Tour de France

Movistar pair Alejandro Valverde and Mikel Landa appeal for allies to help loosen Geraint Thomas's grip on yellow jersey

There is plenty of intrigue on the Tour de France's second rest day, before the race heads into the pivotal Pyrenean stages.

The Sky team will race the remainder of the Tour de France without Gianni Moscon, who was kicked out of the race Sunday.

Two of Dave Brailsford's riders have been kicked out of races this year under the UCI's new video replay system.

Chris Froome seems to have accepted the fact that his teammate Geraint Thomas is in control of the race and could win the yellow jersey.

The British team has endured being spat at, booed, and even pushed by fans at the Tour de France.

For the first time in the Froome era, Chris Froome heads into the final week of the Tour de France not wearing the leader's jersey.

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Nairo Quintana said he would welcome rivals Chris Froome and Tom Dumoulin paying for their efforts in the Giro d'Italia as he looks to relaunch his Tour de France bid in the Pyrenees.

Team Sky's Gianni Moscon was expelled from the Tour de France on Sunday following an altercation with another rider.

The Tour de France's shortest road stage in 30 years on Wednesday is expected to be the hardest of the final three mountain stages in the Pyrénées.

Chris Froome continues a battle on two fronts: one against the peloton and a second to win the hearts and minds of French fans.

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Jasper Stuyven's near miss on Saturday underlined that cycling is often a game of miles, inches, or even a few feet of elevation.

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Geraint Thomas said he and second-place Chris Froome must remain loyal to the team’s interests or risk losing the Tour.

Roglic surged up the final climb to Mende to emerge as a legitimate podium contender at the Tour de France.

On Saturday, Chris Froome hinted he would be fine to see the GC stay as it all the way to Paris.

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After getting booed on Tour de France podium, Geraint Thomas defends his Sky team as 100-percent clean.

With smaller teams, tighter cut-off times, and short, explosive stages, Tour sprinters find themselves off the back.

"If we are not careful, we can lose everything," says sports director Nicolas Portal

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Aero bikes are for sprinters, and climbing bikes are for climbers, right? Well, that depends.

Sunweb wants to avoid an ambush in the coming days to keep Tom Dumoulin within striking distance of the yellow jersey.

It is Sky vs. Sky after 12 stages of racing in the Tour. Geraint Thomas is in yellow, but will he work for Froome?

Officials from several teams discuss the departure of Vincenzo Nibali, who left the Tour de France after a crash on Alpe d'Huez.

Thursday's stage that ended atop Alpe d’Huez was marred by fans interfering in the race — which resulted in Vincenzo Nibali abandoning.

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Geraint Thomas wins again and tightens grasp on yellow, but if you ask him, Froome is still Sky's #1 GC rider.

American Lawson Craddock continues to churn away stage after stage through the Alps, despite a broken shoulder.

Dumoulin and his Sunweb team director Luke Roberts say they think they've cracked the code to beat Team Sky.

Movistar has endured a tough few days in the Alps, but Mikel Landa senses fractures in Sky's "Fortress Froome."

On Tour de France stage 12 to Alpe d'Huez, early escapee Steven Kruijswijk gave the day's most stirring performance.

Vincenzo Nibali was forced to quit the Tour de France with a vertebrae fracture after a crash Thursday.

Chris Froome has raced Alpe d'Huez four times in his Tour de France career. This edition might go down as his least favorite.

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This year’s Tour de France is proving too punishing for the peloton’s top sprinters.

Winner of the 2014 Tour de France, Vincenzo Nibali is a couple minutes behind overall but still dreaming of yellow.

Tony Gallopin is the third Ag2r La Mondiale rider to pull out of the Tour, leaving Romain Bardet with just four teammates.

Alejandro Valverde vowed to attack Team Sky again and again at the Tour de France.

The Colombian pulled out of the French grand tour after crashing hard during Sunday's cobblestone stage.

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We need to see some attacking from the top GC favorites. But where should they do it?

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The climbs that made Tour stage 11 a thriller for the GC proved too much for sprinters Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel

It is business as usual at the Tour de France for Peter Sagan. But behind the scenes, he is getting a divorce.

So who Sky's leader? We'll get this sorted out on today's roundtable and discuss how rivals can shake up the race.

After a few minutes of looking like he was cooked, Dan Martin is quickly back in the GC conversation at the Tour.

Geraint Thomas says that he not just towing some PR line from Team Sky. Chris Froome remains his leader in the Tour.

Movistar’s daring tactic to try to derail Team Sky’s train backfires in the first summit finale of the 2018 Tour de France.

Although Chris Froome is defending champ at the Tour, he finds himself well behind in the overall — to his teammate.

Romain Bardet wishes he had followed Dan Martin on mountaintop finish. The Frenchman is three minutes behind on GC.

The squad is targeting stage wins following Richie Porte's exit and Tejay van Garderen's GC struggles.

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Mikel Landa and his Movistar teammates are waiting for the right moment to attack Froome at the Tour.

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Dan Martin's late attack in stage 10 amounts to nothing, but it was a shot across the bow as more big climbs loom.

Rigoberto Uran is now well behind in the overall after a crash on the cobbles and time lost in the first day in the Alps.

Vincenzo Nibali says precise training has led to boring racing. He suggests budget caps on teams to liven up the action.

BrakeThrough Media captures the drama of the Tour de France's hectic first week with sprints, a TTT, and some cobbles.

Although Greg Van Avermaet won't keep the Tour lead much longer, he's happy to go down swinging in the Alps.

Chris Froome finds himself off the back in Tour's first mountain stage but chases back and gears up for Alpine attacks.

A mountain biker jumped over the Tour's breakaway group on the second climb of stage 10 through the Alps.

Following stage 8 crash Toms Skujins is the subject of a bizarre video that some believe shows mechanical cheating.