Roglic protects lead on final day to win Spanish Vuelta for a record-equaling 4th time

MADRID (AP) — Primoz Roglic won a record-equaling fourth Spanish Vuelta title after successfully protecting his lead in the final individual time trial on Sunday. Roglic finished the 24.6-kilometer(15.3-mile) time trial without any scares, and his overall lead of more than two...

American rider Sepp Kuss takes on leading role as he begins title defense in Spanish Vuelta

MADRID (AP) — This time the spotlight will be on Sepp Kuss from the start as he tries to retain his Spanish Vuelta title. Kuss won last year's race over Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard, the top riders for Team Visma-Lease a Bike at the time. Roglic is now with...

AP PHOTOS: A race to capture the Tour de France before it flies by

The image of a cyclist in a field of grapes almost looks more like surrealism than photojournalism. A rider in a teardrop-shaped helmet and skin-tight racing suit hunches over his aerodynamic handlebars in the middle of a Burgundy vineyard with no road in sight. He is framed between...

Tadej Pogacar celebrates his 3rd Tour de France victory in style with another audacious stage win

Tadej Pogacar had no need to attack on the final stage of the Tour de France. Defending a lead of more than five minutes in Sunday's time trial, he was set to comfortably win the race for the third time and first time in three years, anyway. But defense has not been in his vocabulary...

Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar wins the Tour de France for the third time

NICE, France (AP) — Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar wins the Tour de France for the third time.

Pogacar edges Vingegaard to add more seconds to Tour de France lead and match a 76-year-old mark

COL DE LA COUILLOLE, France (AP) — Tadej Pogacar equalled one Tour de France mark on Saturday and will likely match another on Sunday. Yellow jersey-holder Pogacar edged defending champion Jonas Vingegaard at the top of Col De La Couillole to win the 20th and penultimate stage and...

Vingegaard and Pogacar set to resume Tour de France rivalry. Doubts remain over Vingegaard's fitness

When Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar faced off in the heat of July last year, the main question mark was whether Pogacar would be fit enough to mount a decent challenge. This year, as the two cyclists prepare to write the next chapter of one of the greatest rivalries in the...