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Dutch rider wins five of nine stages en route to defending Giro Donne title

Sky planned a careful campaign to put Bradley Wiggins in yellow

Chris Froome showed amazing strength on Saturday, but says it's all at Bradley Wiggins' disposal

Graham Watson captures the drama on stage 7 as the Tour heads for the mountains

Team Sky floors the pedal on the race's first mountaintop finish to take control of the Tour

1. Christopher FROOME, Sky, in 4:58:35 2. Cadel EVANS, BMC Racing, at :2 3. Bradley WIGGINS, Sky, at :2 4. Vincenzo NIBALI, Liquigas-Cannondale, at :7 5. Rein TAARAMAE, Cofidis, at :19

Canadian Giro champ unhappy about abandoning, but knows it's the right thing to do

The weight of the race is on Sky and BMC as the Tour heads for the hills

A reduced peloton began riding into the mountains during stage 7 of the 2012 Tour de France

Garmin boss disputes head injury claims for Van Summeren, Danielson, and laments the loss of the Giro champ

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With the first mountain finish and a seven-climb stage on-tap for the weekend, it might be Monday before we see the Tour’s first real test

Hesjedal, Gesink, Valverde, Schleck among major losers, while 16 combined riders from Garmin and Movistar go down

Beset by disasters the once-mighty RadioShack-Nissan squad turns its hopes to Andreas Klöden

Winning stages is great, says Peter Sagan, but the goal is the general classification for Vincenzo Nibali

GC race heats up Saturday at the 2012 Tour de France after crashes wreak havoc on the overall standings in stage 6

It was a black Friday indeed for Garmin-Sharp, which saw its entire squad bar one on the deck in a horrific pileup

Double stage winner finishes second in Metz after nearly dropping out of the finale with shoulder pain

Tejay van Garderen says it's incredible to be in the white jersey at the Tour de France but getting Cadel Evans in yellow is more important

Veelers calls for calm after Farrar tried to confront him at the Argos bus on Thursday

Dan Lloyd previews stage 7 of the Tour de France, the race's first day in the mountains, with a summit finish at a Planche des Belles Filles

1. Peter SAGAN, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:37:00 2. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, at 0 3. Matthew Harley GOSS, Orica-GreenEdge, at 0 4. Kenny Robert VAN HUMMEL, Vacansoleil-DCM, at 0 5. Juan José HAEDO, Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank, at 0

Points leader scores a treble in Metz with a bunch finish win

Eisel, still on the mend, looks ahead to seeing which GC riders have the legs this weekend

Defending Tour champ is considering racing in the U.S. in August, but visa issue for son worries BMC leader

A run of crashes have a banged up Tour peloton aiming for the mountains this weekend

Tech editor Nick Legan answers reader questions on antiquated repair stands and running a TT water bottle

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Thousands of racers and even more cartons of chocolate milk highlight the Tour of America's Dairyland in Wisconsin

Tour brass, UCI haven't acted on new Armstrong report and plan to leave the four Americans named as Armstrong witnesses in the Tour

After winning two sprints in a row, André Greipel still thinks the green jersey is out of his reach

After a tough stretch the Shack is back, says yellow jersey Fabian Cancellara

An irate Tyler Farrar goes hunting for Argos-Shimano sprinter Tom Veelers after stage 5

Stage 5: Bernie Eisel says that the thing he most regrets about his crash in stage 4 is that he can't laugh with the team because it hurts

1. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, in 4:41:30 2. Matthew Harley GOSS, Orica-GreenEdge, at 0 3. Juan José HAEDO, Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank, at 0 4. Samuel DUMOULIN, Cofidis, at 0 5. Mark CAVENDISH, Sky, at 0

German wins second stage in as many days in France after late crash delays the peloton

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief says no Armstrong-related cases have been finalized and that information on witnesses can harm them

German sprint ace abandons Tour after five days with stomach, knee ailments

A belgian Pro-Continental rider dies after appearing on Belgian television during the Tour's fourth stage

According to a story in De Telegraaf, Hincapie, Leipheimer, Vande Velde, Zabriskie and Vaughters testified. Ochowicz and Vaughters deny talk of suspensions

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Independence Day isn't a holiday for Chris Horner and Dave Zabriskie — they're on the job at the Tour

American Tom Danielson describes the moment he knew his separated "shoulder was wrecked," and fights to stay in the Tour on stage 4

Images from stage 4 of the 2012 Tour de France, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson

Sky sprinters take a heavy fall, but should be back for more on Thursday

"The Gorilla" has a custom Noah with integrated brakes and a note for riders on his wheel

French hero of the 2011 Tour feel sharp pain in his injured knee and may abandon the race

U.S. Olympic hopeful Shelley Olds shows the flag on the Fourth of July

Bernie Eisel says Sky will miss Belarusian Soldier in the leadout and recalls an emotionally trying day yesterday

André Greipel rode a textbook lead-out to victory Wednesday in stage 4 of the Tour de France

1. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, in 5:18:32 2. Alessandro PETACCHI, Lampre-ISD, at 0 3. Tom VEELERS, Argos-Shimano, at 0 4. Matthew Harley GOSS, Orica-GreenEdge, at 0 5. Peter SAGAN, Liquigas-Cannondale, at 0

We profile the power output numbers for Janez Brajkovic and Chris Anker Sørensen over the first four days of the Tour

The young Slovak has a big points buffer heading into three sprint stages and then the Vosgues Mountains

Beefed-up sprint bike for the former green jersey winner

Garmin director says Danielson will try to continue after separated shoulder as the team's GC hopes now lie squarely on Giro champ Hesjedal

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Every morning looks like airport security at the Team Sky bus, and our Matthew Beaudin, a Tour rookie, is there

With Mark Cavendish freelancing and rivals trying to engineer their own trains, the Tour sprints are particularly chaotic this year

Images from stage 3 of the 2012 Tour de France, through the lens of Graham Watson

Defending Tour champ says that racing a man day in a three-week tour is a tall order and he's happy BMC Racing made it through Tuesday intact

Peter Sagan is unbeatable in terrain that suits him and Tuesday was a stressful, classics-style race, Fabian Cancellara tells VeloNews after stage 3 of the 2012 Tour de France

Images from stage 3 of the 2012 Tour de France, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson

Olympic champ says his run in the maillot jaune is helping him top off his preparation for a medal defense in London

Garmin-Sharp had a rough day on stage 3, with its GC men and sprinter all spending time on the deck

Though it may be the biggest race in the cycling world, the racers are just as accessible as at your local crit

Ever wonder what Mark Cavendish wears when he sleeps or if he snores? Bernie Eisel talks rooming with the world champion

Solo Cycle Clothing's Heuvel jersey is pricey, but functional — and who doesn't love Seventies-era Belgian kit?

Lennard Zinn talks electronic shifting: EPS compatibility with Di2 framesets and upgrades to electronic on frames without internal routing

Slovak champ, now a double Tour stage winner, says he'll shine Ivan Basso's shoes as thanks

1. Peter SAGAN, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:42:58 2. Edvald BOASSON HAGEN, Sky, at :1 3. Peter VELITS, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at :1 4. Fabian CANCELLARA, RadioShack-Nissan, at :1 5. Michael ALBASINI, Orica-GreenEdge, at :1

The 2012 Tour de France sees a plethora of pilups

A year after a France Television car forced him into a barbed wire, Hoogerland still seeking damages

The Swiss Time Machine's custom yellow Domane

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Hincapie and Evans mix it up with the sprinters’ teams late in stage 2