Richie Porte

Two-time race winner Richie Porte claims his fifth Paris-Nice stage win as new Colombian road race champion Sergio Henao takes yellow.

Australian Richie Porte (BMC) won the penultimate stage of Paris-Nice, Saturday, while Colombian Sergio Henao (Sky) slips into yellow.

Richie Porte will challenge Chris Froome in this summer's Tour de France, but this weekend they will race head-to-head in Australia.

Total dominance from the Australians as Caleb Ewan sprints to fourth stage win and Richie Porte claims overall victory.

After proving he’s the strongest man in Australia, Richie Porte will export that momentum to Europe.

Australia's Richie Porte won his first Tour Down Under Sunday.

Australian Richie Porte (BMC Racing) claims his third straight Willunga Hill stage win and all but clinches his first TDU victory.

Richie Porte won the iconic Willunga Hill stage of the Tour Down Under.

Richie Porte attacks on the final climb to Paracombe, wins stage 2, and takes a solid lead in the overall at Tour Down Under.

Richie Porte is a better climber than Chris Froome and needs to have a trouble-free Tour de France in order to win, Rohan Dennis said.

The 13-year veteran is ready to use his experience to help Richie Porte take on the Sky train in this summer's Tour de France.

Richie Porte received the green light from BMC racing to lead the squad at next summer's Tour de France.

"It's exciting for next year," says Richie Porte of a hard-earned fifth place at the Tour de France

The what-ifs that haunt Richie Porte now just won’t matter if he gets to hold his arms in the air on the Champ-Élysées at the Tour de France.

Richie Porte should lead BMC Racing for the rest of the Tour de France, according to a handful of other teams' staffers.

Multiple teams came to the Tour de France with more than one GC option, but potential conflicts have fizzled out.

Some said the BMC Racing rider was aiding his former teammate on the final climb of Sunday's stage 9.

It won't be easy for Richie Porte to overcome the time he lost to an unfortunate puncture in the Tour's first week

The BMC Racing pair is saving its efforts for when the Tour hits the mountains.

"At the end of the day it is only a bike race isn’t it?" says Richie Porte after an untimely puncture in stage 2 costs him a minute and 40 seconds

Richie Porte is eager to have a chance to ride for himself in the Tour de France. But Cadel Evans cautions that it may be too soon for the Aussie to realistically expect a yellow jersey.

BMC has built its Tour de France roster around Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte. The team will bring Brent Bookwatler, Rohan Dennis, Greg Van Avermaet, and others.

Richie Porte dropped from second to fourth after three Sky riders outmaneuvered him when he attacked in Sunday's final stage.

Richie Porte wants to be BMC Racing's top GC man at the Tour de France, and he's using the Critérium du Dauphiné to show off his skills.

The Australian was zapped with a stomach bug Wednesday and the team decided to pull the plug after two days of racing in cold weather.

BMC Racing’s Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte are racing together for the first time this season at the Volta a Catalunya.

Porte, Thomas, and Bardet will be gunning for early season wins, but it's likely that Alberto Contador will win the "Race to the sun."

BMC leader Richie Porte is dropped in Tour of Oman stage 2, losing more time, but the team says he's on track for his Tour de France goals.

Richie Porte is a co-leader alongside Tejay van Garderen on BMC Racing this season, a role he says comes with added pressure.

Gallery: Richie Porte Attacks on Stage 5

Richie Porte (BMC) kicked away from the field on Willunga as Gerrans fought to retain his overall lead by 8 seconds

Pairing of Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte has BMC aiming for outright Tour victory

BMC has a long list of 2016 objectives, but the most eyebrow-raising is the Tour de France, which it hopes to win in 2016.

Several top Australian riders will race the Santos Tour Down Under, scheduled for January 19-24.

Though Richie Porte has little success as a grand tour leader, BMC insists the Tasmanian can deliver on cycling's biggest stages.

General manager Jim Ochowicz tells VeloNews the "1-2 punch" will help the team's chances in the race for yellow next summer.

Vincenzo Nibali and Mark Cavendish are two of several top riders who will compete at the inaugural four-day race.

After starting out with a bang, the 2015 trading season has cooled off with no major moves announced yet a the WorldTour level.

Will Richie Porte and Tejay van Garderen be stronger together with BMC, or are their skills and ambitions too similar for just one team?

