Tour de France

Despite a team time trial, a punchy uphill finale, and a cobbled stage to Roubaix, the race for yellow is still close.

Egan Bernal has an ill-fated day on the Tour's cobbles, but he's prepared to race into the mountains Tuesday.

Now lacking two key teammates in the Tour de France, Romain Bardet downplays his chances to win the overall.

Can you believe that crazy stage 9? We discuss the Tour's trip across the Roubaix cobblestones.

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Craddock clears major hurdle, finishing Tour's cobbled stage. Now he's recovering for this week's mountain stages.

Froome and Thomas say there is no intra-team rivalry at Sky. Froome says they have the tactical upper-hand.

The American-registered squad was facing closure over a lack of sponsor dollars but will live on.

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Cobblestone chaos! Pavé pandemonium! The Tour de France's stage 9 was billed as a wildcard — did it deliver the drama we wanted?

Romain Bardet miraculously avoids major time loss in Tour stage 9, despite three flat tires on the cobblestones.

Rigoberto Urán's perfect tour was blemished on stage 9 to Roubaix, but he still heads into the Alps with a shot at overall victory.

After three seasons of injuries and setbacks, John Degenkolb finally won a WorldTour race

Peter Sagan says the Tour's ninth stage was a crazy ride across Northern France's cobblestones. He could only manage fifth.

BMC suffered a major blow to their overall aspirations on the Tour de France's brutal ninth stage

Chris Froome is "relieved to get the Paris-Roubaix stage" behind him so he can focus on the mountains and a fifth Tour de France title.

Australian cyclist Richie Porte pulled out of the Tour de France on Sunday after falling heavily on a shoulder early in stage nine.

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Let’s suppose you, big Koen, were instead tiny Koen, a little climber type. Let’s suppose you were aiming for yellow in Paris. How would you feel about Sunday’s cobblestones? How would you approach them?

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Chad Haga and Ian Boswell have made it into the second week at the Tour de France, and it's so far so good for the pair of American Tour debutants.

Romain Bardet is putting his Tour destiny into the hands of his teammates ahead of Sunday’s clash on the cobbles.

The relegation of Fernando Gaviria in Saturday’s finale could prove decisive in Sagan’s quest for a sixth green points jersey.

Dan Martin's Stage 8 crash validates the Irishman's win-some-lose-some Tour mantra.

Team Sky sport director Servais Knaven is pulling out all the stops to make sure his team has full Roubaix roadside support during the Tour de France version of a Sunday in hell.

While riders like Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa can turn mountains into molehills, it’s the fist-sized stones of the jutting pavé of northern France that have become their Mount Everest.

Mark Cavendish is quickly running out of time to equal Eddy Merckx's Tour de France stage win record.

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Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere is fuming over the negative fallout from the Chris Froome case.

Sprinters, GC riders, and opportunists alike agreed that a long, flat stage made for a boring day of racing. 

Is the first week of fast racing revealing fracture lines inside teams that brought multi-pronged attacks to the Tour de France?

This Sunday we'll see one of the weirdest spectacles in cycling: GC guys and skinny climbers trying to survive the Roubaix cobblestones.

In the 2014 Tour, Vincenzo Nibali took time on the cobblestone stage. This year, his team is ready to support another raid.

Chris Froome is the top grand tour rider at the moment, but taking on the role of the peloton's boss is not something he wants.

The Slovenian is riding for team captain Steven Kruijswijk, but he is showing signs of GC potential.

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Have a close look at Dan Martin's Champion System jersey at the Tour de France and you'll notice something unusual.

What was Quick-Step thinking? Is Romain Bardet in trouble? Should Dumoulin have drafted his team car? Those questions and more.

With a late-race mechanical, Romain Bardet loses time in the Tour de France's first uphill finish, another blow after a poor TTT ride.

Geraint Thomas was hoping for a shot at a stage win or yellow. Chris Froome wanted to avoid time losses. Neither happened in stage 6.

Martin's victory validated UAE Team Emirates's decision to hire Martin during the 2017 offseason to lead its efforts at the Tour.

How will the Tour's top GC favorites fare on the dusty, rough pavé of Paris-Roubaix? We rate their cobble-worthiness.

Take a deep dive into Lawson Craddock's physiological data from the Tour de France — recovery, sleep, and strain.

Peter Sagan doesn't mean sharing the wealth every once in awhile, now with a healthy lead in the Tour de France's points classification.

Bad luck finally catches up with Tom Dumoulin in Tour stage 6. He loses time due to late mechanical and a penalty from race jury.

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Though he is Olympic champion, a winner of Roubaix, and currently in yellow, Greg Van Avermaet is scrambling to find a team for 2019.

With two stage wins in four chances, the three-time world champion has already met Bora-Hansgrohe’s target coming into the race.

American Lawson Craddock crashed hard in stage 1 and broke his scapula. He has vowed to press on.

Axel Domont, a crucial lieutenant for Romain Bardet, crashed out of the Tour de France this week.

The five-time Tour de France champion recently called on riders to strike over Chris Froome's inclusion in the race.

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On stage 6's Mur de Bretagne, the climbers will finally come to the fore after several hectic days at the Tour de France.

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Some pundits say Sagan won't win any more stages this Tour. We roundtable on that, BMC's strategy, and how to handle hecklers.

We speak with Dr. James Morton, Team Sky’s head of nutrition, to learn more about what it takes to fuel a team at a grand tour.

The Tour's lumpy stage 5 was tailor-made for opportunist Toms Skujins who took Trek-Segafredo's first big prize of the 2018 race.

Luke Rowe says the incident with a French fan prior to Tour de France stage 5 was not a big deal, that there was no malicious intent.

Riders are skeptical that a smaller peloton, prompted by a UCI rule change, is any safer for the Tour de France.

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Outside the Team Sky bus on Wednesday, Luke Rowe confronts fan who was holding a sign telling the British team to go home.

BMC Racing is facing closure at the end of this season over a lack of sponsorship.

The defending points classification champion fell ill Wednesday morning and had to abandon the race.

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Racing for Team Sky has doomed Geraint Thomas to second-banana status behind Chris Froome despite his immense talent.

Words: John Wilcockson/Images: James Startt

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From issue 65 • Words: James Startt with images by Startt and Yuzuru Sunada

Quick thinking, good teamwork, and hard effort helped save Rigoberto Urán from losing time after crash in stage 4 of Tour de France.

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