British cycling star Mark Cavendish has been forced to withdraw from the Tour of Missouri due to illness.
Britain's Mark Cavendish continued his domination of the Tour of Missouri with a second straight stage victory as he again utilized his famed sprinting speed.
What we learned from the 96th Tour de France:
Alberto Contador has been crowned Tour de France champion for the second time in three years, as Mark Cavendish won his sixth stage of this year's race with victory in the 21st and final stage, finishing in the center of Paris.
Mark Cavendish claimed his fifth stage victory on this year's Tour de France as he again proved himself the fastest man in a bunch sprint after the 178 kilometers from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas.
Alberto Contador destroyed his rivals in the first Alpine stage of the Tour de France, taking over the yellow jersey with an impressive victory in the 207.5km 15th stage from Pontarlier to Verbier.
Lance Armstrong lost key Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer but stayed in third place in the Tour de France as Heinrich Haussler of Germany won the 13th stage run off in appalling conditions on Friday.
Mark Cavendish regained the green jersey with another blistering sprint finish to win the 11th stage of the Tour de France in Saint Fargeau on Wednesday.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Well, that was a trifle anticlimactic, no?
British cycling star Mark Cavendish has been forced to withdraw from the Tour of Missouri due to illness.
Britain's Mark Cavendish continued his domination of the Tour of Missouri with a second straight stage victory as he again utilized his famed sprinting speed.
What we learned from the 96th Tour de France:
Alberto Contador has been crowned Tour de France champion for the second time in three years, as Mark Cavendish won his sixth stage of this year's race with victory in the 21st and final stage, finishing in the center of Paris.
Mark Cavendish claimed his fifth stage victory on this year's Tour de France as he again proved himself the fastest man in a bunch sprint after the 178 kilometers from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas.
Alberto Contador destroyed his rivals in the first Alpine stage of the Tour de France, taking over the yellow jersey with an impressive victory in the 207.5km 15th stage from Pontarlier to Verbier.
Lance Armstrong lost key Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer but stayed in third place in the Tour de France as Heinrich Haussler of Germany won the 13th stage run off in appalling conditions on Friday.
Mark Cavendish regained the green jersey with another blistering sprint finish to win the 11th stage of the Tour de France in Saint Fargeau on Wednesday.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Well, that was a trifle anticlimactic, no?
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Mark Cavendish has won the third stage of the Tour de France to cement his reputation as the fastest man in cycling, following a devastating spell of riding by his Team Columbia colleagues.
Mark Cavendish underlined his position as the fastest man in cycling by sprinting away from his rivals to comfortably take the 187km second stage of the Tour de France from Monaco to Brignoles.
Mark Cavendish, the fastest sprinter in cycling, has exclusively told CNN that he is not concerned about claiming the sprinter's green jersey at the Tour de France.
Briton Mark Cavendish claimed his third sprint victory of the race when powering away from his rivals to win the 175km 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Briton Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage victory in this year's Giro d'Italia after once again proving he is the fastest man in the peloton by taking the 214km 11th leg from from Turin to Arenzano.
Mark Cavendish won a sprint finish to claim his first victory in this year's Giro d'Italia -- following a controversial ninth stage around the streets of Milan.
Team Columbia's impressive Giro d'Italia continued on Saturday as Belarussian Kanstantin Siutsou handed the American outfit their third stage victory when he won the 209km eighth leg from Morbegno to Bergamo.
Alessandro Petacchi achieved back-to-back Giro d'Italia stage wins on Monday to claim the race leader's pink jersey after Mark Cavendish found his late charge checked by a big crash 10 kilometers from the line.
Alessandro Petacchi drew first blood in his sprint showdown with Mark Cavendish to win the second stage of the Giro d'Italia in Trieste on Sunday.
Mark Cavendish became the first British rider to wear the Giro d'Italia leader's pink jersey when his Columbia team claimed victory in Saturday's opening team time trial.
Lance Armstrong is the star attraction in the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia but has played down his chances of overall victory in the first major Tour of the cycling season.
Swiss Michael Albasini continued Team Columbia's impressive start to the cycling season with victory in stage four of the Tour of the Basque Country on Thursday.
British cyclists Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins claimed the two stages on the final day of the Three Days of De Panne race on Thursday but it was home rider Frederik Willems who took the overall honors.
