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Tejay van Garderen, others, crashed due to overzealous Tour de France fans

The Team Sky leader recently rode from the Eurotunnel Terminal in Folkestone, on England’s south-east coast, to Calais in France

Photos from stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France

Tejay van Garderen and Andrew Talansky find themselves sitting pretty at the Tour after a brutal second stage

The Manx Missile may require surgery, and certainly needs recovery time, but it's unclear if he can regain his once-stellar form

Garmin's Alex Howes got his first Tour de France nod, and he's off and pedaling through the biggest show in pro cycling

Results from stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France

Omega Pharma boss Patrick Lefevere explains why he brought director Brian Holm, acquitted on a sex charge regarding a minor, to the Tour

Cavendish abandons the Tour after stage 1 and may face surgery, but maintains perspective about the crash that he says was his fault

Photos from stage 1 of the 2014 Tour de France

Bike racing sometimes goes according to the book, but there are days when it respects neither plot nor narrative

The GC favorites got their first glimpse at what awaits them in a harrowing first week of the Tour de France in Saturday's hilly first stage

The stage winner and his colleagues marvel at the crowds, but say spectators need to take more care on course

Results from stage 1 of the 2014 Tour de France

Crashes, narrow roads, foul weather, and cobblestones in the first week of the Tour; ex-pro Backstedt says it's all part of the game

Third at the Tour in 2012, Nibali says he wants better this year ... and so does Astana

Only four riders took the start from the country of the Grand Depart, though one is the defending champion

European correspondent Andrew Hood talks about Talansky and van Garderen's chances at the 2014 Tour

Cavendish is the favorite for a 190km stage that takes in superb countryside and features flat terrain over the final 60 kilometers

Alberto Contador says he has the form, the team and the confidence to take on Chris Froome in the mountains of the 2014 Tour de France

Ted King doesn't want to dwell on what happened in last year's Tour and is focusing instead on helping Peter Sagan win a third green jersey

Riders such as Andrew Talansky and Tejay van Garderen are taking over an American contingent still scarred by the Lance Armstrong scandal

The official start list for the 2014 Tour de France

Training crash results in an injury to his left hand, requiring six stitches

After his worst pro season since his rookie year in 2003, a humiliated Contador went back to the drawing board

The 2014 Tour de France may be one of Cavendish's last chances to win stage 1 and wear the maillot jaune

The future is now for Talansky and the new-look Garmin-Sharp team

Tejay van Garderen is ready for the double challenge of leading BMC for the first time at the Tour and riding for the podium

Tour favorite has recovered from Dauphiné crash, remains wary of danger in race's first week

Selection to the 2014 Tour confirms that Matthew Busche has arrived at the top of the sport following his unlikely climb through the ranks

BrakeThrough Media takes us back to the 2013 Tour de France

The story of how Oakley created and delivered two $10,000 prototypes to the 2008 Tour

BMC Racing expects a strong showing from its two young Americans in the Tour de France

This is a preliminary start list for the upcoming Tour de France (July 5-27). Included are confirmed riders and long lists as revealed by individual teams

Richard Moore recounts Claudio Chiappucci's 200km breakaway victory in the 1992 Tour de France

Cannondale's roster is built for stage wins and the green jersey competition, and American Ted King hopes to play a key role this year

Garmin-Sharp will go to the 2014 Tour de France with a roster built to help Andrew Talansky battle with the bigs

This year's Tour covers 3,664km, and there are plenty of other impressive numbers and statistics behind the race

The 2012 Tour de France champion is left off Sky's Tour lineup for the second straight season

2012 Tour winner Bradley Wiggins is left off Sky's Tour squad that sees the return of Danny Pate for the first time since 2011

The Spaniard made a speedy recovery from his Giro d’Italia crash and will hunt for stage wins in the French grand tour

BMC Racing has big hopes for Tejay van Garderen in 2014 at the Tour, and named a strong team to support him

Alejandro Valverde is rewriting the script on how to prepare for the Tour de France skipping races like the Critérium du Dauphiné

Frank and Andy Schleck will start the Tour de France without any general classification hopes

Lotto-Belisol’s Andre Greipel is one of several sprinters targeting the opening stage of the Tour de France on July 5

German sprinters take an unconventional route to the Tour de France via a return trip to high altitude deep in Spain's Sierra Nevada

After being sidelined with knee problems, Jurgen Van den Broeck is progressing well for the Tour de France

Rui Costa's Tour de Suisse victory raises expectations that he could be an outsider for the podium at next month's Tour de France

The FDJ.fr rider is not included on the team's preliminary roster for the French Tour

Everything you need to know about the 101st Tour de France, including all the stages, teams, and main contenders

The American has recovered nicely from an April 11 training crash that left him with broken ribs and a collapsed lung

"My team does not need me for the Tour," the Belgian said

Stetina said van Garderen's support group started to click during the Dauphiné, and he's looking forward to working for him at the Tour

Nibali is trailing Chris Froome by nearly a minute at the Critérium du Dauphiné, the pair's final Tour tuneup race

The Spaniard crashed out of the Giro d'Italia last month but will return for the Tour de France, then the Vuelta a España

The Colombian was scheduled to race the Tour de Suisse this weekend but missed his flight, and now his European visa has expired

The Dutch rider underwent surgery to correct a heart problem last month

Astana scopes out the stage 5 cobblestone sections included in the 2014 Tour de France route

Sky boss Brailsford says he's not picked his Tour team yet, but concedes that he's building it around Froome

If you were Dave Brailsford, given the history between Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, would you take Wiggins to the Tour de France?

The Spaniard is eyeing a Tour de France spot as he prepares for the Vuelta a España and a potential grand tour win

Team Sky on Monday said star riders Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins have been selected in separate Tour de France warm-up races this month

Sky's Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome have had a contentious relationship ever since the 2012 Tour de France, where they finished first and second overall

Despite winless spring, Astana brass continues to support Giro champion Vincenzo Nibali in his bid to contend for the Tour's yellow jersey

The experienced Slovakian is looking forward to helping van Garderen realize his "great future" at the Tour

Many of the Tour's GC riders are nervous about the pavé on stage 5 and are taking different approaches to their preparation for July 9

Atapuma, Velits and Stetina sign on with BMC Racing to help van Garderen take on the Tour de France while Evans focuses on the Giro d'Italia

Tour de France owners ASO announce a women’s race at the 2014 Tour, held July 27 on the Champs-Elysées in Paris

Froome says he has plenty of room for improvement and would love "to be up there with those legends, the true greats," like Merckx

Valverde has struggled in the Tour since his comeback from a two-year racing ban, but if luck is with him, he sees a podium in his future

Colombian will build his 2014 campaign around a debut at the Tour de France after his breakout 2013 campaign

A collection of the best images captured by the VeloNews photographers at the 2013 Tour de France

Young Colombian is hoping to assist Chris Froome into a second consecutive Tour de France title come July

Less than two years after a history-making performance at the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins' role on Sky is still unknown for 2014

The eight circuits in Paris will pass the famous Arc after organizer ASO received permission from local police

The Tour will take to Dutch roads for its start in 2015 and offer the time trial specialists a shot at yellow on day one

After covering the Tour de France for 16 years, Andrew Hood reflects on changes in the peloton that make the Tour more riveting than ever

The news continues a trend of foreign countries hosting grand tour starts

World champion Rui Costa and his new Lampre team have started working on 2014 and the new manager is building him a Tour squad