Cycling

ALBI, France — The depth of disappointment etched on Thibaut Pinot’s face after Monday’s gusty crosswinds reshuffled the deck in the 2019 Tour de France was a measure of his ambition. “It was a day of s—,” he said just past the finish line, still in the saddle, chinstrap buckled. Then he turned away from

12:07 PM ET Defending champion Geraint Thomas gained time on a handful of his main rivals as crosswinds caused chaos in the peloton in the climax of Monday’s 10th stage of the Tour de France. Thomas was on the right end of a bunch split 35 kilometres from the finish of the 217.5km ride from

12:18 PM ET South African Daryl Impey added an individual stage win to his Tour de France happy memories when he prevailed at the end of a long breakaway from St Etienne Sunday. The Mitchelton Scott rider, who wore the race’s yellow jersey for a couple of days in 2013, beat Belgian Tiesj Benoot in

12:26 PM ET Julian Alaphilippe reclaimed the Tour de France’s yellow jersey as fellow Frenchman Thibaut Pinot underlined his title credentials in Saturday’s eighth stage. Belgian Thomas De Gendt won the 200 km hilly stage from Macon from a breakaway, ahead of Pinot, the only rider able to follow Alaphilippe’s brutal attack in the last

12:18 PM ET Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen won the seventh stage of the Tour de France in a bunch sprint after a pancake-flat 230 km ride from Belfort on Friday. The Jumbo-Visma rider beat Australian Caleb Ewan of Lotto Soudal and Slovak Peter Sagan of Bora Hansgrohe into second and third, respectively. It was Groenewegen’s fourth

6:24 AM ET Giulio Ciccone reached his season’s goal when he won the Maglia Azzurra (blue) for the mountains classification at the Giro d’Italia, but little did he know that there was much more to come. The bonus came in the form of the yellow jersey of the Tour de France, a race that did

4:44 AM ET Peter Sagan burst into life on the Tour de France when he claimed the fifth stage at the end of a 175.5-km bumpy ride from St Die des Vosges on Wednesday. The three-times world champion beat Belgian Wout van Aert and Italian Matteo Trentin in a sprint finish to strengthen his grip

4:40 AM ET Associated Press Italian rider Elia Viviani claimed his first career stage win on the Tour de France after storming a bunch sprint on Tuesday. Viviani was ideally set up by the Deceuninck-Quick Step leadout train in the finale and made the most of the slight uphill finish in the eastern city of

4:42 AM ET France’s Julian Alaphilippe lived up to the hype as he snatched the Tour de France overall leader’s yellow jersey by winning the third stage on Monday. The world No.1 jumped away from the pack in the Cote de Mutigny, a brutal 900-metre effort at an average gradient of 12.2%, to claim a

12:48 PM ET Associated Press Dutch rider Mike Teunissen kept the Tour de France yellow jersey after his Jumbo-Visma squad outclassed rivals to win Sunday’s team time trial. Putting on a well-choreographed display in the streets of Brussels, the Dutch team’s riders covered the 27.6-kilometer (17.1-mile) flat stage in 28 minutes, 58 seconds — 20