12:10 PM ET Associated Press SISTERON, France — Australian rider Caleb Ewan slalomed through the bunch to win a sprint finish and claim the third stage of the Tour de France on Monday. Julian Alaphilippe held onto the yellow jersey that he claimed with a dramatic stage victory a day earlier. With about 100 meters

Aug 20, 2020 Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch cyclist Steven Kruijswijk, who finished third in last year’s Tour de France, said Thursday he will not take part in this year’s race after fracturing a bone in his shoulder during the Criterium du Dauphine. Kruijswijk, who rides for the Jumbo-Visma team, wrote on Twitter

Aug 27, 2020 Associated Press NICE, France — Two days before the start of the pandemic-postponed Tour de France, the Lotto Soudal cycling team said Thursday that it had to send home several staff members after “non-negative” coronavirus tests. The Belgian team said a mechanic and a member of the rider support staff returned “one

Aug 29, 2020 Associated Press NICE, France — French authorities have made it harder for Tour de France teams to reach the finish line in Paris by deciding they will be expelled from the race if two or more of their members, including staff, test positive for the coronavirus within a week. Following guidelines issued

Aug 28, 2020 Associated Press Cycling’s governing body has relaxed its COVID-19 exclusion rules on the eve of the Tour de France opening stage, after complaints from teams that feared their riders would be unduly excluded from the race. After meeting with team officials, the UCI said Friday that a team won’t be automatically sent

Aug 29, 2020 Associated Press NICE, France — British rider Lizzie Deignan pipped defending champion Marianne Vos in a sprint finish Saturday to win La Course, the women’s one-day classic race organized as a Tour de France curtain-raiser. Following a series of unsuccessful attacks in the final kilometres in a group of six breakaway riders,

Aug 29, 2020 Associated Press NICE, France — Delayed but alive again and out on French roads, the strangest Tour de France ever set off Saturday in a bubble of anti-COVID protocols to try to keep the 176 riders virus-free for three weeks of racing through the country’s worsening epidemic. Only after riders peeled off

12:00 PM ET Mark Cavendish will not be competing at the Tour de France after Bahrain McLaren omitted him from their squad which was announced on Friday. Cavendish, who has won 30 stages on the Tour and considered one of the best sprinters in the event’s history, joined the team last year along with Belgian

12:45 PM ET Two positive coronavirus cases within a week for a Tour de France team will result in the outfit being kicked out of the event starting on Aug. 29, the race organisers said on Friday. “If a team has two positive cases or (members) with strong symptoms within a seven-day period, they will

3:42 AM ET Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas have been omitted from the Ineos Grenadiers squad for the 2020 edition in a major team shakeup on Wednesday. Britons Froome and Thomas both were well below par in the Criterium du Dauphine, which serves as a form indicator ahead