Peter Sagan

The Cannondale strongman wins in Fort Collins and van Garderen defends his lead as a crumbling break fades in the final kilometers

Slovak champion pays back a load of work by his team to take a sprint win in Steamboat Springs after late crashes in the peloton

Three of the top-five riders in the GC after the first two stages are 23 years old or younger

BMC’s Tejay van Garderen and Garmin’s Tom Danielson are both poised to strike. How will they fare in stage 3?

Slovak champion wins Colorado opener after aggressive close to a short day of racing

Van Garderen, Danielson, Sky duo arrive to USA Pro Challenge on different levels

Slovak could realistically win more than half of the stages at the USA Pro Challenge

Mark Cavendish won two stages and his teammates took two others at the 100th edition of the race

The 28-year-old's Tour victory, combined with the top performances of other 20-somethings, confirmed there is a new breed of racers

Cannondale's top sprinter rides a frame with a custom paint job and a SRAM Red drivetrain

A difficult climbing day stands between the peloton and the finish line on the Champs-Élysées

Mark Cavendish is targeting three stage wins this week as the race makes its way from Brittany to Mont Ventoux

Clad in their lime green jerseys, Cannondale riders force a split in the peloton that eventually leads to a Peter Sagan stage win

Omega Pharma-Quick Step put on a leadout clinic at the end of stage 5, perfectly setting up Mark Cavendish for his 24th career Tour win

Three likely sprints lie ahead as the peloton makes its way from the Riviera to the mountains

Thanks to a solid leadout, Simon Gerrans edges Peter Sagan in a furious sprint to end stage 3 at the Tour

Sagan's team helps shell the sprinters but falls just short of the stage win

Cannondale speedster hopes to retain the green jersey he won last year

American rider, 30, will make his Tour de France debut as Cannondale rides for Sagan and stage wins

American set to make his Tour debut

Sagan overpowers Bennati and Gilbert as BMC's Frank remains the overall leader going into Sunday's closing individual time trial

Katusha rider dashes to the finish line with 250 meters left to take the victory

Sagan, who won the Tour's points title in 2012, enters this year's race on a hot streak

Cannondale rider earns stage victory as Mathias Frank takes overall race lead

Defending world champion has yet to notch a win this season, and says his goal is to earn a stage victory

The Cannondale speedster says doing California last year helped him in the Tour, and hopes for good things there again

With the ability to nearly win at will, Slovak champion faces down the weight of his growing palmares for record ninth Amgen Tour win

Fabian Cancellara and a slew of first-time winners came out on top in the classics, but who didn't?

Cannondale rider won Strade Bianche in March but has struggled since then

Joaquim Rodríguez and Daniel Moreno are sharing storied and infamous digs at the Hotel Malpertuus in Riemst, Belgium, this week

An endurance road bike, the Synapse Hi-Mod has a racing pedigree

Cannondale standout will race in the Amgen Tour of California, and later the USA Pro Challenge

The 2013 classics campaign has not been fruitful for the U.S.-based squad

Tinkering with the course didn't make the Amstel Gold any more or less exciting. It was the riders who dictated the action

Heat proved the undoing of the young Slovak, who said that on the last climb, "I couldn't get out of the saddle"

Slovak champion targets victory on the Cauberg after missing out at the Amstel Gold Race one year ago

Backed by the addition of Vincenzo Nibali, Astana could be the team to beat in the upcoming classics races

Peter Sagan points to Philippe Gilbert as top favorite for Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, but isn't discounting his status

Peter Sagan had all the answers on Wednesday at Brabantse Pijl, leaving many rivals wondering how to test him in the Ardennes

Peter Sagan and Maja Leye meet for the first time since the March 31 incident in which the Slovakian grabbed her backside

Though it came without a true showdown against Tom Boonen, Fabian Cancellara's triumphant return to the cobbles proved his place yet again

GCN's Daniel Lloyd recaps the action from the Tour of Flanders and the first stage of the Tour of the Basque Country.

