Cycling

11:16 AM ET French rider Julian Alaphilippe of Team Quick-Step won Stage 16 of the Tour de France after the race was disrupted for 15 minutes by protesters. Riders, including overall leader Geraint Thomas, were hit as police aimed tear gas and pepper spray at protesters who were blocking the road. Despite finishing around nine

9:21 AM ET A protest by local farmers brought Stage 16 of the Tour de France to a halt on Tuesday as French and British media said bales of hay were thrown onto the road. Cycling teams and French media said police used tear gas to disperse the protesters, but it ended up blowing in

11:35 PM ET Intrigued by what might develop between Team Sky’s two leaders, who are sitting first and second as the Tour de France enters the Pyrenees on Tuesday for the third and final week of the race? The biggest challenge to Chris Froome’s aspirations of capturing a fifth Tour title is his own teammate,

2:32 PM ET Team Sky’s rough ride on the Tour de France continued on Sunday when their Italian rider Gianni Moscon was kicked out of the race for hitting another rider during the 15th stage. “The jury kicked him out because he hit a rider from the (French) Fortuneo-Samsic team,” a senior official, who declined

1:44 PM ET MENDE, France — Spain’s Omar Fraile powered to victory with a late burst in the last climb of Stage 14 of the Tour de France Saturday. After the 188-kilometre ride from Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, Astana rider Fraile caught Belgian Jasper Stuyven near the top of the Cote de Croix Neuve, a 3-kilometre ascent at

1:12 PM ET VALENCE, France — Tour de France leader Geraint Thomas said being booed by the crowd did not affect him after he enjoyed a mainly comfortable Stage 13 Friday. The Team Sky rider and yellow jersey holder repeated his call for spectators to let the riders race safely. “I had a few boos

11:45 AM ET Peter Sagan won Stage 13 of the Tour de France while Geraint Thomas of Team Sky retained the yellow jersey for the third consecutive day. The Team Sky teammates are 1-2 after the famed Alpe d’Huez in the Tour de France, and the list of riders who could catch them is becoming

6:25 PM ET With all due respect, the most intriguing words spoken at the finish line on Alpe d’Huez after a hellacious afternoon of racing at the Tour de France didn’t come from defending champion Chris Froome or current race leader Geraint Thomas — Team Sky teammates and co-protagonists in Thursday’s drama — but from

3:29 PM ET The fallout from Sunday’s Tour de France Stage 9, with its 15 separate stretches of cobblestone road, wasn’t as massive as it could have been. With the exception of BMC Racing Team leader Richie Porte, who crashed out in the nervous run-up to the first cobbled section, major contenders made it through

1:44 PM ET It was not the expected major shakedown, but the riders’ faces told a story of suffering as most of the main Tour de France favourites stayed in contention after a much-feared stage nine Sunday. The 156.5-km route from Arras featured 21.7km of cobbled sections, in which the climbers had to grind their