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Mounting doubt around Tour de France as cycling extends shutdown
Doubts continue to grow around this year’s Tour de France after the UCI announced it was extending the suspension of all cycling races until June 1, a little over three weeks before the event is due to begin in Nice on June 27.
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'We are a travelling circus': Mitchelton-Scott boss raises Tour doubts
The sport director of Australian team Mitchelton-Scott has questioned whether it would be safe to run the Tour de France on its planned dates whether it took place 'behind closed doors' or not.
Tour de France
Thomas cool on Tour de France without fans
Former winner Geraint Thomas is among a growing number of cyclists who are questioning whether this year's Tour de France can go ahead, possibly behind closed doors.
Coronavirus pandemic
We don't know what we're training for, it's very difficult: Durbridge
Australian cycling champion Luke Durbridge has been training indoors at his Girona base while observing Spain's strict lock down mandates.
Coronavirus pandemic
Riding out the crisis: cycling finds solution in virtual world
Popular apps such as FulGaz have become a haven in the absence of group road rides.
- by Murray Wenzel
Tour de France
Tour de France hopes to go ahead without fans
"The Tour is a sports monument. It is too soon to decide."
- by Geert De Clercq
2020 Tokyo Olympics
Olympic track cycling team named for Tokyo
Six Olympic newcomers and cancer survivor Matt Glaetzer are among a 15-strong track cycling team named on Thursday for the Tokyo Olympics despite the ongoing coronavirus concerns.
Coronavirus pandemic
'Remain at home': Olympic cyclists grounded as staffer tests positive
The staff member tested positive to COVID-19 on Monday night, having returned to Adelaide earlier this month from the UCI track world championships in Berlin.
- by Chris Barrett
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Cycling chief threatens UAE hunger strike over hotel lock-down
A manager of the Confidis cycling team, who has been in quarantine due to coronavirus concerns, has threatened to go on hunger strike unless his team are allowed to leave the UAE.
- by Aziz El Yaakoubi
2020 Tokyo Olympics
Olympic hopeful improving after doctors feared he would not survive
The family of BMX rider Kai Sakakibara have released a statement almost a month after a serious accident left him in a medically induced coma.
- by Adam Pengilly
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Former top cyclist Nicolas Portal dies age 40
Portal, a team director, reportedly succumbed to cardiac arrest.