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Contador out of Tour de France with fever

Spain's Alberto Contador grimaces as he rides to catch up with the pack after crashing during the first stage of the ...

11:29 PM   Two-time champion Alberto Contador has pulled out of the Tour de France during the ninth stage due to a fever.

Froome attacks to take Tour de France yellow jersey

Chris Froome lashes out at an overzealous fan who was in his way.

1:10 PM   Chris Froome won the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Saturday to take the overall leader's yellow jersey.

France's top Tour de France hope cracks

Thibaut Pinot: "I had bad legs, it's as simple as that."

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

Cummings wins Tour de France stage marred by inflatable arch

An inflatable archway collapses on Tour de France riders.

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.

Reborn Cavendish strikes for a third time

Mark Cavendish.

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.

Froome, Quintana keep powder dry

Devil of a time: Greg van Avermaet on his way to victory in stage five of the Tour de France.

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

Van Avermaet wins stage, yellow jersey

Special moment: Greg Van Avermaet celebrates as he wins stage five.

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.

Kittel wins stage, Sagan keeps yellow

German Marcel Kittel wins the fifth stage of the Tour ahead of Bryan Coquard of France.

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.

Cavendish wins tight stage to match Hinault's Tour de France record

Team Dimension Data's Mark Cavendish beats Lotto-Soudal's Andre Greipel in a photo finish in Angers.

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.

Porte puncture costs him time on Tour

Peter Sagan (l) leads the Tour.

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

Peter Sagan takes Tour de France lead and the yellow jersey

Tinkoff rider Peter Sagan outsprints Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx-Quick Step) for the stage 2 win.

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.

Contador sore but ready to carry on

Spain's Alberto Contador

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.

Emotional Cavendish win Tour opener

Golden glow: Britain's sprinter Mark Cavendish, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium ...

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.

Rogers backs Bling to go green

Michael Rogers wants Orica-BikeExchange's Michael Matthews to aim for the green jersey.

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

Powell eyes one more gold

Sport. 30th June 2016. Paralympian Sue Powell is off to Rio for the Paralympics.

The Canberra Times

Photo Jamila Toderas

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

Tour stage win 'critical' Matthews set to create 'fireworks'

Canberra's Michael Matthews is set to create "fireworks" at this year's Tour de France.

David Polkinghorne   Former Tour de France cyclist Stephen Hodge backs Michael Matthews to create "fireworks" in world's biggest race.

Froome's challenge for Tour hat-trick

Brit abroad: Chris Froome is chasing a hat-trick of Tour de France titles.

Defending champion Chris Froome looks set for a rocky ride with an army of hungry rivals trying to prevent the Briton becoming the first rider for more than 20 years to retain the Tour de France title.

Porte aims for Tour de France glory

On a mission: Richie Porte aims to win.

Richie Porte's first job at the Tour de France was to help stop Cadel Evans – now he aims to become his successor.

Thermal cameras to be used in Tour crackdown on motors in bikes

In April, Belgian rider Femke Van den Driessche was banned from cycling for six years for mechanical doping.

High-powered thermal cameras using atomic research technology will be used on the Tour de France to help eradicate the threat of riders using hidden motors.

Meares in better shape than before London Games: coach

Anna Meares: The Australian cyclist is in better shape than before the London Olympics, says her coach.

Anna Meares' coach has backed her Rio Olympics preparations, saying she is in better physical shape than before the London Games.