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Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez won the Vuelta a San Juan following Sunday’s seventh and final stage claimed by Australian Sam Welsford in a sprint finish.Welsford of the DSM team claimed his second straight stage honors after also winning the sprint finish on Saturday’s sixth stage. bc/mw/dj

Peter Sagan said 2023 will be his final year as a professional road cyclist and that he will target the 2024 Olympics in mountain bike.

A decade ago when the whippet-like Nairo Quintana burst onto the scene with stunning mountain escapes, Colombian cyclists looked poised to take over the world.- Bernal’s painful battle back – Bernal looked set to be the greatest of the highly talented bunch of Colombian cyclists when in 2019 he became the youngest Tour winner in more than 100 years.

Two-time world road race champion Julian Alaphilippe is ready to justify his salary in the 2023 season after some motivational criticism from his Soudal Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere.”But he needs to show he’s a champion, not just someone with a champion salary.”

Colombian great Nairo Quintana insisted on Wednesday he was not ready to give up after local media had speculated he would announce his retirement after failing to find a new team for this season.”While it is true that I don’t have a team, I’m a cyclist who remains available to wear a jersey and to give my best in races,” said Quintana.

A man was found guilty on Monday of robbing British cycling star Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta of their high-value watches in a knifepoint attack at their home.”I got up to follow her out (of the bedroom) and as I was stepping out of the room is when she started to come back up (the stairs),” Cavendish said Monday.

Australia’s Jay Vine defended his overnight lead to win the Tour Down Under, the first event of the 2023 World Tour.

Australia’s Jay Vine claimed his first World Tour victory in the Tour Down Under on Sunday, with Britain’s Simon Yates winning a thrilling uphill battle to take the race’s final stage. Vine won the World Tour TDU at his first attempt and continued his rise to prominence in world professional cycling after winning two stages at the Vuelta a Espana last year.

French cyclist Bryan Coquard won Stage 4 of the Tour Down Under for his first-ever World Tour win, while Australia’s Jay Vine retained the overall tour lead by 15 seconds with one stage remaining.

Frenchman Bryan Coquard jubilantly broke through for his first World Tour win in 10 years as Jay Vine maintained his overall lead after the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under on Saturday.Coquard, who had 48 wins before Saturday’s stage, excitedly greeted his breakthrough World Tour victory in the TDU. “It’s been a long time, I wait 10 years for this win, my first one in the World Tour,” Coquard said.

Pello Bilbao of Spain won the challenging Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under while Jay Vine took a 15-second lead on general classification.

Former champion Rohan Dennis took the overall lead in the Tour Down Under after winning the second stage, which ended the hopes of the previous leaders.

Laura Kenny, an Olympic track cycling champion for Great Britain, announced she is pregnant, nine months after publicly sharing that her miscarriage story.

Germany’s Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) held off fast-finishing Australian Caleb Ewan to narrowly take out the first stage of the men’s Tour Down Under in Adelaide on Wednesday.Bauhaus had less than half a wheel to spare as he flashed across the finish line in Tanunda as Ewan (Australian National Team) stormed home from well back in the pack at the end of the 149.9km stage through South Australia’s Barossa Valley wine growing region.

Many in cycling will be breathing a sigh of relief that Mark Cavendish’s move to Astana has finally been confirmed. After weeks of speculation and intrigue the whole thing was becoming pretty torturous. Even after a grainy pap-style photo of the 37 year-old loading his bags into an Astana team car at Alicante airport appeared on social media last week, the Kazakh team would not say anything.

Veteran sprinter Mark Cavendish might still get a chance to claim the outright record for stage wins at the Tour de France.

Italian cyclist Alberto Bettiol took advantage of an early start and dry course to win the 5.5-kilometer time trial prologue at the Tour Down Under.

Top dermatologist Dr. Whitney Bowe, who introduced the viral beauty trend “skin cycling” to TikTok, breaks it down for us, step by step.

Kevin Benavides won the final 2023 Dakar Rally stage by 43 seconds in the bike category results; Nasser Al-Attiyah, A.J. Jones win championships again.

Former Dutch cyclist Lieuwe Westra, runner-up to Bradley Wiggins in the 2012 Paris-Nice, has died aged 40 after a life-long battle with depression, his biographer and Dutch media announced on Sunday.”Lieuwe Westra, 40, died on Saturday afternoon,” his biographer Thomas Sijtsma tweeted.

The top three bike riders are separated by 91 seconds after Stage 13 of the 2023 Dakar Rally with Toby Price leading. Sebastien Loeb (car) won his sixth straight.

Chris Froome headlines a stellar cast at the Tour Down Under when road cycling’s World Tour season launches in Adelaide next week.Britain’s Froome is part of the Israel-Premier Tech line-up, with 2018 and 2019 TDU winner Daryl Impey of South Africa also racing in what will be his final professional season.

As road cycling’s World Tour season shifts into gear at the Tour Down Under next week, AFP Sport takes a look at some of the issues and storylines expected to feature in the year ahead.This year, that race will feature three individual time-trials, a discipline that suits his astonishing stamina.

