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In 1996, Stage 9 of the Tour de France was a small 46-kilometre ride from Le Monetier-les-Bains to Sestriere in Italy due to bad weather. At the bottom of the final ...
SBS has secured the exclusive broadcast rights to eight international cycling events in a new agreement with the owners and organisers of the Tour de France, ...
COL DU TOURMALET, France, July 20 (Reuters) - Thibaut Pinot led a French one-two ahead of overall leader Julian Alaphilippe to win the 14th stage of the ...
Tour de France organisers are looking to launch a major women's Tour which “would be to women's cycling what the Tour de France is to men's cycling”, they ...
The cycling world was in shock when Rohan Dennis quit the Tour de France mid-race. Here's what tipped him o...
Road cycling is set to be the latest sport to feature in the "Ready Steady Tokyo" test event series for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Very sad to hear about a local cyclist hit by a car and left to die. I was surprised to see this on page 4 of The Echo. There was a post on the Byron Community ...
Drapac Cycling has announced that it will cease operations at the end of 2019. Team founder, owner and financer, Michael Drapac, created the team in 2004 as ...
CLASSY Caleb joins the ranks of the celebrated Aussie sprinters who have won stages at the world's biggest buike race. IAN COHEN reports from the Tour de ...
Rohan Dennis went AWOL for over an hour after abandoning the Tour de France and his Bahrain Merida team management had no explanation about the ...
Chris Froome has officially been awarded the 2011 Vuelta a España title as a result of Juan José Cobo's doping ban. The result means he now has seven Grand ...
Seed cycling is a growing trend claimed to balance hormones, boost fertility, and ease symptoms of menopause. This article explains what seed cycling is and ...
As a cyclist, there's nothing like a long ride to bring a sense of accomplishment, for beginners and seasoned pros alike. Now if you're relatively new to the sport, ...
A "mountain of stinking waste" at least 10ft (3m) high has blocked a major cycling route in Greater Manchester. Stockport Council and the Environment Agency ...
Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is set to spend two months off the bike in order to recover from his crash suffered during the stage 13 time trial at the Tour de ...
Marianne Vos snatched victory from Amanda Spratt 400m from the line, powering past the Australian on the final right hand bend up the tough kick in Pau to take ...
The use of performance-enhancing supplements within the pro peloton is once again making headlines at the Tour de France.
The widow of a keen Indian cyclist killed on an Australian highway said her husband had been happy to settle here because he felt more confident about road ...
Thibaut Pinot attacked in the final few hundred metres, taking a historic victory atop the Tourmalet as the brutal finish ruined the ambitions of several GC ...
Welshman Geraint Thomas is locked in a tough battle to repeat his 2018 victory in this year's Tour de France, but with him currently in second place and Simon ...
Wout van Aert has undergone surgery after his bad fall in the Tour de France time trial. The Belgian cyclocross superstar was fighting for the provisional race ...
Mitchelton-Scott's Daryl Impey didn't stick around with the large break to contest a sprint finale, preferring to launch a late attack on the final climb and storm into ...
Months after concerns about the safety of the shared public pathway behind the Howard Smith Wharves precinct were first aired by cyclists, pedestrians and ...
With container park restaurants and outdoor activities alongside waterfront living and shopping malls, this former fishing village has turned into a hotspot for ...
A road transport group says it will be difficult for truck drivers to give cyclists a wider berth, as required by new rules coming to the Territory.
It's the best three weeks of the year! Throughout the month of July, my day consists of staying up late to watch le Tour de France, then waking up – bleary-eyed ...
Simon Yates made the most of his opportunity in the breakaway on Stage 12, attacking on the final climb before outsprinting his fellow escapees for the win.
The UCI is taking suggestions. Cycling's governing body has announced a public survey that will be open until Tuesday, July 16, allowing "interested parties" to ...
Electrochemical reduction of lithium ion battery electrolyte on Si anodes was mitigated by synthesizing nanoscale, conformal polymer films as artificial solid ...
'It would be logistically impossible' to have simultaneous men's and women's Tours.
The sound of cycling broadcasting changed dramatically last December: the familiar voice of Paul Sherwen fell silent. We remember the charismatic cyclist and ...
