1:54 PM ET The Giro d’Italia has recorded a further two positive coronavirus tests after the race was thrown into doubt last week. On Tuesday, race organisers said UAE-Emirates rider Fernando Gaviria and a AG2R La Mondiale staff member had returned positive results from the latest round of testing on Oct 18-19. 1 Related Last

Oct 13, 2020 Associated Press ROME — The Giro d’Italia was thrown into chaos Tuesday when two full teams, another overall contender and one more elite rider withdrew from the cycling race following a series of positive tests for the coronavirus. The Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma teams left the race before Stage 10. Four Mitchelton-Scott staff

12:02 PM ET Associated Press BRUSSELS — World champion Julian Alaphilippe underwent successful surgery on his right hand Monday following his season-ending crash at the Tour of Flanders one-day classic race. The Frenchman broke two bones in the hand after hitting a motorbike about 20 miles from the finish Sunday. Alaphilippe was part of a

2:40 PM ET Alex Dowsett of Team Israel Start-up Nation took a second career Giro d’Italia win when he soloed to victory in the eighth stage, a 200-km trek from Giovinazzo to Vieste on Saturday. The six-time individual time trial British champion attacked from a small group of breakaway riders some 17km from the finish

5:33 AM ET Associated Press GIOVINAZZO, Italy — Overall contender Simon Yates has withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for the coronavirus, his Mitchelton-Scott team announced before Saturday’s eighth stage. Mitchelton-Scott said the British rider “developed very mild symptoms” after Friday’s Stage 7 and the team “immediately requested a rapid test that indicated

12:48 PM ET Nicole Hanselmann of Switzerland, Mieke Docx of Belgium, Kathrin Schweinberger of Austria, Christina Schweinberger of Austria, Nicole Steigenga of The Netherlands and Marieke Van Witzenburg of The Netherlands and Team Doltcini-Van Eyck Sport. Mark Van Hecke/Getty Images Cycling’s world governing body said on Friday that Doltcini-Van Eyck Sport women’s team manager Marc Bracke

1:01 PM ET Associated Press OVERIJSE, Belgium — Julian Alaphilippe made up for an embarrassing blunder last weekend by winning the Brabantse Pijl race on Wednesday, his first victory since becoming world champion. Alaphilippe, who last month became France’s first road race world champion since 1997, was left red-faced on Sunday when he let up

1:45 PM ET Italian Filippo Ganna gave his Team Ineos-Grenadiers team something to cheer about on the Giro d’Italia when he claimed the fifth stage, a 225-km trek from Mileto on Wednesday. The time trial world champion rode away from a group of three breakaway riders in the category-one ascent to Montescuro to win his

8:19 AM ET Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman, who was charged with ordering 30 sachets of banned substance Testogel for an athlete in 2011, admitted to destroying a laptop with “a screwdriver or blunt instrument” before giving it to forensic experts conducting a doping investigation. Freeman, appearing at a General Medical

2:36 AM ET Italian Luca Wackermann was forced to withdraw from the Giro d’Italia with multiple injuries following a big crash in Tuesday’s fourth stage caused by a low flying helicopter. The crash, which brought down Wackermann and Dutchman Etienne van Empel of the Vini Zabu-KTM team, happened at the end of the stage when