Tour set to delay 2020 race
Tour de France organisers are focusing on a postponement of this year’s race rather than a cancellation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Health boss apologises to Ardern for bike ride
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has accepted an apology from her health minister for mountain biking.
‘Insane’: the ride of Donny’s life
Unfit, with no bike and no cycling experience, Don Chandler signed up for a 1200km ride to the outback. Nobody thought this would end well…
No rush on Tour call
This year’s Tour de France may still go ahead despite the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, but without roadside spectators.
Battle of Olympic mind Games
With the Olympics set to be postponed, Australia’s top swimmers and cyclists have been warned the hardest times are still ahead.
Olympic hopeful flown to hospital
Australian Tokyo Olympics hopeful Kai Sakakibara remains in a Canberra hospital after suffering head injuries in a race crash.
Groves choppers in a flies away
Mitchelton-Scott sprinter Kaden Groves won his third stage but it was West Australian climber Jai Hindley who took overall honours.
Yates vows to put on a show
Simon Yates has vowed to put on “a bit of a show” in the Victorian Alps as he sets his sights on the Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
Porte lauds team after TDU win
Richie Porte surrendered his crown as king of Old Willunga Hill but landed his second Tour Down Under title instead.
Caleb’s long road to world glory
Caleb Ewan proved strongest in the sprint finish on Friday to win the ninth stage of his Tour Down Under career.
Porte goes solo in Tour tilt
The greatest climber the Tour Down Under has ever seen, Richie Porte, is back in the ochre jersey.
Quiet demeanour of a ferocious competitor
When Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan speaks his team listens, and he talked a lot on Tuesday night.
Ewan unleashes sprint power
Caleb Ewan made up for his team’s tactical error on stage one by claiming stage two of the Tour Down Under with an incredible burst of speed and power.
Ewan caught out by Irishman
Australian star Caleb Ewan was caught out of position as Irish champion Sam Bennett released a massive pressure valve
Impey snatches an early bonus
South African lays down claim for third Tour Down Under title within 15 kilometres of the start.
Impey’s uphill battle to three-peat
Warning bells are going off for Daryl Impey on two stages of the Tour Down Under as he dreams of a historic three-peat.
Yates happy to stick with Aussie team
Simon Yates and Mitchelton Scott have an enduring relationship in cycling terms, but, says the rider, it isn’t broken, why change?
Ewan swoops to claim Classic
Australian sprinter goes from last to first to claim criterium ahead of the Tour Down Under.
Aussies’ streak in Tour Down Under over
Australian cycling queen Amanda Spratt’s reign in the Women’s Tour Down Under has ended.
Spratt takes charge with stage win
Amanda Spratt can remind the world just how versatile a rider she is by extending her lead in the Women’s Tour Down Under.
Hosking rides hot streak for stage win
Australia’s Chloe Hosking has laid down a marker in pursuit of her first Women’s Tour Down Under crown.
Meyer’s redemption complete
It took a full year, but Cameron Meyer’s national road cycling championships redemption is finally complete.
Hosking, Welsford take Bay Crits
Chloe Hosking and Sam Welsford claimed overall honours after a thrilling final stage of cycling’s Bay Crits in Melbourne.
Spratt strikes first at Bay Crits
Amanda Spratt struck first in Australia’s summer of cycling with a virtuoso win at the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Crits.
Glaetzer plans short break to treat cancer
Matthew Glaetzer will start radiotherapy for thyroid cancer after winning a silver and bronze medal at the UCI track world cup.
Ban no bar for Aussie ‘defector’
Shane Perkins is still on track to compete at next year’s 2020 Olympics despite his adopted team Russia being banned.
Ewan sets sights on Tour’s yellow jersey
Cyclists in Sydney’s Centennial Park may not have realised they were sharing the circuit with a Tour de France stage winner recently.
EPO bust taught O’Grady a lesson
The Tour Down Under’s new race director Stuart O’Grady said a doping blemish when cycling was rampant with EPO was a lesson learned.
France’s favourite racing cyclist
Eight times Raymond Poulidor stood on the podium at the end of the Tour de France, exhausted, smiling his big gap-toothed smile.
Aussie accused in cycling drugs trial
Shane Sutton, former cyclist and ex-head of UK cycling forced to make a dramatic defence of his character in a drugs trial.
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