Tirreno-Adriatico

French climber Julian Alaphilippe stuns Tirreno-Adriatico's sprinters with a win in stage 6 drag race. Yates unsure if he can hold GC lead in final TT.

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Yates strikes out on final climb to extend lead in overall.

Alexey Lutsenko wins from four-up sprint after dramatic final 40km of racing, with Yates retaining overall lead.

Sagan says he was bedridden for days at the end of his Sierra Nevada training camp, and now he's just trying to make it through Tirreno-Adriatico.

Frenchman Julian Alaphlippe sprints to victory from a select bunch on a hilly stage 2 in Italy.

Oscar Gatto and Rafal Majka crashed in stage 1 when a pedestrian crossed the street in front of their speeding team time trial squad.

Mitchelton-Scott puts GC leader Adam Yates in position to contend for overall by winning opening team time trial stage.

Spring racing begins in earnest for classics contenders and the GC riders alike, but Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico have changed a lot.

Proven grand tour winners slated for seven-day Tirreno-Adriatico, along with opportunists who are gearing up for spring classics.

Vincenzo Nibali will race both the Giro and Tour with a focus on his home race in Italy. Flanders and Tirreno-Adriatico reveal 2019 routes.

We look ahead to Milano-Sanremo, and rank the favorites. Plus, how does MSR stack up against cycling's other monuments?

Italian racing season kicks off in earnest with the tough seven-day Tirreno-Adriatico stage race with climbs, bad weather, and more.

This week's Tirreno-Adriatico race got us thinking: What would Team Sky do without Chris Froome?

Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico are a prognosticator's dream. Our experts opine on the GC riders, Sanremo favorites, and more.

Rohan Dennis wins the Tirreno-Adriatico final time trial for the second year in a row as Kwiatkowski claims the overall title.

Marcel Kittel avoids late crash to win stage 6 despite a brave charge by Peter Sagan in the finale.

Second place was perhaps the most impressive result in stage 6 of Tirreno-Adriatico Monday.

Adam Yates won the fifth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico on Sunday, as the stage finished in the hometown of the late Michele Scarponi.

Chris Froome (Sky) was unable to stay with the front riders on Saturday's summit finish at Tirreno-Adriatico.

Adam Yates took the fifth stage on Sunday in Filottrano, as Michal Kwiatkowski finished third on the day to move into the overall lead.

David De la Cruz (Sky) won the final stage of Paris-Nice for the second year-in-a-row, as Marc Soler (Movistar) took the overall title.

Damiano Cunego, who won the 2004 Giro d'Italia, remains bitter that the organizers didn't give him a chance for him to retire in style.

Mikel Landa (Movistar) won in the mist at the top of the climb to take his first victory as a member of Team Movistar on Saturday.

Mikel Landa captured the fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico in Sassotetto, as Damiano Caruso took over the lead in the general classification.

2017 Giro d'Italia champion Tom Dumoulin abandoned Tirreno-Adriatico on Saturday after crashing on a descent during the fourth stage.

Primoz Roglic rides clear on steep finish climb to win stage 3 at Tirreno, and Geraint Thomas moves into GC lead.

With one attack on the steep finish climb, Primoz Roglic won Tirreno-Adriatico's longest day in stage 3.

Marcel Kittel sprints to victory on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico.

Marcel Kittel tops Peter Sagan and Giacomo Nizzolo to claim the second stage of Tirreno-Adriatico

The British sprinter crashed during Wednesday's team time trial and suffered a fractured rib in the process.

BMC Racing takes the opening team time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico

Crashing during Tirreno-Adriatico's stage 1 team time trial, Mark Cavendish finished outside the time limit

BMC tops Mitchelton-Scott by four seconds in the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, putting Damiano Caruso into the race lead.

Froome stands by Sky despite British government report

The world’s best sprinters are bracing for the season’s first major battles in Europe next week at Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

The BMC Racing rider fell ill after the Volta ao Algarve last month and missed a week of training.

Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin will headline next week's Tirreno-Adriatico as they gear up for Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.

The 2018 edition of Tirreno-Adriatico runs from March 7 to 13 and will cover 984.5 kilometers.