A nation 'dares to dream' as Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe proudly continues his stint atop the podium as the Tour de France celebrates 100 years in yellow.
Australian cycling champion Jack Bobridge is jailed for more than four years after being found guilty of dealing drugs following his retirement after the Rio De ...
Dutch cycling star Annamiek van Vleuten, who leads the Australian Mitchelton-Scott team, has dominated stage five of the Giro Rosa.
Gender Inequity in Sports Goes Well Beyond the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team.
Cyclingnews' roundup of the best road tyres available to buy this year.
Unless you live in a cave—which, come to think of it, would be a much cooler way to spend this weekend—you are probably aware of the heat wave that is ...
Champion cyclist Jack Bobridge's sentencing to prison in Perth last week completed a dramatic fall from the podium of his sport to prison in less than three years.
Aussie sprinter Caleb Ewan claims former Orica team-mate Michael Matthews was the wrong wheel to surf on Stage 10 bunch sprint final in Albi.
Cyclists: Scourge of the Roads? isn't just as bad as the title indicates – it's irresponsible.
You made it through the first week and to a well-deserved rest day. It's time to re-calibrate, lower your caffeine intake and look ahead to what's next. Jane Aubrey ...
The Tour de France is one of the most prestigious events in the sporting calendar. It is the pinnacle of cycling and it is the dream of every rider to stand atop of ...
When Olympic gold medallist Dani Rowe retired from elite cycling, the self-confessed exercise addict set her sights on the 2019 London marathon.
Australian cycling star Mark Renshaw has announcing he will retire from professional cycling at the end of the season.
On Friday, Italian cyclist Lorenzo Gobbo, 17, crashed at the the Junior and U23 European Track Championships at the Eddy Merckx Velodrome in Ghent, ...
Walmart heirs Steuart and Tom Walton want to make Arkansas one of the world's greatest cycling destinations. That's just part of their plan.
PARIS (Reuters) - In the absence of injured four-times winner Chris Froome, all eyes will be on his 22-year-old Ineos team mate Egan Bernal to fill the void at the ...
In Australia, more than 9 million people commute to work every weekday. The distance they travel and how they get there – car, public transport, cycling or ...
Bradley Wiggins picks his top 5 hypothetical team-mates, or domestiques for the aficionados, from cycling history.
A bike track honouring disgraced former cycling champion Jack Bobridge will almost certainly be renamed because of the 29-year-old's imprisonment for drug ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Australian speedster Caleb Ewan is aiming to start his Tour de France career with a bang and sprint to victory in Saturday's opening ...
Calling Jonathan Vaughters's new book, One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels, a doping book is admittedly a reductive thing to do. In truth, One-Way ...
Emily Thornberry knocked off bike outside Parliament.
The Tour de France continues to intrigue and, with just over a week to go, the question of who is going to win the race is yet to be answered.
It's stage 19 of the 2018 Tour de France and Primoz Roglic has just broken clear of his GC rivals on the day's final descent. The Slovenian had tried to get away ...
The second Bicycle Architecture Biennale showcases some of the innovative ways cities are encouraging bike use in urban areas.
It has been exactly 30 years since the name Peugeot last cropped up in the professional peloton, when Roger Legeay's Z-Peugeot team boasted Robert Millar ...
Phil Liggett, the voice of cycling and one of the world's most iconic sporting commentators, will be the subject of a new documentary created by Demand Film.
LONDON (Reuters) - Riding a bicycle round and round a velodrome non-stop for 24 hours sounds like a form of penance but for 48-year-old James MacDonald ...
In just 18 months, The Cyclists' Alliance (TCA) has become the de facto representatives for women in professional cycling, and it aims to establish itself more ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As the city of Memphis continues to battle gun violence, a visitor is trying to spread a peaceful message and is dedicated to stopping the ...
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was taken to hospital following a bike accident outside the Houses of Parliament. The senior Labour leader was ...
Ineos team principal David Brailsford lauds character and merit of defending Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas as the 33-year-old Welshman continues ...
Richie Porte's 2019 Tour de France campaign suffered a significant setback after his team, Trek Segafredo finished well over a minute behind the stopwatch ...
Teams of women and girls are among numerous cycle groups increasingly to be seen on the streets of the frenetic Pakistan megacity.
