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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

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

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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

Mark Cavendish and Simon Gerrans hit the deck in the finale and Marcel Kittel escapes the pileup to win the first stage of the 2014 Tour

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

Mark Cavendish will make an early run at the yellow jersey on this custom CVNDSH-edition Specialized S-Works Venge

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

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Just in time for the start of the Tour de France, Bell and Giro have introduced new products

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

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

With complete builds as low as 10.25 pounds and a 690-gram frame, the Emonda is the lightest complete production bike in the world

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

Froome has made the switch to Pinarello's new F8 platform, developed in conjunction with Jaguar, for the 2014 Tour de France

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

We put Velocio's new women's kit to the test, and their apparel is a great choice for summer rides

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