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The Manx Missile may require surgery, and certainly needs recovery time, but it's unclear if he can regain his once-stellar form

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Cavendish abandons the Tour after stage 1 and may face surgery, but maintains perspective about the crash that he says was his fault

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Bike racing sometimes goes according to the book, but there are days when it respects neither plot nor narrative

Mark Cavendish and Simon Gerrans hit the deck in the finale and Marcel Kittel escapes the pileup to win the first stage of the 2014 Tour

Mark Cavendish will make an early run at the yellow jersey on this custom CVNDSH-edition Specialized S-Works Venge

Only four riders took the start from the country of the Grand Depart, though one is the defending champion

The 2014 Tour de France may be one of Cavendish's last chances to win stage 1 and wear the maillot jaune

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A crash with 500 meters left takes out Mark Cavendish and several others vying for the sprint win

Tuesday was a good day for Omega Pharma, as Mark Cavendish took the sprint win, and Tony Martin retained his overall lead

Tony Martin, meanwhile, retains his overall race lead with five days left

The Tour de Suisse begins on Saturday with a deep field including Peter Sagan, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, and defending champion Rui Costa

Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Michal Kwiatkowski and more preview the Tour's upcoming cobble stage

The Manx Missile fought Degenkolb bar to bar for the victory, and took it — by a tire's width

Olympic and former Tour de France champion is the man to beat when the Amgen Tour sets off in Sacramento on Sunday

The field for the 2014 race is one of the deepest in the event's nine-year history

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The British rider’s No. 1 objective for the season is the Tour de France

Three-time winner Mark Cavendish will not race because of an illness

Former world champion could start in California after reexamining his season following an illness suffered in the middle of the classics

Cavendish fell ill after Milano-Sanremo and has not yet fully recovered

Former world champion may miss Sunday's sprinter-friendly classic after falling ill Friday morning

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider says he and his teammates are not to blame for a fifth-place result

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step manager says the changes will alter the entire race — and the field of riders

The season's first major classic is the longest and most unpredictable, and while Sagan is the favorite, no one knows who will win on Sunday

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider guided Cavendish to a sprint victory in Monday’s Tirreno-Adriatico stage 6

Mark Cavendish promises to honor Milano-Sanremo with one last ride — and criticizes changes to the Italian monument

The Omega-Pharma Quick Step rider finishes ahead of teammate Alessandro Petacchi and Cannondale's Peter Sagan

Ahead of Milano-Sanremo, Mark Cavendish could use the boost to his confidence that comes with a Tirreno-Adriatico win, says his team

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Belgian team rides former world champion into the leader's jersey in Italy

Porte says there are horses for every course and Tirreno-Adriatico offers the most appealing route to the grand tours contenders in 2014

The absence of Chris Froome makes for a more unpredictable GC in Italy

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Former world champion will contest the sprinter-friendly Sanremo on March 23

Cavendish collects his first victory of 2014 in the final stage of the Volta ao Algarve

Reports that the Pompieana climb might be excluded from Milan-Sanremo have prompted differing reactions from Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish

Bad weather and safety concerns may force RCS Sport to take another look at its Pompeiana climb, an addition to Milano-Sanremo

The former world champ is off to a rough start, but Marcel Kittel expects a dogfight with Omega Pharma and Lotto for the sprints

German jumps to the win in his first showdown with the former world champion in Dubai

World time trial champion is targeting the opening TT and the overall in the first-year Asia Tour event

Will 2014 be the season that Cavendish returns to the top or Kittel comes back to the field? A new race in the United Arab Emirates this week will give the first indications

Manxman is building his entire 2014 season around Tour stage wins, and specifically one in his mother's hometown that comes with a yellow jersey

Matthew Beaudin lays out his thoughts on the 2014 cycling season, and they include a Richie Porte win at the Giro d'Italia

After spending a week in Argentina, Neal Rogers provides a final analysis of the Tour de San Luis

The Omega Pharma men have reversed their roles in Argentina and nearly landed a stage win on Wednesday's winding, windy finale

Renshaw signed with Omega Pharma-Quick Step in the offseason after the riders were separated for two years

Caleb Ewan has drawn comparisons to the British speedster and will ride for Orica-GreenEdge this summer

Mark Cavendish, Tom Boonen, and Alessandro Petacchi are among the riders tuning the Belgian team's sprint train in Calpe, Spain

The 28-year-old got his start in cyclocross and only joined the road ranks full-time in 2011

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step duo wants to return to the top of their specialties: The classics and the sprints

Andrew Hood reviews his 10 biggest stories of the year, from Horner to Froome, and everything in between

Three former green jerseys at the Tour de France will highlight Omega Pharma's roster for Argentine season opener

The German powered his way to four stage wins at the Tour de France this year and says he’ll base his 2014 around the July classic

The British sprinter says the altered course is too hard and that if the course remains that way, he might never race the monument again

The British sprinter wants to compete on the track at the 2016 Olympics

From Horner's contract woes to the future of brakes, look back at the week that was in cycling through our top stories

In an excerpt from his new book, the Manxman describes an opening week at the 2013 Tour de France that made him want to quit

The Isle of Man rider is invited to train with the British national team

The favorites have weighed in on the 2014 Tour route and Andrew Hood digs into the race's 21 stages

Riders 30 years old and above could start to phase out of contention in the worlds road race moving forward

The worlds kicked off with Sunday’s TTT, and the upcoming week is packed with drama — on and off the bike

Sky's Bradley Wiggins won the Tour of Britain on Sunday as compatriot Mark Cavendish took his third stage victory of this year's race

Bradley Wiggins leads the race with one day remaining

Manxman comes out on top after the breakaway nearly survives in Britain

The Cannondale rider beats Petacchi, Ciolek in a tight finish

The British rider says the road race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics would not “suit me too well”

American Farrar scores a podium finish in the final stage

Renshaw is reunited with Mark Cavendish and will serve in the sprinter's leadout train

Italian comes out of a brief retirement and will ride for the Belgian team through the 2014 season

From Alberto Contador’s determination to BMC Racing’s disappointment, Matthew Beaudin relays his Tour takeaways