Road Racing

Talansky tangled with Simon Gerrans at the finish of stage 7. Who's to blame remains up for debate

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With two grand tour victories to his name and a never-say-die attitude, Nibali has become the latest in a long line of Italian cycling stars

Take a close look at the BMC that started, but didn't finish, Friday's stage

The peloton faced their second longest day of this year's Tour, and several key GC players were caught out in crashes

Race leader Marianne Vos continued her winning streak on stage 7 at the Giro Rosa, ahead of Giorgia Bronzini and Emma Johansson

Usually playing the role of attacking instigator, Nibali will instead assume a defensive posture as the Tour heads to the mountains

Sky rider Chris Froome confirmed Wednesday that he abandoned stage 5 of the Tour de France with fractures to both his left wrist and right hand

Suffering his fourth crash of the Tour on stage 7, it's been a rough and tumble week for young BMC leader Tejay van Garderen

Though he leads the green jersey competition by a wide margin, Sagan needs a stage win to be satisfied with his Tour

Stage 7 a difficult day for American GC contenders, as both van Garderen, Talansky down in separate crashes inside the final 20km

Results from the second longest day of the Tour, stage 7, from Épernay to Nancy

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Stage 6 was a mostly flat 194 kilometers from Arras to Reims, and it was a day for the sprinters

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After blitzing the cobblestones, the Tour's yellow jersey needs to look no further for attacks than the climbing stages looming in the Vosges Mountains

Stage 5 of the 2014 Tour de France delivered rain, cobblestones, crashes, and chaos, and saw defending champion Chris Froome abandon

With rain, rough roads and multiple crashes, organizer ASO risked losing more than it gained Wednesday by including a cobbled stage in the Tour de France

Porte went from domestique to leader in seconds during a disastrous stage 6. Can he carry the hopes of Sky at the Tour?

Results from the 194km stage from Arras to Reims

The German national champion won the sixth stage of the 2014 Tour, out-sprinting Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) and Samuel Dumolin (Ag2r La Mondiale)

Teams are scrambling to pull together deals to secure their futures, with a possible link between the Garmin and Cannondale teams

André Greipel is hoping to revive his sprint in the coming stages, following a dismal start to the 2014 Tour de France

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On a day that felt more like a spring classic than a July Tour stage, Boom and Nibali took control

On a wet and wild day that saw countless riders crash, everyone had an opinion on whether or not cobblestones belong at the Tour de France

Alberto Contador lost considerable time on stage 5 in the battle for the GC at the Tour de France, while Alejandro Valverde fared slightly better

Vincenzo Nibali delivered the promised psychological blow to his rivals on a wet, muddy cobbled stage of the Tour de France, building on his GC lead

Stage 5 was a wet and wild mini Paris-Roubaix that did what most teams cannot: rattle the Team Sky machine

Teams pulled out all the stops to get top riders to the Arenberg finish in one piece

Young Americans keep GC hopes alive after surviving a brutal day of racing across the cobblestones of northern France and Belgium

Results from stage 5 of the Tour de France, a 155.5km stage from a 155.5km Ypres to Arenberg, Belgium

Belkin's Lars Boom solos to win, Astana's Vincenzo Nibali gains time on GC rivals, as Froome withdraws from Tour de France

Sky captain Chris Froome crashes twice in stage 5, abandons, and will not defend Tour title

Confidence is high at BMC Racing after captain Tejay van Garderen made it through the opening stages relatively unscathed

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Marianne Vos out-sprinted a small group in stage 4, earning her a second stage win; she holds onto the GC lead

BrakeThrough Media brings you all the action from the 2014 Tour de France's Grand Départ in England

Tour de France leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) said that any of the overall favorites risks losing a minute or more in Wednesday's stage over the cobbles

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Stage 5 of the Tour de France is finally here, offering up a hefty serving of cobblestones, putting the GC riders on edge

Riders will employ special equipment for the 15.4km of pavé in stage 5, relying on their teams' Paris-Roubaix equipment and expertise

The land cannot tell its stories, and so the Tour does its part; bit by bit and year by year it reminds the sport and its viewers of wars and things past

Results from stage 4 of the 2014 Tour de France

This week, Lennard Zinn answers questions about bike positioning and shimmy

A detailed look at the bike of the fastest man in France

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Giant-Shimano's Marcel Kittel timed his sprint perfectly to take a seventh Tour stage win in two years

Exiting with a knee injury, the Trek Factory Racing rider didn't even make it to France in the 2014 edition of the race he was once a favorite to win

The Team Sky leader ended up with ripped shorts, grazes on his elbow and leg, and spent the rest of the stage wearing a wrist brace

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Tour de France favorites Vincenzo Nibali, Chris Froome, and Alberto Contador admit the hectic nature of racing in Britain has rattled their nerves

American Andrew Talansky's chance meeting with Jonathan Vaughters set him on his way to leading Garmin's Tour team

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The Tour de France finished its stint in England with a stage from Cambridge to London

Lefevre: “I think we are a top team. We have 42 victories with 13 different riders. We tried to select the nine best riders possible to get here in the Tour”

Results from stage 3 of the 2014 Tour de France

Marianne Vos is back in the magia rosa, but competition is fierce at the 25th Giro Rosa

Stage 1 winner Marcel Kittel took a wet field sprint in front of Buckingham Palace in London for two wins in three days

American Chris Horner talks about his chances on the cobblestones and sitting in this first week

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

Nibali won Sunday's stage aboard a custom shark-themed Specialized S-Works Tarmac

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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

The Italian road champ steals a march on an elite pack hunting both stage and overall, and as they hesitate, he takes the win and the jersey

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

Netapp-Endura is on Fuji's all-new Transonic aero road frame for the Tour de France