After a disappointing Tour de France, Adam Yates will seek redemption in Spain as he changes his plans to join his twin brother Simon at the Vuelta a España later this month. While Simon had always been scheduled to ride the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España this year, Adam...
Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) has returned to training on the road this week following the crash on Alpe d’Huez that left him with a fractured vertebra and forced him out of last month’s Tour de France. The World Championships road race remains the major objective in the final part of his...
With the next Olympic Games in Tokyo less than two years away, the routes for the men’s and women’s road races have been published by the UCI. As has been the case since 2004, the road races will form part of the opening weekend of action at the Olympics in...
Another Sunday evening in Paris, another Tour de France. Everybody knows the routine by now. For the sixth time in seven years, as shadows lengthened beneath the Arc de Triomphe, a Team Sky rider mounted the podium on the Champs-Élysées, collected another yellow jersey and delivered another winner’s speech. For...
Mark Cavendish has described how 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) tried to help him win a stage of this year’s race after he’d found himself separated from his Dimension Data team-mates. Cavendish, in an emotive column in the Telegraph paying tribute to his friend Thomas, said...
Tom Dumoulin won Stage 20 of the Tour de France on Saturday, while Geraint Thomas defended his lead in the overall standings and Chris Froome fought his way back into the top three. It’s now almost certain that Thomas will win the Tour when the race wraps up in Paris...
Ireland’s Dan Martin set for the podium place in Paris: He’s won the Tour de France super combative award for 2018. Dan Martin was aiming for a podium finish at the Tour de France this year. And while he isn’t in the top three overall he will go to the...
Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) has secured victory in the 2018 Tour de France after arriving safely to the finish line in Paris on stage 21. Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) won the final stage of the 105th edition, taking victory in a sprint finish ahead of John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) and...
Chris Froome says the punches, spits and boos only brought Team Sky closer together as they successfully won the 2018 Tour de France with Geraint Thomas. Several incidents spoiled the race this year. The constant booing from Vendée to France’s Basque Country was punctuated with incidents of spectators spitting towards...
Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) might have his sixth Tour de France green jersey mathematically wrapped up, but the Slovakian still has to make it to Paris, which is not an easy task following a high-speed crash on Wednesday. After making it to the line in Laruns on stage 19, Sagan said...
Lawson Craddock’s (EF Education First-Drapac) “three weeks of pain” in the Tour de France ends on a high note with money for his charity and the unofficial lanterne rouge prize. The American from Texas is set to finish last of 145 riders when the race ends in Paris on Sunday,...
Peter Sagan finished stage 19 safely in the grupetto. Photo: Chris Graythen/Getty Images LARUNS, France (VN) — Peter Sagan suffered like he has never suffered before. When VeloNews asked the three-time world champion whether Friday’s stage 19 of the Tour de France made him hurt worse than he’d ever hurt before...
Dumoulin concedes 19 seconds to Slovenian rival Primoz Roglic celebrates victory on stage 19 of the 2018 Tour de France Credit: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) was fuming after the finish to Laruns at the 2018 Tour de France, saying that Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo) received a draft from...
Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) said that he endured the worst day of his life on a bike to survive the mountainous stage 19 over the Col du Tourmalet and Col d’Aubisque. The three-time world champion survived to save his green jersey two days after crashing off the side of the road...
Alexander Kristoff now leads the points classification with one road stage to go Peter Sagan suffers after being dropped on the Col d’Aspin on stage 19 of the 2018 Tour de France Credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images Sagan crashed heavily on the descent from the Col de Val Louron-Azet on...
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) took victory on the 65km stage 17 of the 2018 Tour de France, on a day where Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) extended his lead at the top of the general classification and team-mate Chris Froome was dropped. The Colombian attacked at the base of the finishing climb,...
CHRIS FROOME was left furious with a policeman after being dragged to the ground in a case of mistaken identity. The Team Sky cyclist was knocked off his bike when the officer thought he was a supporter trying to ride the course as he returned to the team bus. It only...
Tour de France rider Philippe Gilbert has emerged unscathed after a horror crash over a wall. The Quick-Step Cycling ace hurtled into a low wall during the descent Ported d’Aspet on the 16th stage of the race – having attempted a breakaway. As he arrived at a left bend, Gilbert...
Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford has blamed the hostile roadside reaction his team have faced at the Tour de France on a ‘French cultural thing’ and suggested that the race omit non-French teams if they are not treated with more respect. Chris Froome and the rest of Team Sky have...
VALENCE, France — Tour de France leader Geraint Thomas said being booed by the crowd did not affect him after he enjoyed a mainly comfortable Stage 13 Friday. The Team Sky rider and yellow jersey holder repeated his call for spectators to let the riders race safely. “I had a...
Tour de France race leader Geraint Thomas says that he is “99 per cent” confident that there is currently no doping in cycling, and that the success of himself and the rest of Team Sky is down to nothing more than hard training. Thomas leads the 2018 Tour de France...
The third savage Tour de France stage in the Alps proved too much for some top sprinters: one day after Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel finished outside the time limit on La Rosière, Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal), and double stage winners Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNl-Jumbo) and Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) abandoned the race...
Italian rider involved in a crash with police motorbike on stage 12 Vincenzo Nibali battles up Alpe d’Huez on stage 11 of the Tour de France Credit: Yuzuru Sunada Nibali crashed with 3.8km remaining as the riders climbed towards the summit finish in the ski resort of Alpe d’Huez,...
Geraint Thomas played down any potential leadership issues within Team Sky after taking a resounding stage 11 win at La Rosiere, and with it the yellow jersey. Thomas attacked a group of GC contenders, including his teammate Chris Froome, with five kilometres remaining on the first summit finish of the...
Sprinters lose contact early in short, sharp stage in the Alps Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data), one day after fighting to make the time cut by just 30 seconds in the first mountain stage in the Alps, has been eliminated from the Tour de France on stage 11, along with fellow sprinter Marcel...
Geraint Thomas became the first yellow jersey wearer since disgraced Lance Armstrong to triumph on the legendary Alpe d’Huez after a thrilling finale to a punishing Tour de France Stage 12 on Thursday. But the Welshman, along with teammate Chris Froome, was met by a chorus of boos and jeers...
Chris Froome was spat at, punched and a fan even mooned at him as another thrilling Tour de France stage was marred by unaccepable roadside manners. Geraint Thomas won his second consecutive stage, and retained the Yellow Jersey, with defending champion Froome crossing the line just four seconds behind him,...
Tuesday’s stage 10 at the Tour de France was all about the mountains with five categorized climbs, including three Cat. 1s and an HC ascent on the 158.5km run from Annecy to Le Grand-Bornand. But for a brief moment, a daring mountain biker stole the show from the world’s best...
Belgian Classics star Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) will fight until the last to hold on to the yellow jersey in the Tour de France in order to honour the jersey. Van Avermaet rode the cobbles to Roubaix with ease in stage nine, but many thought that he would lose...
It was not the expected major shakedown, but the riders’ faces told a story of suffering as most of the main Tour de France favourites stayed in contention after a much-feared stage nine Sunday. The 156.5-km route from Arras featured 21.7km of cobbled sections, in which the climbers had to...
