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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A review of Australia's GreenEdge has recommended the UCI WorldTour cycling team reinstate sacked sports director and confessed doper Matt White. White admitted to doping with the U.S. Postal team and voluntarily stood down from the...

MELBOURNE, May 17 (Reuters) - A review of Australia's GreenEdge has recommended the UCI WorldTour cycling team reinstate sacked sports director and confessed doper Matt White. White admitted to doping with the U.S. Postal team and voluntarily stood...

By Alasdair Fotheringham VAJONT, Italy, May 15 (Reuters) - A chest infection was the latest setback to hit Britain's pre-race favourite Bradley Wiggins on the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday. Tour de France champion Wiggins, finished the 11th stage in the...

By Alasdair Fotheringham ALTOPIANO DEL MONTASIO, Italy, May 14 (Reuters) - Colombian Rigoberto Uran moved into third place overall after capturing a solo victory in the Giro d'Italia's first summit finish on Tuesday. Italian Vincenzo Nibali strengthened...

ALTOPIANO DEL MONTASIO, Italy (Reuters) - Colombian Rigoberto Uran moved into third place overall after capturing a solo victory in the Giro d'Italia's first summit finish on Tuesday. Italian Vincenzo Nibali strengthened his overall lead after dropping...

May 13 (Reuters) - Battered and bruised after a tough opening week of the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins still believes he can clinch his second Grand Tour title this month. The Briton lies fourth overall, 1:16 adrift of leader...

By Alasdair Fotheringham CORDENONS, Italy, May 13 (Reuters) - As the Giro d'Italia enters its second week, cycling's top directors have been reminded just how different the race is from the Tour de France. "It's so unpredictable," Rod Ellingworth,...

By Alasdair Fotheringham FIRENZE, Italy, May 12 (Reuters) - Pre-race favourite Bradley Wiggins endured another difficult day on a rain-lashed ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia although defending champion Ryder Hesjedal suffered most, dropping to 11th...

ESCONDIDO — The eighth Amgen Tour of California begins at 11:15 a.m. Sunday in Escondido, and for the first time the largest cycling stage race in the United States is traveling from south to north. The 750-mile trip will end May 19 in Santa Rosa....

By Alasdair Fotheringham SALTARA, Italy, May 11 (Reuters) - New Giro d'Italia race leader Vincenzo Nibali took an important step towards possible victory on Saturday by limiting his losses to favourite Bradley Wiggins in a time trial won by Wiggins's...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — They're trying. The cyclists and team managers participating in the eighth Amgen Tour of California gathered Friday at City Hall to speak about the future of the sport. Not the past. Please, not the past. At least there was...

By Alasdair Fotheringham MATERA, Italy, May 8 (Reuters) - The Giro d'Italia lived up to its reputation as an unpredictable race on Wednesday when German John Degenkolb snatched victory in stage five after most of the bunch was held up behind a late crash...