Sunday's Tour of Flanders was the first major showdown between Cancellara, a decorated warhorse, and Sagan, a precocious phenom

Cannondale rider, who will return at the Ardennes classics, is not suited well for the Hell of the North, says his sport director

The young Slovak says the older, wiser Cancellara was the better man on Sunday

The big Swiss time machine clocks Sagan and Roelandts on the Paterberg and rides alone to the victory

After crashing out last year with a broken collarbone, Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack) returns to the Tour of Flanders intent on victory.

Cannondale rider is expected to contend for a victory on the cobbled streets of Flanders

Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider says he feels strong enough to win Sunday's race

Being in the right place at the right time is crucial to contending for a win at the annual classic

We make our case for the main contenders in the Tour of Flanders field, and conclude that “Spartacus” is the man to beat

Cannondale sport director Stefano Zanatta says Sagan is well prepared for Sunday's cobbled classic

As expected, Peter Sagan and Tom Boonen abandon as they prepare for Sunday's Tour of Flanders

Belgian rider has battled injuries and setbacks all season, including a crash in Sunday's Ghent-Wevelgem

Peter Sagan's ability to win in seemingly any terrain and under any circumstance is proving difficult to manage for Omega Pharma

Slovak champion wins De Panne opener in small group sprint in Zottegem

30-year-old will also ride in a support role at Paris-Roubaix on April 7

Cannondale's Peter Sagan leads a talented crop of young riders during this season's classics

After seeing how Peter Sagan won Sunday's Ghent-Wevelgem, it's clear there is more to come from the Cannondale rider

Sky put forth two performances on Sunday: A GC 1-2 finish in a stage race and a missed opportunity in a classic

Sagan checks one item off his to-do list with victory in a cobbled classic

Boonen, Cancellara and a general unwillingness to do Sagan any favors are roadblocks in the young Slovak's spring campaign

Fabian Cancellara draws out his inner "Spartacus"

Read one reporter's take on what it's like to ride in a 100-strong peloton with Peter Sagan

Friday's 211-kilometer course, dotted with cobbled sections and steep ascents, will tell us a lot about the classics season

With historic courses, frenzied fans, and dynamic racing, these men are the ones to watch from Harelbeke to Roubaix

The 135 finishers at Sunday's Milano-Sanremo dealt with some of Mother Nature's worst blows. It was exactly what the sport needed

The young Slovak gave it his all, fell short and still calls the brutal Milano-Sanremo "beautiful"

Strongman Sagan says he feels no pressure despite his most-favored status and sees two chances to win — from a break and in a sprint

"It's Sanremo; everything changes with the wind and the weather," says Tom Boonen

Cancellara, Gilbert and Chavanel seem like Sagan's strongest rivals for "La Primavera" title

After a near-miss last year, Fabian Cancellara says he has an idea how to win Sunday's Milano-Sanremo. But he's keeping it to himself

Cannondale rider will face stiff competition in 2012 winner Simon Gerrans, Fabian Cancellara, Mark Cavendish, and Matt Goss

Sagan's diversity and the weather's role were just two of the lessons learned in Tuscany as we look ahead to the season's first monument

Slovak champion outdoes the pure sprinters in a rainy finale at Narni Scalo before Tirreno-Adriatico heads for the mountains

With ingredients like Froome Dog, Shark, Spartacus, and Terminator, Italy's stage race is a delicious first course for March

Defending champion Fabian Cancellara can only manage fourth as Cannondale goes one-two

1. Peter SAGAN, Cannondale, in 4:17:34 2. Diego ULISSI, Lampre-Merida, at :00 3. Rinaldo NOCENTINI, Ag2r La Mondiale, at :00 4. Matthew BUSCHE, RadioShack-Leopard, at :00 5. Mauro SANTAMBROGIO, Vini Fantini-Selle Italia, at :00

The peloton takes to the white roads of Tuscany on Saturday and riders like Cancellara and Sagan are looking for first classics blood

Attention set to turn to Nibali, Contador and the Sky tandem after Sagan wins two in Oman