Tour de Romandie

Tour de Romandie offers up one final sprint stage, and Elia Viviani takes full advantage, winning his first race of 2017.

Elia Viviani sprints to victory in stage 3 of Tour de Romandie ahead of fellow Italian Sonny Colbrelli.

Tour de France hopeful Warren Barguil crashes out of Tour de Romandie Thursday. His team says he broke his pelvis.

Snow forces organizers to shorten Tour de Romandie stage 2, and Stefan Kung wins from a small breakaway.

On another wet day in Switzerland, Stefan Kung wins stage 2 at Tour de Romandie, out-sprinting breakaway companion Andrei Grivko.

Organizers remove a potentially hazardous descent from Tour de Romandie stage 2 due to snowy weather.

Facing rain, fog, and five categorized climbs, Michael Albasini sprints to his seventh career stage win at Tour de Romandie in stage 1.

Michael Albasini sprints to victory in Champéry, Switzerland at the end of a cold, rainy stage 1 in Tour de Romandie Wednesday.

Trek-Segafredo's Fabio Felline wins the Tour de Romandie opener on a rainy day in Switzerland.

Trek-Segafredo's Fabio Felline claimed Tour de Romandie's 4.8km prologue time trial, beating Movistar's Alex Dowsett by two seconds.

Chris Froome returns to Romandie to tune up his form for the Tour de France. The hilly Swiss race starts Monday.

If recent history is any indicator, Nairo Quintana's Tour de Romandie victory bodes well for his chances of winning in France this summer.

Michael Albasini wins the final stage of Switzerland's always scenic Tour de Romandie

Nairo Quintana claimed his first career Tour de Romandie GC title Sunday

Michael Albasini adds yet another Tour de Romandie stage victory to his palmares as Nairo Quintana seals the overall title

Scenes from Saturday's stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie, where Chris Froome climbed to a stage win in cold, wet conditions

Chris Froome wins a rainy Tour de Romandie stage 4 as Nairo Quintana retains his position atop the general classification leaderboard

Chris Froome climbs to victory in stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie, while Nairo Quintana retains his overall race lead

Nairo Quintana hangs onto the GC lead as Thibaut Pinot delivers an impressive ride in Romandie's individual time trial.

Thibaut Pinot rides an impressive time trial to move into second place overall behind Nairo Quintana in Tour de Romandie.

Thibaut Pinot stuns Romandie peloton with TT win, vaulting into second place overall behind Nairo Quintana.

Ilnur Zakarin is Russia's young hope as a grand tour contender, but he has a controversial past that many can't ignore.

In a controversial finish, Ilnur Zakarin crosses the line first but is relegated for irregular sprinting; Nairo Quintana wins and takes GC lead.

Nairo Quintana claims the overall lead at Switzerland's Tour of Romandie after the race's first uphill finish.

Nairo Quintana and Ilnur Zakarin duel in the Tour de Romandie's first uphill finish.

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.

Marcel Kittel wins a snow-shortened stage 1 at Tour de Romandie thanks to an ideal lead-out by Etixx – Quick-Step.

Marcel Kittel dominates a shortened stage at Tour de Romandie as Ion Izagirre keeps his GC lead after sprint stage.

After snowy weather cuts out an early climb in Tour de Romandie stage 1, Marcel Kittel wins the field sprint.

The first road stage of the six-day race is shortened by about 69 kilometers because of cold and snow at higher elevations.

Chris Froome raises concerns over a CPA delegate who is the brother of Tour de Romandie's race director.

Ion Izagirre rides into the Tour de Romandie's first leader's jersey on a cold, snowy day in Switzerland. Tom Dumoulin is second.

Ion Izagirre rides through wet, snowy conditions to win short Romandie prologue ahead of Tom Dumoulin.

Movistar's Ion Izagirre beats Tom Dumoulin and GC favorites like Chris Froome in Tour de Romandie's short opening TT.

