Richard Carapaz

2024 King of the Mountains Carapaz hit by illness while training for Tour, Jonas Abrahamsen makes remarkable recovery from fracture.

Inside the incredible power numbers from Simon Yates and Co. in one of the biggest GC reversals in the history of the Giro d'Italia.

What the heck happened Saturday on the Colle dell Finestre? Bobby J unpicks the historic raid and shocking standoff that decided the Giro d'Italia.

Yates celebrates a spectacular GC revival Sunday in Rome, Del Toro and Carapaz scrape for answers in the ashes of their own disappointment: 'I gave everything I had.'

Yates’ well documented collapse on the Finestre in 2018 was just the start of a string of Giro misfortunes.

A few favorites crashed or faded, and rising stars like Del Toro and Gee confirmed GC promise in a wild three weeks at the Giro d'Italia.

Del Toro, Carapaz were left reeling after Yates and Visma-Lease a Bike unleashed a devastating tactical ambush on the Colle delle Finestre at the Giro d’Italia.

What the stars said: Top names try to make sense out of one of most gripping days in modern cycling history.

Chris Harper wins final mountain stage as Yates utterly outwits and outperforms Del Toro and Carapaz.

Del Toro survives attritional stage across the Italian Alps to carry pink into the final mountain showdown in a Giro d'Italia still too close to call.

Isaac del Toro bounces back to win stage and tighten grip on pink jersey in well-timed surge after surviving the Mortirolo: 'I have nothing to lose.'

UAE's near-perfect Giro in danger of unraveling as Ayuso cracks and Carapaz closes in on Del Toro: 'I hope to have better legs tomorrow.'

Carapaz crashes, attacks, and claws back onto the virtual podium, now third at just 31 seconds off pink after the day's big GC fireworks in San Valentino.

XDS-Astana go 1-2 on brutal mountain stage, UAE teammates Del Toro and Ayuso lose time, top-3 on GC separated by only 31 seconds after stage 16 showdown.

Giro week three primer: Historically hard final week puts pink jersey in peril as Del Toro takes on climbing veterans across 20,000 meters of mountain ascent.

The 2019 pink jersey Carapaz pounced on the closing climb to surprise the GC favorites to win the stage and revive his overall ambitions: 'I saw people were suffering.'

Giro GC in the balance: Del Toro leads, UAE dominates, and Roglič reeling as Week 2 brings time trial and big climbs in crunch time for maglia rosa.

Tour de Hoody: How the Giro d'Italia could be the most exciting race of the season without Tadej Pogačar to obliterate the field.

'It can be interesting for the race without such a dominant rider': GC contenders forecast a wild and wide-open race in absence of peloton pulverizer Pogačar.

With the Giro starting next Friday, the entry list for the season’s first grand tour is deep and diverse.

From Van der Poel and Evenepoel to Powless and Pidcock: Ranking the five-star uber-favorites down to the one-star dark horses for the rainbow jersey.

Tour de Hoody: From brutal heat to near-record attrition, a chaotic Vuelta delivered non-stop thrills, but missed out on a larger narrative to make it great.

Stefan Küng wins first grand tour stage in final time trial as Ben O’Connor secures second overall ahead of Enric Mas.

Full start times for Sunday's thrilling time trial finale at the Vuelta a España: Who will end up on the final podium behind Primož Roglič?

Roglič fends off all attacks from rivals on day of illness within his team.

‘I’m happy with the way I am functioning’: Roglič uncorks his most dominant ride in three years to seize Vuelta lead.

Twice finishing fourth in grand tours, can Aussie climber hold on for podium spot? 'Still two very important days.'

'I had a bad day and I paid for it:' Landa admits he didn't have great legs in GC debacle.

Too little, too late: The gap was insurmountable by the time sport directors called Matteo Cattaneo out of winning breakaway to help.

Ben O’Connor dropped on final climb but puts in huge fight to hold red jersey by several seconds.

After Sunday's climbing chaos, it's still impossible to say who will win the Vuelta and who will step onto the final podium September 8 in Madrid.

'It happens a lot in cycling': Road blockage debate heats up after O'Connor deletes his Twitter account in wake of social media firestorm.

'Yellow cards' fly after controversial blocking incident provokes spill at Vuelta a España.

Van Aert attacked from the start of mid-mountain stage and didn't stop until he outsprinted last man standing Pacher, GC racers hit pause.

Close to 20,000m climbing in the leg-snapper grades of the northern mountains could blow the GC apart another half-dozen times.

After a rough start, Colorado climber eyes Vuelta comeback with the hardest climbs on horizon: 'The form is there.'

Adam Yates and Richard Carapaz on the up, but it’s a much tougher day for three key riders.

The crash-defying descent steals the show Sunday and caps a solid first week for the Movistar captain: 'The key is that the sensations are good.'