Columbia's Mark Cavendish again proved he is the fastest sprinter in the peloton with victory in the 219km second stage of the Three Days of De Panne race from Zottegem to Coxyde in Northern Belgium.
Top sprinter Mark Cavendish's hopes of retaining his Madison title at the world track championship in Pruszkow, Poland were thwarted in dramatic fashion after Great Britain team-mate Peter Kennaugh was involved in a heavy crash during the race.
Britain's Mark Cavendish utilized his blistering sprint finish to win the 100th edition of the Milan-San Remo cycling race on Saturday
Team Columbia sprinter Mark Cavendish once again demonstrated he is the fastest man in the peloton by sprinting to victory in the final stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in Italy on Tuesday.
Top sprinter Mark Cavendish has been named in the Great Britain squad for next week's world track cycling championships in Poland -- six months after becoming the only member of the nation's Olympic squad to return home from Beijing without a medal.
Alberto Contador wrested the overall lead in the Paris-Nice cycle race on Friday with a commanding victory on the testing sixth stage.
Tony from L.A. was badly outnumbered. A rotund bloke in a cycling jersey that fit him like a sausage casing, he was leaning over the asphalt in front of the Rabobank bus near the start of Stage 4 of the Tour of California. In orange chalk, he was spelling out the names of the Rabo riders such as Robert Gesink, Oscar Freire and Peter Weening.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second straight stage win in the Tour of California on Thursday as Lance Armstrong remained in contention for overall victory as he continues his comeback to professional cycling.
Briton Mark Cavendish underlined his reputation as the fastest finisher in world cycling with an impressive victory on stage four of the Tour of California.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage win in the Tour of Qatar as Belgium's Tom Boonen clinched overall victory on Friday.
Sprint king Mark Cavendish laid down a marker for the 2009 season with a blistering burst to win the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar on Wednesday.
Okay, withdrawal time. A dramatic, transformative Tour de France has been decided by one of the narrowest margins in the 105-year history of the race. Cycling fans who've been following the Tour for the last three weeks must now grapple with a void in their lives, a Bobke-less universe.
Tour de France sprint king Mark Cavendish has pulled out the race ahead of Sunday's 15th stage -- the first in the Alps.
British sprint sensation Mark Cavendish claimed his fourth stage victory at the drug-tainted Tour de France on Friday as he snatched the 13th leg from Narbonne to Nimes.
Mark Cavendish is going down in history. Riccardo Ricco is going home. It's been a Good News-Bad News kind of Tour de France, with today's Stage 12 perfectly capturing the Hope vs. Dope dialectic of this grand and haunted race.
Isle of Man sprinter Mark Cavendish made cycling history on Thursday when he became the first-ever Briton to claim three stage wins in a single Tour de France.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage victory of this year's Tour de France with a blistering finish in torrential rain in Toulouse.
Mark Cavendish became the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour de France for five years with a brilliant sprint victory at the end of the fifth stage from Cholet to Chateauroux.
Rhetorical question posed on the eve of the 95th Tour de France, which begins Saturday in Brest, at the tip of the Breton peninsula: Wouldn't it be surprising if cycling, for so long the poster child of pharmacologically jacked-up sports, turned out to be cleaner than, say, the NFL, or the NHL, or Major League Baseball?
High Road rider Mark Cavendish has won the 207km Grand Prix de l'Escaut in Belgium for a second successive year after out-sprinting Tom Boonen and Robbie McEwen in a dramatic finish on Wednesday.
Hosts Great Britain took their gold medal tally to nine while Marianne Vos of the Netherlands made cycling history on an incident-packed fourth day of the world track championships.
Brazilian Luciano Pagliarini prevailed in a bunch sprint to win stage five of the Tour of Benelux on Monday.
Briton Mark Cavendish continued his spectacular debut professional season with victory on the 199.1km second stage of the Tour of Benelux from Antwerp to Knokke-Heist.
Yes, Tuesday's Stage 3 into Compiegne featured an electrifying finish, with race leader Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC schooling the sprinters, throwing down a vicious acceleration 700 meters from the finish line, then holding off the muscle-bound likes of Erik Zabel, Tom Boonen and Robert Forster. To me, the biggest story of the day was not Cancellara's breathtaking speed at the finish, but the stately, unhurried, club-ride pace set by the peloton in the hours before the thrilling denouement. This was the slowest stage in recent memory. As I will explain later, that's a good thing.
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