The man who has defined the time trial for the past half-decade [will not don the rainbow jersey in time trials for the first time since 2008... →]

Alberto Contador didn’t three-peat at the Tour de France, failing to win his first grand tour start since 2007. [Of course, he might not have even been the defending champ THIS year... →]

Samuel Sanchez was the King of the Mountains at this year’s Tour de France… [Is the right man wearing polka-dots? →]

The past quarter century since Bernard Hinault won the last of his five Tours de France have yielded hard times for fans in the host nation. They have had to watch as Americans won 10 of the past 25 editions, and Spaniards another eleven of the remainder. They have seen a Dane, a German, an [...]

Victory in a wild Stage 5 sprint finish launched a young sprinter closer to all-time greatness… Zach breaks down the numbers in this look at Mark Cavendish. [READ MORE →]

Cycling is unique in that the climax of its season comes not at the end of the season but dead center in the heart of the calendar. It isn’t the Tour Down Under in January or the Giro di Lombardia in October that the top riders of the road dream …

Cycling is unique in that the climax of its season comes not at the end of the season but dead center in the heart of the calendar. It isn’t the Tour Down Under in January or the Giro di Lombardia in October that the top riders of the road dream …

94th Giro d’Italia/07-29 May 2011 Throughout the course of the Giro d’Italia, Sports Nickel’s resident Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America will offer his news and notes on the action from the first grand tour of the 2011 cycling season…