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American Chloe Dygert set a new world record and claimed the world title in the women's 3km individual pursuit at the world track championships.

Wout Poels (Sky) will tackle the "Race to the Sun," which begins Sunday, for the first time in 2018.

The BMC Racing rider fell ill after the Volta ao Algarve last month and missed a week of training.

Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin will headline next week's Tirreno-Adriatico as they gear up for Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

The Italian rider won the second stage in a sprint and will wear the race leader's jersey for Friday's stage 3.

The British sprinter collided with a car in the opening moments of stage 1 and was later taken to the hospital with neck pain.

Alexander Kristoff won the final stage of the Tour of Oman, while Alexey Lutsenko took home the overall victory.

BMC Racing's Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet keeps overall lead in Oman while youngster Magnus Cort wins stage 4.

The 2016 Olympic champion rode to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Oman and will wear the red leader's jersey on Friday.

Chris Froome’s return to the pro peloton didn’t ruffle any feathers Wednesday at Ruta del Sol, according to the Tour champ.

Nathan Haas won the second stage of the six-day race and now leads in the overall standings.

The Frenchman out-sprinted Mark Cavendish and Giacomo Nizzolo at the finish line in Muscat.

Sonny Colbrelli rides his 53-tooth big ring up the finish climb to Hatta Dam and wins stage 4 at Dubai Tour.

Linas Rumsas died at age 21 last year, and his former amateur team is accused of supplying its riders with several banned substances.

Mark Cavendish won the third stage at the Dubai Tour and now sits second overall at 4 seconds behind new leader Elia Viviani.

Elia Viviani won the second stage of the race, while Dylan Groenewegen maintained his overall lead.

The LottoNL-Jumbo edged Magnus Cort Nielsen and Elia Viviani in a finish-line sprint.

Chris Froome will be part of Team Sky's line-up for the five-day stage race in Andalusia, southern Spain, which runs from February 14-18.

Thibaut Pinot will try for the Giro-Tour double in 2018 despite abandoning the 2017 Tour after racing his first Giro.

Polish cycling chief Dariusz Banaszek stood down on Friday amid a sexual abuse and corruption scandal.

Raimondas Rumsas Jr., son of the Lithuanian rider of the same name, has been banned for four years for growth hormone GHRP-6.

The three-time reigning world champion attended Wednesday's Papal Audience and presented Pope Francis with a bike and a jersey.

UCI President David Lappartient spoke out strongly about Chris Froome's Salbutamol case on Thursday and called for Team Sky to suspend him.

The third stage of the 2018 Santos Tour Down Under from Glenelg to Victor Harbor was shortened by 26 kilometers due to extreme heat.

Two stages in and around the Belgian capital will kick off the 2019 edition of the Tour de France.

The French rider sounds off regarding Chris Froome's adverse analytical finding dating back to last year's Vuelta a Espana.

Richie Porte is the defending champion at the Santos Tour Down Under and he will face stiff competition this week from his fellow Aussies.

Dutch cyclist Jelle van Gorkom has been taken off sleep medication to allow him to awake from a coma after a crash left him with a damaged skull.

The 2018 La Vuelta a Espana will run from August 25 to September 16 and include nine summit finishes.

Robert Marchand, who set a world hour record last January at 105 years of age, is finally retiring from competitive cycling.

Dutch BMX rider Jelle van Gorkom, who won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics, was in a coma on Wednesday following a crash.

Two-time Olympian and world champion mountain biker Caroline Buchanan has been seriously injured in a car crash.

Alexander Vinokourov faces trial for corruption over allegations he paid Alexander Kolobnev to let him win Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Romain Bardet, third at the Tour in 2017, said Sunday that Chris Froome's adverse drugs test had damaged the credibility of cycling.

Tony Martin backtracked on his strong words against Team Sky and Chris Froome on Thursday.

The Spanish-based squad is throwing everything it has at winning the Tour de France next season.

Chris Froome had twice the allowed amount of an asthma drug in his system during the Vuelta a Espana in September, which he won.

Chris Froome said Wednesday he has not broken any rules after returning an "adverse" test result during his victory at La Vuelta a Espana.

Team Sky and Chris Froome are faced with many questions after it was revealed Froome produced a urine test during La Vuelta with double the allowed limit of salbutamol in his system.

Bradley Wiggins continues his foray into rowing at this weekend's British Rowing Indoor Championships in London.

