Road Racing

It wasn't the 6th place on stage 2, it was how Peter Sagan got there.

After coming second again, van Aert is happy to move into the yellow jersey at the Tour de France: “it’s something every cyclist dreams of”.

23 months after his horror crash, Fabio Jakobsen took Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s second victory on stage 2 of the Tour de France.

Teams showed up in Copenhagen with all sorts of special and non-sponsor equipment.

Another bunch sprint is expected in the final of three stages across Denmark.

Catch up on the sprint thrills and crash spills from the opening road stage of the 2022 Tour de France.

Marianne Vos took her 31st Giro stage win on Saturday.

The UCI race jury fined Küng 500 Swiss francs and penalized him 20 UCI points. 

Magnus Cort gives the team something to smile about after taking the mountains jersey on home soil.

Vos scores 31st Giro Donne stage win after missing out Friday.

Dani Martinez and Filippo Ganna hit the deck inside the final three kilometers but neither loses time.

"Everyone has to shut up if we win," says the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team boss after his squad take stage 1 of the Tour de France.

Belgian superstar never gives up and comes away with the maillot jaune: 'If you keep fighting, you get the rewards sooner or later.'

Stage 2 of the Tour de France covers almost 200 flat and windy kilometres, including an 18 km bridge that traverses some fascinating history.

Quick-Step's lead sport director and media officer both went home Saturday, and the team is racing with urgency.

Tadej Pogačar escapes the main crash but hits the barriers and suffers a double puncture.

Winds don't blow right for splits on huge Great Belt bridges but huge crash in final three kilometers could cause issues for days to come.

Crosswinds and nerves lead to crashes in the main field on stage 2.

The final day in Denmark is another chance for the sprinters.

Raids appear focused solely on Bahrain Victorious so far at Tour de France, but teams worry of impact of more police action.

Three-time world champion hoping to roll back the years and win at the Tour de France.

Pidcock turns attention to bottle carrying and stage hunting after blazing opening TT: 'I'm not here for GC but to learn and gain experience.'

In front of his compatriots, the ex-World Champion came agonisingly close to the race lead – and the dream lives on.

Digging deeper into the reasons for leaving the 2020 green jersey at home.

The American is trying to make the most of the big occasion and soak in the moment.

The Tour kicked off with an action-packed TT in Copenhagen.

The 27-year-old isays the Dutch squad has a 'good team for pretty much everything' and is looking forward to getting stuck in.

In the first instalment of his Tour Notebook for 2022, editor-in-chief Caley Fretz dives into the moments that made stage 1.

A new limited-edition speed-focused tyre from Continental.

Kask has a new aero road helmet and barge boards for its time trial visors.

The sprinters get their first chance, but late wind could be a factor.

An opening Tour de France day that rained on almost everybody's parade apart from Yves Lampaert.

Pogačar is in pole position as he begins his Tour de France title defence, with Vingegaard and Roglič best of the rest, as expected.

Do it for all of us.

Kask has a new aero road helmet and barge boards for its time trial visors.

Yves Lampaert took an emotional victory on a very damp stage 1 of the Tour de France, but there’s a handful of riders snapping at his heals.

"That was the worst first half of a time trial I've ever done."

Catch up on the dramatic opening stage.

The tension will remain in the bunch for stage 2 with plenty of potential pitfalls for the GC riders.

The two-time defending champion stopped the clock as the best among the GC contenders to send an early marker.

The Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl journeyman played giant-killer Friday on wet roads to beat back the best in the world.

World champion Balsamo scores seventh win of season and takes race-leader's jersey in Tortolì, Sardinia.

Stage 1 of the Tour de France is a 13.2 km time trial in Copenhagen, a city with a 350 km network of bike paths, and plenty more besides.

Lappartient says that no rider or team is 'outside of the rules' and the authorities will decide if any wrongdoing has taken place.

Van Aert beats back theories that Lampaert had advantage of drying roads after seeing countryman blast past his provisional best time.

Ben O'Connor loses almost a minute to defending champion Tadej Pogačar.

Tadej Pogačar makes huge ride to finish third on the stage and set the tone on title defense as Lampaert surprises the specialists for victory.

'That was the worst first half of a time trial that I’ve ever done,' says Ineos Grenadiers rider.

The flat, short course made for high speeds, dampened slightly by rainy conditions.

Products are a subject of debate within sport.

The Dane is looking beyond his home country in search of stage victories at the Tour de France.

French star returns to Tour for first time since 2020 unsure of form but all set for aggression.

Trek-Segafredo brings stacked squad for the first week, and Simmons hopes to have some chances in the second half of the Tour.

Europol releases photos of Tour de France raids as 412 capsules with undetermined brown content and 67 capsules with undetermined white content were found.

We take a trip to the speculation station and ponder the big questions ahead of this year's Tour.

'I voted for me and I'm not ashamed to say it. I think that if Anquetil had had to do that, he would have also put himself in first place,' says five-time Tour winner.

'In 2021 I was the only Black rider at the Tour de France in a peloton of over 170, in 2022 there will be none,' says rider.

Tadej Pogačar begins his title defense at 17:05 CET in what will be a leg-burning 13.2km blast around Copenhagen.

The added security is due to the terrorist attack outside the Great Synagogue in the Danish capital in 2015.

A chance for the TT specialists to wear yellow.

More details on the new Propel including a dedicated bottle cage, new Cadex wheels and prototype tyres.

The first Tour rider starts at 4 pm local time.

Improved ventilation, more consistent fits, and a new design language — plus a bonkers new TT helmet.

The seventh-generation Madone is lighter, faster, still kind of comfy, and has always-available DRS.

The French prosecutor's office hits back after the team denied that anything had been seized during recent raids.

We spoke to team osteopath Barnabé Moulin, whose property was searched for five hours by 20 police officers.

Team BikeExchange-Jayco go 1-2 on first day of racing.

EF Education–EasyPost's Neilson Powless will be writing an exclusive blog for VeloNews during the Tour de France.

Bahrain Victorious has been searched twice in the week leading up to the Tour de France, a continuation of last year's doping investigation.

The only thing that could stop the Slovenian slayer is himself as desperate rivals search for a weakness to attack.

The two-time defending champion says he's not thinking about making history as he looks to take his third straight overall win.

'There is no evidence that I have reached a peak or a plateau in terms of progression that I have seen this year,' Froome says.

With the yellow jersey up for grabs and potential significant time gaps, tension will be sky high across the swath of the peloton.

Team raided for the second time in less than a week ahead of the Tour de France.

The seventh-generation Madone is lighter, faster, still kind of comfy, and has always-available DRS.

The squad is hoping to earn stage wins from the likes of Michael Woods, Jakob Fuglsang and Simon Clarke.

Press conference lasts less than 10 minutes after team refuses to answer questions about police searches ahead of the start of the Tour.

It was a way to pass the time.

Officials release the Tour start list Thursday and the field includes 22 teams and 176 riders.

Bob Jungels allowed to race after UCI medical team rules he is not infectious, despite a positive COVID-19 test Wednesday.