Chris Froome

Chris Froome says his legs felt good in opening-day time trial in Andalucia, despite losing time to Contador on GC

Movistar's Moreno notches his first win of the season in Ruta del Sol's stage 1b time trial. Contador takes overall lead after first day

Alberto Contador's winter training has gone to plan, but with the Giro/Tour double looming, he has dialed back the early season intensity

The two GC riders will square off in southern Spain for the six-day race that starts Wednesday

Chris Froome says he is motivated to have a strong 2015 season after crashing out of last summer's Tour de France

A trimmed-down Richie Porte looks to bounce back after an illness-shortened 2014 season that saw his confidence take "a fair ol’ beating"

The Italian stage race has reason to celebrate its 50th edition, with Nibali, Contador, Quintana, and Froome all slated to test their form

Team Sky refuses to rest on its laurels, bringing on new riders, setting new challenges as it enters its sixth year on the road

Chris Froome hopes to put the frustrations of 2014 behind him with a single-minded focus on winning the Tour for a second time in 2015

The 2015 Tirreno-Adriatico route will offer a mix of time trials, climbs, and flat stages, and should attract Contador, Nibali, and Froome

The race will be Froome's "main focus" for next year

The 2013 Tour champ was originally put off by the 2015 Tour's climbing-centric route, but Froome may aim for the yellow jersey anyhow

The season was filled with dramatic moves on the road, but five moments stand out above the rest

The 2013 Tour de France champion is still undecided about the 2015 race despite the mountainous parcours

The Sky rider says the Tour's focus on climbing may turn him off and force him to race the other two grand tours

The Russian businessmen and owner of Tinkoff-Saxo admits his offer will not hold water with the top grand tour riders

The Frenchman says the UCI WorldTour calendar provides ample time to recover between the grand tours

Tinkoff-Saxo issued a statement detailing its "Three Grand Tours" proposal, which would pit top GC riders against one another for a €1 million prize

Tour de France champion says the strain of three grand tours is too much, and that he and his rivals don't need the money

Oleg Tinkov offers a purse of $1.3 million to be split between four of the sport's best riders if they ride each grand tour — can it work?

Contador wants to race — and win — the first two grand tours of 2015

Chris Froome says he needs to use time trials to win 2015 Tour. The Briton plans to work for teammate Ben Swift at worlds

Great Britain brings a squad that relies heavily on talent from team Sky to contest worlds in Spain

With the Vuelta in the rearview mirror, the 2015 Tour de France could see an epic clash of the GC titans

Contador's dramatic Vuelta victory against Chris Froome revives the debate that he is one of the greatest grand tour riders in history

Alberto Contador confirms his Vuelta a España title as Adriano Malori wins a short, wet final time trial in Santiago de Compostela

Despite his success at the Vuelta, the Spanish champion insists he will not join his countrymen in Ponferrada for worlds

Contador matched Froome's aggression Saturday to win the stage and secure overall victory at the Vuelta with just one stage to go

One final climb remained for two riders who exited the Tour de France with injury, and returned for redemption in Spain

Chris Froome hasn't given up the fight for Vuelta GC, and his Spanish rivals have taken notice, now that the Sky leader is second overall

The contenders come out to play, and Chris Froome attacks his way into second place on GC. Aru wins, and keeps his fifth-place overall

The day belongs to Astana's Aru, but it was Chris Froome did the most damage, moving into second overall

Global Cycling Network checks in with Chris Froome on the final rest day before the Vuelta's denouement

The peloton faces the Vuelta's queen stage, and Contador shows everyone why he's comfortably wearing the red leader's jersey

In a rivalry for the ages, Froome and Contador go head-to-head, but so far, the Spaniard has the upper hand

Alberto Contador defends his red leader's jersey with panache, winning stage 16 of the Vuelta ahead of Chris Froome

Instead of working together in Sunday's finale, Spain's top rivals missed a chance to eliminate Sky's Froome as a GC threat

It is Niemiec's day atop the final climb to Lagos de Covadonga, as the GC favorites see Contador's true form

The 2013 Tour champion is inconsistent at this Vuelta, one day challenging the mountain goats, the next, ceding time against the clock

