Cycling: Tour de France

Professional cycling has had a funny way of dividing opinions - you're either a die-hard fan or you'd rather skip it altogether. But let me tell you, it's been making quite a splash in recent years. Just look at the Tour De France - it's an absolute spectacle that has captivated millions across the globe. And as the sport's popularity skyrocketed,…

Transfer Analysis: In part two, Spencer Martin looks at Lidl-Trek, who steps up in the transfer market, as INEOS Grenadiers continues to loose talent. The scrappy overachievers significantly upgrade their roster while INEOS sees five major talents head for the door without any obvious replacements. Tao Geoghegan Hart - From INEOS to Lidl-Trek To…

Tom Pidcock has admitted he faces pressure from the Ineos Grenadiers to put greater focus on the Tour de France but the world and Olympic mountain bike champion is determined to keep enjoying multiple disciplines for a little while longer. The 24-year-old is seen as a potential future Tour winner but though he took a famous stage victory on the…

On the Tour de France sometimes the impossible happens. Not Jonas Vingegaard losing grip of the yellow jersey four days from Paris - that was never going to happen in a flat transitional Stage 18 to Bourg-en-Bresse - but how about a four-man breakaway holding the peloton at bay to deny the sprinters a gilt-edge opportunity to fight for the…

Formally the concluding event of the Road World Championships, the elite men's road race will for this year move to the first Sunday (August 6) of the UCI World Championships. This year the Worlds will take place in Glasgow, which hosts the first multi-discipline World Championships where track racing, mountain biking, BMX, road, and many more will…

In what has been described as a "Lia Thomas moment" for cycling, Austin Killips, a 27-year-old transgender rider, has won first prize for women at the Tour of the Gila, the premier road race in New Mexico. It marked the most significant result yet for Killips, a trans-identifying biological male from Chicago, who also won a medal in women's…

The 2023 Tour de France began with two overwhelming favorites: Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. Pogacar won the prestigious race in 2020 and 2021, but he was dethroned by Vingegaard last year. Still, Pogacar is the phenom. Only 24 years old, Pogacar has two Tour de France wins and three white jerseys (best young rider) to his name. He had a…

Two of the cycling superstars to have dominated the Tour de France in recent years are the favourites to win the 2023 race. Tadej Pogacar won the best-known event on the cycling calendar in 2020 and 2021, as well as finishing second in 2022. Jonas Vingegaard beat Pogacar on that occasion, the Dane having finished immediately behind him the previous…

Jonas Vingegaard or Tadej Pogačar? At the start of the 2023 Tour de France, most experts and fans alike agreed that-barring a significant crash or injury-that either Vingegaard or Pogačar would capture the win in the General Classification at the Tour. As this year's Tour prepares to start its final week, very little continues to separate these two…

Reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard spent most of last week putting the cycling world on notice as he dominated the Criterium du Dauphiné, the long-standing precursor to the Tour. By the time the eight-stage Dauphine finished, the 26-year-old Danish star was two-minutes-and-twenty-three-seconds clear of UAE Team Emirates' Adam Yates…

There was a time when it seemed like the only person that could beat Mark Cavendish in a sprint was himself. If he and his lead-out train executed everything according to plan, nobody else stood a chance. Between 2007 and 2015, the Manx Missile piled up 133 victories, including the 2011 world title, stages of all three Grand Tours, Milan-Sanremo in…

The Isle of Man cyclist equalled the legendary Eddy Merckx's record of 34 Tour de France stage victories back in 2021, but will end his career this year Cavendish is one of the best cyclists of his generation Mark Cavendish has announced he will retire from professional cycling at the end of the current season. Cavendish, who celebrated his 38th…

The most eagerly-anticipated Giro d'Italia in years begins with a 19.6km individual time trial in Fossacesia on Saturday, with Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) among those hoping to snaffle the maglia rosa. Evenepoel will start as narrow favourite ahead of Roglic, who has returned…

