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Injuries prove too much for Garmin-Sharp team leader Having promised to try to continue in the Tour de France after a very bad crash yesterday, Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal has the disappointment of being forced out of the race […]

Gesink, Mollema, Kruijswijk all lose time, Wynants out After getting off to a fairly good, if uneventful start to the Tour de France, it has all gone wrong for Rabobank after a difficult stage six. The Dutch team had its […]

Participation uncertain for Giro d’Italia winner and Vansummeren He went into the race hoping to be the first to achieve the Giro-Tour double since Marco Pantani in 1998 but instead Ryder Hesjedal is now simply hoping to make it to […]

Dutch team rues more bad luck; Poels, Txurruka show their mettle After a particularly tough Tour de France stage into Metz, with a high-speed crash inside the final 30 kilometres affecting a large portion of the peloton, teams are growing […]

Omega Pharma-Quick Step still has its general classification cards to play as many favourites lose big time Omega Pharma-Quick Step was one of the teams to get off lightest in the carnage of stage six, with only Belgian rider Dries […]

Bumps and bruises for Movistar captain as he loses two minutes to his biggest rivals Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde was one of the victims of both crashes on the sixth stage of the Tour de France, between Épernay and Metz, as […]

Fifth stage win for the World number one with second overall victory in sight In a cannibal-esque performance that now matches her 2011 race, Marianne Vos (Rabobank) took her fifth stage win of the 2012 Giro d’Italia Femminile, between Mornago […]

Scarponi regrets losing time, vows to fight back tomorrow Triple world champion Oscar Freire has been forced to withdraw from what could be the final Tour de France of his career as a result of a crash which took place […]

Van Garderen remains fourth overall and in white jersey Gaining time over many of his rivals today due to the massive crash which afflicted the peloton 24 kilometres from the finish, Cadel Evans’ chances of taking a second Tour win […]

Slovak prodigy wins again but time losses to overall threats the big story Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) more than made up for missing out on the sprint yesterday, having been caught up in a crash, with a flat and fast sprint […]