Quintana Hit By Car While Training In Colombia

Colombian Tour de France hopeful Nairo Quintana was knocked down by a car in central Colombia on Friday but said he was feeling "good."

The Virtual Tour de France is a six-stage race held on the Zwift platform. The worlds top male and female cyclists will compete against each other throughout the first three weekends of July.

Cycling's Tour de France should have embarked from the Mediterranean city of Nice this weekend, but the two-month coronavirus delay will heighten the drama on a "unique edition", race organizer Christian Prudhomme has told AFP.

Here's how to watch the 2020 Virtual Tour de France United.

As restrictions on social gatherings begin to ease amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local cycling events are among the businesses reopening. Given the possibility of returning to group rides and competitions, a critical question remains: Is it safe?

Niki Terpstra will be out for up to 12 weeks following a training crash, the Dutch cyclist's team Total-Direct Energie announced on Wednesday.

Dutch cyclist Niki Terpstra suffered multiple injuries in a training crash in the Netherlands on Tuesday and was helicoptered to hospital, his wife said.

Cycling superstar Peter Sagan will race the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, but will skip the majority of the one-day classics this season, he told a press conference on Tuesday.

Mountains add an element of unknown into grand tours. The sheer volume of vertical meters riders must climb over the course of three weeks pushes the GC contenders to the very edge, if not beyond what their bodies are capable of. The weather in the high mountains can also play a big hand in shaping a race's outcome.

The Tour de France is not a proving ground for cyclists. A team’s Tour roster is the most important selection of riders each team will make each year. Riders arrive at the Tour de France as known quantities, generally on their peak form of the season.