12:37 PM ET A year after being kicked out of the Tour de France, world champion Peter Sagan was back with a bang as he claimed victory in the second stage to take the overall leader’s yellow jersey on Sunday. The Slovak was thrown out after the fourth stage 12 months ago for sending Mark
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1:40 PM ET South Africa’s Erik van Rooyen turned in a spotless six-under-par 66 in the third round to open up a four-shot lead at the Irish Open on Saturday. The 28-year-old, who had a share of the lead heading into the weekend, made six birdies on the front nine to make the turn at
9:36 AM ET Colombian Fernando Gaviria snatched the lead of the Tour de France when he won the opening stage as favourites Chris Froome, Richie Porte and Nairo Quintana were involved in separate incidents and lost time on Saturday. Froome, hoping to become the first rider in 20 years to achieve a Giro-Tour double, crashed
11:58 AM ET The triangular red flag that signals the approach of the finish line looms in a larger sense these days for Mark Cavendish. More than 10 years at the top in one of the most exacting and dangerous sporting disciplines in the world have battered his body and carved a few creases into
6:34 AM ET ESPN staff The 2018 Tour de France teams’ launch was overshadowed by the booing and jeering at Chris Froome and Team Sky as they were introduced at a launch event Thursday evening. Froome has been cleared to race the Tour after cycling’s governing body, the UCI, closed an anti-doping case against him.
8:57 AM ET The Colombian would not be denied. He had made the elite selection on the final climb on a pivotal mountain stage of the 2017 Tour de France. He emerged upright from the crash on the treacherous descent that took out two other contenders and crippled his derailleur; and he was somehow, impossibly,
6:58 AM ET ESPN staff UCI president David Lappartient has made an appeal to cycling fans for the safety of Chris Froome. Ahead of the Tour de France, which starts in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île on Saturday, the head of cycling’s governing body said it was “mission” to protect all riders during the race, referencing the Team Sky
6:22 AM ET Chris Froome will lead Team Sky at the 2018 Tour de France after their lineup was named for the Grand Tour which starts on Saturday in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île. The defending champion has won four of the last five yellow jerseys and will look to win a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title. Sky
7:26 AM ET Twenty years ago this weekend, customs officers at the border of France and Belgium popped the trunk on an official team car headed for the Tour de France and found hundreds of doses of steroids and synthetic erythropoietin, which stimulates red blood cell production. Their discovery lifted the lid on organized doping
5:19 AM ET Chris Froome (Team Sky) has been cleared to race the 2018 Tour de France after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) closed the anti-doping case against him. The statement released by the UCI comes after reports in Le Monde over the weekend that the Grand Tour organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) were going