Ryder Hesjedal

The 2012 Giro d'Italia was a tempestuous affair, with the leader's jersey changing hands several times in the closing stages.

After retiring at the end of 2016, Ryder Hesjedal retired from pro cycling. The 2012 champion is back at the Giro d'Italia as a fan.

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After a season stymied by illness, Ryder Hesjedal announces he'll retire this year. But he's motivated for the Canadian WorldTour races.

Ryder Hesjedal could be headed to the Tour de France

Despite losing time to GC rivals Tuesday, Canadian Ryder Hesjedal remains optimistic, calm, and realistic with lots of racing left at the Giro.

The eight North Americans starting the 2016 Giro range from a former champ to four debutants at the Italian grand tour.

Former Giro champ Ryder Hesjedal was close to retirement, but the Trek team offered him a chance to have a fresh start in 2016.

Trek-Segafredo's three new North American additions will debut in 2016 at the Santos Tour Down Under.

Three new North Americans bolster Trek Factory Racing, which has a renewed focus on stage racing and a slightly smaller squad.

The Canadian says he's got 77 race days under his belt this season, including both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.

The stage race will have a team time trial for the first time in its three-year history, which organizers are calling a worlds preview.

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Former Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal leaves Cannondale-Garmin after eight years with the team to join another American outfit.

Ryder Hesjedal digs deep in the Tour's 20th stage but has to settle for third place atop the Alpe d'Huez climb

Two of the five-star Tour favorites lose ground — Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana — as echelons form against the howling North Sea wind

A roundup of some of the top stories in the days before the start of the 2015 Tour de France

A handful of riders have the potential to take charge on the roads of France and win the yellow jersey

The U.S.-registered squad is taking three quality GC men to the roads of France

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The "Fab Four" could have plenty of company as they contend for the yellow jersey in France next month, writes Andrew Hood

Ryder Hesjedal attacks his way back into the top-10 of the Giro d'Italia GC, keeping his head high despite some near misses for stage wins

Fabio Aru rides alone to win in Cervinia as Contador maintains his overall lead on a mountainous 236km stage

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Ryder Hesjedal's Cannondale was checked for a motor by the UCI following Thursday's stage, along with four other bikes

Philippe Gilbert wins with an audacious long-range attack out of a large breakaway, and Contador climbs away from GC rivals

Ryder Hesjedal wants Tinkoff-Saxo to let the breakaway go, says the team's tactics only lead to isolation for its leader, Contador

Good legs, bad luck: Ryder Hesjedal chases alone to 13th overall after a late crash splits the Giro d’Italia peloton

With the first week of the Italian grand tour in the books, three riders have emerged as the leading trio chasing the pink jersey

Canadian Ryder Hesjedal knows his best days are to come in the Giro's final week, and his Cannondale-Garmin team gives him full support

Alberto Contador and the Tinkoff-Saxo team are hopeful that with a bit of care, his dislocated shoulder will not keep him from the race

2012 Giro winner Ryder Hesjedal not panicked by 46-second deficit to former winner Alberto Contador after just three stages

Once the Giro d'Italia entered the famous port city where Christopher Columbus set sail, some contenders' ships started taking on water

Ryder Hesjedal, the 2012 champion of the Italian grand tour, will lead the squad's GC hopes

Canada's only grand tour winner picks up his season at Saturday's race on Tuscany's gravel roads

Several former winners will start Saturday's Strade Bianche, a 200km race in Tuscany that includes 45km on hilly, gravel roads

The six-day race in South Australia gets underway January 20

The season was filled with dramatic moves on the road, but five moments stand out above the rest

A new, independent report released by Cycling Canada indicates that there is no systemic culture of PED use in Canada

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Ryder Hesjedal sucker-punches Oliver Zaugg to win atop La Camperona as Alberto Contador defends his lead against a surging Chris Froome

Days after losing hopes for a strong overall standing, Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) went on the attack Friday after changing his attitude about the Vuelta

The peloton suffers through a hot day of aggressive, crash-filled racing. De Marchi prevails, and Froome battles back from fall to gain time

Marquee names are battling in the opening stages of the Vuelta a España, delivering on the promise of the season's most exciting grand tour

Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) lost more than three minutes in Wednesday's stage when the bunch split up under pressure from Tinkoff-Saxo

Six U.S. riders and two Canadians head a solid North American contingent for the season's final grand tour, the Vuelta a España

The Russian navigates the fast, twisty descent into Gap to earn the stage win for Katusha

Garmin-Sharp's Ryder Hesjedal says his team has been forthcoming and honest, and that he's proud of its work to move cycling forward

Teams came up with a solution to end the polemic, with a time penalty on the leading riders, but the race jury refused to accept the offer

Despite forfeiting loads of time in the opening day of the 2014 Giro, Ryder Hesjedal is making a dramatic run for the final podium going into the decisive closing battles

The morning after a controversial descent of the Stelvio, riders and teams at the Giro are still wondering how to solve the issue

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A wild stage brings a new Giro leader, and a more tightly packed group of contenders, as the race heads toward the finish in Trieste

The Colombian mastered the Giro's queen stage, which featured brutal weather on the first two of three climbs

Canadian Ryder Hesjedal got off to a rough Giro start. He's now in 11th, and only looking to move up.

Cadel Evans is in control of the GC at the Giro, holding a 57-second lead over his closest competitor. Can he go the distance?

Colombian climber Rigoberto Urán lines up with the pink jersey in his sights as the Giro faces its first mountain stages

The team lost its leader, Martin, in the team time trial and must now regroup around sprinter Farrar and 2012 Giro champ Hesjedal

Garmin lost hope for the GC Friday, but the American team was far from the only squad to bleed time in the stage 1 team time trial

Irishman crashes and Hesjedal loses more than three minutes in Giro's opening stage

The GC field at the Giro is filled with riders both young and old, such as 24-year-old Nairo Quintana (above) and 37-year-old Cadel Evans

Despite having defending Liège-Bastogne-Liège champ Dan Martin on its squad, Garmin remains in the shadows

Several young riders make up the squad's lineup for the upcoming season

When it comes to the Ryder Hesjedal confession, rider reactions range wildly, but disappointment in a cycling era is common theme

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport official says the organization was by confidentiality agreement with 2012 Giro d'Italia winner

Despite the media following his trail in early 2013, Ryder Hesjedal held out on a doping admission — and the new Omerta shows us why

Cycling need not perish from a thousand self-inflicted cuts. A truth commission could nurse our wounded sport back to health

Canada's Centre for Ethics in Sport expressed disappointment at the late revelation and said Hesjedal deprived clean athletes "the opportunity to shine"

With four riders having gone public with doping confessions tied to their early careers, Garmin boss says ethics come before image

2012 Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal admits to taking banned substances in the early part of his career

The Danish rider claims Hesjedal's blood values were close to the UCI limit in 2003

Jonathan Vaughters’ Garmin squad will see a major overhaul for next season, with as many as 10 new arrivals

Sagan finished 10th two days earlier in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

Heading into GP Montréal, some riders were looking for a second chance on the climber-friendly course.

The Astana captain said he's riding with 20 less watts than he had at the Giro d'Italia

Several grand tour winners will compete in the Québec City and Montréal Grands Prix Cyclistes

Chris Horner, Tom Danielson, Janier Acevedo headline a long list of overall contenders looking for an edge in Utah

Hesjedal looking for results in Utah, Alberta, Quebec after injury, illness derailed his Giro and Tour plans