Roger Walkowiak, who won the 1956 Tour de France against all odds after making the most of a long breakaway, has died at the age of 89. The Frenchman had been the oldest living Tour winner after Ferdy Kuebler died in December at 97. Back in 1956, Walkowiak was a last-minute pick for the French regional Nord-Est-Centre team, competing in a race deprived of many top riders but also featuring the[ Read More... ]

Australian domestique Damien Howson claimed victory in the Herald Sun Tour on Sunday, holding off a couple of attacks from three-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome over the fourth and final stage for his first overall race win. The 24-year-old Orica-Scott rider, who won his first stage to open the race proper on Thursday, finished in the peleton 17 seconds behind Britain's breakaway[ Read More... ]

Australian domestique Damien Howson claimed victory in the Herald Sun Tour on Sunday, holding off a couple of attacks from three-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome over the fourth and final stage for his first overall race win. The 24-year-old Orica-Scott rider, who won his first stage to open the race proper on Thursday, finished in the peleton 17 seconds behind Britain's breakaway[ Read More... ]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- American Travis McCabe won a crash-marred third stage of the Herald Sun Tour on Saturday, out-sprinting a reduced field over the final kilometers. More...

Former performance director Dave Brailsford has rejected accusations by former world and Olympic champion Nicole Cooke that British Cycling has a culture of sexism. Writing in the Times newspaper on Friday, the Team Sky boss said the culture he promoted was one of "winning, but not winning at all costs". It is why British Cycling has won as many female medals as male ones since 2008." Cooke,[ Read More... ]

Australian Damien Howson kept the Herald Sun Tour lead on Friday after overcoming a tire puncture late in the 165.6-kilometer second stage of the four-stage race. The tire blowout with 20 kilometers to go on the stage from Mount Beauty to Beechworth put Howson on the defensive, but his Orica-Scott teammates dropped back to help him and he did not lose any time to his main rivals. ''Trying to[ Read More... ]

Ukrainian rider Andriy Grivko of the Astana team has been disqualified from the Tour of Dubai after punching German Marcel Kittel in the face during Thursday's third stage, organizers said. Kittel, of the Quick Step Floors team, ended up with a bloodied face after sustaining a cut to his eyebrow, failing to contest the final sprint after winning the first two stages of the race, which he still[ Read More... ]

Ukrainian rider Andriy Hrivko of the Astana team has been disqualified from the Tour of Dubai after punching German Marcel Kittel in the face during Thursday's third stage, organisers said. Kittel, of the Quick Step Floors team, ended up with a bloodied face after sustaining a cut to his eyebrow, failing to contest the final sprint after winning the first two stages of the race, which he still[ Read More... ]

Australian cyclist Damien Howson took the overall lead in the Herald Sun Tour after winning the grueling opening Falls Creek stage on Thursday, leaving three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome in sixth place. It was the first professional win for Howson, the 2013 under-23 world time-trial champion. The stage had been billed as a duel between Froome and Chaves, the two best climbers in the[ Read More... ]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- This year's Tour of California will cover 575 miles from Sacramento to Pasadena, while the women's race that precedes it in May will be the only UCI WorldTour race in the U.S. this year. More...

(Reuters) - Former Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman and Simon Cope, who delivered a medical package to cyclist Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, will be questioned by MPs next month over allegations of wrongdoing. Former coach Shane Sutton told MPs last month that the package had contained medicine that was administered to the British 2012 Tour de France winner by Freeman. Cope,[ Read More... ]

Former Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman and Simon Cope, who delivered a medical package to cyclist Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, will be questioned by MPs next month over allegations of wrongdoing. Former coach Shane Sutton told MPs last month that the package had contained medicine that was administered to the British 2012 Tour de France winner by Freeman. Cope, a former[ Read More... ]

Britain's Team Sky will come under the spotlight again next month when the head of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) answers questions from MPs about allegations of wrongdoing in the sport. High on the agenda when Nicole Sapstead, UKAD's chief executive, goes before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee on Feb. 22, will be a package delivered to Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine.[ Read More... ]

Britain's Team Sky will come under the spotlight again next month when the head of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) answers questions from MPs about allegations of wrongdoing in the sport. High on the agenda when Nicole Sapstead, UKAD's chief executive, goes before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee on Feb. 22, will be a package delivered to Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine.[ Read More... ]