Utter the words "Tour de France" and the name Lance Armstrong immediately comes to most people's minds. The American was diagnosed with cancer in 1996, but he came back from the brink to win the Tour de France for seven consecutive years between 1999 and 2005. Of course, we now know that behind the most famous of all Tour de France winners was a…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) wrapped up a dominant week at the Ruta del Sol, claiming the overall title by 1:18 over his rivals. Pogačar won three of the race's five stages and…

If there's one squad in the 2023 WorldTour with a focus on youth, it's Team DSM, who employ 22 riders aged 25 or under at the start of the new season. The philosophy of developing their own riders from promising youngsters to stars has served the German team well in the past, with a long list of riders including Marcel Kittel, Tom Dumoulin, John…

WATCH the 2022 Tour de France LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on SBS from July 1. This is the Tour de France, the biggest annual sporting event in the world, 21 stages of the frantic circus of racing, drama and regional colour of France. 22 teams and 176 riders take centre stage, fighting amongst the spectacular scenery of the Alps, the Pyrenees and the French…

Others have speculated that the 70km of time trials in the Giro suit him better than the mountain-heavy Tour, which offers only one climbing time trial in 2023. And the soon-to-be (on January 25) 23-year-old Soudal-QuickStep rider from Aalst, Belgium, confirmed this in late December, telling Eurosport, "I am really looking forward to the opening…

Tour de France title challengers Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo Visma believe their team's two-leader strategy can finally deliver cycling's most treasured title after consecutive narrow defeats. Roglic and Vingegaard came second to arch-rival Tadej Pogacar in 2020 and 2021 respectively, but said on Wednesday UAE Team Emirates'…

Filippo Ganna at the Italian Time Trial Championship Free cycling tips, best bets and analysis for stage one of the 2022 Tour de France. Stage One Eurosport & ITV4, 3pm Filippo Ganna to win stage one 2pts 6-5 Betfair, Paddy Power There is a rare Friday start for the 109th edition of the Tour de France, which begins with a pan-flat 13.2km time trial…

WATCH the 2021 Tour de France LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on SBS from August 29. This is the Tour de France, the biggest annual sporting event in the world, 21 stages of the frantic circus of racing, drama and regional colour of France. 22 teams and 176 riders take centre stage, fighting amongst the spectacular scenery of the Alps, the Pyrenees and the…

Miguel Angel López (Movistar) claimed a commanding victory at the 2021 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge, attacking some 12.5km from the summit of the Giant of Provence to win alone by nearly two-and-a-half minutes. Oscar Rodríguez (Astana-Premier Tech) held off Enric Mas at the top of the mountain to prevent a Movistar one-two, but the Spanish team…

Canada is celebrating a haul of four medals at the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, which took place at the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The 2022 event, which encompasses the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, saw Canadian cyclists achieve a series of firsts and a…

COL DU GRAND COLOMBIER, France (Reuters) - Tadej Pogacar beat fellow Slovenian and overall leader Primoz Roglic to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France as defending champion Egan Bernal all but abandoned his crown after a brutal failure on Sunday. The Colombian was dropped 13km from the finish at the top of the Col du Grand Colombier, an…

For someone who became forever known as The Eternal Second, Raymond Poulidor's 189 career wins is not exactly a bad record. Twice a victor of both Paris-Nice and the Dauphiné Libéré, Poulidor was a national champion who tasted success in Milano-San Remo and the Flèche Wallonne. A seven-time stage winner on the Tour de France and four-time stage…

France's Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, the man behind a string of lucrative military contracts won by French contractors, is an oddity in the cabinet of President François Hollande: he is popular, successful, and a purveyor of good news. When soft-spoken François Hollande came to power in 2012, ending France's 17-year wait for a left-wing…

The Tour de France is cycling's most prestigious race, but even so there are probably some rules and regulations governing the running of the event and the conduct of the riders, teams and staff which you probably haven't heard of. From glass containers to race numbers, here are a selection of rules you may not know: 1. Glass containers Under…

