Chris Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner, has been surprisingly omitted from Israel Premier Tech’s eight-rider squad for this year’s race. Froome, who has struggled to reach his former level after suffering severe injuries in a crash in June 2019, had been widely expected to start the race when […]
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The four-time Tour de France winner, Chris Froome, has been forced to delay his preparations for the 2022 season due to a knee injury. Froome has revealed he damaged a tendon in his knee during pre-season training. “I’ve just got back from doing some scans at the hospital,” the British […]
British rider Adam Yates produces the biggest win of his career to claim Volta a Catalunya title with ‘perfect team performance’ as team-mate Geraint Thomas finishes third Bury-born Adam Yates won the general classification with a strong performance The result marks the first ever one-two-three for Team Ineos (formerly Team […]
FILE PHOTO: Cycling – Tour de France – Stage 20 – Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles – France – September 19, 2020. Mitchelton-Scott rider Adam Yates of Britain in action. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (Reuters) – Briton Adam Yates won the Tour of Catalunya week-long race as the Ineos-Grenadiers team […]
Mark Cavendish wears the race leader’s jersey for the first time in four years after grabbing the lead during the team time trial of the Coppi e Bartali in Italy By Press Association Published: 22:55 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 23 March 2021 Mark Cavendish is in […]
Team Sky’s former head coach Shane Sutton voiced personal concerns in 2012 that Chris Froome might be doping with the help of another Team Sky coach, Bobby Julich, on the same day he told his bosses he was facing his own doping allegations, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. Sutton’s […]
Few of those in European cycling’s professional milieu, long schooled in batting away doping suspicions, will be shocked by the findings of the Richard Freeman medical tribunal. Cycling, after all, has a long history of “dodgy doctors”, the most renowned of all being Michele Ferrari, Lance Armstrong’s infamous performance guru. […]
Chris Froome has revealed that a 20% strength deficit in his right quad – which was only discovered after he left Ineos – and an “inexplicable pain” from a surgical screw were factors in his disappointing comeback season. The 35-year-old struggled on his return from a horrific training crash at […]