Any speed reduction is a good start, but as a community we need to be striving for 30km/h on those suburban streets.”
The UK is among the worst countries in Europe for cycling participation, and the government is predicted to achieve just a third of the 800m extra cycling trips by ...
Passing space, drink riding are all basic laws that apply to all to cyclists.
The Illustrated City: Urban cycling is good for health, the wallet and the environment – but is still not without its risks.
From Hong Kong to Cape Town, Seoul to Selly Oak, here are some of the standout examples.
SBS will bring you every moment of the 2019 Tour de France live, with online streaming on the ŠKODA Tour Tracker App and SBS OnDemand bringing every ...
Some riders have long and illustrious careers, competing at the highest level for two decades. Others burn bright over a much shorter period, seemingly ...
Distance covered grows by 5%, but most cyclists still white, middle-aged and rich.
After consecutive Stage 9 exits at the Tour de France, Australian general classification contender Richie Porte is happy to be moving on toward Paris despite still ...
Well their reasons are myriad but as we biked around it became quite clear what most attracted them to Delft is that the city has really taken seriously the Dutch ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British ultra-cyclist James MacDonald's attempt to set a new 24-hour distance record in a velodrome ended in heartbreak on Sunday when ...
The Tour de France cycling classic has begun in Brussels in Belgium with 176 riders including defending champion Geraint Thomas taking on the 195km first ...
As the city makes way for more bike paths, there is also more congestion than ever, and cyclist fatalities are on the rise.
Phil Liggett (l). Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe are making a feature documentary which chronicles the 50-plus year career of Phil Liggett, the iconic ...
Australian puncheur Michael Matthews shows signs of stress as Peter Sagan's grip on green tightens following Stage 5 victory at the Tour de France.
The angriest comments, the snarkiest tweets and the most tedious pedantry … do these things really add up to a credible documentary about urban cyclists?
Women on Wheels call for segregated cycling routes as only way to foster 'inclusive cycling'
The Tour de France resumed after the rest day with a flat stage from Albi to Toulouse before the Pyrenees loom into view on Thursday.
Late last month, Cycling Australia (CA) announced that the cost of its insurance was set to go up. The insurance company behind CA's offering had increased its ...
Julian Alaphilippe plundered the penultimate climb of Stage 3 in the Champagne region, etching a vintage victory into the Tour de France annals.
WOMEN are jumping on their bikes around Hobart at greater rates, while male cycling numbers are slipping. The latest count of bike riders in Tasmania's South ...
Dutch cycling star Annamiek van Vleuten will again spearhead the Australian Mitchelton-Scott team as they try to emulate last year's Giro Rosa triumph.
Mount Annan rider Daniel Pomering will race in France this month.
ROCKFORD (WREX) – A group cycling cross-country for people with disabilities stopped in Rockford today. The Ability Experience is traveling from San ...
Dutch star Annamiek van Vleuten has a stranglehold on the Giro Rosa, the only Grand Tour in women's cycling.
Those who commute short distances or choose walking or cycling to work, are more likely to be happy commuters, which makes them more productive.
Auckland Council says June saw a 17 per cent increase in cyclists around the city compared to the same month in 2018.
A lot's been made of the eating habits of pros during Grand Tours in recent years. The introduction of team chefs and kitchen trucks a decade or so ago ...
A cyclist has been hit by a car on Saturday morning.
In 2013 the Irish capital was ranked among the world's top 20 bike-friendly cities, but only a small part of the promised cycle network was ever built.
Paul Hellier and Jamie Lepre have combined their love of cycling with a mission for change.
1. Rutland Water 17 miles Mostly traffic-free paths round the lake Start and finish Oakham railway stationGetting there and away Train to OakhamThe route The ...
The new Colnago V3Rs carries on where the V2-R aero bike left off, with a more aero monocoque frame design and features that are bang on trend with the ...
Caleb Ewan is a bundle of pure muscle, with an extreme but wickedly efficient aerodynamic position in the sprints. Now his team is backing him to take out a ...
The Moree Cycling and Triathlon Club was well represented last weekend in the Balmoral junior cycling tour held in Ipswich and Brisbane. Jock Riley, Norman ...