September 22, 2020

(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hi CyclingTips readers, Are you having Tour de France withdrawals yet? Yeah, us too. As you’d expect there’s been a bit of a lull on the news front now that the Tour is over, but we won’t have to wait long for...

September 22, 2020

French police searched the hotel rooms of Arkéa-Samsic riders, including Nairo Quintana, last week at the Tour de France. According to the AFP, prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into possible doping by a “small part” of the team. As first reported by Le Journal du Dimanche and then L’Equipe, Police searched the rooms of...

September 21, 2020

It took a while for it to happen, but all of Australia’s cycling disciplines have now voted to unify as part of the AusCycling initiative. MTB and BMX have been committed to the new initiative since February this year but until now, road and track — governed by Cycling Australia — hasn’t had the constituent...

September 21, 2020

In the early hours of July 24, 2011, cycling fans around Australia sat glued to their TVs, watching the penultimate stage time trial of the Tour de France. On the roads around Grenoble, Cadel Evans was putting two and a half minutes into race leader Andy Schleck, ensuring 34-year-old Evans would take yellow and become...

September 21, 2020

(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Sam Bennett sprinted to victory on stage 21 of the Tour de France on Sunday, topping Mads Pedersen and Peter Sagan on the Champs-Élysées. Moments later, Tadej Pogacar crossed the finish line safely to wrap up his first ever overall Tour title....

September 21, 2020

Tadej Pogacar’s ascent to the top of the GC standings on Saturday’s stage 20 of the Tour de France came as a shock to most people around the world of cycling, but apparently not to Eddy Merckx. In Merckx’s opinion, Jumbo-Visma should have seen Pogacar’s challenge for yellow coming, and acted accordingly. The five-time Tour...

September 21, 2020

Much of the Tour de France peloton made a small anti-racism gesture on the ride to Paris, donning hand-written masks in solidarity against racism and in support of the Tour’s only Black rider, Kevin Reza of B&B Hotels-Vital Concept. Reza, who was born not far from Sunday’s start, hit the front of the peloton along...