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Tirreno-Adriatico wraps up with a stage 7 time trial, won by BMC's Rohan Dennis. Nairo Quintana claims his second overall title in Italy.

Colombia's Nairo Quintana claims his second title at the Tirreno-Adriatico while Australian Rohan Dennis wins stage 7 time trial.

Peter Sagan's Tirreno-Adriatico time trial is almost ruined by a dog and its owner, who crossed the road right in front of the world champion.

Rohan Dennis is proving himself as an alternate GC leader for BMC Racing's Giro d'Italia team, riding onto the podium at Tirreno-Adriatico.

The sprinters have one final day to shine at Tirreno-Adriatico. Fernando Gaviria narrowly beats Peter Sagan in stage 6.

Fernando Gaviria wins the penultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, beating world champion Peter Sagan in Italy.

Reigning two-time world champion Peter Sagan racks up another stage win in Tirreno as Nairo Quintana holds on to overall lead.

Nairo Quintana set to return home following Tirreno for "calm" approach towards the Giro d'Italia/Tour de France double attempt this year.

Reigning two-time world road race champion Peter Sagan claimed his second stage win of the 52nd edition of Tirreno-Adriatico on Sunday.

Giro contender Fabio Aru's pre-race build-up suffered a blow Sunday when he was forced out of Tirreno-Adriatico with a bout of bronchitis.

Nairo Quintana returns to Terminillo the victor of stage 4 two years after taking the same summit en route to Tirreno-Adriatico win in 2015.

Nairo Quintana gained time and garnered respect with sensational solo win on stage 4 to take overall lead over rivals at Tirreno-Adriatico.

Colombian Nairo Quintana pulled on the leader's blue jersey after solo finish to win the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Saturday.

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Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice each feature crucial uphill finishes on Saturday. Here's what fans should be watching for.

Riders throughout the peloton hold Tirreno-Adriatico in high regard as a key prep race for the Giro d'Italia and a prestigious prize.

A fast finish in Italy yields Peter Sagan's second win of the season, while BMC's Rohan Dennis takes the overall lead.

The two-time defending world champion earns the victory in a bunch sprint ahead of Elia Viviani and Jurgen Roelandts.

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BMC Racing and Quick-Step Floors have dominated the team time trial discipline for years, and Tirreno-Adriatico offered the latest face-off.

Sky's Geraint Thomas launches a late attack to claim stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico, while Greg Van Avermaet assumes the overall lead.

Sky's Geraint Thomas wins stage 2 solo in Pomarance, Italy, earning a bit of redemption after disastrous stage 1 team time trial.

Cannondale-Drapac showcases a new disc brake TT bike while Team Sky suffers costly technical issues in Tirreno stage 1 team time trial.

BMC Racing beats TTT rival Quick-Step Floors in Tirreno's stage 1 test, while FDJ rounds out the podium in third.

The seven-day race across Italy kicked off with a team time trial along the Tyrrhenian Sea's coastline in Lido di Camaiore.

Tirreno-Adriatico is your place to see Giro stars and Milano-Sanremo hopefuls, but is there a curse?

Is Tirreno-Adriatico, a one-week Italian stage race, a good predictor of Giro success? It depends, but it worked for Nibali in 2013.

The "Race of the Two Seas" kicks off Wednesday with a team time trial and runs through March 14.

Organizers announce the 2017 Tirreno-Adriatico route, which will include the famous Terminillo climb, where Nairo Quintana won in 2015.

This week, we look at Trofeo Alfredo Binda on the Women's WorldTour, along with men's races Tirreno-Adriatico and Volta ao Alentejo.

BrakeThrough Media explains how they captured the perfect photo of the dramatic stage 6 finish at Tirreno-Adriatico.

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Tom Leezer was initially listed as fifth in the Tirreno TT, but LottoNL – Jumbo spoke up and had the result corrected.

With a cancelled queen stage, Tirreno-Adriatico rewrote the script with exciting, close racing between Sagan and Van Avermaet.

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Peter Sagan criticizes Van Avermaet's tactics in pivotal Tirreno stage 6, but really, he should be learning from the winner instead.

A short, 10km time trial packed plenty of action to wrap up Tirreno-Adriatico, offering a duel between Van Avermaet and Sagan.