Jan 29 (Gracenote) - Standings from the WorldTour Ranking Teams 1. Orica (Australia) 951 2. BMC Racing (United States) 867 3. BORA (Germany) 482 4. Sunweb (Germany) 410 5. Dimension Data (South Africa) 405 6. Katusha (Switzerland) 350 7. Quick-Step (Belgium) 284 8. UAE Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) 248 9. Team Sky (Britain) 242 10. LottoNL (Netherlands) 240 11. Lotto (Belgium) 222 12.[ Read More... ]

German sprinter Nikias Arndt was the surprise winner of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Victoria on Sunday after he pipped Australian Cameron Meyer on the line to claim his first one-day win at World Tour level. Meyer had made a bold solo bid for victory with 600 metres to go in the 174-km race that starts and finishes in Geelong but Sunweb rider Arndt reeled him in with a well-timed[ Read More... ]

GEELONG, Australia (AP) -- German sprinter Nikias Arndt timed his finish perfectly to deny Australian Cameron Meyer a win at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road race on Sunday. More...

Jan 29 (Gracenote) - Standings from the WorldTour Ranking 1. Richie Porte (Australia / BMC Racing) 672 2. Esteban Chaves (Colombia / Orica) 422 3. Nathan Haas (Australia / Dimension Data) 395 4. Jay McCarthy (Australia / BORA) 385 5. Nikias Arndt (Germany / Sunweb) 300 6. Simon Gerrans (Australia / Orica) 260 7. Jhonatan Restrepo (Colombia / Katusha) 260 8. Caleb Ewan (Australia / Orica) 250 9.[ Read More... ]

Jan 29 (Gracenote) - Results from Great Ocean Road Race (Geelong - Geelong, 173.9 km) on Sunday 1. Nikias Arndt (Germany / Sunweb) 4:19:15" 2. Simon Gerrans (Australia / Orica) ST 3. Cameron Meyer (Australia / Australia) 4. Jhonatan Restrepo (Colombia / Katusha) 5. Luke Rowe (Britain / Team Sky) 6. Petr Vakoc (Czech Republic / Quick-Step) 7. Nathan Haas (Australia / Dimension Data) 8. Gianluca[ Read More... ]

Dutch Olympian Annamiek van Vleuten sprinted clear of four other lead riders to win the women's event in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race on Saturday. The Orica-Scott rider was leading the Rio de Janeiro Olympics road race in the last 10 kilometers in August when she crashed on a descent. Van Vleuten suffered back injuries and a severe concussion, but she soon returned to racing. More...

Three-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome expects local favourite Richie Porte to push him all the way to the finish when the Briton kicks off his 2017 season at the UCI's World Tour event in Victoria on Sunday. Froome will ride in the Towards Zero Race around Melbourne's Formula One circuit on Thursday but begins his quest for a fourth Tour de France title in earnest at Sunday's 174-km[ Read More... ]

(Reuters) - Three-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome expects local favorite Richie Porte to push him all the way to the finish when the Briton kicks off his 2017 season at the UCI's World Tour event in Victoria on Sunday. Froome will ride in the Towards Zero Race around Melbourne's Formula One circuit on Thursday but begins his quest for a fourth Tour de France title in earnest at[ Read More... ]

Former British cyclist Nicole Cooke questioned Team Sky's drug-free credentials and said she was "sceptical" of Bradley Wiggins' use of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) in powerful evidence delivered to a British Parliamentary committee on Tuesday. Painting a damning picture of how "a sport run by men for men" is governed, Cooke was the latest prominent figure to appear before parliament's[ Read More... ]

Former British cyclist Nicole Cooke questioned Team Sky's drug-free credentials and said she was "skeptical" of Bradley Wiggins' use of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) in powerful evidence delivered to a British Parliamentary committee on Tuesday. Painting a damning picture of how "a sport run by men for men" is governed, Cooke was the latest prominent figure to appear before parliament's[ Read More... ]

Jan 22 (Gracenote) - Standings from the WorldTour Ranking Teams 1. BMC Racing (United States) 845 2. Orica (Australia) 690 3. BORA (Germany) 410 4. Dimension Data (South Africa) 310 5. UAE Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) 248 6. Lotto (Belgium) 165 7. LottoNL (Netherlands) 140 8. Movistar (Spain) 125 9. Katusha (Switzerland) 123 10. Team Sky (Britain) 105 11. Sunweb (Germany) 103 12. Trek (United[ Read More... ]