'A big disappointment': Richie Porte on horror crash
Speaking from hospital in the Alps, Porte said he hoped to race again this year.
Speaking from hospital in the Alps, Porte said he hoped to race again this year.
No one will be feeling the pain of Richie Porte's exit from the Tour de France more than the man himself.
Tour de France favourite Richie Porte has suffered a serious crash on the final descent of stage nine of the Tour de France.
Tour de France organisers were accused of "getting what they wanted" after a day of carnage and controversy on the road from Nantua to Chambery yesterday (Sunday).
With all the climbs for stage nine into the Alps, someone is going to have a bad day.
The image of Australian Tour de France contender Richie Porte as a wide-eyed budding cyclist remains etched in the memory of the person who gave him his first big break as a professional, Andrew Christie-Johnson.
France's Lilian Calmejane won stage eight of the Tour de France from Dole to Station des Rousses.
Tour de France stages like what we raced Friday are anything but recovery days for general classification riders like me.
Marcel Kittel team won Tour de France stage seven in a photo finish from Edvald Boasson Hagen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Mark Cavendish has appealed for people to stop sending "vile and threatening" comments to him and his family.
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.
Peter Sagan's Tour de France disqualification has put the sprinters' award within Canberra cyclist Michael Matthews' reach.
There is no such thing as a simple day on the Tour de France, even when all indicators hint at such a pleasant prospect.
France's Arnaud Demare won the fourth stage of the Tour de France, with a crash marring the finish.
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.
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