Road Racing

The Giant-Alpecin rider has started to build a reputation in his native France with impressive rides through the legendary Pyrénées.

A combination of smart riding and good legs keeps Tejay van Garderen's Tour de France on track as he puts the Pyrénées in the rearview.

On-board footage from the last big Pyrenean mountain stage that took riders from blistering heat to freezing rain over huge cols.

Olympic track gold medalist Geraint Thomas has transformed into a brilliant climber to help Sky's Froome deep into the Tour's mountains.

The last Pyrenean day served up a healthy dose of climbing and a bit of nasty weather, but Team Sky was undeterred, defending the GC lead.

Warren Barguil, just 23, sits in 11th overall at the Tour de France despite heavy crashes and marauding cows.

Jalabert and Vasseur cast doubts on Froome's Tour de France performance so far, and the Briton fires back, says his team is clean.

Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) powers through torrential downpour to win stage 12 of the 2015 Tour de France in the Pyrenees.

Joaquim Rodriguez rides alone to his second stage win of the Tour de France after a brutal day of climbing that finished in pouring rain.

The reigning champion has struggled to keep pace in the Tour since its start in Utrecht

Lance Armstrong is riding two stages of the Tour with a cancer charity, one day ahead of the peloton

The peloton pays its respects to Fabio Casartelli, who died 20 years ago in a crash on the Portet-d'Aspet

Questions surrounding Chris Froome and whether or not he's racing clean have dominated the race in recent days

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World champ Michal Kwiatkowski uploaded his power data from stage 11 to Strava, showing just how hard the Tour is, even in the grupetto.

Cannondale-Garmin's Haas off to a rough start in his first Tour de France, but he's bounced back from illness intent on making it to Paris.

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Tour de France journalists and riders alike view Lance Armstrong's charity ride with a mixture of hostility and apathy.

Geraint Thomas says he and Team Sky are solely focused on the task at hand: delivering Chris Froome to his second Tour de France victory.

Tour de France leader Froome wants to silence critics by undergoing additional testing to prove that he is riding clean.

With a massive climb over the Col du Tourmalet, the Tour de France delivers another day of action in the Pyrénées.

Rafal Majka won stage 11 with a solo breakaway. The Polish rider attacked on the Col du Tourmalet and held off the chasers to the finish.

Tinkoff-Saxo notches its first stage win of the 2015 Tour with a bold solo win by Rafal Majka, king of the mountains in last year's race.

Chris Froome has a firm hold on the race lead, but the race is far from over, warns his British team Sky

The Sky rider faces questions from all sides after his strong ride in Tuesday's stage 10

Armstrong is participating in a charity ride that aims to raise money for cancer research

With an emphatic second-place finish in the Tour's stage 10, Richie Porte puts the bad memories of the Giro d'Italia behind him.

Cannondale-Garmin says it will fight on for Talansky and Martin's GC placings, but Hesjedal is looking for redemption with a stage win.

The Tour's first Pyrenean test proves to be a big one as Froome displays dominance and many GC favorites fall behind.

Although American Tejay van Garderen ceded time to race leader Froome, he's satisfied to hold his podium placing and take time on rivals

Contador will have to draw on all of his tactical know-how to overcome Froome's lead, but the yellow jersey is wise to the dangers ahead.

After dominant stage 10 win, Chris Froome says he's gone above and beyond to help anti-doping authorities and that he has nothing to hide

Froome displays his dominance on the first big mountain stage of the Tour de France, and the battle for the green jersey heats up.

Chris Froome rides alone to victory on the hors-categorie Pierre-Saint-Martin finish, leaving GC rivals in his wake, wearing yellow.

Sky's boss says Tejay van Garderen is riding strong and his biggest challenge is the unknown

The 2013 Tour de France champion says he'll let others make the moves in the first mountain stages of the race

Take a look back at the first nine stages of the Tour, which took the peloton through the Netherlands and Belgium before entering France

Tejay van Garderen altered his rest-day protocol, shortening his ride and keeping a careful eye on his food and fluid intake

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Team Sky is scrambling its lawyers to address a suspected case of data theft in which hackers may have stolen Chris Froome's power data

Nairo Quintana needs to pull back time on GC leader Chris Froome, but feels that the Tour's mountain stages ahead will offer opportunity

Crystal Anthony and Todd Wells each took their respective elite titles at the ProXCT Boston Rebellion race on Saturday.

Can top GC riders from Spain collaborate for mutual gain at the expense of Froome's GC lead? It will play out in the mountains.

After 145km of racing, the stage will finish on the steep ascent up to La Pierre-St-Martin.

Defending Tour champ Vincenzo Nibali is confident with two weeks left in race, though he admits that Chris Froome is on great form.

Tejay van Garderen has turned the fab four' into the 'fab five' with a strong ride through the Tour's first week.

The Sky rider, who has a 12-second lead in the GC, is pleased with his preparations for the French grand tour

Fast wheels, slick bikes, and wide gears for the Tour's tough team time trial

Adam Yates feels confident ahead of the Tour de France's first mountain stages, despite losing three teammates to crashes in week one.

Andrew Hood takes a look at what's worth remembering, and forgetting, at the Tour through the opening nine stages

Richie Porte says he's excited to finish the Tour de France with his friend Chris Froome, but he's ready to lead a team

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider announces that he has testicular cancer and will withdraw from the Tour de France immediately

The Tour de France enters the mountains this week, so Andrew Hood breaks down the race favorites before the road turns upward

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Tim De Waele catches the action at the Tour's team time trial

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"In a perfect world, we would’ve taken the stage and the yellow jersey, but we’ll take the stage," says BMC's Tejay van Garderen

Race leader Chris Froome calls Tejay van Garderen a man to watch, but the BMC captain says Paris is a long way off yet

The Tour leader thought 2014 champ Vincenzo Nibali would be taking time so far, not losing it, and he's got an eye on Tejay van Garderen

BMC Racing Team pips Sky for the team time trial victory, but Chris Froome holds firm to the yellow jersey

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Alexis Vuillermoz takes France's first victory of the 2015 Tour atop the Mûr-de-Bretagne climb

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Despite abandons by a third of the team's riders inside the first week of the race, Orica-GreenEdge remains upbeat at the Tour de France

Tejay van Garderen could nab the yellow jersey in Sunday's TTT as the Tour leaves a hard first week in the rear-view mirror

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Cannondale-Garmin went deep into red to set up Dan Martin on stage 8, but the 28-year-old had to settle for second behind Alexis Vuillermoz

Alexis Vuillermoz gives the home crowd something to celebrate at the 2015 Tour de France

Vincenzo Nibali says he did not have legs to contend on final climb of Tour's stage 8

The Tour's 28-kilometer stage 9 team time trial could see a bit of a shakeup at the top of the general classification

Alexis Vuillermoz takes a hilltop victory ahead of Dan Martin in the Tour's eighth stage

Anna van der Breggen powered to a time trial victory in the Giro Rosa's eighth stage, claiming the maglia rosa along the way

Hardware and content producer GoPro hits the ground running at Tour de France, says it aims to offer live, on-bike footage in two years.

Ilia Koshevoy solos to stage 7 win to end Lampre-Merida drought at at Tour of Qinghai Lake

Vuillermoz climbs to victory ahead of a counter-attacking Martin and a charging, Valverde-led pack in stage 8 of the Tour de France

Mark Cavendish expressed his interested in staying with Etixx-Quick-Step after taking his first Tour de France stage win in nearly two years