8:12 AM ET Associated Press LE PECQ, France — The four Tour de France teams that lost staff members to positive COVID-19 tests this week won’t automatically be sent home if another staff member tests positive, the race organizer said Thursday. Health rules for the race state that teams can be sent home if they

12:04 PM ET Associated Press ILE DE RE, France — Tour de France riders passed coronavirus tests to confirm their good health only to endure numerous crashes along the Atlantic coastline when the race resumed on Tuesday. Sprinter Sam Bennett prevailed ahead of Caleb Ewan to post his first Tour stage win, while Primoz Roglic

7:42 AM ET Associated Press The 166 remaining Tour de France riders have been cleared to continue racing ahead of Tuesday’s Stage 10 after undergoing coronavirus tests, but the race director is going home. Tour organizers said that all the riders’ tests returned negative but announced that race director Christian Prudhomme tested positive along with

11:09 AM ET Associated Press LARUNS, France — Primoz Roglic finally seized the race leader’s yellow jersey after another hectic day of Tour de France racing in the mountains as debutant Marc Hirschi of Switzerland delivered an impressive 90-kilometer solo effort across four Pyrenean climbs. Roglic, the Slovenian favorite this year alongside defending champion Egan

12:06 PM ET Associated Press LOUDENVIELLE, France — On a day of mixed feelings for the home nation, rookie Nans Peters won the eighth stage of the Tour de France following a long breakaway in the Pyrenees, while fellow Frenchman Thibaut Pinot saw his hopes of winning the race vanish. Peters was part of a

11:58 AM ET Associated Press LAVAUR, France — The most furious day of racing so far at the Tour de France produced multiple winners Friday. Wout van Aert took the Stage 7 victory. It was the resurgent Belgian rider’s second win at this year’s race. Defending champion Egan Bernal and other top contenders for the

11:22 AM ET Associated Press MONT AIGOUAL, France — Kazakh rider Alexey Lutsenko earned his first stage victory in his fifth Tour de France with a solo effort up Mont Aigoual on Thursday, and Adam Yates of Britain kept the overall race lead. Yates and the Tour’s top contenders were still racing far behind the

12:18 PM ET Associated Press PRIVAS, France — Julian Alaphilippe’s ride in the yellow jersey is over, and his rivals had nothing to do with it. The Tour de France leader was stripped of the coveted shirt on Wednesday after being handed a time penalty for illegally receiving provisions near the end of Stage 5,

Sep 2, 2020 Associated Press AIGLE, Switzerland — This month’s road cycling world championships were moved to Imola, Italy, on Wednesday after Swiss host Aigle-Martigny backed out because of a government ruling limiting mass gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. The revised event, which runs Sept. 24-27, will feature only elite men’s and women’s categories, eliminating

2:56 PM ET Associated Press ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — After just four stages at the Tour de France, the balance of power is already clearer: Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team are looking like the ones to beat. Roglic, the Spanish Vuelta champion, used the race’s first summit finish Tuesday in the ski resort of Orcieres-Merlette