Cycling

3:23 PM ET As soon as U.S. cyclist Neilson Powless heard the words “You’re going to race in the Tour de France — you’re in” from his team manager, Charly Wegelius, he removed the phone from his ear and looked at it for a solid two minutes, opening and closing his mouth, tears pricking the

12:05 PM ET Associated Press The slow-burning fight for the Tour de France’s yellow jersey erupted in earnest on the slopes of a once-giant volcano on Friday, with race leader Primoz Roglic using the punishing slopes to grow his overall lead. One of the big losers in the 13th Stage was Egan Bernal, last year’s

11:39 AM ET Associated Press SARRAN, France — Tour de France rookie Marc Hirschi won the longest stage with a bold solo breakaway on a previously unused sharp ascent Thursday. The Swiss rider powered away on the Suc au May climb, new to the 117-year-old Tour. He extended his lead by racing with hair-raising speed

8:12 AM ET Associated Press LE PECQ, France — The four Tour de France teams that lost staff members to positive COVID-19 tests this week won’t automatically be sent home if another staff member tests positive, the race organizer said Thursday. Health rules for the race state that teams can be sent home if they

12:04 PM ET Associated Press ILE DE RE, France — Tour de France riders passed coronavirus tests to confirm their good health only to endure numerous crashes along the Atlantic coastline when the race resumed on Tuesday. Sprinter Sam Bennett prevailed ahead of Caleb Ewan to post his first Tour stage win, while Primoz Roglic

7:42 AM ET Associated Press The 166 remaining Tour de France riders have been cleared to continue racing ahead of Tuesday’s Stage 10 after undergoing coronavirus tests, but the race director is going home. Tour organizers said that all the riders’ tests returned negative but announced that race director Christian Prudhomme tested positive along with

11:09 AM ET Associated Press LARUNS, France — Primoz Roglic finally seized the race leader’s yellow jersey after another hectic day of Tour de France racing in the mountains as debutant Marc Hirschi of Switzerland delivered an impressive 90-kilometer solo effort across four Pyrenean climbs. Roglic, the Slovenian favorite this year alongside defending champion Egan

12:06 PM ET Associated Press LOUDENVIELLE, France — On a day of mixed feelings for the home nation, rookie Nans Peters won the eighth stage of the Tour de France following a long breakaway in the Pyrenees, while fellow Frenchman Thibaut Pinot saw his hopes of winning the race vanish. Peters was part of a

11:58 AM ET Associated Press LAVAUR, France — The most furious day of racing so far at the Tour de France produced multiple winners Friday. Wout van Aert took the Stage 7 victory. It was the resurgent Belgian rider’s second win at this year’s race. Defending champion Egan Bernal and other top contenders for the

11:22 AM ET Associated Press MONT AIGOUAL, France — Kazakh rider Alexey Lutsenko earned his first stage victory in his fifth Tour de France with a solo effort up Mont Aigoual on Thursday, and Adam Yates of Britain kept the overall race lead. Yates and the Tour’s top contenders were still racing far behind the