Richie Porte

Sergei Chernetski overhauled late attacker Julian Alaphilippe to win stage 6 of the Volta a Catalunya as Richie Porte kept the overall lead

Alejandro Valverde takes his second stage win in Volta a Catalunya, moving up to fourth overall as Richie Porte assumes race lead

American Tejay van Garderen takes first win of the season a day after a harrowing crash in the Volta a Catalunya

Domenico Pozzovivo claims his first win in nearly three years with a bold attack out of a group of GC favorites at the end of stage 3

The Tasmanian recently won Paris-Nice and will next race the Volta a Catalunya starting Monday

Richie Porte was on the deck Saturday and on the podium Sunday, bouncing back to win the final time trial and the overall at Paris-Nice

Porte is now second on the GC, 1 second behind Michal Kwiatkowski

The Paris-Nice route this year will offer something for everyone in the peloton

Evans receives heaps of praise from fellow riders at the first-annual Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Australia

Organizers, fans, and riders want the Tour Down Under to stay in January, but the UCI is considering other options

Rohan Dennis stays out of trouble on the final circuit race through Adelaide to head an all-Australian podium at the Santos Tour Under

Richie Porte made his move on the second and final climb to win the stage, but Rohan Dennis fought back to hold the leader's jersey

The Spaniard comes from behind in the final 50 meters to take the win

The 2015 UCI WorldTour kicks off this week with the Santos Tour Down Under, and Richie Porte is looking like the top GC contender going in

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 six-day race in South Australia gets underway January 20

Heinrich Haussler out-sprints neo-pro sensation Caleb Ewan to capture the win

After a rainy ride at time trial nationals, Bobridge and Dennis look to be on track for a run at the hour record later this winter

Richie Porte gets his season off to a strong start with a victory in the Australian national time trial championship

A healthy Richie Porte is writing off his 2014 season to bad luck, and is already looking ahead to next year with renewed motivation

Health problems take their toll on the Sky rider, who started the season with grand tour podium aspirations

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

Though Porte struggled throughout the 2014 Tour, Sky boss Brailsford thinks he has the ability and leadership skills to captain a grand-tour campaign

Absent Chris Froome, with deputy Richie Porte losing ground, Sky finds itself racing in one-day mode, hoping to catch a break

After winning the last two editions of the Tour de France, Sky's hopes of repeating ended when Richie Porte faded at Chamrousse

Richie Porte's tenacious style is further encouraging his Sky teammates to get behind him in his push for the Tour win

Tony Gallopin attacks twice in the final kilometers of stage 11 at the Tour, which leads to France’s second stage win

Porte is not afraid to yell and push to get though the peloton in key moments. Doing so, Porte could fight Nibali for the Tour GC

Richie Porte made his way into third overall Saturday, with a persevering ride in the Vosges. What's up next for the new captain?

Alberto Contador and his Tinkoff-Saxo bank attacked to reshuffle the GC deck in the first of three hard days across the soggy Vosges

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

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

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

Chris Froome secures his second straight Tour de Romandie victory with a win in the finishing time trial

Several riders on the British squad have been sidelined because of crashes, illnesses, and even anti-doping issues

The Sky rider headlines a strong field at the six-day race in Switzerland that begins Tuesday

Tasmanian will skip the Italian tour after a spring of setbacks

Porte tells the Sydney Morning Herald that a stomach bug has complicated his plans to race for the maglia rosa

Tasmanian Sky rider withdraws from second consecutive race with undisclosed illness

Porte says there are horses for every course and Tirreno-Adriatico offers the most appealing route to the grand tours contenders in 2014

The absence of Chris Froome makes for a more unpredictable GC in Italy

Tour de France organizer angered after Sky moves the defending Paris-Nice champion to Italy to replace Chris Froome, who is dealing with back inflammation

The four-day race starts with a race against the clock on April 22

Matthew Beaudin lays out his thoughts on the 2014 cycling season, and they include a Richie Porte win at the Giro d'Italia

Jens Voigt goes on the attack ... twice ... and Tasmanian Porte takes the stage

Orica-GreenEdge had the numbers in the final four-man escape and Gerrans pulled off the victory ahead of Evans and Porte

Team Sky made winning look inevitable, and they couldn't have done it without the selfless sacrifices by Porte

The only confirmed 2014 race dates for Richie Porte are the Tour Down Under and the Giro d'Italia, where he will race for GC

Five riders will start the Giro in May with real hopes of upsetting the Italians in their home tour

After the Italian tour, he will return to his domestique role and assist Chris Froome in the Tour de France

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider has won the last two editions of the Tour of Beijing, which started in 2011

British Tour winner survives a tumultuous day, but Joe Dombrowski loses five seconds and trio of Tour men sheds more than four minutes

The Sky teammates will be rebuilding form ahead of the final WorldTour races and the world championships

The last two Tour de France champions bring a solid team with them to each race

A number of riders that finished the Tour de France will line up for Saturday's one-day classic in Spain

The 28-year-old's Tour victory, combined with the top performances of other 20-somethings, confirmed there is a new breed of racers

Was there a more valuable rider to his team in this entire Tour de France than Sky’s Richie Porte?

Tasmanian's work on l'Alpe d'Huez saves the Tour for a bonking Chris Froome

Like Froome before him, Porte trains for the captaincy by working selflessly as a lieutenant

Sky principal Dave Brailsford says he wants the team to start doing more races in North America

Chris Froome's rivals, however, look to the upcoming mountain stages to make up time on him

UCI boss says it's unfair to compare riders of this generation to those of the past that relied on doping for their performances

This will not be a repeat of Sky's stroll across France last year. Froome remains the man to beat — but he is beatable

Porte said stage 9 "was a bit of a war. ... Everyone saw that. It was an amazing stage"

Sky came under attack on stage 9 and lost second over plus one helper. But Porte says they'll bounce back

Froome's lieutenant says Sky's dominance shouldn't surprise anyone, and promises more beatdowns

The 36-year-old Canadian is the oldest Tour de France rookie of the modern era

The Australian team's GC program remains a long-term project as the squad prepares to lose the jersey when the Tour hits the mountains

U.S.-based squad lost decisive seconds in the team time trial and is now on the offensive

Sky captain is the big winner in Nice and a number of his rivals find themselves on a back foot before the Pyrénées

Jonathan Vaughters says the distance between the British super squad and the peloton is smaller in 2013, which is good for fans

Richie Porte defends friend, roommate Chris Froome against detractors, confirms USA Pro Challenge start

Spaniard says Sky's Chris Froome will be the man to beat in the three-week race

Richie Porte says he understands “the pecking order” on Sky, which has him working for Chris Froome at the Tour de France

Sky names its nine-man roster for the Tour de France, which includes Richie Porte, Edvald Boasson Hagen, and Geraint Thomas

Garmin-Sharp rider wants to learn about the race and finish; in the future, he'll set more lofty expectations

German blasts ASO for including the climb and descent in the 2013 route

Froome sees a half-dozen contenders for the Tour title. But with Porte and an even stronger Sky at his side, he looks hard to beat

Chris Froome has been impressive at the Critérium du Dauphiné, but his supporting cast has been equally so

American rider solos up the final climb, only to be caught with 200 meters left