French WorldTour team FDJ will be Groupama-FDJ in 2018, boosting its budget 30 percent to 20 million euro on a three-year deal.

Israeli officials threaten to drop their partnership of the first stage of the Giro d'Italia over Jerusalem wording.

A look at the five key stages where the 2018 Giro d'Italia could be won or lost, including stage profiles and climb profiles.

Eight cyclists fail doping tests during August's Tour of Colombia, seven used a variant of the blood booster EPO known as CERA.

Alberto Contador believes former rival Chris Froome is ready to win a maiden Giro d'Italia title next season.

A former Polish Cycling Federation president has leveled sexual assault allegations at a leader of the governing body.

Newly elected UCI president David Lappartient said he supports a salary cap in cycling, but admitted it would be hard to implement.

Paralympic cycling gold medalist Jody Cundy said the practice "muddies the water" around Bradley Wiggins.

Former Team Sky coach Shane Sutton admits using therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) to give the cyclists he worked with an edge.

Bradley Wiggins considers legal options against UKAD after the investigation led to what he claims was "a malicious witch hunt."

The incident at the Tour of Hainan saw Wang Xin physically attack members of the Swiss national team after stage 7.

A rider on a local Chinese team attacked staffers on the Swiss national team after he accused them of hitting him during the stage.

Chris Froome said he will miss racing against Alberto Contador after the pair competed in a Tour de France criterium in China.

The 2018 Tour de France route is revealed. Here are five key stages, from Roubaix's cobbles to Alpe d'Huez's switchbacks.

ASO unveiled the parcours for the 2018 Tour de France, and it's packed with challenges — and also lacks a long, flat time trial.

Belgian Jan Bakelants is out of intensive care on Monday three days after back surgery following a crash in Il Lombardia.

John Degenkolb will resume training in two weeks following breathing problems that left him in hospital.

Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) expects to be a marked man on Saturday, as he attempts to win a second Il Lombardia title.

Raimondas Rumsas Jr., son of former professional rider Raimondas Rumsas, has been suspended after testing positive for GHRP.

An amateur French cyclist caught riding a motorized bicycle in a race Sunday could be charged with fraud.

A cyclist was caught using a motorized bike during an amateur race in France on Sunday.

Belgian team Sport Vlaanderen bans riders from wearing beards to preserve "the elegance of cycling" says director Walter Planckaert.

Australia's Michael Matthews was left ruing a tactical blunder as he had to settle for bronze at the world road race championships.

A year ago, Chantal Blaak was left off of the Dutch Olympic squad, but now she is world champion.

Reigning world champion Peter Sagan has admitted he has no intention of reconning the circuit in Bergen, Norway before Sunday's road race.

Michael Matthews already stripped Peter Sagan of the Tour de France green jersey earlier this year and now he has his eye on the rainbow one.

Former world champion Lizzie Deignan is unsure of her form ahead of the Worlds road race after having had emergency appendix surgery less than a month ago.

German one-day classics specialist John Degenkolb has been hospitalized with a breathing problem, Trek-Segafredo revealed on Friday.

The day after he was elected UCI president, David Lappartient said he would like to see women's cycling grow.

Frenchman David Lappartient will succeed Briton Brian Cookson as UCI president after winning a landslide election on Thursday in Bergen.

Dutch classics rider Dylan van Baarle leaves Cannondale-Drapac to join Team Sky for 2018.

Led by Giro d'Italia champion Tom Dumoulin, Team Sunweb powered to victory at the 2017 UCI Men's World Team Time Trial Championships.

John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) has pulled out of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships with a respiratory problem.

Neither of cycling's grand tours have ever started outside of Europe.

Fresh off his Vuelta a Espana victory, Chris Froome will compete in the time trial and the team time trial events.

After completing a historic Tour-Vuelta double, Chris Froome hints that he may someday attempt to win all three grand tours in one season.

The day after Chris Froome completed the historic Tour-Vuelta double, he's receiving a lukewarm reception in his home country.

Lars Boom (LottoNL-Jumbo) clinched his second Tour of Britain title after Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) won the final stage on Sunday.

Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNl-Jumbo) beat Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) to land stage seven of the seventh of the Tour of Britain on Saturday.

Fernando Gaviria keeps his nerve to win the Tour of Britain's stage 4 after a tense duel with Team Sky's Elia Viviani on Wednesday.