Richie Porte joins BMC Racing to provide the team with an additional GC candidate across one-week stage races and grand tours for 2016

Transfer season officially opens August 1, but most deals are hammered out well in advance. Here's a look at some of the major moves

Chris Froome says commentators airing their doubts about whether he's riding clean are fueling bad behavior among fans at roadside

Sky's Richie Porte says that he was punched on stage 10, with an aggressive roadside spectator to blame

With an emphatic second-place finish in the Tour's stage 10, Richie Porte puts the bad memories of the Giro d'Italia behind him.

Richie Porte says he's excited to finish the Tour de France with his friend Chris Froome, but he's ready to lead a team

On Sunday at the Tour de France, Richie Porte confirms that this is his final season with the British Sky outfit.

Mum's the word for Richie Porte and BMC racing, but it seems very likely that the Tasmanian will leave Team Sky for BMC Racing in 2016

Several notable riders are left off the team's lineup, including American veteran Danny Pate

Team Sky is committed to improving its top riders' sleep and hygiene by using a motorhome instead of low-budget hotels

David Brailsford says that Richie Porte has proven himself as one of the world's top stage racers even though he abandoned the Giro

The Sky rider entered the race as a favorite to win, but a crash, injuries, and a time penalty squashed his hopes for pink

Despite lingering aches and pains from a spill on Friday, and sitting well down on the overall, Richie Porte continues in the Giro d'Italia

Richie Porte injures knee in crash at the end of stage 13, effectively ending his hopes to contend for the Giro d'Italia overall

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider aims to take back the pink jersey from Fabio Aru before entering the Giro's final, mountainous stretch

UCI president Brian Cookson says jury's ruling to dock Porte two minutes in the Giro was a fair decision, that Sky should know the rules

Team Sky boss says he wants the race jury to be more consistent in how it applies rules after his Giro leader is penalized two minutes

The Orica-GreenEdge rider says he was merely helping his friend by giving Richie Porte a wheel late in stage 10

Richie Porte broke the rules by taking a wheel from Simon Clarke, but should the UCI have imposed such a steep penalty?

Fellow pro riders, team managers, journalists, and other pundits sound off on the UCI jury's decision to penalize Porte in Giro stage 10

Richie Porte's bad day at the Giro gets worse as the race jury decides to penalize the GC favorite for receiving aid from an Orica rider

GC hopeful Richie Porte suffers setback in what was expected to be a quiet stage after Monday's rest day, but he's ready to keep fighting

With the first week of the Italian grand tour in the books, three riders have emerged as the leading trio chasing the pink jersey

Alberto Contador adjusts time trial position to ease pressure on his injured shoulder ahead of Saturday's potentially decisive stage 14

Richie Porte is 22 seconds behind race leader Alberto Contador as he looks for his first grand tour victory

Successful in one-week races earlier this year, Richie Porte is now trying to manage his assets and his supporting cast across three weeks

With mountains on the horizon, a banged up Contador endures the Giro's longest day in the saddle to retain pink and to fight another day

Richie Porte delivers a strong performance in stage 5, but his contingent of support riders is noticeably thin on the final climb

Contador can't resist the urge to ride at the front and challenge his GC rivals with an attack on the Giro's first mountaintop finish

Giro favorites cross swords on first major summit finish as young Slovenian Jan Polanc escapes alone to win the day

It's a home away from home away from home: The Richie-Mobile will let Porte rest on the road

Sky's Richie Porte facing his best ever grand tour opportunity after an impressive start to the 2015 season

The early season has given away little about the condition of the 'fab four' GC kings who have shown equal parts brilliance and mediocrity

The squad will work for the Tasmanian starting this weekend as he attempts to win his first grand tour

Alberto Contador starts the 2015 Giro as the five-star favorite, but nearly dozen riders will be nipping at his heels for the pink jersey

Paolo Tiralongo wins Trentino stage 4 from breakaway, and Richie Porte finishes safely in the bunch to seal up the overall race victory

After falling behind in Wednesday's stage 2, Domenico Pozzovivo takes a stage victory on the third day of racing at Giro del Trentino

Froome, Nibali, and Quintana all tested their legs at the midweek Ardennes classic

A convincing victory in stage 2 of the Giro del Trentino has Richie Porte looking well-positioned for success at next month's Giro d'Italia

Richie Porte rode into the Giro del Trentino race lead with a stage 2 victory atop the Brentonico climb

Richie Porte survives a final assault from stage-winner Alejandro Valverde to take the overall title in the Volta a Catalunya