MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome, the current and former Tour de France champions, are planning to compete in the 2019 edition of the race in what could be Team Sky’s final bid for cycling’s biggest prize.

Froome will not defend his Giro d’Italia title as targets ...

MILAN (AP) — Chris Froome could have another attempt at winning both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France as the British rider has not ruled out the possibility of defending the title he secured in Rome this year.

Next year’s Giro features three individual time trials and seven summit ...

PARIS (AP) — When Lance Armstrong won the last of his seven Tour de France titles back in 2005, there was not a single British rider on the starting line. The face of cycling has dramatically changed since, with Armstrong erased from the records books for doping and British cycling now ruling ...

MADRID (AP) — Simon Yates won his first Grand Tour title after a largely ceremonial ride into Madrid in the final stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Sunday, giving British riders a sweep of the season’s three biggest races.

The 26-year-old Englishman was dominant throughout the three-week race ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Simon Gerrans, who won two stages of the Tour de France and is the only Australian to have won two of cycling’s one-day classics, has announced he will retire at the end of the 2018 season.

Gerrans is one of only seven Australians to have worn the leader’s yellow jersey in ...

ROME (AP) — Now that Chris Froome has wrapped up the Giro d’Italia title, his focus will quickly switch to matching the record with a fifth Tour de France title — unless a doping case gets in the way.

Froome is racing under the cloud of a potential ban after a urine sample he provided at ...

ROME (AP) — Winning three Grand Tours consecutively was already enough to cement Chris Froome’s place in cycling history.

The way in which he won this Giro d’Italia, though, adds an extra dimension to the achievement.

The Kenyan-born British rider bounced back from two early crashes ...

CERVINIA, Italy (AP) — Chris Froome effectively sealed victory in the Giro d’Italia on Saturday by holding his only remaining challenger in check up the final climb of the three-week race.

The four-time Tour de France champion takes a 46-second lead over defending champion Tom Dumoulin ...

BARDONECCHIA, Italy (AP) — Chris Froome produced one of the great performances of his career, attacking alone on a gravel road up a grueling climb to win the 19th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Friday and claim the overall leader’s pink jersey.

The four-time Tour de France champion launched ...

PRATO NEVOSO, Italy (AP) — Simon Yates remained in the lead of the Giro d’Italia but the British rider’s advantage over closest rival Tom Dumoulin was slashed in half after the tough 18th stage on Thursday.

Yates was dropped by his rivals on the steep Category 1 climb to Prato Nevoso and ...

ISEO, Italy (AP) — Elia Viviani sprinted to his fourth victory of this year’s Giro d’Italia on Wednesday, and Simon Yates maintained his hold on the leader’s pink jersey after the 17th stage.

The Italian won a bunch sprint through rain at the end of the hilly, 155-kilometer ride from Riva ...

ROVERETO, Italy (AP) — Simon Yates is still in control of the Giro d’Italia after the British rider limited his losses to closest rival Tom Dumoulin in the individual time trial on Tuesday.

Dumoulin was more than two minutes behind Yates heading into the 16th stage and, as a time trial ...

As the Giro d’Italia heads into the final week, it’s not really surprising that a British rider leads the overall standings.

The surprise is that the leader is Simon Yates and not four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome.

Froome arrived at the Giro bidding to become the third ...

SAPPADA, Italy (AP) — Simon Yates made it a hat trick of wins in the Giro d’Italia on the 15th stage Sunday and the British rider consolidated his overall lead as the race heads into its final week.

After unsuccessfully attempting a similar move just moments earlier, Yates set off on a ...

MONTE ZONCOLAN, Italy (AP) — Chris Froome responded to his critics with a fantastic ride up Monte Zoncolan to win the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday.

Nevertheless, British compatriot Simon Yates consolidated his overall lead.

Froome attacked with about four kilometers ...

NERVESA DELLA BATTAGLIA, Italy (AP) — Elia Viviani made it a hat trick of wins in the Giro d’Italia on the 13th stage, while Simon Yates remained in the overall lead on Friday as the race heads into the mountains.

The Italian rider won a bunch sprint at the end of the mainly flat ...

IMOLA, Italy (AP) — Sam Bennett of Ireland pulled off a superb final attack to win the 12th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday while Simon Yates remained in the overall lead.

Bennett began his sprint a long way out to storm past Matej Mohoric and Carlos Betancur, and claim his second ...

OSIMO, Italy (AP) — Overall leader Simon Yates gained a few more seconds on closest rival Tom Dumoulin by winning the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday.

The Mitchelton-Scott rider attacked with about 1.5 kilometers remaining in the 156-kilometer leg from Assisi to Osimo and held ...

GUALDO TADINO, Italy (AP) — Overall leader Simon Yates gained three bonus seconds in the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday but it was a difficult day for his Mitchelton-Scott team as Esteban Chaves dropped out of contention.

Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric of the Bahrain-Merida team ...

EILAT, Israel (AP) — Elia Viviani won the third stage of the 101st Giro d’Italia on Sunday for his second bunch sprint finish victory in as many days as the Grand Tour race bid farewell to its historic start in Israel.

The Italian finished the lengthy 229-kilometer (143-mile) route through ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A day after his opening stage lead slipped away to Giro d’Italia defending champion Tom Dumoulin — the last of the 175 riders in the individual time trial — Rohan Dennis got a measure of revenge by taking the pink jersey on Saturday.

Elia Viviani won the second ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Chris Froome got off to a rocky start in his quest to win a third consecutive Grand Tour title, crashing during a training run ahead of Friday’s opening stage of the Giro d’Italia and drawing blood around his right knee.

A video showed the four-time Tour de France champion ...

