Cycling

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
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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
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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,
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6:41 AM ET ESPN News Service The Bahrain Victorious team competing at the Tour de France was raided by French police on the eve of Thursday’s stage as part of a doping investigation, according to judicial and police officials. The team confirmed in a statement that riders’ rooms were searched by officers at the hotel
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12:37 PM ET Associated Press SAINT-GAUDENS, France — Austrian rider Patrick Konrad won the Tour de France’s hilly 16th stage on an otherwise uneventful day Tuesday as race leader Tadej Pogacar remained on course for his second overall victory. Konrad made his decisive break with 36 kilometers (22.5 miles) to go, four kilometers (2.5 miles)
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12:35 PM ET Associated Press ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra — American rider Sepp Kuss won the grueling 15th stage of the Tour de France on Sunday as race leader Tadej Pogacar remained on course for his second overall victory. Kuss is the first American to win a stage at cycling’s biggest race since Tyler Farrar
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11:26 AM ET Associated Press Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen solidified her favorite status ahead of the Tokyo Games by winning her fourth Giro d’Italia Donne on Sunday, finishing safely in the breakaway on the final stage of the prestigious Italian stage race. Van der Breggen’s fourth win makes her the second most successful
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11:48 AM ET Associated Press QUILLAN, France — Bauke Mollema won a hilly 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, while Tadej Pogacar protected his commanding lead before the race heads into the Pyrenees. The Dutch rider for Trek claimed his second career stage victory at the Tour when he broke away on
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