Tour de Romandie is a fine barometer for the form of Tour hopefuls. Froome will test himself against Quintana, Bardet, and Pinot.

The annual race in Switzerland will include two time trials and two summit finishes next year.

Ilnur Zakarin surprised GC heavyweights with victory at the Tour de Romandie but a doping positive in his early years has raised eyebrows

Photos from the final stage of the 2015 Tour de Romandie

Results from the final stage of the 2015 Tour de Romandie

Ilnur Zakarin podiums in the final time trial to clinch the Tour de Romandie, holding off two-time defending champion Chris Froome

Photos from stage 5 of the 2015 Tour de Romandie

Thibaut Pinot attacks near the end of the mountainous fifth stage to take the victory as runner-up Ilnur Zakarin seizes the yellow jersey

Results from stage 5 of the 2015 Tour de Romandie

The peloton suffers through a rainy day in stage 4 and a young Swiss star emerges with a solo win

Orica-GreenEdge bides its time as GC favorites scuffle in final kilometers; Albasini is lying in wait, ready for the sprint

Albasini again proves fastest in Romandie as another hilly stage, marked by late-race fireworks, comes together for a bunch sprint

Race leader Michael Albasini sprints to a second stage win at Tour de Romandie on a day characterized by late-race fireworks from GC riders

After the peloton splits on a hard final climb, Orica-GreenEdge gets its revenge in a small bunch sprint in Saint-Imier

Orica-GreenEdge gets its revenge as Albasini sprints to stage win and into the yellow jersey in Switzerland

Michael Albasini now holds the overall lead at Tour de Romandie after claiming his fourth career stage victory in the race

Team Sky wins a nail-biter, dispatching Orica-GreenEdge by less than one second in the stage 1 team time trial in Switzerland

Sky ekes out a win ahead of Orica-GreenEdge to move Thomas into the overall lead and set up Froome for another run at the title

Geraint Thomas will wear Romandie's first leader's jersey as Team Sky beats Orica-GreenEdge by less than one second

The 2013 Tour de France champion and his Sky teammates will kick off the six-day Swiss race with Tuesday's team time trial

The UCI has been accused of giving British rider Chris Froome an unfair advantage in April's Tour of Romandie by allowing him to use a corticosteroid

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

Photos from the final stage of the 2014 Tour de Romandie

Results from the final stage of the 2014 Tour de Romandie

Results from stage 4 of the 2014 Tour de Romandie

Albasini takes his third win of the six-stage race from a three-man break

Full results for stage 3 of the Tour de Romandie

Russian takes sprint from Chris Froome and leads into the race's final two stages

Full results from stage 2 of the Tour de Romandie

Swiss rider overcomes bad legs to win his second consecutive stage and take the overall lead in Romandie

Swiss takes second consecutive stage, overall lead in Switzerland

Full results from the snow-shortened stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie

Swiss delivers home win in Sion after organizers shorten stage 1 due to snow on the Cat. 1 Simplonpass

Swiss rider wins first road stage in his home tour after snow forces changes to the stage route

Results from the 5.57-kilometer prologue in Ascona, Switzerland

Polish champion undoes the favorites to take a time trial victory to open the Swiss stage race

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

American Tejay van Garderen's build toward France begins in earnest on Tuesday, when he tackles the Tour de Romandie as BMC's team leader

All three spring races will continue at least through 2016

After steamrolling through the first part of 2013, Chris Froome appears to be the man to beat at the Tour

Results from the final stage of the 2013 Tour de Romandie

Froome succeeds Wiggins as Romandie champion, calls victory "a good omen" for hopes of doing likewise at the Tour

Photos from stage 4 of the 2013 Tour de Romandie

Results from stage 4 of the 2013 Tour de Romandie

Sky's Froome defends his overall lead from the front with an assist from Katusha's Spilak on a weather-shortened queen stage

Garmin-Sharp rider withdraws from the Tour de Romandie in what was a planned exit