MADRID (AP) — Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will retire next month after riding in the Spanish Vuelta.

Contador announced his plan to stop racing on a video posted Monday on Instagram. The Spanish rider said the Vuelta “will be my last race as a professional ...

MILAN (AP) — Tom Dumoulin won the 100th Giro d’Italia in dramatic fashion Sunday, reclaiming the overall lead in a final-stage individual time trial.

It’s the first Grand Tour victory for Dumoulin, a Dutchman with Team Sunweb, and it sets him up as a potential rival for three-time Tour de ...

ASIAGO, Italy (AP) — Nairo Quintana held on to the pink jersey in the penultimate stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday but couldn’t be sure of victory. The 100th race will be decided on the last stage.

Thibaut Pinot of France won the 20th stage in a sprint finish ahead of Ilnur Zakarin ...

PIANCAVALLO, Italy (AP) — Nairo Quintana reclaimed the pink jersey from Tom Dumoulin with two stages to go in the Giro d’Italia on Friday, setting up what could be a tense finale in Milan on Sunday.

Dumoulin couldn’t keep up with his main rivals in the final uphill finish of the three-week ...

ORTISEI, Italy (AP) — Tejay van Garderen claimed his first grand tour victory on the tough 18th stage of the Giro d’Italia as Tom Dumoulin kept the pink jersey on Thursday.

Van Garderen, of the United States, came round the inside of the final corner to edge Mikel Landa at the uphill ...

CANAZEI, Italy (AP) — Pierre Rolland launched a late solo attack to win the 17th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday, and Tom Dumoulin’s overall lead remained unchanged.

Rolland, a Frenchman who rides for the Cannondale-Drapac team, accelerated from a large group of breakaway riders ...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Tom Dumoulin’s overall lead in the Giro d’Italia was drastically reduced in the race’s toughest stage Tuesday after the Dutchman stopped to answer the call of nature at the foot of the last of three major climbs.

Defending champion Vincenzo Nibali of the Bahrain-Merida ...

OROPA, Italy (AP) — Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin put in a perfect performance on the tough climb up to Oropa to win the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia and extend his overall lead on Saturday.

Dumoulin edged out Ilnur Zakarin at the end of the 131-kilometer (81-mile) route from Castellania, ...

TORTONA, Italy (AP) — Colombian rider Fernando Gaviria sprinted to his fourth stage victory at the Giro d’Italia on Friday in his Grand Tour debut.

Gaviria came from the back and around the right side of the sprinters to edge Sam Bennett and win the 13th stage. Jasper Stuyven was third at ...

REGGIO EMILIA, Italy (AP) — Colombian rider Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint at the end of the longest stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday to earn his third victory in his first Grand Tour.

Gaviria, who rides for Quick-Step Floors, edged Italian rival Jakub Mareczko at the end of the ...

BAGNO DI ROMAGNA, Italy (AP) — Spanish rider Omar Fraile won the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia after being on the attack for most of the day Wednesday, and Tom Dumoulin kept the overall leader’s pink jersey he earned a day earlier.

Amid a group of four breakaway riders, Fraile ...

MONTEFALCO, Italy (AP) — Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin dominated an individual time trial through Umbria’s winemaking region to take the pink jersey after the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday.

Dumoulin, who also won time trials in last year’s Giro and Tour de France, set the pace on ...

ROCCAMORICE, Italy (AP) — Nairo Quintana rode away from his main rivals up the grueling climb to Blockhaus to win the ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia and take the leader’s pink jersey in a leg that was marred by a mass crash involving a police motorbike.

The crash Sunday virtually ended ...

PESCHICI, Italy (AP) — Spanish rider Gorka Izaguirre profited from a crash on the short but steep concluding climb to win the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday while Bob Jungels held on to the pink jersey despite a minor crash.

Izaguirre had time to raise his arms and celebrate ...

ALBEROBELLO, Italy (AP) — After three top-10 finishes in the opening week, Caleb Ewan of Australia finally won a stage in the Giro d’Italia on Friday.

The Australian rider with the Orica Scott team claimed Stage 7 in a sprint finish for his first career Giro victory while Bob Jungels held ...

TERME LUIGIANE, Italy (AP) — Silvan Dillier won from an early breakaway to take the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia and his first Grand Tour victory on Thursday, while Bob Jungels retained the overall lead.

Dillier began his sprint with 150 meters to go on the climb to the finish and the ...

MESSINA, Sicily (AP) — Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint at the end of the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday to claim his second victory of this year’s race, while Quick-Step teammate Bob Jungels remained in the overall lead.

Gaviria, who won his first ever Grand ...

ETNA, Sicily (AP) — Slovenian rider Jan Polanc produced a remarkable ride after making an early breakaway to win stage four of the Giro d’Italia on the summit of Mount Etna on Tuesday.

The UAE Team Emirates rider, who also won a mountain stage in the 2015 race, took a solo victory ahead of ...

CAGLIARI, Sardinia (AP) — Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint at the end of the third stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday to claim his first Grand Tour victory and take the leader’s pink jersey from Andre Greipel.

Gaviria edged out Rudiger Selig after great work from his Quick-Step team ...

TORTOLI, Italy (AP) — Andre Greipel of Germany won a bunch sprint to take the second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday and the pink jersey for the first time.

Greipel edged out Roberto Ferrari at the end of the hilly 221-kilometer (137-mile) leg from Olbia to Tortoli, crossing the ...

OLBIA, Sardinia (AP) — Lukas Postlberger had a dream Grand Tour debut as the Austrian surprisingly won the opening stage of the 100th Giro d’Italia to claim the pink jersey on Friday.

Victory was expected to go to one of the top sprinters but Postlberger, a leadout man, hit the front with ...