• Richie Porte

Tour de France stages like what we raced Friday are anything but recovery days for general classification riders like me.

• Rupert Guinness

Marcel Kittel team won Tour de France stage seven in a photo finish from Edvald Boasson Hagen.

• Rupert Guinness

An American team racing in the Tour de France is doing what US President Donald Trump would not do, by putting its weight behind an initiative supporting the Paris Accord on climate change that he withdrew the US from.

• Rupert Guinness

Mat Hayman can see Esteban Chaves is struggling in his first Tour de France. But it is not due to the physical demands of the race; nor the pressure of expectations from the teams, sponsors, media and fans to the mayhem and circus of the race that attracts hundreds of thousands to its 3,450km race route for every one of its 21-day duration.

• Richie Porte

It was one those days at the Tour de France where you felt that if organisers halved the distance the result would have been the same, with a bunch sprint deciding the winner.

• Martyn Herman

Marcel Kittel burst through to win a bunch sprint at the end of the sixth stage of the Tour de France, while Australia's Michael Matthews finished eighth.

• Richie Porte

What was I thinking when Fabio Aru attacked with 2.2 kilometres to go in the first mountain finish of this Tour de France on Wednesday before he went on to win the stage?

• Tom Cary

Mark Cavendish has appealed for people to stop sending "vile and threatening" comments to him and his family.

• Rupert Guinness

Fabio Aru claimed his maiden Tour de France win on Wednesday, as defending champion Chris Froome snatched a yellow jersey he intends to wear all the way back to Paris.

• David Polkinghorne

Peter Sagan's Tour de France disqualification has put the sprinters' award within Canberra cyclist Michael Matthews' reach.

• Richie Porte

There is no such thing as a simple day on the Tour de France, even when all indicators hint at such a pleasant prospect.

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• Rupert Guinness

France's Arnaud Demare won the fourth stage of the Tour de France, with a crash marring the finish.

• Rupert Guinness

The co-leader of the Australian Orica-Scott team learned of the sudden death of his personal physiotherapist in a cycling accident late Sunday night after stage two, 205km from Düsseldorf in Germany to Liège.

• Richie Porte

Success is not always shown by the result, as much as we all love to win, but sometimes by how well the team rides.

• Rupert Guinness

Sagan outsprinted Australian Michael Matthews and Ireland's Dan Martin to win.

Tension was building up around Team Sky after two days on the Tour de France as rival teams complained that the jerseys they used for the opening time trial had been designed to illegally boost aerodynamics.

• Rupert Guinness

Germany's Marcel Kittel won the second stage of the Tour de France with a commanding sprint finish.

• Richie Porte

What a crash that was, that pile-up with 30 kilometres to go in stage two of the Tour de France on Sunday.

• Rupert Guinness

Australian Luke Durbridge abandoned the Tour de France during stage two on Sunday due to an injury.