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Tour de France Stage 3 reaction from winner Gerrans, Sagan and leader Bakelants (+ video & audio)

Day's protagonists reflect... plus video of the scenes inside the Orica-GreenEdge camp as it took frst TDF stage win

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UCI confirms McQuaid and Cookson as only candidates in September’s election

Nominations closed... but McQuaid's backing from Swiss Cycling still faces legal challenge

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Tour de France Stage 3: Simon Gerrans snatches win from Peter Sagan

Third and final day on Corsica sees photo finish as Sagan misses out for second day running

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TDF: Threat to block today’s Stage 3 lifted after Corsican separatist pair released

Pair were among four arrested on Saturday's opening stage for spraying nationalist slogans on road

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Tour de France Stage 2 reaction from new maillot jaune Jan Bakelants, Marcel Kittel and Chris Froome

RadioShack Leopard's Belgian rider looks back on a day that changed his life

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TDF Stage 2: RadioShack-Leopard’s Jan Bakelants holds on to take stage and maillot jaune

Belgian thwarts Peter Sagan on a day when big names including Mark Cavendish and maillot jaune Marcel Kittel were dropped

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Tour Tech 2013: On le buses

After the Busgate debacle in Corsica, we decide to have a team bus shootout

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The Race of Truth: We get exclusive peek at Monday’s Eurosport documentary on GB TT scene

One TT rider followed our link appealing for riders to take part... and is one of the three stars of the show

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TDF Stage 1 reaction: Winner & race leader Kittel, overall favourite Froome… and Matt White on ‘busgate’

Cav was expected to win the opening stage of the 100th Tour... but no-one could have foreseen the way things turned out

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TDF Stage 1: Marcel Kittel moves into maillot jaune as crash rules out sprint rivals

Chaos on Corsica following late chute - as organisers fought to remove Orica-GreenEdge bus stuck at finish line

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Chris Froome: Brad’s a difficult guy

Sky's Tour superstar talks frankly about what went on between him and Wiggins in last year's mountain stages

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TDF Videos: Week 1 Insight from IG Cycling; GCN’s 10 to watch + flythroughs of first 3 stages

Focus on Mark Cavendish and Chris Froome as race gets underway on Corsica

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Armstrong: “Impossible” to win Tour in his day without doping; also, calls for McQuaid to go

Man stripped last year of seven Tour de France titles speaks on eve of 100th edition of race

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Hinault: French senators “want to kill the Tour de France”

"Let them put the same constraints on all sports as they do on cyclists and they can open their mouths", says five-time winner

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In Nice for TDF next week? Come help turn a corner of the Côte d’Azur into Yorkshire

Welcome to Yorkshire plans Cragg Vale Corner on the TTT course in Nice

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Michael Rasmussen ordered to repay Rabobank €663,000 after losing court case

Man sacked while in maillot jaune had been seeking to increase original settlement for wrongful dismissal

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Brian Cookson responds to “bullying and haranguing” Pat McQuaid

British Cycling president takes UCI chief to task for "sometimes absurd and entirely counter-productive feuds"

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Official: Trek acquires Leopard SA WorldTour licence, name sponsor from 2014

Longstanding rumours confirmed as Flavio Becca ends his WorldTour adventure; big-name signings on the way?

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Ryder Hesjedal back from injury to make Garmin-Sharp’s Tour de France team

David Millar and Dan Martin among US team's nine-man line-up announced this afternoon

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Team Sky brings 21st Century Fox on board as sponsor ahead of Tour de France

Team name not changing, deal revealed as News Corp prepares to separate its publishing and broadcast interests

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Hard-man hero Jens Voigt on family, drugs, the Tour – and being this year’s oldest rider

"Chris Froome will win," says Mr Shut Up Legs

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Tour de France video + Podcast Previews from GCN and William Hill

road.cc editor shares his thoughts on the Tour with Dan Lloyd while Simon MacMichael gives a detailed analysis to William Hill

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UCI rejects Riccardo Riccò’s claims that 44 more riders tested positive during 2008 Tour de France

Italian was one of four riders sanctioned after 2008 Tour - but he says dozens others failed doping controls too

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Pat McQuaid slams Brian Cookson’s “half baked” UCI manifesto

UCI president questions rival's perceived inconsistencies and asks where the cash is coming from

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Mark Cavendish talks Tour de France goals and launches CVNDSH range

FST AS FCK tagline grabs attention... not all of it positive

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Jan Ullrich may lose Sydney 2000 Olympic gold after doping confession

German Olympic authorities to investigate "exactly where the starting point was"

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L’Equipe: Laurent Jalabert sample from 1998 Tour tested positive for EPO

Newspaper says sample retested anonymously in 2004, but Senate report will name Jalabert next month

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‘Restoring trust, leading change’ – Brian Cookson launches his manifesto for UCI presidency bid

British Cycling president promises fresh start for UCI at official launch of campaign in Paris

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Blanco rebrands as Belkin Pro Cycling, unveils new kit in time for Tour de France

Team's future secured as US consumer electronics accessories firm steps into void left by Rabobank

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Nat champs round-up – Our quick guide to some of the male winners across Europe

Some kit sponsors are going to be busy this week running up new jerseys ahead of the Tour de France

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