ARLANC, France (AP) French cyclist Arnaud Demare beat Alexander Kristoff in a sprint to the line to win the second stage of the Criterium du Dauphine on Monday.
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2019 Tour de France to start in Brussels
PARIS (AP) The 2019 Tour de France will start in Brussels to celebrate the 50th anniversary of five-time champion Eddy Merckx’s maiden win in cycling’s biggest race.
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Quintana keeps lead but Dumoulin remains pick to win Giro
ASIAGO, Italy (AP) Nairo Quintana held on to the pink jersey in the penultimate stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday but likely didn’t pick up enough seconds on his most dangerous rival, Tom Dumoulin, to claim overall victory.
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Quintana reclaims pink jersey with 2 stages to go in Giro
PIANCAVALLO, Italy (AP) Nairo Quintana reclaimed the pink jersey from Tom Dumoulin with two stages to go in the Giro d’Italia on Friday, setting up a close finale in Milan on Sunday.
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Huffman wins stage, Bennett overall at Tour of California
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Evan Huffman emerged from the breakaway for the second time this week to win the final stage of the Tour of California, and George Bennett finished safely in the chasing group to win the overall race.
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Dumoulin wins 14th Giro stage to extend overall lead
OROPA, Italy (AP) Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin put in a perfect performance on the tough climb up to Oropa to win the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia and extend his overall lead on Saturday.
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Fernando Gaviria Is Cycling's Next Superstar Sprinter
The best Colombian cyclists have long hewed to a single archetype, specializing in climbing high mountains and winning on the harshest and steepest slopes. There have been Colombian rouleurs and sprinters before, but the most successful riders have almost all been pure climbers. Lucho “El Jardinerito” Herrera brought…
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Gaviria's dream Giro debut continues with 4th stage win
TORTONA, Italy (AP) Fernando Gaviria’s dream Grand Tour debut continued as the Colombian sprinted to a fourth stage victory on Friday.
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Gaviria claims his 3rd Giro stage win, Dumoulin keeps lead
REGGIO EMILIA, Italy (AP) Colombian rider Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint at the end of the longest stage of the Giro d’Italia to claim his third victory of the race on Thursday.
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Cyclist Eventually Pulled From Tour Of California After Injuring Himself In Nasty Crash
Latvian pro cyclist Toms Skujiņš was in a breakaway during stage two of the Tour of California today when he crashed and appeared to hit his head. Clearly dazed and wobbly, he struggled to get back to get up and mount his bike. Skujiņš also narrowly missed getting hit by the cyclists behind him flying down the slope…
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Everything Terrible And Exhilarating About Cycling Was On Display At The Giro d'Italia Today
Izaguirre wins Stage 8 of Giro; Jungels stays in pink
PESCHICI, Italy (AP) Spanish rider Gorka Izaguirre pulled away from two other riders on the short but steep concluding climb to win the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday while Bob Jungels held on to the pink jersey.
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Katie Hall wins Stage 2 to take Tour of California lead
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) Katie Hall caught and passed Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen in the last mile Friday to win the second stage of the Woman’s Tour of California and assume the overall race lead.
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Lance Armstrong Denies That Lance Armstrong Is Dead
Is Lance Armstrong dead? According to fox-news24.com, he is. According to Lance Armstrong, he is not.
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Victorious Coryn Rivera heads home for Tour of California
American cyclist Coryn Rivera long ago established her credentials on home soil, winning so many national championships in so many disciplines that she sometimes lost track of the total.
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Gaviria sprints to 2nd Giro d'Italia victory on 5th stage
MESSINA, Sicily (AP) Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint at the end of the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday to claim his second victory of this year’s race, while Quick-Step teammate Bob Jungels remained in the overall lead.
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Tour de France champion Froome struck by car in training
MONACO (AP) Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says his bike was wrecked by a car when the driver intentionally struck him.
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Where's A Bad Place To Crash Your Drone?
2 Italian riders nabbed for doping on eve of Giro d'Italia
ALGHERO, Italy (AP) Two riders from the Italian team Bardiani CSF have been kicked out of the Giro d’Italia on the eve of their nation’s biggest race after testing positive in an out-of-competition doping test.
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21-Year-Old Pro Cyclist Chad Young Not Expected To Recover From Head Injury Sustained In Crash
Chad Young was racing the Tour of the Gila with Axeon-Hagens Berman last Sunday when he fell on a descent while chasing back onto a breakaway. Young was airlifted out to a hospital in Tucson, Ariz., and his team announced that he had suffered a severe head injury. As of Tuesday, Young was in critical condition.
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Pro Cyclist On A Training Ride Beaten Up By Baseball Bat And Knife-Wielding Maniac
Yoann Offredo is an experienced French cyclist, who has raced in the professional peloton since 2006. He spent a decade with FDJ, where he finished in the top ten of a handful of classics and served as a domestique for the team’s stars. He’s racing for Belgian team Wanty Groupe-Gobert and he wrapped up a very…
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Pro Cyclist Michele Scarponi Killed By Car Driver At Age 37
Michele Scarponi was perhaps the most seasoned rider in the professional peloton. The Italian had been racing as an amateur or a professional for almost 30 years, beginning as a domestique on some very good teams, working his way up to Grand Tour heavyweight, and then sacrificing his waning individual ambitions to…
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Endurance Cycling Legend Mike Hall Killed By Car Driver At Age 35
This morning, Mike Hall was setting out for the last leg of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, an unsupported race across Australia, when he was struck and killed by a car outside Canberra. Police say he died at the scene, and organizers called off the race shortly after. He was 35 years old.
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Cycling's Doping Rules Don't Help Anyone
Team Sky is struggling. The Murdoch-funded cycling behemoth has won three of the past four Tours de France and will probably win this year’s edition of the race as well. The team has started this season well, with Colombian pipsqueak Sergio Henao winning an all-time Paris Nice by two seconds and do-it-all Polish star…
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Where's A Bad Place To Walk Your Dog?
Let's Watch A Terrifying Wind Blow These Cyclists Off Their Bikes
This morning’s Cape Town Cycle Tour was canceled due to high wind, which sounds pretty innocuous until you see these videos of cyclists literally being blown off their bikes:
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Cycling Team Derailed By Disintegrating Wheels
Team Sky have spent the past few weeks embroiled in one of the biggest doping controversies the sport has seen since Lance Armstrong, and this morning, their on-road fate has ominously aligned with the team’s image. Sky are usually one of the best team time trial squads out there and they’ve taken TTT’s at multiple…
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Team Sky Is Only Looking Shadier
Team Sky are one of the richest and most successful cycling teams in the world, and they’ve billed themselves as a completely clean cycling team—everybody on the team has to sign an agreement that they’ve never been involved in doping—the sort of squad that shows that riders can win without doping. Sky riders have…
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Glory Boy Cyclist Celebrates Too Early, Loses Race
Australian sprinting wunderkind Caleb Ewan appears to be the real deal, and he was in position to beat out all of the world’s best sprinters this morning at the Abu Dhabi Tour. Instead, he learned a tough lesson about celebrating after you cross the line, not before, when someone can still catch you.
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The Cycling World Is In An Uproar Over A Nasty, Mysterious Injury
The professional cycling peloton is currently wrapping up its preseason at the Abu Dhabi Tour, the last of the Middle East races. The first cobbled classic of the season takes place this weekend, but for now, the best sprinters in the world are enjoying the warm temperatures and flat roads of the United Arab Emirates…
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