilippe and his Deceuninck-QuickStep teammates are enjoying a first rest day of this year’s race in Albi. Nearly all of the riders from the race will head out...
The throngs of French fans lining the 170 kilometers between Saint-Étienne and Brioude for Sunday’s ninth stage of the Tour de France had an extra occasion to celebrate on this Bastille Day. Their countryman, Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) rode within the bunch, resplendent in his yellow race leader’s jersey. Television...
American Tejay van Garderen has left the Tour de France. Van Garderen (EF Education First) withdrew from the race Friday evening after breaking his left hand in a crash on stage 7, according to a team release. Van Garderen was caught in a pileup that occurred just a few kilometers...
An Italian cyclist in intensive care after his lung was punctured by a piece of track at the under-23 junior track championships in Ghent, Belgium. Lorenzo Gobbo, 17, crashed during the scratch race of the men’s junior omnium and his thigh and side were pierced by the wooden track. The...
Elia Viviani has confirmed he will leave Deceuninck-QuickStep in 2020 despite his sprint success at the Tour de France, with team manager Patrick Lefevere admitting he does not have the budget to match the offers of other teams keen to sign the Italian. Viviani told Cyclingnews on Monday that the...
Peter Sagan has starred in an unusual new ‘flat earth’ advert promoting Specialized bikes. The ad, titled ‘Breaking News with Peter Sagan’, was released online on Wednesday (July 10) as the three-time world champion sprinted to victory on stage five of the Tour de France. Sagan stars as a newsreader...
On-bike footage from the Tour de France has captured a huge crash for a Cofidis rider who was catapulted over the bars when he hit a bollard. Pierre-Luc Périchon was filmed riding into road furniture at full speed on stage four of the Tour de France, with the incident captured...
Peter Sagan performed his best Incredible Hulk impersonation after winning Wednesday’s fifth stage of the Tour de France. Sagan flexed his muscles in celebration after winning the bunch sprint ahead of Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott). After the victory, Sagan said the victory addressed questions about his...
Tour de France organizers are treading carefully with the incorporation of gravel roads in this year’s route, with segments of the final kilometer of the La Planche des Belles Filles climb having been upgraded from loose gravel to chip seal. The final kilometer still includes packed dirt, however the final...
Lance Armstrong says he and his teams would have won the Tour de France multiple times if the entire peloton was riding clean during his now-stripped reign of seven victories from 1999 through 2005. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC Sports as part of the network’s 2019 Tour de France...