Toby Price took the overall bike lead for the first time after Stage 12 of the 2023 Dakar Rally, and Sebastien Loeb won his fifth consecutive stage.

Americans Skyler Howes (bike) and Austin Jones (T3 light prototype) are leading their categories after Stage 11 of the 2023 Dakar Rally.

Sebastien Loeb kept the pressure on by winning Stage 10 of the 2023 Dakar Rally, but Nasser Al-Attiyah remained in control with four stages remaining.

The Vuelta a Espana, a race that traditionally emphasises climbing, will hit the slopes early and often in 2023, with 10 mountain-top finishes on the route unveiled in Barcelona on Tuesday.”The mountains are part of the DNA of the Vuelta and will still thrill us in 2023,” said Javier Guillen, the director of the Vuelta, at the presentation of the route at the Palace of Catalan Music in Barcelona. 

Multiple-time Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish told a court on Monday how a mask-wearing intruder held a knife to his face during a robbery at his home.

American riders Skyler Howes and Mason Klein are ranked in the top three of the bikes category after Stage 8 of the 2023 Dakar Rally.

With bikes sidelined for the Stage 7 special of the 2023 Dakar Rally, winner Mitch Guthrie led a strong American showing in the T3 category.

Stephane Peterhansel was eliminated in a crash, and teammate Carlos Sainz also wrecked as Team Audi had a disastrous Stage 6 of the 2023 Dakar Rally.

American riders are in two of the top four overall spots in the bikes category after Stage 5 of the 2023 Dakar Rally with Skyler Howes in the lead.

Four-time champion Chris Froome’s Israeli team Israel Premier Tech and Uno-X of Norway complete the line-up for this year’s Tour de France after organisers issued invites as wild cards to compete on Wednesday.

American rider Ricky Brabec won Stage 1 of the 2023 Dakar Rally in bikes while three-time champion Carlos Sainz kept Audi up front in the cars class.

Any awkwardness Pauline Ferrand-Prevot might have felt arriving at Ineos Grenadiers’ winter training camp in Majorca a fortnight ago, a couple of days after France had disposed of England in the cruellest of fashions at the World Cup in Qatar, was misplaced.

Italy will host the start of the Tour de France for the first time in 2024 to mark the 100th anniversary of Ottavio Bottecchia win.

A former British Olympic cyclist has been arrested on suspicion of rape and indecent assault.

The 2024 Tour de France will end on the French Riviera instead of the French capital because of the Paris Olympics.

Italian Davide Rebellin, one of the sport’s longest-serving professionals, died after being struck by a truck while training. He was 51.

STORY: Location: Doha, Qatar These Frenchmen cycled from Paris to the World Cup in QatarMehdi Balamissa and Gabriel Martin left Paris three months agoThey cycled over 4,300 miles and crossed 13 countries [Mehdi Balamissa, French cyclist and France supporter]”It is true that it was not always easy to cycle through the Middle East. There were not really any GPS issues because there are not so many roads. For example, we spent four weeks crossing Saudi Arabia, it is very simple, there is one road and you follow it. But the conditions are very hard for cyclists, it is hot, there is a lot of wind in the desert, we sometimes found ourselves cycling through sandstorms in Saudi Arabia. And when you cross big cities, it is very difficult. Riyadh was extremely complicated, it is a huge city a little bit like Doha even though Doha is a little bit less big. They are only made for cars, cars are king and bicycles are outcasts. It was impossible to cross by bike so we navigated as much as we could and there were some moments that were a bit bad in terms of security. And it is a little bit similar in Doha although Doha has a different ‘color’ for us because it is the city at the end of the desert, at the end of this tunnel. It is the end of our adventure, our arrival spot.”The pair were deeply moved by the hospitality they encountered in the Middle Eastlike this man in Saudi Arabia who offered them water from the side of the roadUpon arrival, the French Football Federation offered them tickets to France’s match

Olympic silver medalist Hannah Roberts earned a third consecutive world title in BMX freestyle, the cycling discipline that debuted at the Tokyo Games.

Biking is likely the most difficult of the three triathlon disciplines to dress appropriately for both in and out of a race. Use our guide to what to wear on bike rides in every weather scenario the weather report throws at you.

The disqualification of two-time Tour de France runner-up Nairo Quintana from his sixth place in the 2022 race for misuse of an opioid was confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

We take a look at the bikes ridden by the five fastest cyclists in the women’s and men’s pro races at the 70.3 World Championships in St. George.

British Cycling has announced the sudden departure of its chief executive following the furious backlash against its “brazen sportswashing” partnership with Shell.

The 2023 Tour de France covers France’s five biggest mountain ranges, including eight mountain stages and four summit finishes.

Brian Robinson, one of the pioneers of British road cycling and the first British winner of a Tour de France stage, has died at the age of 91.

Ceratizit-WNT, NXTG, Plantur-Pura aim to move up, UCI announces four new ProTeam applicants

US pro road champion says he’ll race ‘wherever the heck’ Justin Williams wants him to go

Colombian sprinter inks one-year deal with Spanish WorldTour squad