Tirreno-Adriatico

Van Avermaet wins nail-biting finale to an unpredictable Tirreno, beating Sagan overall by one second as Cancellara wins final TT.

Matt Brammeier raises Vincenzo Nibali's hackles with strong words on Twitter, prompting Italian Tour champ to consider legal action.

Greg Van Avermaet ekes out the overall win at Tirreno-Adriatico, beating Peter Sagan by one second as Cancellara claims final TT.

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Vincenzo Nibali and Astana threaten to skip Giro after missing out on Tirreno queen stage, illustrating rift in peloton over extreme weather protocol.

Tirreno-Adriatico sees a dramatic finale as a powerful break of eight sets up Van Avermaet with a chance to win the overall.

With the spring's biggest classics coming soon, Greg Van Avermaet is in winning form, primed for Tirreno-Adriatico victory, then a monument.

Van Avermaet vaults into overall lead after out-sprinting Sagan in Tirreno-Adriatico's penultimate stage.

Greg Van Avermaet takes GC lead at Tirreno-Adriatico in a surprise breakaway of eight sprinters and classics aces.

Tejay van Garderen is 'disappointed' at the lost opportunity to put his climbing skills to the test at Tirreno-Adriatico

Scenes from Saturday's Tirreno-Adriatico stage, where Stephen Cummings soloed away in the final kilometers to take the win

Steve Cummings wins Tirreno-Adriatico's fourth stage as Zdenek Stybar holds on to the overall race lead

Days after a stage cancellation at Paris-Nice in France, a snowy forecast in Italy forces Tirreno-Adriatico organizers to call off stage 5

Dimension Data's Stephen Cummings makes a savvy late move to win the fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico

Etixx – Quick-Step's 21-year-old sprint sensation Fernando Gaviria celebrates his first win in the big leagues — with more to come.

Fernando Gaviria earns his first WorldTour win, confirming that he's one of the peloton's top up-and-coming sprinters.

Gaviria romps to his first WorldTour victory in Tirreno sprint as his Etixx teammate, Stybar, keeps GC lead.

The Women's WorldTour goes Dutch, Paris-Nice wraps up with a climber's delight, and Tirreno offers its only mountaintop finish.

Etixx – Quick-Step goes two in a row at Tirreno, with Fernando Gaviria, 21, claiming the biggest sprint win of his young career.

Zdenek Stybar times his attack perfectly and earns himself the GC lead in Tirreno-Adriatico.

With a big win in stage 2, Zdenek Stybar claims three different leader's jerseys at Tirreno-Adriatico.

Zdenek Stybar breaks free after the final climb and rides the remaining 3km to victory over a group of hungry chasers.

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Tirreno-Adriatico begins with a team time trial, and BMC delivers an impressive win, putting Daniel Oss into the blue leader's jersey.

BMC Racing off to a hot start in Tirreno-Adriatico with team time trial win. Oss takes GC lead.

BMC roars into the first day of Tirreno, positioning its GC leader, Tejay van Garderen ahead of rivals Nibali, Valverde, and Pinot.

The victory puts Daniel Oss in the blue leader's jersey heading into Thursday's second stage.

Tejay van Garderen has never won a European stage race, but he says he's ready to change that at Tirreno-Adriatico.

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Van Garderen, Talansky, Valverde, Contador, and Nibali are all queuing up to race Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

Tirreno-Adriatico organizers announce 2016 route with a blend of sprint stages and hard climbs to sort out GC.

Haga takes his licks in Tirreno-Adriatico, where he faced stiff competition in the time trials and brutal weather in the mountains

Tirreno was full of drama as GC heads-of-state faced off in the snow on the Terminillo, opportunists fought for stage wins, and more

The Italian says he's focused on two upcoming training blocks and several races ahead of the Tour de France this summer

The Irishman finishes 25th in Tirreno-Adriatico as he prepares for the spring races

The Colombian showcases his fighting spirit by winning the annual race across Italy after bouncing back from surgery and a crash

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In what was billed as an early-season battle of the GC stars, Quintana earned his stripes, coming out well ahead of Contador and Nibali

After losing to Malori in the first TT at Tirreno, Cancellara turns the tables and wins stage 7. Quintana confirms overall title in Italy

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Rigoberto Uran may not have a chance to take Tirreno overall with short TT, but it whets his appetite for the Giro's individual test

Peter Sagan's victory in stage 6 at Tirreno-Adriatico was his first win since last summer

Scenes from the rain-soaked Tirreno-Adriatico stage 6 from Rieti to Porto Sant'Elpidio

With Milano-Sanremo around the corner, Peter Sagan outsprints a reduced peloton on a rainy day in Italy to take his first victory of the season

Blizzard conditions plagued the end of Sunday's Tirreno-Adriatico fifth stage

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Tim De Waele captures the struggle in the snow that was stage 5 at Tirreno-Adriatico

In what one rival called "a heroic stage," Nairo Quintana may have thrown the stone-cold knockout punch that wins the 2015 Tirreno-Adriatico

The Colombian climber attacks the other favorites for the overall and rides alone through a snowstorm to the victory atop Monte Terminillo

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Photos from stage 4 at the 2015 Tirreno-Adriatico

A powerful attack on the final ascent gives Sky's Wouter Poels the stage win and the overall lead with one stage to go at Tirreno-Adriatico

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Greg Van Avermaet won a hotly contested sprint in Arezzo against several other familiar classics names in Tirreno-Adriatico's stage 3.

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Greg Van Avermaet nabs stage victory in Tirreno-Adriatico with classics just ahead and doping inquiry outcome on the horizon

The Belgian wins stage 3, which ended in an uphill sprint in the historic Tuscan city of Arezzo

The Swiss rider is gearing up for what he and Trek Factory Racing hopes are strong rides in the spring classics

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Will Tinkoff-Saxo get its money's worth out of Peter Sagan this spring? He hopes to open his account in Tirreno this week

Crash causes chaos in the sprint of the first road stage of Tirreno, and Debusschere comes out on top

Lotto Soudal's Belgian champion, Jens Debusschere sprints to first win of season. Malori keeps overall lead amid crashes and crosswinds

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Italian Adriano Malori comes out swinging at Tirreno-Adriatico but is modest about ambitions to win the Tour's opening TT and take yellow

Italian Adriano Malori wins the Tirreno-Adriatico opener, claiming the overall lead to start the one-week race

Italian national time trial champion Adriano Malori wins the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, besting Cancellara and taking the GC lead

In a pre-race press conference, Alberto Contador confirmed that he had spoken to the CIRC concerning his 2010 clenbuterol case

The 50th edition of the "Race of the Two Seas" draws big names for an early-season showdown

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Italy has been battered by heavy winds, and due to fallen trees, the first stage of Tirreno, slated for Wednesday, has been modified

The Giant-Alpecin sprinter is still recovering from a virus he picked up after the Tour Down Under

The Sky rider was slated to start the stage race on Wednesday alongside his main Tour de France rivals

Can Contador's GC ambitions coexist with Sagan's aims to return to his winning ways at next week's Italian stage race?

Global Cycling Network names the top riders to watch at Tirreno-Adriatico, which get underway next Wednesday

Bradley Wiggins will fine-tune his form at Paris-Nice in advance of a run at Paris-Roubaix later this spring