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The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) will study all crashes that occur in the 2021 international calendar and take steps to improve rider safety, the president of the sport’s governing body David Lappartient has said. Calls for UCI to take action and protect riders have grown this season following a crash that left Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen […]
Richie Porte's journey into cycling as a teenager riding around Tasmania on a borrowed bike is set to culminate on Sunday when he becomes only the second Australian to stand on the podium at the Tour de France. Porte (Trek-Segafredo) is third on the general classification behind Slovenians Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) and Primoz Roglic […]
RONCHAMP, France: Richie Porte has not been the luckiest man on the Tour de France, to say the least, but on Saturday the Australian was relieved to finally break his jinx at the world's greatest cycling race as he looked set to savour a podium place. The Trek-Segafredo rider moved up to third in the […]
A late draft to the Tour de France, Neilson Powless didn’t have time to scramble together a turtle necklace, the spirit animal of his Native American tribe, or paint one of their wampum bead belts on the frame of the bike that he’s ridden for three punishing weeks, over 3,300 kilometers (2,000 miles) of roads. […]
Mont Aigoual, France: Kazakh rider Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) 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 27-year-old Lutsenko on the mountain […]
Caleb Ewan has confirmed he is in race-winning form less than two weeks out from the start of the Tour de France, which he'll enter on different footing compared to a commanding debut last year. Ewan (Lotto Soudal) won stage one and took the first leader's jersey of the Tour de Wallonie on Sunday, pipping […]
Bradley Wiggins has called on cycling to adopt athletics-style sprint lanes to end the kind of high-speed crashes that left Fabio Jakobsen with life-threatening injuries. Wiggins branded the UCI “ridiculous” for issuing a statement condemning Dylan Groenewegen for drifting into Jakobsen’s path ahead of the crash in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Tour of Poland. […]
Caleb Ewan is set to compete at the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia despite a tight 13-day turnaround between the three-week competitions, in a bold endeavour to lay claim to being the best sprinter in cycling. The WorldTour season re-commenced on August 1 with a condensed calendar following an almost five-month shutdown due to […]
Doctors will attempt to wake Fabio Jakobsen from his medically-induced coma on Thursday after the Dutch cyclist underwent surgery overnight. Jakobsen is in a stable condition in hospital after a major crash on stage one of the Tour of Poland on Wednesday. The 23-year-old’s team Deceuninck-QuickStep confirmed he had not suffered brain or spinal injuries […]
A horror crash in the first stage of the Tour of Poland has left at least one rider requiring hospitalisation and another disqualified. Vision of the incident shows Dylan Groenewegen veering across the road in a sprint to the line when he and Fabio Jakobsen collide. Jakobsen crashed through the barriers and hit an official. […]