On the previous two occasions that the Absa Cape Epic visited Hermanus Nino Schurter emerged victorious. In 2017 he and Matthias Stirnemann may have only finished fourth on Stage 1, which went over the Haarkapper Trail, but the pair emerged victorious by 8 minutes on the final general classification standings. Then, in 2019, Schurter and Lars…

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Australian cycling fans are busy preparing themselves for three weeks of sleepless nights as the Tour de France gets underway this evening in Brussels. Eight Australians will be among the 176 riders lining up for the grande depart of the 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, each with separate aims throughout the three-week tour. As with all grand…

Australia's Caleb Ewan is out of the Tour de France, leaving his dreams of winning the green jersey in tatters after breaking his collarbone after a heavy fall at the conclusion of stage three. Caleb Ewan crashed heavily in the final stages of the sprint finish along with Peter Sagan Geraint Thomas and Primož Roglič also crashed heavily on a…

Nino Schurter and Lars Forster during stage 4 of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic. Photo: Dom Barnardt / Cape Epic SCOTT-SRAM's Nino Schurter is, unquestionably, the greatest cross-country mountain biker in the world. His participation in the 2023 Absa Cape Epic brings star appeal to the event which few other riders can hope to match. This year he will be…

by Rigoberto Urán at the 2017 Tour de France, EF Education First-Drapac are cranking up the dream machine in the hope of lifting the gregarious Colombian to the French Grand Tour's top step this year when the race ends in Paris on July 29. It seems like a staggeringly tall order to get past Chris Froome and the juggernaut Team Sky have created over…

The satirist and author Thomas Carlyle once claimed that he would rather die of exhaustion than boredom. Not a problem that was likely to afflict the 2020 Tour de France peloton on stage 5 of the race. As race director Christian Prudhomme waved his flag dramatically to signal the start of hostilities just outside Gap, his car accelerated away,…

Here's what's confirmed: Mark Cavendish will race in 2023 with Astana Qazaqstan. Now let the speculation games begin. At 38, Cavendish could be in the final year of his storied career. There's some unfinished business at the Tour de France, where he's tied at 34 wins with Eddy Merckx on the all-time list. That historic mark will be at the center of…

Team: Team Sky Nationality: British Age: 33 Following the resolution of his salbutamol case in the week counting down to this year's race, four-time champion Chris Froome will arrive on the starting line in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île as the bookmakers' favourite to win the 105th edition of the Tour de France. Despite being given the all clear to race…

Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) made a tentative return to racing at the Three Days of De Panne this Tuesday. The Australian has been out of action for over a week, suffering with an illness that forced his teammate Mark Cavendish to quit before the race even began. The harsh conditions at Milan-San Remo took their toll on many riders, with…

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Almost three weeks into the new year, three weeks when he was effectively without a ride for 2023, Mark Cavendish was announced as an Astana-Qazaqstan rider on Tuesday. It was practically an open secret by this point, with there being intel on Cavendish at the Kazakh team's training camp before…

Two years ago, a 21-year-old Slovenian named Tadej Pogacar pulled off one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of the Tour de France. With just one competitive stage left and race leader Primoz Roglic ahead by almost a minute, Pogacar put in the time trial of his life to become the youngest Tour de France winner in more than 100 years. That…

2014 Lampre-Merida report card WorldTour ranking: 14th (same as last year) Win count: 28 (up from 16 last year) Top riders: Costa (4th), Ulissi (42nd), Niemiec (76th) Lampre-Merida team manager Giuseppe Saronni recently gave his team a score of 6.5 out of 10 for the 2014 season, claiming the team had done well but insisting his boys could have done…

In previous years, the rider transfer market has been dictated by the uncertainty over the future of several teams. This year, there isn't such a level of urgency in that regard, with teams now awarded three-year licenses by the UCI. There are still question marks over several long-term projects - like NTT Pro Cycling - and, as Team Sky illustrated…

The Tour de France is here and speculation is rife about who will be the strongest heading into a very unusual edition. Last year, Egan Berna l became the first Colombian to ever win the Tour and the youngest rider to reach the top step in the post-war era, which also makes him the most junior pro to take home the yellow jersey (introduced in…