Cycling

1:20 PM ET Associated Press TIGNES, France — Defending champion Tadej Pogacar kept control of the Tour de France on a rain-soaked second day in the Alps as a crash-filled opening week took its toll on rivals on Sunday. Both last year’s runner-up Primoz Roglic and former race leader Mathieu van der Poel dropped out

6:44 AM ET Associated Press CLUSES, France — The injuries from a crash-filled opening week at the Tour de France took their toll Sunday when last year’s runner-up, Primoz Roglic, withdrew before the ninth stage. Rogblic crashed badly during Monday’s third stage in the western Brittany region and had been struggling since. The Jumbo-Visma team

11:54 AM ET Associated Press LE GRAND-BORNAND, France — Tadej Pogacar dealt a demoralizing blow to his remaining Tour de France rivals on the first day in the Alps, where the defending champion claimed the yellow jersey in Saturday’s grueling eighth stage. Pogacar strengthened his bid to retain his Tour title after proving once again

11:13 AM ET Associated Press LE CREUSOT, France — Matej Mohoric posted his first stage win in the Tour de France on Friday following a long breakaway in the race’s longest stage. The 249-kilometer (155-mile) hilly trek from Vierzon to Le Creusot in the seventh stage was the longest in 21 years. Mohoric was part

11:51 AM ET Associated Press CHATEAUROUX, France — Mark Cavendish claimed the sixth stage of the Tour de France in a mass sprint on Thursday, taking his impressive career tally to 32 stage wins at cycling’s biggest race. Cavendish, the best sprinter in the race history and nicknamed the Manx Missile, is second on the

7:30 AM ET The Tour de France has withdrawn a lawsuit against a spectator who caused a massive pileup during the first stage of the race, organizers told Reuters on Thursday. The spectator, a 30-year-old French woman, was in custody at a police station in Landerneau, Brittany, the northwest French region where the world’s biggest

12:04 PM ET Associated Press LAVAL, France — Tadej Pogacar waited until the penultimate stage to take control of the Tour de France last year. The young Slovenian rider did it after only five stages this summer, with a stunning display in Wednesday’s time trial that won’t be forgotten by his rivals. In the first

11:44 AM ET Associated Press FOUGERES, France — This time, they were happy tears. In October last year, Mark Cavendish posted an insignificant 74th place at the Belgian classic Gent-Wevelgem. Depressed and dejected, with his contract with the Bahrain McLaren team almost over, the sprinter from the Isle of Man suggested in an emotional post-race

8:36 AM ET Associated Press FOUGERES, France — Tour de France riders staged a protest at the start of Tuesday’s stage to complain about perceived dangerous racing conditions after a flurry of crashes reignited the issue of road safety. Having left the town of Redon in the western Brittany region to start Stage 4, the

Jun 29, 2021 Australian cyclist Jack Haig is in severe doubt to race at the Tokyo Olympics after being hospitalised following a horror crash at the Tour de France. Haig, who was set to make his Olympic debut in the road race at next month’s Tokyo Games, suffered a broken collarbone and concussion. The 27-year-old