Road Racing

With a late-race mechanical, Romain Bardet loses time in the Tour de France's first uphill finish, another blow after a poor TTT ride.

Geraint Thomas was hoping for a shot at a stage win or yellow. Chris Froome wanted to avoid time losses. Neither happened in stage 6.

Martin's victory validated UAE Team Emirates's decision to hire Martin during the 2017 offseason to lead its efforts at the Tour.

How will the Tour's top GC favorites fare on the dusty, rough pavé of Paris-Roubaix? We rate their cobble-worthiness.

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Take a deep dive into Lawson Craddock's physiological data from the Tour de France — recovery, sleep, and strain.

Peter Sagan doesn't mean sharing the wealth every once in awhile, now with a healthy lead in the Tour de France's points classification.

Bad luck finally catches up with Tom Dumoulin in Tour stage 6. He loses time due to late mechanical and a penalty from race jury.

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Though he is Olympic champion, a winner of Roubaix, and currently in yellow, Greg Van Avermaet is scrambling to find a team for 2019.

With two stage wins in four chances, the three-time world champion has already met Bora-Hansgrohe’s target coming into the race.

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Annemiek van Vleuten takes a commanding lead in the Giro Rosa, winning the stage 7 time trial by 2:29 ahead of nearest rival.

American Lawson Craddock crashed hard in stage 1 and broke his scapula. He has vowed to press on.

Axel Domont, a crucial lieutenant for Romain Bardet, crashed out of the Tour de France this week.

The five-time Tour de France champion recently called on riders to strike over Chris Froome's inclusion in the race.

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On stage 6's Mur de Bretagne, the climbers will finally come to the fore after several hectic days at the Tour de France.

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Some pundits say Sagan won't win any more stages this Tour. We roundtable on that, BMC's strategy, and how to handle hecklers.

The Tour's lumpy stage 5 was tailor-made for opportunist Toms Skujins who took Trek-Segafredo's first big prize of the 2018 race.

Luke Rowe says the incident with a French fan prior to Tour de France stage 5 was not a big deal, that there was no malicious intent.

Riders are skeptical that a smaller peloton, prompted by a UCI rule change, is any safer for the Tour de France.

Australian Amanda Spratt takes charge on the Giro Rosa's first day of climbing, winning stage 6's uphill finish.

Outside the Team Sky bus on Wednesday, Luke Rowe confronts fan who was holding a sign telling the British team to go home.

WADA’s very foundation is cracked and can no longer support its ivory tower of fairness, transparency, and moral justification.

BMC Racing is facing closure at the end of this season over a lack of sponsorship.

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The defending points classification champion fell ill Wednesday morning and had to abandon the race.

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Racing for Team Sky has doomed Geraint Thomas to second-banana status behind Chris Froome despite his immense talent.

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Quick thinking, good teamwork, and hard effort helped save Rigoberto Urán from losing time after crash in stage 4 of Tour de France.

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Mark Cavendish said he was chasing Eddy Merckx's all-time stage win record at the Tour. So far, his results have been dismal.

In the pandemonium of stage 4's sprint finale, Zakarin goes down, his team unaware, and he loses time to Tour rivals.

Tejay van Garderen is oh-so-close to the Tour's yellow jersey, but it isn't meant to be this year with classics-style stages on tap.

Although Egan Bernal is touted as Colombia's next big thing, he's content to play a support role to Chris Froome in Tour de France.

How do riders and team doctors decide when an injury is too severe to continue racing the Tour de France?

The Tour de France is four stages old and already we have plenty of drama to discuss.

Dan Martin was a beneficiary of the chaos on stage 1 and finished in the group. His advantage disappeared during Monday's team time trial.

One day after her 25th birthday, Ruth Winder wins stage 5 of the Giro Rosa and became fourth Sunweb rider to wear leader's jersey.

Team time trials are boring, right? Wrong! The Tour de France's stage 3 TTT was an important part of the battle for the yellow jersey.

Are Tour de France teams stacking their squads with classics riders for stage 9's cobblestone Roubaix stage? Not exactly.

Lennard Zinn addresses questions pertaining to the Tour de France, which kicked off July 7.

While fans have been awed by Lawson Craddock's heroics after crashing hard on stage 1, the ethics of his continued participation are complicated.

Dan Cavallari found a host of new products at Eurobike, ranging from high-tech gadgets to snazzy kits.

The fourth stage of the Tour de France is expected to end in a bunch sprint along the Brittany coast.

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Whatever advantage Romain Bardet carried into Monday's team time trial evaporated on the hot tarmac surrounding Cholet, France.

The Tour de France decided to put a TTT early in this year's race. Does it make the battle for yellow more exciting?

Although Movistar was well off the pace of BMC and Team Sky, Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa are still in the hunt.

Rigoberto Uran's EF Education First-Drapac team delivers a solid sixth-place result to keep him in touch on Tour GC.

Vincenzo Nibali and his Bahrain-Merida team are content to have the Tour's team time trial behind them with minimal time lost.

BMC left the starting line 15 minutes behind Team Sky, and the position allowed the American squad to use Sky as a reference point.

Quietly cruising through the Tour de France's first three days, Tom Dumoulin is well-positioned to ride for GC after racing the Giro.

Chris Froome says his stage 1 crash wasn't as bad as it looked. Sky's performance in team time trial puts him back in the mix for yellow.

After disastrous first stage, Adam Yates is back in GC conversation after a strong showing in the team time trial by Mitchelton-Scott.

For the second day in a row, Jolien D'hoore sprints to victory at the Giro Rosa, beating Italian Marta Bastianelli in the 109km stage 4.

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Monday's team time trial could also shake up the general classification standings.

Trek has fine-tuned its IsoSpeed Decoupler, improved the fit, and added disc brakes, making this edition of the Madone even better.

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Monday’s stage 3 team time trial was meant to be a race-breaker in this year’s Tour de France, but early setbacks to major favorites have muted the stage's significance.

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“F---------ck,” Lawson Craddock screamed, or cried maybe, every time the pack slowed and a fistful of brake threw his weight forward onto a scapula that screamed back.

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Jolien D'Hoore took a convincing sprint victory today on a hot, flat third stage of the Giro-Rosa.

Who would have guessed that a simple sprint stage could mix up the Tour de France's GC race more than a summit finish?

Andrew Hood and Dane Cash have the rundown on the crazy lead-up to the season's big race, as well as its chaotic first stage.

Team Sky GM Dave Brailsford let the world know how he felt about UCI president David Lappartient in a candid interview over the weekend.

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After months of dread and angst leading up to the Tour de France, Peter Sagan reminded everyone Sunday why July can be so much fun.

A team time trial that starts and finishes in Cholet could see several GC contenders take a tumble down the overall leaderboard.

Five riders across four teams are flying the American flag in this year’s Tour, which is about average for U.S. representation.