Olympic Games

Eight weeks to the day since his collarbone was shattered into five pieces, Tom Pidcock completed his return.

Jolanda Neff rode a pitch-perfect race to take gold as the Swiss team swept up all three podium places, while the French team struggled through a difficult day.

Mathieu van der Poel did not sustain any fractures in his crash in the cross-country mountain bike race at the Tokyo Olympics.

It has been a tough few days for Dutch cyclists at the Tokyo Olympics.

The current MTB world champ talks Olympics, Kate Courtney, and her emotional roller coaster after 2016.

Expect a showdown from Team France and Team USA, as Pauline Ferrand Prevot, Loana Lecomte, and Kate Courtney position themselves for gold.

Newly crowned gold medalist Thomas Pidcock promises to race at cyclocross worlds in Arkansas, while German star languishes in Tokyo hotel following COVID diagnosis.

Five years ago, the Dutchwoman was in a hospital after a horror crash at the Rio Olympics. With silver in Tokyo, she's completed a chapter in her journey that saw her become one of the world's best riders.

Evie Richards enjoyed a breakthrough ride at elite level in 2020 and less than a year later she is making her debut at the Olympic Games, fulfilling a long-held dream.

The 21-year-old multi-disciplinary rider soared free to claim a stunning victory for Great Britain.

For better or worse? The absence of race radios in Olympic competition shaped the outcome of the women's road race in a big way.

The Dutchman fell heavily on the first lap and wasn't able to rejoin the front.

Pidcock’s Olympic gold medal adds fuel to a fierce fight across three disciplines with van der Poel.

Anna Kiesenhofer was far from the radar of the big favorites for the women's Olympic road race, but the Austrian took gold and did it strictly on her own terms. Who is the new Olympic road race champion?

Who knew what and what impact did it have on the race?

Tour de France yellow jersey Mathieu van der Poel says he thought a ramp used during training on a big rock drop would still be there during the race.

Pidcock attacked the field off his wheel while van der Poel crashed heavily in first lap and eventually abandoned. Mathias Flueckiger secured silver.

Three weeks after dropping out of the Tour de France, Mathieu van der Poel joins Tom Pidcock in the Olympic cross country MTB race.

The typhoon-strength Storm Nepartek could make the Tokyo Olympic time trial very interesting.

A lack of race radios and what racers say were infrequent and sometimes incorrect time checks appear to have led to confusion in the peloton.

The unheralded Austrian pulled off an impressive coup in hot conditions.

From the Dutch disaster to Anna Kiesenhofer's sacrifice: Here's what the stars said after Sunday's road race shocker.

Annemiek Van Vleuten makes history with bittersweet silver, and Mathieu van der Poel revs up for mountain bike race.

Van Vleuten cheered a ‘victory’ as she crossed the line, unaware that Anna Kiesenhofer had already taken gold.

Austrian rider punched into day's early breakaway and dropped her fellow escapees before launching a 41km time trial into Olympic gold.

Newly minted Olympic road race champion Richard Carapaz says ‘This is the best thing that could have happened’.

After second place in the Olympic road race, Belgium's Wout van Aert hopes to take gold in Wednesday’s time trial.

Richard Carapaz is Ecuador's second Olympic medalist, Brandon McNulty hits best US result since 2012, and how Tour de France riders fared in the Olympics.

The Ecuadorian soloed to the line after a late attack, collecting his country's first ever cycling gold medal.

From another costly crash by Geraint Thomas to Wout van Aert being out-maneuvered, here's what the starts said after extra-tough race around Tokyo.

Ecuadorian ace cements spot at top of the pro peloton with an Olympic medal that reconfirms a palmarès brimming with grand tour success.

Sixth place in elite men's road race best since Taylor Phinney was fourth in 2012 for USA Cycling.

Carapaz distances Brandon McNulty in final to triumph in Tokyo. Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogačar round out the podium.

Here's the news making the headlines on Friday, July 23, 2021.

The 29-athlete squad will compete across 12 different sports. Masomah Ali Zada and Ahmad Badreddin Wais are its two road riders.

