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Geraint Thomas wins Tour de France
Geraint Thomas produced a near flawless performance to become the third British and Team Sky rider to triumph after Bradley Wiggins (2012) and Chris Froome (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017).
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Thomas set to win Tour as fading Froome drops down to fourth
Roglic powered down the final descent from the Col d’Aubisque to beat Thomas by 19 seconds and leapfrog Froome, whose star continued to fade, into third place overall.
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Thomas close to Tour title as Froome cracks in stage finale
Froome, attempting a first Giro d’Italia-Tour double in 20 years, cracked two kilometres from the finish when Dutchman Tom Dumoulin attacked, and slipped from second to third overall.
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Moment of truth for Thomas as brutal stage awaits
Should he gain time on Thomas, the world time trial champion could still pip the Team Sky duo in Saturday’s solo effort against the clock.
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Tour de France interrupted by farmers protest
Cycling teams and French media said police used tear gas to disperse the protesters but it ended up blowing in the face of the riders.
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Fraile takes stage 14 as Thomas retains yellow jersey
The Astana rider caught Belgian Jasper Stuyven near the top of the Cote de Croix Neuve, a 3-km ascent at an average gradient of 10.2% and did not look back as he crossed the line.
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Third stage win for Sagan as Thomas retains yellow jersey
World champion Peter Sagan claimed his third win of this year’s Tour de France when he prevailed on the 13th stage, a 169.5-km ride.
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Thomas takes stage win and yellow jersey on Tour de France
Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas attacked in the finale of the 11th stage as 2017 Giro champion Tom Dumoulin took second place.
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Froome welcomes rivals' lack of aggression on first mountain stage
Among Froome’s rivals, the Movistar team — with three potential winners in Valverde, Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa did not even try to unsettle the four-time champion in yet another demonstration of their conservative tactics.
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Froome and company grind through the cobbles
There were scares and crashes, but defending champion Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas as well as Alejandro Valverde, Nairo Quintana, Tom Dumoulin and 2014 champion Vincenzo Nibali all escaped unhurt.
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BMC take team time trial, Froome back in contention
The Briton had lost 51 seconds to some of his main rivals after a crash in the opening stage but his team’s efforts against the clock around Cholet put him back in contention.
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Froome determined to defend Tour de France title
The Team Sky rider tested positive for excessive levels of asthma drug Salbutamol following a urine sample at last September’s Vuelta a Espana but is confident of being cleared via an investigation.
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Lance Armstrong settles US federal fraud case for $5m - attorney
The settlement ends the long-running false claims suit brought by fellow cyclist Floyd Landis and joined by the US government, which had sought $100 million in damages on behalf of the Post Office.
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Bikes to be dismantled in fight against technological fraud – UCI
UCI president David Lappartient, who won a landslide election victory over Brian Cookson last September, had promised the detection of potential mini-engines in bikes would be one of his top priorities.
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Froome says will race on despite ongoing investigation
Chris Froome is battling to clear his name after an increased dosage of asthma medication last year resulted in an ‘adverse analytical finding’ from a urine sample.
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Froome to ride out asthma drug row on Spain's Ruta del Sol
Chris Froome had twice the permissible amount of the asthma medication Salbutamol in his system after stage 18 of the Tour of Spain.
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Tour de France organisers seek uncharted territory
Tour director Christian Prudhomme has tried to spice up the route with new climbs to make the race more exciting.
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Froome makes history as he is crowned Vuelta champion
Froome is the third cyclist to win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same year, after Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault in 1978.
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Cavendish to return to action at Tour of Britain
Cavendish is a 10-times stage winner on the Tour of Britain.
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Contador to retire after 2017 Vuelta a Espana
Alberto Contador is one of six riders to have won all three Grand Tours in a 14-year professional career marred by a doping ban.
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[MY TAKE] Riding with Africa’s dream team
EWN's Jean Smyth spends a week ‘embedded’ with the continent’s only representative at the Tour de France 2017.
