Cycling

12:00 PM ET Mark Cavendish will not be competing at the Tour de France after Bahrain McLaren omitted him from their squad which was announced on Friday. Cavendish, who has won 30 stages on the Tour and considered one of the best sprinters in the event’s history, joined the team last year along with Belgian

12:45 PM ET Two positive coronavirus cases within a week for a Tour de France team will result in the outfit being kicked out of the event starting on Aug. 29, the race organisers said on Friday. “If a team has two positive cases or (members) with strong symptoms within a seven-day period, they will

3:42 AM ET Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas have been omitted from the Ineos Grenadiers squad for the 2020 edition in a major team shakeup on Wednesday. Britons Froome and Thomas both were well below par in the Criterium du Dauphine, which serves as a form indicator ahead

12:53 PM ET Race favourite Remco Evenepoel was taken away in an ambulance after a frightening crash into a ravine during the Giro di Lombardia on Saturday. The Deceuninck-Quick Step rider crashed on the descent from the Colma di Sormano that leads to the race finish at Lake Como. He went over a bridge barrier

6:30 AM ET Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen’s condition is “evolving favourably” after his crash at the Tour of Poland and he will be moved back to the Netherlands for further treatment, his team Deceuninck-Quick Step have said. The 23-year-old was put in a medically-induced coma and underwent facial surgery after crashing at the finish line

9:52 AM ET The 2021 Tour de France will start in Brittany after Copenhagen’s staging of the Grand Depart was pushed back by a year due to a potential clash with football’s postponed European Championship, race organisers said on Monday. Brittany will also host the first four full stages of the race. 1 Related “Delighted

9:02 AM ET Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, who was put in a medically-induced coma after crashing at the finish line in the Tour of Poland’s first stage on Wednesday, is awake and in good condition, tour organizers said on Friday. Jakobsen, who rides for the Deceuninck-Quick Step team, was trying to jostle into position with

9:19 AM ET Associated Press Danish organizers say the Tour de France start due to take place in Copenhagen next year has been moved to 2022 to avoid being held in the same month as the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and the European Championship soccer tournament. Copenhagen Mayor Frank Jensen said the move means the three-stage

6:40 AM ET Britain’s most decorated road cyclist Chris Froome will leave Team Ineos at the end of the season, ending a long association with the British outfit with whom he won the Tour de France four times. In a statement team boss Dave Brailsford, the mastermind of Froome’s Tour wins in 2013, 2015, 2016

8:10 AM ET Kathleen McNamee Elinor Barker’s year started on a high. On March 1, she became a world champion after she won Great Britain’s first gold medal of the Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin. When asked after the race if she felt like she was in the form of her life heading into