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BMC Racing Team saved as CCC takes over sponsorship from 2019

Greg Van Avarmaet to lead UCI WorldTour team next season with backing of Polish footwear retailer

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Trek launches women’s road team led by Lizzie Deignan

Former world champion is sitting out 2018 season as she expects first child but will be back with new team next year

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Video highlights, onboard footage and full reaction as Paris-Roubaix meets the Tour de France

Your round-up from a thrilling an incident-packed stage

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Tour de France Stage 9: John Degenkolb rules the pavé Greg Van Avermaet extends lead

A brutal day on Paris-Roubaix cobbles sees succession of big names crash, with Richie Porte out of the race

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Breaking news: Richie Porte out of Tour de France after early crash today

BMC Racing star was one of the favourites for the overall - but is first casualty of today's cobbled stage

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‘Maybe we are being too nice’ says Wada about salbutamol usage

Suggestion that threshold for legal usage could be reduced

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Tour de France Stage 8: Two in a row for Dylan Groenewegen (+ video)

Greipel and Gaviria relegated for tussles during sprint finish

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Bianchi’s Oltre XR4 special edition paint jobs for the Tour de France

Dylan Groenewegen and Primoz Roglic of LottoNL–Jumbo are both riding Oltre XR4 frames with eye-catching custom paint jobs at Le Tour this year

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Strava data for three of the sectors in Sunday’s cobbled Tour de France stage to Roubaix

How far and who’s been quickest?

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Tour de France Stage 7: Dylan Groenewegen outsprints Fernando Gaviria

Greg Van Avermaet retains yellow jersey

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Wada stands by Salbutamol test

Man responsible for test says he made ‘a terrible blunder’ when calculating the threshold

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Alberto Contador reveals power data from his Tour de France-winning days

El Pistolero has shared some evidence on his Instagram page of an 20 minute test from his Tour-winning days, that would have put his functional threshold power at a staggering 7w/kg

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Study reveals best place for Tour riders to be in the peloton if they want to make the break

Research suggests teams may need to rethink tactics and may explain why so few breakaways succeed

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BMC launch Timemachine 01 Disc TT bike

After the aero road version was unveiled last week, now BMC have updated their TT Timemachine too, optimised for disc brakes and wind tunnel-tested to the max

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Tour de France Stage 6: Dan Martin wins at Mur de Bretagne, Greg Van Avermaet keeps lead

Tom Dumoulin and Romain Bardet lose time, while Geraint Thomas moves second overall

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Look launch disc brake version of the 785 Huez RS, with 28mm tubeless tyres

Look's super lightweight frame has been given the disc brake treatment, and the whole range will come specced with 28mm tubeless tyres for better cornering grip and comfort at lower pressures...

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Tour de France Stage 5: Peter Sagan wins, Greg Van Avermaet still in yellow

Today's stage in Brittany had an Ardennes Classic flavour - and it didn't disappoint

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Ceepo launch radical Shadow-R triathlon bike

The Shadow-R laughs in the face of UCI rules, with its beam-shaped design and 'SideFork' fairing across the front wheel, which they claim actually improves comfort

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Tour de France: Gaviria doubles up, van Avermaet keeps yellow

More crashes on today's flat stage - Ilnur Zakarin loses a minute

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Rotor go 13 speed with launch of new 1x hydraulic groupset for all disciplines

Forget 11, or even 12 for that matter... Rotor are showing off a 13 SPEED cassette at Eurobike currently, which they say will all but solve issues of limited gearing and nasty jumps when choosing to go 1x...

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Tour de France: BMC Racing win team time trial and put Greg van Avermaet in yellow

Team Sky finish second – booed by spectators, Geraint Thomas up to third overall

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Wahoo launch Kickr Headwind ‘smart fan’, plus the new Kickr Core and revamped Kickr trainer

On top of climb simulation and GPS, Wahoo can now cool you down too with the new Kickr Headwind, a smart fan with over 30mph of wind speed. There's also the new Kickr Core direct-drive trainer, which is an entry-level version of the Kickr

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New mixed team time trial race for 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire

Three men and three womeen will compete in new event for national teams

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Tour de France Stage 2: Peter Sagan wins stage and takes the yellow jersey (+ highlights)

Big crash with 2 kilometres to go left just 15 riders in contention for the stage win

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Video: On-board footage of Chris Froome Tour de France Stage 1 crash

Camera attached to bike of Lotto-Soudal's Jasper De Buyst catches moment defending champ fell

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Tour de France Stage 1: Fernando Gaviria wins, Chris Froome loses time after crash

Drama on opening day of race as defending champion crashes inside final kilometres

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‘Irresponsible’ triathletes banned from Human Race events for passing horse at speed

Police are still investigating

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Froome explains Salbutamol case in French newspaper in bid to curb roadside abuse

Rival team manager expresses concern for Team Sky rider after booing at team presentation

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100% Peter Sagan limited edition sunglasses launch for the Tour

New kids on the performance shades block launch range of eye-catchingly iridescent Sagan shades

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