Tour Méditerranéen

La Méditerranéenne, a four-day French stage race held since 1974, has been cancelled for 2017, due to a lack of security forces.

Due to a financial dispute with the French National Cycling League, the Tour of the Mediterranean will not be run this February

BMC's Cummings, who won the stage-r time trial, finishes fourth in the final stage to confirm his overall victory.

Degenkolb scores the hat trick in the morning's road stage, but Cummings takes the overall lead after winning the afternoon's time trial

German defends his lead in France from the front ahead of Saturday's double day

German takes the sprint to open his 2014 account in France

Results from stage 4 of the 2013 Tour Méditerranéen

Monfort now leads the overall going into Sunday's fifth and final stage

The loss of 25,000 euros' worth of bikes took Garmin-Sharp out of the Tour Méditerranéen ahead of the decisive stage

Italian crashes heavily in the wind, but does not fracture collarbone

Dutchman wins time trial to take command at Tour Med with three days remaining

Former Tour champ suffering from respiratory infection

"The Gorilla" struts in opener of the 40th Tour Med in Gruissan, France

Thor Hushovd continues his comeback toward the classics in southern France and still dreams of winning Paris-Roubaix

Hoogerland was motorpacing in preparation for the Tour Méditerranéen when a turning car struck him

Pellizotti eyes Giro return after opening season at Tour Mediterranean

There is a notable difference between amateur racing and the professional ranks, not just in the race style but also in the riders themselves. There are some riders in the peloton who seem to command respect, the ones who make their hardest efforts appear effortless, never showing the strain that their bodies are surely going through.

• 1. David MONCOUTIE, (FRA) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, in 16:48:36
• 2. Jean-Christophe PERAUD, (FRA) Ag2r La Mondiale, at 11
• 3. Wouter POELS, (NED), at 24
• 4. Andrew TALANSKY, (USA) Garmin-Cervelo, at 28
• 5. Morris POSSONI, (ITA) Team Sky, at 33

More than ever, early season racing is the domain of international events. This week sees many of the sport’s top names at the Tour of Qatar, only to be followed up by the second year of the Tour of Oman.

A reader asks how and why race officials can cut short a stage because of weather ... and we get some unbelievable news.

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the finale.

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the final stage.

Europe’s brutal winter put the brakes on Saturday’s fourth stage at the Tour Méditerranéen along France’s Cote d’Azur.

Française des Jeux keeps on pouring it on at the Tour Méditerranéen, with the French outfit winning its third stage in a row in the five-day race in southern France. Alejandro Valverde remains poised for overall victory, sitting sixth just 10 seconds back going into Sunday’s climactic stage finish atop Mont Faron.

Wednesday it was heavy winds, Thursday it was snow and cold — so far, there’s nothing Mediterranean at all in the Tour Méditerranéen in southern France. Perhaps it was appropriate that a rider from Finland, Jussi Veikkanen (FDJeux), won Thursday’s 170km second stage that saw riders buffeted by cold and wind yet again.

Just like he did in 2009, Belarussian Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJeux) won the opening stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in France on Wednesday. Pushed along by frigid winds, the 26-year-old won ahead of William Bonnet (Bbox Telecom) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) in the 92.4km stage in Sauvian.

2010 Le Tour Mediterranéen results

This week's racing brings the Mallorca Challenge, the Tour Mediterranéen and the Tour of Qatar.

Le Tour Mediterranéen is a five-stage race in France. It is a category 2.1 UCI event, part of the UCI's Euro Tour calendar.