There are only a few five-star favorites for the 2021 men's Olympic road race. We ranked 68 riders for Saturday's event.

And the 23-year-old is already looking to inspire the next generation.

The Australian time trial champion has had to come back from a huge setback to make her dream come true in Tokyo after she broke her collarbone, fibula, and elbow in a crash in April.

Tom Pidcock has been training in a tent in the spare room of his apartment to prepare for the heat of Tokyo in his bid for Olympic glory.

Back in the "studio" the podcast reunites to wrap up the 2021 Tour de France.

With prestige and national honor on the line, the Olympics count for lot more than they used to among the top pros.

Dumoulin will have big decisions to make about his future as a cyclist after racing for gold in the Tokyo Olympic time trial next week.

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The Dutch riders are the overwhelming favorites for gold in Tokyo, but they will not get it all their own way and there are plenty of riders ready to upset the form book.

As Aussie Olympian Gracie Elvin writes, the biggest sporting event on the planet offers soaring highs, but also crushing lows.

The course and the key contenders ahead of Sunday's Olympic road race.

The Clif Pro Team rider has learned to embrace her bi-culturalism on and off the bike.

Coryn Rivera, Amber Neben, Ruth Winder, and Leah Thomas give us snapshots from the road cyclists' Olympic village.

Tokyo will be the fifth Olympic Games for Alejandro Valverde, and presents an ideal course for him to be considered a favorite for gold.

A look at the MTB course for the Tokyo Olympics

USA Cycling brings two starters against a field packed with European 'superpowers' for the elite men's road race.

Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates are both confident they've overcome their Tour de France injuries to lay it on the line in the men's Olympic road race.

Tour de France stars, last-chance veterans and rising phenoms headline the three teams to watch in Tokyo on Saturday.

As the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics approaches, the IOC has announced Brisbane as the host of the 2032 Games.

Hungarian road race, time trial, mountain bike, and cyclocross champion Kata Blanka Vas is a future cycling star and the 19-year-old was snapped by SD Worx earlier this year.

Here's the news making headlines for Wednesday, July 21.

Dan Craven diagnosed with COVID-19 after struggling for months to secure a vaccine, and finally got call two hours after virus positive puts frustrating end to Olympic dream.

Team director sees advantages in Geraint Thomas, Simon Yates and Tao Geoghegan Hart's crash-riddled Tour as GB aims at the Olympic podium.

Haley Batten's meteoric rise has been a decade in the making.

We sit down with Kate Courtney to talk Olympics, and the people and processes that got her there.

Japanese champion Eri Yonamine has been racing for a decade, six of those as a professional, but the 2021 Olympics will be her first international race on home soil.

After a stage win at the Giro Donne, Coryn Rivera is off to Tokyo with confidence and an angel on her shoulder.

The Dutch women made history when they won back-to-back Olympic road race titles in London and Rio. Can they do it again with a third straight victory? There are few who would bet against it.

Ahead of her third Olympics, Christine Majerus reflects on her work as a domestique and her personal successes over the years.

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‘There was a level of maturity in understanding how to actually go, that it’s not just a dream.’

Here's your guide for this weekend's Olympic road races.

Here's the news making the headlines on Monday, July 19.

Wout van Aert won a sprint, a time trial and a mountain stage, but GC ambitions are on pause – and that's good for all of us at home.

Bike racing at the Olympics starts with the July 23 men's road race and continues through track events on August 8. Here is the full TV schedule.

Durbridge will make his Olympic debut.

Here's the news making the headlines on Tuesday, July 13.

Haig's collarbone fractured turned out to be worse than first thought.

New detection methods for 'technological fraud' will be rolled out at the Tokyo Olympic Games for track, road and mountain bike disciplines.

After two stage wins the Dutchwoman will turn her attention to the Olympic Games on July 26.

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig has been riding high in 2021 with her first WorldTour win and will complete a dream this year by competing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Cameron Meyer has decided not to ride the Olympic road race in Tokyo later this month. He will stay home with his father who was diagnosed with brain cancer.