Cycling

1:01 PM ET Associated Press OVERIJSE, Belgium — Julian Alaphilippe made up for an embarrassing blunder last weekend by winning the Brabantse Pijl race on Wednesday, his first victory since becoming world champion. Alaphilippe, who last month became France’s first road race world champion since 1997, was left red-faced on Sunday when he let up

1:45 PM ET Italian Filippo Ganna gave his Team Ineos-Grenadiers team something to cheer about on the Giro d’Italia when he claimed the fifth stage, a 225-km trek from Mileto on Wednesday. The time trial world champion rode away from a group of three breakaway riders in the category-one ascent to Montescuro to win his

8:19 AM ET Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman, who was charged with ordering 30 sachets of banned substance Testogel for an athlete in 2011, admitted to destroying a laptop with “a screwdriver or blunt instrument” before giving it to forensic experts conducting a doping investigation. Freeman, appearing at a General Medical

2:36 AM ET Italian Luca Wackermann was forced to withdraw from the Giro d’Italia with multiple injuries following a big crash in Tuesday’s fourth stage caused by a low flying helicopter. The crash, which brought down Wackermann and Dutchman Etienne van Empel of the Vini Zabu-KTM team, happened at the end of the stage when

6:41 AM ET Associated Press CATANIA, Sicily — Geraint Thomas withdrew from the Giro d’Italia before Tuesday’s fourth stage after breaking his pelvis in a fall a day earlier. Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France champion, crashed in the neutral zone before Monday’s stage after getting a water bottle caught in his front wheel. Racing

7:05 AM ET Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen has said he will undergo reconstructive surgery next week to fix his jaw two months after a horrific crash at the Tour of Poland. The Deceuninck-Quick Step team member was put in a medically induced coma after a collision with compatriot Dylan Groenewegen as they sprinted to the

5:52 PM ET Julian Alaphilippe timed his late attack perfectly to claim the world championship road race title on Sunday, giving France its first rainbow jersey since 1997. Alaphilippe’s brutal acceleration on the last climb of the 258.2km race left his rivals in his wake and the Frenchman eased to the line with Belgian Wout

2:48 PM ET Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands claimed the road race gold medal in emphatic style at the world championships, prevailing after a long solo ride to victory on Saturday. Van der Breggen, who won the time trial on Thursday, became the first woman since Jeannie Longo in 1995 to win the

7:33 AM ET ESPN News Services BOLOGNA, Italy — American cyclist Chloe Dygert is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing surgery on her left leg after a crash at the road cycling world championships Thursday. “I’ll be back,” Dygert said in a tweet Friday. Dygert was the favorite to defend her title in

11:04 AM ET World champion Chloe Dygert has crashed out of the UCI road world championships during the individual time trial on Friday, while Dutchwoman Anna van der Breggen won the race and will collect the rainbow jersey. Dygert, 23, from the U.S., took a sweeping corner wide and unstable on her bike, crashed into