Briton races back into contention on grueling Vuelta mountain stage, as does Richard Carapaz while O'Connor keeps rivals in check.

Weird and wacky new solutions combine with old-school strategies as the peloton faces a first-week furnace at the Vuelta a España.

First of nine summit finishes leaves Vuelta GC scrambled and far from certain: 'There's still a lot of Vuelta left. Nothing is lost.'

Kuss cedes early time to top GC contenders: 'We don’t have the same strategy like in the Tour.'

Analysis: The absence of the Tour de France dominators creates a power vacuum at the top of a wide-open classification pack that should bring wild, dynamic racing.

Can Sepp Kuss strike twice? A wildly unpredictable GC field and a mass of mountaintop finishes will determine his title defense.

There was high action and intense racing through the Alps during the third week of the Tour de France

Richard Carapaz is a deserving polka-dot champion, but the points system needs changing and timed segments on climbs could shake up Tour racing.

From Cavendish's 35th to high-speed bunny-hops, to Jorgensen's MVP ride and Girmay's breakthrough, here are the best moments of a Tour de France that never stopped delivering.

UAE Team Emirates won nearly one-third of the €2,282,200 prize pot, with a surprising name at the bottom of the list.

The race jury extended the 'hors délai', but it wasn't enough to save French sprinter Démare who raced over the Tour's highest climb all alone: 'I'm not the type to give up.'

Relentless aggression by US team pays off with Tour stage win, Vingegaard loses more time

Tour race leader boosts overall lead to 3:09 with another huge victory in the Pyrénées.

Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team hammers several big GC rivals on Tour de France's first big mountain stage.

'I wanted to hit hard today': Pogačar uncorks monster attack to drop Vingegaard, Carapaz and the GC 'bigs', moves 45 seconds clear in the classification battle.

No one dreamed that Carapaz could put the American squad into yellow so soon: 'That's the crazy nature of our sport.'

Stage 3 results and the general classification, points, KOM, young rider, and team classification of the 2024 Tour de France.

Eritrean star becomes first Black African to win a Tour stage, Carapaz moves into yellow on countback as GC favorites finish safe.

Carapaz forgoes the typical EF Pro Cycling team paintwork for a gold Cannondale SuperSix EVO LAB71 design to celebrate his Olympic medal.

With GC captain Carapaz on the mend, riders like Neilson Powless and Sean Quinn will have freedom to move: 'I'm going with high ambitions and big goals.'

After a niggling knee injury saw Powless miss out on the spring classics, he's hoping for a return to the Tour de France to make up for lost time 'I missed out on a lot of opportunities.'

Yates and UAE are now firmly in control, with the next four stages stacked up across the Swiss Alps: 'The whole week is going to be super hard.'

Ecuador choses Jhonatan Narváez to fill its lone starting spot in Paris in controversial selection process that leaves defending champion Carapaz at home.

Carlos Rodríguez takes over yellow with one stage to go, Florian Lipowitz has breakthrough ride.

Ben Healy anchors EF bet on youth: 'A long time since we’ve had such a young roster.'

The reigning champions of all three grand tours set to clash at the Spanish grand tour, starting August 26 in Barcelona.

Follow all the action and headlines at the 2023 Tour de France.

Throughout this Tour de France, longtime cycling journalist John Wilcockson is writing about the riders who have to abandon the race: The Lost Boys.

Crashes can happen at any time during the Tour de France. They only seem that much more cruel when it happens on the first day.

Neilson Powless in KoM jersey softens blow for EF Education-EasyPost in wake of crash involving GC captain Richard Carapaz.

'This is a tough blow': Enric Mas, Richard Carapaz crash out while UAE take control in dramatic final of hilly Bilbao stage.

Yates beats Yates in brotherly sprint in Bilbao to open Tour de France with exclamation point.

Paris-or-bust: American squad all-in for big Tour push for final podium, stage wins, and maybe more.

Winning a stage, hitting the podium, or claiming the 'maillot jaune' are at an absolute premier every July: Here are the leaders for every team and their chances of striking Tour gold.

From Hindley and O’Connor through Mas and Carapaz, who's looking hot and who's not after the Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse.

Follow all the action as Evenepoel, Roglič, Carapaz, and others spar in the weeklong stage race.

Riders like Neilson Powless, Magnus Cort carry the torch as US-based team rebounds out of tough times in 2022.

'We've been given the resources to dig back into high performance:' Team liberated by post-pandemic resurgence from title backer.

'We’re going to take on the top teams and try to win the biggest races in the world.' Can Carapaz change the game for US-based team?

Arrival of Richard Carapaz has potential to transform the team after sicknesses and the relegation battle overshadowed a 2022 short of success.

Grand tour stars, cobblestone crushers, and bunch sprint supremos: Here are the five top transfers for 2023.

The South African is among four new arrivals for 2023 for the US-registered team.