• Tom Carey

A terrifically entertaining 11th stage from Carcassonne to Montpellier - one which was expected to finish in a bunch sprint for the likes of Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel - ended instead with Froome and his Sky domestique de luxe Geraint Thomas escaping in a four-man breakaway with Tinkoff's Peter Sagan and Maciej Bodnar.

• James Hall

Crashes, injuries and bad luck almost forced Matthews out of Tour de France before inspired stage win.

• Julian Pretot

Australian Michael Matthews, of the Orica-Bike Exchange team, won the 10th stage of the Tour de France.

Two-time champion Alberto Contador has pulled out of the Tour de France during the ninth stage due to a fever.

• Julien Pretot

Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin attacked near the foot of the final climb to claim victory in the ninth stage of the Tour de France as Alberto Contador pulled out of the race.

Chris Froome won the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Saturday to take the overall leader's yellow jersey.

Dribbling in pain on the punishing climb of the Col d'Aspin, Thibaut Pinot saw his hopes of winning the Tour de France fade.

• Julien Pretot

Briton Stephen Cummings of the Dimension Data team won the seventh stage of the Tour de France, a 162.5-km trek from L'Isle Jourdain on Friday.

• Tom Cary

Almost the most remarkable thing about Mark Cavendish's Tour de Renaissance - and there is plenty to go at, with the Manxman clocking up yet another victory, his third in the first six days - is that already it feels entirely normal.

• Tom Cary

So we will have to wait a couple more days for the big general classification ding-dong to really get going.

Belgian Greg van Avermaet has claimed the overall leader's yellow jersey after winning the fifth stage of the Tour de France at the end of a long breakaway as Alberto Contador appeared to suffer from crash-related injuries.

Marcel Kittel burst back into the limelight when the German snatched his ninth Tour de France stage win on Tuesday, prevailing in a tough bunch sprint.

• Julien Pretot

Mark Cavendish has joined French cycling legend Bernard Hinault in second place on the list of all-time of Tour de France stage winners after pipping Andre Greipel for his second 2016 stage win.

Australian Richie Porte lost time on the second stage of the Tour de France after suffering a puncture in the finale.

World road race champion Peter Sagan won the second stage of the Tour de France to take the overall leader's yellow jersey for Tinkoff on Sunday.

• By Julien Pretot

Alberto Contador's Tour de France chances suffered an early blow on Saturday when the Spaniard crashed with about 80 km left in the first stage.

• Julien Pretot

An emotional Mark Cavendish completed cycling's prestigious set of distinctive jerseys when he won the crash-marred first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday to take the overall leader's yellow jersey.

• David Polkinghorne

Three-time world champ says fellow Canberran is ready to try and take down green jersey master Peter Sagan.

• James Hall

Rio will likely be Paralympic gold medalist Sue Powell's last Games.