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Tour de France 2021: Wout van Aert wins stage 20, Tadej Pogacar edges closer to victory with excellent performance

Wout van Aert won the time trial, but defending champion Pogacar's solid ride means he need only cross the Champs-Elysees finish line with the peloton in Sunday's 21st, and final, stage to retain the fabled yellow jersey as winner of the world's greatest bike race.

Tour de France 2021: Tadej Pogacar fends off Jonas Vingegaard, Richard Carapaz to win stage 17, extend overall lead

Ecuadorian Carapaz launched a blistering attack 1.5km from the 2,200m summit finish, but was reeled in by Pogacar.

Tour de France 2021: Tadej Pogacar stamps authority by dominating time-trial, Mathieu van der Poel flies in yellow

Pogacar's phenomenal ride didn't quite give him the overall lead but it leaves him in the driving seat for the title, 1min 44sec ahead of Carapaz, with Roglic and Thomas four and 10sec further adrift respectively.

Tour de France 2021: Tim Merlier wins drama-filled stage three as crashes continue to disrupt premier event

Merlier's teammate Mathieu van der Poel kept hold of the overall lead on a brutal day of racing peppered with falls on the rain-slick, narrow winding roads in Brittany

Tour de France 2021: Tadej Pogacar is the man to beat in world's greatest bike race

The Tour will climb iconic Mont Ventoux mountain, known as 'the Giant of Provence', twice in one day, offering a mythical setting for a showdown between Pogacar and his challengers to his title.

Giro d'Italia: Leader Egan Bernal moves away from chasing pack as Mauro Schmid wins 11th stage

Team Qhubeka's Schmid won the 162km stage as part of a long-range breakaway while the 2019 Tour de France winner Bernal extended his overall lead in Tuscany.

Tour of the Basque Country: Tadej Pogacar fights off fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic to win third stage

The ride to Ermualde finished with three sharp climbs in the final 20 kilometres. On the last one, Pogacar, who rides for Team UAE, took the lead and was quickly joined by Roglic of Jumbo-Visma.

Tour of Catalonia: Adam Yates wins tournament; Richie Porte, Geraint Thomas complete podium sweep for Ineos

This trio held on to the first three places despite efforts to dislodge them in the 133-kilometre closing stage around Barcelona, principally by home team Movistar's Alejandro Valverde.

Tribunal rules that British cycling doctor Dr Richard Freeman obtained drug to help rider dope

Dr Freeman had tried to claim the package of the Testogel product was to treat former British Cycling performance director Shane Sutton’s erectile dysfunction, but that was denied by the Australian in testimony to the hearing in 2019.

'Age a state of mind': Chris Froome targets fifth Tour de France in new season with Israel Start Up Nation

Froome has won four Tour de France races and switched from Ineos to ISN, backed by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, in his bid to join an elite clique led by Eddy Merckx who have won five.