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A rise in the mountains as Vuelta a Espana cranks up the climbing
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» TURIN (ITALY) - Dane Jonas Vingegaard is the man to beat at cycling's final Grand Tour of the season when the Vuelta a Espana rolls out of Turin on Saturday for a 21-day run packed with mountains.
Track, BMX, road, mountain all rub shoulders at cycling's world championships
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» GLASGOW - Remco Evenepoel is among the stars assembling for the world cycling championships in Scotland with 13 disciplines including road races, BMX, mountain biking and track racing on the menu from Thursday.
Colombia falls hard for cycling
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» The route up Las Palmas starts near the valley floor, but it doesn't stay there for long. It is 16 kilometres up to the summit, an arduous climb of roughly 1,036 vertical metres (3,40 feet), a journey of long rises and sharp turns, of straining muscles and heaving lungs.
Groves wins wet Giro stage as dog unseats Evenepoel
AFP, Published on 11/05/2023
» SALERNO (ITALY) - Australian Kaden Groves won a ferocious sprint at the end of a rain-soaked and crash-filled fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday as Andreas Leknessund retained the overall lead and favourite Remco Evenepoel fell twice.
Cyclists in Australia on alert for swooping magpies
AFP, Published on 17/09/2022
» WOLLONGONG, Australia: Riders are bracing for an unusual threat at the world cycling championships in Australia this week — swooping magpies.
Rivals must gang up on Pogacar, says Tour de France legend Hinault
AFP, Published on 06/07/2022
» CALAIS (FRANCE) - Five-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault believes defending champion Tadej Pogacar will be difficult, but not impossible to beat.
Ex-Tour champion Bernal 'conscious' after surgery for bus crash injuries
AFP, Published on 26/01/2022
» BOGOTA - Former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal was "conscious" a day after the Colombian cycling star underwent emergency surgery following a devastating collision with a bus outside Bogota, doctors said Tuesday.
Froome ready to move up a gear in Tour of the Alps
AFP, Published on 18/04/2021
» MILAN - Multiple Tour de France winner Chris Froome warns he is ready to move up a gear after a slow start at his new Israel Start-Up Nation team in the Tour of the Alps starting Monday.
Froome says 'age a state of mind', targets fifth Tour de France
AFP, Published on 19/01/2021
» PARIS - A defiant Chris Froome declared he was "not finished yet" on Monday as his new cycling team Israel Start Up Nation held a press conference ahead of a season in which the Briton is targeting a fifth Tour de France.
Pogacar slays Jumbo's Goliath to rise above the Tour doubters
AFP, Published on 21/09/2020
» PARIS - As Tadej Pogacar celebrated his 22nd birthday on Monday, a day after becoming the youngest winner of the Tour de France in more than a century, two members of his UAE Team Emirates backroom staff could warn him how easily cycling careers become tarnished with suspicion.