The wildest Tour de France photo ever
Every July the Tour de France delivers beautiful imagery.The three-week stage race also gives us cringeworthy photos.This weekend the largest annual sporting event offered up the wildest picture we've...
View ArticleTour de France leader Chris Froome is so strong and bored he taunted his...
Chris Froome is not just leading the Tour de France; he's dominating it in a way we haven't seen in years. His Sky team is by far the strongest in the three-week race, and it has protected its leader...
View ArticleWhat the best bike racer on the planet ate for breakfast today at the Tour de...
Team Sky's Chris Froome, the best bike racer in the world right now, is leading the Tour de France, the biggest bike race, and he doesn't look to have any serious rivals with two weeks of racing done...
View ArticleMeet Lawson Craddock, a rising star of American cycling and the first Texan...
ARCALIS, Andorra —Lawson Craddock is riding his first Tour de France this month, and he's not just sitting in for the ride. The Houston native has finished in the top 20 on two stages and gotten into a...
View ArticleChris Froome is using these weird chainrings, and they might be helping him...
Tour de France leader Chris Froome and his Sky team are among the most tech-savvy people in pro cycling. An example is Froome's use of non-round chainrings.Froome's rings are not branded — probably to...
View ArticleChris Froome crashes, borrows bike, grits teeth, saves Tour de France lead
Friday's stage 19 of the Tour de France was filled with drama for race leader Chris Froome, who crashed on a rainy descent but managed to finish the stage and keep his race lead — thanks to gritty...
View ArticleThe secret ingredient used to treat bicycle tires at the Tour de France? Vinegar
There's no shortage of high-tech gear and bikes at the Tour de France, but one thing that caught our eye when we recently visited the world's biggest bike race was the liberal use of a common kitchen...
View ArticleThe CEO of a $14 billion tech company explains why he's inviting 35 key...
Keen cyclist Mike Gregoire is the CEO of New York enterprise software firm CA Technologies, which is valued at $14 billion (£11 billion) on the NASDAQ stock market.This weekend, he's invited 35 of his...
View ArticleI rode this insanely popular $2,499 smart bike and now I get the hype
I'm not by any means a competitive biker. I don't track metrics, don't plan on beating people's speeds in Strava, and for the most part, I don't log more than 15 miles on my bike a day before I feel...
View ArticleWho is Chris Froome? Tour de France winner is world's best stage racer
Chris Froome will win the 103rd Tour de France in Paris on Sunday, barring disaster. It is his third Tour victory, a record for a British rider.He and his Sky team dominated the three-week race,...
View ArticleChris Froome is about to win his third Tour de France
British cyclist Chris Froome is set to make history on Sunday when he wins his third Tour de France.The Team Sky rider has a four minute five second lead over Frenchman Romain Bardet following a wet...
View ArticleChris Froome just won a wild Tour de France — here are the 6 most...
Chris Froomehas won the Tour de France for the third time. The 31-year-old took the race leader's yellow jersey on stage eight and never let it go. He won two stages along the way.France's Romain...
View ArticleAfter Chris Froome cut back on carbs for more protein, he lost 20 pounds,...
Chris Froome on Sunday won his thirdTour de France title in four years, and yet his victories were many years in the making. So much is needed to win the Tour — among other things the right genes, a...
View Article5 of the most amazing human athletic performances of all time
Every so often an athlete does something that the rest of the world didn't yet know was possible. They take whatever we thought were the "limits" of human performance and show that we haven't yet found...
View ArticleThe smartest career move that Tour de France winner Chris Froome ever made...
In a desperate time Chris Froome once resorted to a desperate measure.As the now three-time Tour de France winner revealed in his autobiography, "The Climb," Froome once impersonated a Kenyan cycling...
View ArticleThe most swoonworthy bike at the Tour de France was this understated $12,000...
One hundred and ninety-eight of the world's best cyclists started this year's Tour de France, and each rode a bike that would make any lover of state-of-the-art tech drool. We saw fancy-looking rides...
View ArticleA 2,900-mile bike path will link Maine to Florida by 2030
The longest bike trail in the US stretches for a whopping 2,768 miles, beginning in Antelope Wells, New Mexico and ends in the snowy resort town of Banff in Alberta, Canada. But soon, a 2,900-mile,...
View ArticleThe coolest high and low tech at the Tour de France
The world's biggest bicycle race is a tech junkie's wonderland, with blingy high-spec bikes and digital gizmos galore. But old standbys like tape and paper are still put to good use too. When we...
View ArticleThe best cyclist in the world nearly missed the Olympics road race because he...
British cyclist and Tour de France winner Chris Froome nearly spoiled his chance at history over a small mistake.Froome, a three-time Tour de France winner, is trying to become the second cyclist ever...
View ArticleA Rio bomb squad blew up an unattended backpack near the Olympic cycling course
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An anti-bomb squad at the Olympic Games in Rio de detonated an unattended backpack near the end of the cycling course on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the public security...
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