Cycling

Kelsey Mitchell raced to silver in the women's track cycling sprint race on Saturday, her second medal of the Commonwealth Games.

Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark won his first Tour de France title on Sunday after coming out on top of a thrilling three-week duel with defending champion Tadej Pogacar.

Jonas Vingegaard thundered through the last serious test of the Tour de France to increase his overall lead on Saturday and all but guarantee winning cycling's biggest race.

Canadian rider Hugo Houle finished third in Stage 13 of the Tour de France, narrowly missing Canada's first stage victory in 34 years.

The first big mountain stage shook things up at the Tour de France as defending champion Tadej Pogacar wilted toward the end of Wednesday's 11th stage and lost the yellow jersey. Jonas Vingegaard and his team Jumbo-Visma were the big winners on the stage as the Danish rider claimed the famed jersey from Pogacar.

Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen overtook Wout van Aert right on the line to win the second stage of the Tour de France while Van Aert took the yellow jersey on Saturday.

Canadian Michael Woods finished runner-up to Spain's Alejandro Valverde in the Gran Camino road race after Sunday's closing time trial.

Canadian cyclist Michael Woods showed his climbing prowess Friday in winning Stage 2 of ​​the four-stage Gran Camino race to take over first place overall.

The remaining Tour de France riders were cleared to continue racing ahead of Tuesday’s Stage 10 after undergoing COVID-19 tests, but the Tour director tested positive and left the race.

Julian Alaphilippe is back making a splash at the Tour de France and once again wearing the iconic yellow jersey. The French showman, who more than any other helped turn the 2019 edition into a thriller, again showered the Tour with his class and guile Sunday, poaching victory on Stage 2.

Delayed but alive again and out on French roads, the strangest Tour de France ever set off Saturday in a bubble of anti-COVID protocols to try to keep the 176 riders virus-free for three weeks of racing through the country's worsening epidemic.

Delayed due to the global pandemic but still taking place under the spectre of COVID-19, this year's Tour de France promises to be like no other. The 21-stage, 3,484-kilometre race starts Saturday in Nice and is slated to end Sept. 20 in Paris.

The history of sport is riddled with the rise and fall of countless athletes, but perhaps no one has played the hero and the villain quite like Lance Armstrong. The former cycling star is the subject of the latest 30 for 30 movie, a two-part film called LANCE, catch Part 2, Sunday at 9pm et/6pm pt. on TSN1 and TSN4.

The history of sport is riddled with the rise and fall of countless athletes, but perhaps no one has played the hero and the villain quite like Lance Armstrong. The former cycling star is the subject of the latest 30 for 30 movie, a two-part film called LANCE, that will debut on Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. ET on TSN1.

The 2020 Tour de France will get underway on August 29, Union Cycliste International (UCI), cycling's governing body, announced on Tuesday.