Cavendish was injured during the first stage of the Tour de France this summer

With the exit of Nairo Quintana, the Vuelta lost the one rider who could truly put a fright into Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador surged into the overall lead on day when archrivals Chris Froome stalled and Nairo Quintana crashed

Tuesday's time trial will reshuffle the GC deck, and perhaps eliminate a few contenders, but it likely will not crown the overall winner

At Monday's press conference, Contador publicly admitted for the first time that he can compete to win the race for a third time

Nairo Quintana took command of the Spanish grand tour Sunday, but his rivals — including Alberto Contador — are right on his heels

Froome dodged a bullet Friday, and confidence is growing within Team Sky that their man could have a real shot at Vuelta victory

The peloton suffers through a hot day of aggressive, crash-filled racing. De Marchi prevails, and Froome battles back from fall to gain time

De Marchi rides alone to win in Alcaudete, while a cagey Chris Froome gains a little more time on GC rivals

The Vuelta heats up in stage 6, as the GC contenders come out to play, and the pretenders are left behind on the steep climb to La Zubia

Marquee names are battling in the opening stages of the Vuelta a España, delivering on the promise of the season's most exciting grand tour

Movistar's Alejandro Valverde is best on La Zubia, beating GC heavy-hitters on a steep final climb

Having crashed out of this year's Tour de France, Chris Froome has one eye turned to next year's edition as he tackles the Vuelta

The British squad names the eight riders who will ride in support of the 2013 Tour de France champion

2013 Tour champion says: "It will definitely spur me on to be absolutely ready for next year’s edition"

"I’m riding around with a splint still," says Chris Froome. "For now I just want to get to the race. Try to get fit enough so I can race"

Vincenzo Nibali’s Tour victory comes at the end of three weeks of chaos that left only the strong standing

The team has a history of doping within its ranks, including its general manager Alexander Vinokourov

The 2014 Tour de France has been a cruel edition of the race, one that has seen dreams broken, almost daily

Sky rider Chris Froome confirmed Wednesday that he abandoned stage 5 of the Tour de France with fractures to both his left wrist and right hand

There's a chance Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins may race the Vuelta a España together this August

Porte went from domestique to leader in seconds during a disastrous stage 6. Can he carry the hopes of Sky at the Tour?

Chris Froome will now target the Vuelta a Espana after crashing out of the Tour de France; only two British riders remain at a Tour that started in the UK

Stage 5 was a wet and wild mini Paris-Roubaix that did what most teams cannot: rattle the Team Sky machine

Belkin's Lars Boom solos to win, Astana's Vincenzo Nibali gains time on GC rivals, as Froome withdraws from Tour de France

Sky captain Chris Froome crashes twice in stage 5, abandons, and will not defend Tour title

Stage 5 of the Tour de France is finally here, offering up a hefty serving of cobblestones, putting the GC riders on edge

The Team Sky leader ended up with ripped shorts, grazes on his elbow and leg, and spent the rest of the stage wearing a wrist brace

Tour de France favorites Vincenzo Nibali, Chris Froome, and Alberto Contador admit the hectic nature of racing in Britain has rattled their nerves

Froome is aiming to be the first rider to officially win back-to-back grand tours in the biological passport era

The Team Sky leader recently rode from the Eurotunnel Terminal in Folkestone, on England’s south-east coast, to Calais in France

The GC favorites got their first glimpse at what awaits them in a harrowing first week of the Tour de France in Saturday's hilly first stage

Mark Cavendish and Simon Gerrans hit the deck in the finale and Marcel Kittel escapes the pileup to win the first stage of the 2014 Tour

Only four riders took the start from the country of the Grand Depart, though one is the defending champion

Froome has made the switch to Pinarello's new F8 platform, developed in conjunction with Jaguar, for the 2014 Tour de France

Tour favorite has recovered from Dauphiné crash, remains wary of danger in race's first week

The 2012 Tour de France champion is left off Sky's Tour lineup for the second straight season

2012 Tour winner Bradley Wiggins is left off Sky's Tour squad that sees the return of Danny Pate for the first time since 2011

The UCI president says the way in which TUE requests are handled will be changed following the Chris Froome controversy

The Sky rider broke his kneecap in a collision with a vehicle on Friday during a training ride at the Tour de Suisse

Andrew Talansky’s exciting Critérium du Dauphiné win sets up an epic showdown in France next month, writes Andrew Hood