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Tour de France Stage 3: Marcel Kittel wins on The Mall

Big crowds again for third and final day of Grand Depart

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Sir Dave Brailsford’s dream? To win Tour de France with a French rider

Could Romain Bardet be man to bring yellow jersey home? Sky boss also says cycling can tackle GB obesity epidemic

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Video: On-bike footage from Giant-Shimano at Tour de France

Experiment of filming races from rider's point of view continues at Yorkshire Grand Depart

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Tour de France stars thrilled by Yorkshire Grand Depart – but not by fans taking selfies

Scale of support for race leaves impression on Geraint Thomas and others, but reckless fans an issue +Holme Moss has new Strava KOM

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Edinburgh launches new bid to bring Tour de France to Scotland

City that lost out to Yorkshire for this year's Grand Depart aims to secure race in 2018 or 2019

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Tour de France Stage 2: Vincenzo Nibali wins in Sheffield and goes into yellow

Italian champion attacks with 2km left of second stage in Yorkshire

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Chris Froome urges Yorkshire crowds to give Tour de France riders more room

Bumper crowds on opening day of race - but riders express concerns for their safety

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Tour tech 2014: Marcel Kittel’s yellow Giant Propel Advanced SL

The champagne from his stage 1 Tour win hadn't even lost its fizz before Marcel Kittel had a new yellow bike

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Mark Cavendish crashes out of Tour after just one stage

Manxman misses part of the TdF for the first time since 2008 following dislocated shoulder

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Tour de France Stage 1: Marcel Kittel wins in Harrogate – Cavendish crashes metres from line

Yorkshire puts on a fantastic show but Cavendish crash brings unwelcome drama

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Tour de France Tech 2014: Fuji launch new Transonic aero road bike

You'll be happy to know that it's faster than the last one...

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Tour de France Minus 1 News round-up: CVNDSH pub, Tour Terrorists on Strava, TDF drinking game & more

Yorkshire expects... a million more people this weekend than they were originally expecting. Oops.

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Follow the pros at the Tour on Strava

Niki Terpstra and Ted King to Strava the entire Tour de France plus other riders uploading bits + a look at the stages in detail

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Mark Cavendish sets sights on yellow in mother’s home town

Omega Pharma-Quick Step sprinter looking for 26th Tour de France stage – and the race lead – in Harrogate

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Tour de France Tech 2014: Marcel Kittel’s Giant Propel Advanced SL

Another bike that should be there or thereabouts on the sprint stages with the big German at the helm

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Video: Where to watch the Tour de France in Yorkshire

Head for the hills to see the best action

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Chris Froome ready to defend Tour de France title, insists he had no say in Bradley Wiggins’ omission (+ video)

Team Sky rider says he’s recovered from crash during last month’s Dauphiné

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Tour de France Tech 2014: Andy Schleck’s Trek Émonda

We had a poke around Andy's brand new bike, and asked him about his plans for the Tour

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Tour of Yorkshire scheduled to debut next May

Welcome to Yorkshire, ASO and British Cycling submit plans for three-day stage race to UCI

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Orica-GreenEdge’s Daryl Impey tests positive for banned diuretic

News breaks just days before Tour de France; rider denies ever knowingly using masking agent

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Contents of vial that fell from rider’s pocket during Paris-Roubaix prove innocent

Testing reveals no prohibited substances in white powder handed into UK Anti-Doping by fan

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Simon Yates named to Orica-GreenEdge Tour de France team

As Tour starts in Yorkshire, 21-year-old from Bury will be only rider in race born in England

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Tour de France Minus 5 news round-up – Parlez-vous Yorkshire, plus Harrogate warned over crimewave

Also, a singing plumber, photo exhibition in Leeds, and DLR train now has added VaVaFroome

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“Sick” David Millar unhappy at being cut from Garmin-Sharp’s Tour de France line-up

Poor form at nationals costs Scot chance to ride final Tour on health grounds, Movistar's Alex Dowsett also out

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Guildford Town Centre Races set to go ahead as council addresses safety fears

Temporary works to be carried out to new kerbs that posed risk to competitors

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Cambridge Waitrose in trouble for describing Tour de France as “local sporting event”

Posh supermarket triggers sense of humour failure

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Roman Kreuziger, key support rider for Alberto Contador, out of Tour de France over bio passport abnormalities

But why did UCI take eight months to move case forward?

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Witness appeal after Wiltshire cyclist killed in collision with lorry

49-year-old man died at scene of crash at Coombe Bissett

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Laura Trott and Peter Kennaugh take national titles in sprint showdowns (+video)

Perfect timing gives Manxman surprise win over Ben Swift; form & teamwork pays off for Trott

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Bradley Wiggins to ride track at Commonwealth Games as Sky confirms he won’t ride Tour

Team Sky builds Tour de France team around Chris Froome

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