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Double ascent of Mont Ventoux the centrepiece of 2021 Tour de France (+ flythrough route video)

An early visit to the Alps ahead of a big block of racing in the Pyrenees also feature on next year's race

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Tour de France 2021 route presented live tonight – watch it here from 1925 hrs GMT

From Brest to Paris, all the stages of next year's 108th edition of cycling's biggest race will be unveiled on TV and social media

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Vuelta Stage 12: Hugh Carthy conquers the Angliru, Richard Carapaz back in race lead

EF Pro Cycling's Preston-born rider lands his first Grand Tour stage win on pro cycling's toughest climb

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Vuelta Stage 11: David Gaudu wins after Chris Froome leads rider protest

Marc Soler, second on the day, moves up to sixth overall

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Should Vuelta rider have been allowed to continue after crash that smashed helmet?

Spanish rider Hector Saez remounted in a fresh lid after suffering a blow hard enough to knock a chunk out of the one he’d been wearing

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Julian Alaphilippe says he doesn’t blame moto rider for Tour of Flanders crash

“It's just something that can happen in a race," says world champion

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Tour de France 2021 route presentation postponed until Sunday – and will be broadcast live

Route is forecast to make an early visit to the Alps, with a big block of racing in the Pyrenees later on

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Chris Froome and Sam Bennett racing in new Oakley eyewear at Vuelta a España

The pics were first shared by Sam Bennett and appear to show a bold new look from Oakley that is sure to split opinion.

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Tao Geoghegan Hart’s Giro d’Italia winning Pinarello Dogma F12 and Bolide TT bikes

Check out the bikes the British rider raced to victory in a dramatic Giro d’Italia

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Tao Geoghegan Hart wins the Giro d’Italia

Ineos Grenadiers rider completes final time trial more than half a minute faster than overnight leader Jai Hindley of Team Sunweb

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‘Just another Sunday’ – Tao Geoghegan Hart relaxed ahead of biggest day of career

Ineos Grenadiers rider goes into today’s time trial in Milan 86/100ths of a second behind Giro d’Italia leader Jai Hindley of Team Sunweb

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Milan showdown as Tao Geoghegan Hart wins Giro d’Italia stage 20, and Jai Hindley now leads race by tenths of a second

With Wilco Kelderman cracking, Tao Geoghegan Hart and Jai Hindley are now almost completely neck-and-neck going into the final stage tomorrow, making it the closest Grand Tour in history

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Giro d’Italia: Riders board buses after riding through neutral zone after Stage 19 is shortened in response to peloton protest

Riders unhappy with long stages and transfers meaning they start and end each day in the dark

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Tao Geoghegan Hart moves to 15 seconds of Giro d’Italia lead on Stelvio stage

Ineos Grenadiers rider third overall behind Sunweb's Wilco Kelderman and Jai Hindley

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Giro d’Italia zip-gate. Hindley and Kelderman struggle with jacket issues on a freezing Stelvio

Hindley and Kelderman were forced to descend the Stelvio at upwards of 100kph with their jackets undone

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Chris Froome loses 11 minutes on Vuelta opener as Ineos Grenadiers signal changing of the guard (+ video)

Two-time Vuelta winner dropped on penultimate climb as team pushes on for Richard Carapaz, who finishes second on stage to Primoz Roglic

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Fernando Gaviria tests positive for COVID-19 – for the second time this year

Colombian sprinter was only rider to test positive in latest wave of testing at the Giro d'Italia

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Jumbo-Visma, GreenEdge and Sunweb swap bike suppliers for 2021

Bike brands Cervélo, Bianchi and Scott all move to new WorldTour homes

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Two team staff members – but no riders – test positive for COVID-19 ahead of tomorrow’s Vuelta start

Organisers have unveiled mobile lab capable of conducting hundreds of coronavirus tests a day

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Giro d’Italia Stage 15: Tao Geoghegan Hart wins at Piancavallo and moves fourth overall

Ineos Grenadiers rider was only overall contender to resist devastating Team Sunweb onslaught today

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Mathieu van der Poel outsprints Wout Van Aert to win Tour of Flanders

Dutch champion takes his first Monument in head-to-head sprint against former cyclo-cross rival

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Updated: Julian Alaphilippe’s Tour of Flanders ends as he breaks hand in crash with race motorbike (+ video)

World champion was in lead group with Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert when incident happened

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Bradley Wiggins rates TT positions of the peloton in build up to Giro d’Italia stage 14 time trial

The TT specialist has plenty of time for Wilco Kelderman, but says Vincenzo Nibali's head is too high and João Almeida needs to sort out his baggy kit

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Rider association makes safety proposals and delivers scathing assessment of UCI race judges’ competence

Most commissaires “not competent enough to be responsible for a World Tour race”

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‘Cycling still has Covid-19 situation under control’ says Lappartient but Vaughters complains UCI aren’t taking Giro concerns seriously

De Gendt feels Giro organisers are ‘hiding things’ and EF Pro Cycling have suggested shortening the race by a week

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17 police officers at the Giro-E test positive for COVID-19

Organisers say the Giro d'Italia professional stage race that runs alongside the Giro E is unaffected, because the 'race bubbles' are completely separate

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“I don’t want to stop” says Mark Cavendish ahead of racing the Scheldeprijs

Bahrain-McLaren star explains why he thought Sunday's Gent Wevelgem may have been the last race of his career

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Sexism row: organiser of Holme Moss Hill Climb accused of saying women “don’t contribute to the sport” in defence of unequal prize pot

The race organiser was also accused of saying that women don't "make tea at TTs anymore" during a verbal discussion about the event's cash prize allocation, but claims he was misquoted

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Giro d’Italia director insists race will reach Milan despite coronavirus crisis

Mauro Vegni says testing being stepped up after peloton decimated by departure of Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma

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Mark Cavendish in tears after Gent-Wevelgem: “That’s perhaps the last race of my career” (+ video)

End of the road for the ex-world champion, out of contract at the end of the season?

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