Cycling

Aug 14, 2021 Associated Press BURGOS, Spain — Two-time defending champion Primoz Roglic won the opening stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Saturday. Roglic was fastest in the short first stage in the city of Burgos, finishing the 7.1-kilometer (4.4-mile) time trial in 8 minutes, 32 seconds. Alex Aranburu finished second, six seconds behind, and

2:36 PM ET New Zealand cyclist Olivia Podmore, who competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, has died at the age of 24, police confirmed. Her cause of death has not been confirmed. A New Zealand police spokesman said police attended a sudden death at a property

6:07 AM ET Associated Press Cycling’s governing body says it suspended a German cycling official through the rest of the year for using a racial slur during the Olympic men’s time trial race. The International Cycling Union said Patrick Moster agreed to a ban from the sport until Dec. 31. Moster, the German cycling federation’s

3:05 AM ET The sporting director of the German cycling federation (BDR) has been told to return home from the Tokyo Olympics after being caught on camera making racist remarks during Wednesday’s men’s Olympic road time trial, the German team said on Thursday. “The team leadership at the Olympic Games in Tokyo has decided that

7:22 AM ET Patrick Moster, the sporting director of the German cycling federation (BDR), has been forced to apologise after he was caught on camera making racist remarks during the men’s time trial at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. “Get the camel drivers, get the camel drivers, come on,” the German official said as he

7:07 AM ET Associated Press OYAMA, Japan — Primoz Roglic’s dream growing up in the small coal-mining town of Kisovec was to represent Slovenia in the Olympics. In ski jumping. He’ll have to settle for making a mock ski jump onto the top step of the podium in cycling. After crashing out of the Tour

7:16 AM ET Associated Press IZU, Japan — Jolanda Neff was laid up in a North Carolina hospital room on Christmas Day two years ago, wondering whether a terrible crash during a training ride in the mountains near Asheville would ruin the Swiss cyclist’s career. She had ruptured her spleen so badly that doctors feared

3:48 PM ET Reigning Giro d’Italia champion Egan Bernal is the latest rider to pay tribute to Julian Gomez, a 13-year-old cycling fan who was killed in a road traffic collision in Colombia at the weekend. Gomez made the news in 2019 when an image circulated of him crying as Bernal became the first Colombian

1:01 PM ET Associated Press SAINT-EMILION, France — Tadej Pogacar is all but guaranteed to win a second straight Tour de France after completing the penultimate stage unscathed on Saturday. With the final day of the race usually uneventful until the final sprint on the Champs-Elysees, the Stage 20 time trial marked the last serious

12:28 PM ET Associated Press LUZ ARDIDEN, France — Tadej Pogacar won the final mountain stage of the Tour de France on Thursday to cement his grip on the race. The short trek in the Pyrenees featured a daunting combination of the Col du Tourmalet and the final sharp climb to the Luz-Ardiden ski resort,