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Rafal Majka extends mountains jersey lead at the Tour de France
Rafal Majka (Tinkoff) took another top three finish on yesterday's Tour de France stage, adding to his climbers’ points total and extending his lead in the competition. With the rest day allowing the riders a chance for a little recovery, it was back to full gas racing for stage 17 of Le Tour. The 184.5km stage saw riders cross three...
Onboard footage from Stage 17 of the Tour de France (VIDEO)
Today's seventeenth stage of the Tour de France took the riders from the Swiss capital Berne back into France, to the summit finish of Finhaut-Emosson. Along the way, the riders had to contend with two Category Three climbs, the First Category climb of the Col de la Forclaz before tackling the final 10.4 kilometre-long climb with an average gradient of...
Fabian Cancellara withdraws from the Tour de France to prepare for the Olympics
Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo) won’t take the start in stage 18 of the Tour de France. After deliberation between Cancellara and the team management, a decision was made to allow the Swiss rider to rest and recover in preparation for the Olympic Games. Fabian Cancellara: “This was not an easy decision to take, but I feel it is the right one....
“I remain confident and hope for some nice results in the next three days” – Dan Martin
The Tour de France resumed today after yesterday's second rest day with a tough stage finish to Finhaut-Emosson and Irish rider Dan Martin hung on to his top-10 position. Team Sky's Chris Froome stays in yellow with just four stages remaining and his team kept a stranglehold on the race with attacks by Martin and Richie Porte being controlled. Today's 184-kilometre...
Rohan Dennis pulls out of the Tour de France to prepare for the Olympics
Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) will not line up at the start of stage 17 of the Tour de France today, his team have announced. The Australian will miss out on the final stages of the race to return to his home in Andorra to start preparing for the Olympics. “It has been an incredibly tough two weeks of racing at...
Christopher McGlinchey takes top honours at Foyle GP in County Donegal
Over 170 riders from all across Ireland lined up for a fantastic day’s cycling in Killea, Donegal, at Foyle Cycling Club annual GP. Club cyclists from Belfast, Castlebar, Dublin, Emyvale, Westport and every major town in Ulster were represented. Christopher McGlinchey of ChainReaction Cycles took the top honour in the A1 category, with Foyle’s own Ronan McLaughlin coming in third;...
Mark Cavendish withdraws from the Tour de France
Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka have announced on today's second rest day that their sprinter Mark Cavendish will not start tomorrow's seventeenth stage. This is to allow the Manxman time to prepare for the forthcoming Olympic Games in Rio. Cavendish has enjoyed an incredibly successful Tour, having won four stages in addition to wearing both the yellow and green jerseys. The...
Jan Bakelants gets away from the Tour de France to meet his newborn daughter
Jan Bakelants has managed to escape the Tour de France for a short time to meet his five-day old daughter. The Belgian rider tweeted: "After 5 long days, finally I can hold my little princess in my arms. Thank you @AG2RLAMONDIALEc for making leave" His daughter Julia was born two weeks early and actually arrived while Jan was racing the eleventh...
Joe Dombrowski signs new contract with Cannondale-Drapac
American Joe Dombrowski has re-signed with the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, marking a second term at the outfit for the 25-year-old climber. “It was an easy decision to stay. I've made a lot of progress at this team and I fit in great here. It's feels like family,” Dombrowski said. He raced the Giro d’Italia this season and factored into the...
Fumiyuki Beppu emerges unscathed after bizarre crash at Tour of Poland (VIDEO)
Japanese rider Fumiyuki Beppu had an unusual tumble at the final stage of the Tour of Poland in Krakow yesterday when he went flying over his handlebars. The incident happened after the Trek-Segafredo rider rounded the turn on the 25-kilometre time-trial course and was out of the saddle to get back up to speed. His bike seemed to lock up,...
Julian Alaphilippe and Tony Martin jointly awarded with combativity prize
The Etixx – Quick-Step duo of Julian Alaphilippe and Tony Martin of Etixx-Quick Step rode a two-man time-trial today when they took off from the peloton not long after the flag was dropped on today's stage of the Tour de France. The pair built a six minute lead on the sixteenth stage from Moirans-en-Montagne to Berne as the race...
Onboard highlights from Stage 16 of the Tour de France (VIDEO)
It was a tough day for the riders in the Tour de France today as they had to contend with high temperatures and a lumpy parcours on the sixteenth stage from Moirans-en-Montagne to Berne. It was a fast stage with Julian Alaphilippe and Tony Martin breaking clear after just ten kilometres. The Etixx-Quick Step duo weren't given too much leeway...
Peter Sagan takes third Tour stage win and extends green jersey lead
Today's stage of the Tour de France was the last chance for the sprinters before the Champs Élysées on Sunday. Looking to take a hat-trick of stage wins, the UCI World Champion, Peter Sagan battled with his rivals on the hard finale in Berne to take the stage win by a tyre’s width. Half the stage in France, half the...
Spectator running alongside Alaphilippe stopped in his tracks by another fan (VIDEO)
A spectator at the Tour de France decided to take action when he saw a man running alongside Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx-Quick Step) on yesterday's stage. The man was running alongside the French rider on the Grand Colombier when he was stopped in his tracks by another spectator who grabbed his hand. The organisers of the race have appealed to fans to...
Onboard highlights from Stage 15 of the Tour de France (VIDEO)
Today's fifteenth stage of the Tour de France from Bourg-En-Bresse to Culoz featured some incredible scenery including the spectacular climb of Lacets du Grand Colombier. The stage was won by Jarlinson Pantano who scored the sixteenth Colombian stage victory at the Tour de France and the first one for IAM Cycling, the only professional Swiss team, the day before the...
Cyclist taken out by race motorbike at Tour of Qinghai Lake (VIDEO)
Yet another incident has taken place today where a cyclist has been involved in a collision with a race motorbike. This latest incident took place at the Tour of Qinghai Lake (UCI 2.HC) The video of the incident was posted on YouTube by On The River Mgt. As can be seen, a number of support motorbikes can be seen near...