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Alberto Contador’s final race on Sunday marks the “end of an era,” Chris Froome said.
Barry Ryan has written the definitive account.
Alberto Contador’s achievements were overshadowed by a positive test for the banned substance Clenbuterol in 2012.
Martin recorded Ireland’s best finish at the race since his uncle Stephen Roche won in 1987.
Maciej Bodnar won stage 20 today.
Edvald Boasson Hagen won stage 19 today.
Chris Froome closes in on his fourth yellow jersey with strong ride up Coz d’Izoard.
Primoz Roglic won Wednesday’s stage, as Fabio Aru gave up crucial ground in the GC race.
Get yourself to that spinning class.
The Quick-Step rider has lost valuable time on the leaders after dropping back into seventh place.
Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford launched a verbal attack on an Irish journalist at the Tour de France earlier today.
Ireland’s Dan Martin sits in fifth position in the General Classification but is taking it all in his stride.
Italy’s Fabio Aru of Astana retains the yellow jersey after today.
Fabio Aru takes GC lead as Dan Martin finishes a battling sixth.
The German becomes the first rider in 108 years to win five of the first 11 stages.
Dan Martin finishes in main bunch to hold on to sixth place overall.
Organisers said the Australian was conscious and speaking but was being taken to hospital.
Champion Chris Froome retained the yellow jersey after finishing the stage third.
Dan Martin finished 13th, and remains fourth overall in the race for the yellow jersey.
How in the name of good God did they split these?
58-year-old Scot Robert Millar is now known as Philippa York.
Martin and Nicolas Roche finished in the main bunch on Thursday’s sixth stage.
The Manx Missile crashed out of the Tour earlier this week.
Aru wins Tour fifth stage while Chris Froome takes yellow
The record chasing sprinter was sent into the barriers by the now-disqualified Peter Sagan.
‘He endangered some of his colleagues seriously,’ says president of the race commission Philippe Marien.
Mark Cavendish was involved in a heavy crash during stage four of the Tour de France, won by Arnaud Demare.
The Irish rider moves up to 15th in the GC.
Meanwhile, Dan Martin is 52nd overall after today’s event, while fellow Irish rider Nicholas Roche is placed in 111th.
It was a successful day for Britain and Team Sky in Dusseldorf.
The ex-cyclist is not happy with the omission of the German former champion from proceedings.
Andre Cardoso suspended by Trek team following failed drugs test.
Armstrong had avoided speaking about professional cycling since receiving his lifetime ban.
The 2012 Tour de France winner also called Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton a ‘bit of a milkshake’.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper is set to hear the case in Washington.
CBS report shines a light on the possibility of motorised cheating in pro cycling.
As part of his preparation for the 1976 Montreal games, Ireland’s great cyclist got himself a lifetime ban from the Olympics, but put himself in the position to set up a hugely successful pro career.
All five mountain ranges will feature for the first time in 25 years.
Five-time Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins insists his use of TUEs was to put him back on a “level playing field”.
The former cyclist will take part in a ‘no-holds-barred’ public interview in October.