La Méditerranéenne, a four-day French stage race held since 1974, has been cancelled for 2017, due to a lack of security forces.

Due to a financial dispute with the French National Cycling League, the Tour of the Mediterranean will not be run this February

BMC's Cummings, who won the stage-r time trial, finishes fourth in the final stage to confirm his overall victory.

Degenkolb scores the hat trick in the morning's road stage, but Cummings takes the overall lead after winning the afternoon's time trial

German defends his lead in France from the front ahead of Saturday's double day

German takes the sprint to open his 2014 account in France

Results from stage 4 of the 2013 Tour Méditerranéen

Monfort now leads the overall going into Sunday's fifth and final stage

The loss of 25,000 euros' worth of bikes took Garmin-Sharp out of the Tour Méditerranéen ahead of the decisive stage

Italian crashes heavily in the wind, but does not fracture collarbone