Rui Costa

The 35-year-old former world champion comes across following six seasons with UAE Team Emirates.

UAE Team Emirates to center around Almeida's pink jersey quest while Gaviria hunts for stages in a stacked sprint field.

Richard Carapaz defends the overall lead, well-protected by his Ineos Grenadiers teammates throughout the stage.

The Belgian superstar shows no signs of slowing down in his sophomore season, and won a dramatic finale in Portugal.

Rui Costa nets victory in opening stage of new second-tier race.

Colombian sensation attacked late to pull off the double to defend the overall at the five-day Burgos tour in northern Spain.

Andrew Hood has the latest roundup of transfer news as riders secure contracts for the 2019 season.

After a few years of trying to ride as a grand tour GC leader, Rui Costa wants to refocus on classics and one-week stage races.

Rui Costa wins the 2017 Abu Dhabi Tour, while Caleb Ewan takes out the world's best sprinters on a rain-soaked fourth and final stage on Sunday.

Rui Costa claims the queen stage and lifts the red leaders jersey with one day to go in the 2017 Abu Dhabi Tour.

Rui Costa claims a first win for his new UAE Abu Dhabi team, while Bauke Mollema takes the overall lead at Vuelta a San Juan.

Current world champion Filippo Ganna and 2013 world champ Rui Costa will be among the headliners in the 35th edition of the Vuelta a San Juan Jan. 23-29

The Belgian surfs through foul weather to take his third WorldTour triumph

Tejay Van Garderen lost the Dauphiné's yellow jersey on Friday to a bold, early-stage attack by Vincenzo Nibali, but vows to keep fighting

The Astana rider finishes second in stage 6, enough to put him into the yellow jersey as Rui Costa wins in final kilometer

The Critérium du Dauphiné kicks off Sunday in Ugina, France, with several challenging ascents along the eight-day route

Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège could cap the spring classics season in dramatic fashion, pitting young guns against experienced veterans

With the WorldTour series decided, the Tour of Beijing's swan song offers racing, plain and simple for those still hungry for a win

Dan Martin stuns a strong lead group of favorites with a powerful attack in the final kilometers to take the flowers at Il Lombardia

Trade team loyalties are often at odds with national allegiances at worlds, when the jackpot for the rainbow jersey is worth millions

Gerrans became the first rider in the event’s five-year history to sweep the Grands Prix Cyclistes Québec et Montréal weekend of WorldTour races

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

The Portuguese rider was almost 13 minutes behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali entering Tuesday's stage 16

Only three Merida Reacto KOM frames exist, and Costa is riding one of them at the Tour de France

Rui Costa's Tour de Suisse victory raises expectations that he could be an outsider for the podium at next month's Tour de France

The world road champion makes the most of the final day in the Swiss tour, winning both the stage and the overall, for the third year in a row

The German powered over the 24km course 22 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Shimano), 28 seconds faster than Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida)

The American has recovered nicely from an April 11 training crash that left him with broken ribs and a collapsed lung

The Tour de Suisse begins on Saturday with a deep field including Peter Sagan, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, and defending champion Rui Costa

The Tour de France champion comes from behind to take the overall victory in Romandie

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

The Ag2r-La Mondiale rider avoids a late-race crash as Arthur Vichor earns the stage win in Nice

Garmin-Sharp’s Tom-Jelte Slagter won his second stage of Paris-Nice on Saturday, helping ease the sting of a costly mechanical one day earlier.

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

New arrivals will complement each other and, according to Costa, avoid conflict when they do race together

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

Andrew Hood reviews his 10 biggest stories of the year, from Horner to Froome, and everything in between

Valverde defends Spain's 2-3 finish in the road race at this year's world championships in Florence

With a doping investigation lingering, Lampre-Merida is focusing on 2014 — which includes anchoring its grand tour plans around Rui Costa

World champion Rui Costa and his new Lampre team have started working on 2014 and the new manager is building him a Tour squad

RCS Sport adds a difficult climb that kicks up to 14 percent late in the race

The Portuguese rider left Movistar for the Italian squad after winning the world championship

The Movistar rider took the overall lead in Monday's stage 4 and holds on to win in the Chinese capital

His new general manager at Lampre-Merida says he'll be the team's leader at next year's Tour de France

The Spanish rider attacks on the final climb and appears poised to earn the overall title

The Norwegian powers to victory over Mezgec, Maes, and Petacchi

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

In the wake of missing a spot on the worlds podium, Bettini's future is murky

Rodriguez, Valverde, and Nibali are seeking a victory after coming up short in the worlds road race

Riders 30 years old and above could start to phase out of contention in the worlds road race moving forward

The rush to judge Alejandro Valverde's worlds shortcomings diminishes the true quality of Rui Costa's perfect ride for rainbow stripes

The pair was among several riders to crash and/or abandon the worlds road race in Florence

The Portuguese held his fire until the final kilometers of the men's world championship battle, then blew his rivals out of the water

The Portuguese didn't show himself until the final few kilometers, but when he did, it was to steal the rainbow jersey from Rodriguez

Costa cuts a one-year deal to see if he fits in while testing his wings

Colombian climber is the revelation of the 2013 Tour and is even surprising his Movistar bosses, who knew he was full of talent

Froome defends in the rain as Movistar man becomes second Portuguese rider to win multiple stages in a single Tour

Despite late mishap, Froome defends yellow into Gap ahead of Wednesday's tough climbing time trial at the Tour de France

Valverde and Contador are poised to make a move this weekend in the Tour's first mountain test

Squad will also include recent Tour de Suisse winner Rui Costa

Is the lieutenant stronger than the captain? We'll see when Suisse champ Costa and Valverde tackle the Tour together

The Movistar rider overhauls Mathias Frank in a hilly time trial to seize the final yellow jersey in the Swiss tour

Mathias Frank narrowly holds onto his grip atop the GC standings

Katusha rider dashes to the finish line with 250 meters left to take the victory

Cannondale rider earns stage victory as Mathias Frank takes overall race lead

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

Spanish team has one of the deepest squads entering the trio of races, starting with Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

Nerves ratchet up at the "Race to the Sun" with crosswinds, crashes

Movistar's GC leader abandons Paris-Nice after stage 1 crash

Rui Costa says there's no limit to his potential, saying he's "a complete rider." He'll ride in Paris-Nice starting Sunday

Preview: Tejay van Garderen, Andrew Talansky, and Robert Gesink are headed for a likely dust-up at the "Race to the Sun"

Schleck tries to seize the lead in finale, but runs out of road as Kangert claims stage win

Late move by Fränk Schleck and Levi Leipheimer put the two into second and third overall

Movistar rider dashes Schleck's hopes for stage win, yellow jersey

On a day when all eyes were on the podium finishers from Friday’s Grand Prix Cycliste Québec City, Portugese rider Rui Costa of Movistar upset the favorites by powering a late-race move in Montréal to win a two-up sprint against Frenchman breakaway mate Pierrick Fedrigo (FDJ).

Rui and Mario both test positive for a banned stimulent, the Portugese cycling federation says.

But Robbie McEwen (Katusha) is still steaming after colliding with a video cameraman after finishing Friday's stage.

Both riders are fined for their finish-line fight, which could have gotten them tossed out of the Tour had it happened during the stage.

Caisse d'Epargne scores 1-2 in Swiss Tour stage, Gesink keeps lead