Cycling's Tour de France, with its vast caravan of teams, media, publicity and security, was visible everywhere around the Spanish city of Bilbao Thursday, with riders poised to embark on the epic 21-day race to Paris.

Julian Alaphilippe headed Quick Step's Tour de France team announced on Tuesday.

Germany's Georg Zimmermann powered to victory in the sixth stage of the 2023 Criterium du Dauphine on Friday, and Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead.

Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard paid tribute to the victims of Thursday's knife attack in the French Alps after winning the fifth stage of the 2023 Criterium du Dauphine in the region.

France's Julian Alaphilippe won a sprint finish to take Monday's second stage of the 2023 Criterium du Dauphine race, with compatriot Christophe Laporte holding the leader's yellow jersey.

Two-time world road race champion Julian Alaphilippe will miss Sunday's Amstel Gold cycling classic with an injured knee, his team said.

Two-time world road race champion Julian Alaphilippe is ready to justify his salary in the 2023 season after some motivational criticism from his Soudal Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere.

As road cycling's World Tour season shifts into gear at the Tour Down Under next week, we take a look at some of the issues and storylines expected to feature in the year ahead.

Julian Alaphilippe has been named in the French team to attempt to win a third successive road race world title weeks after dislocating his shoulder.

La Vuelta a España is often one of the most competitive and unpredictable races to wrap the grand tour stretch for 2022. Whether coming back from injury like Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) or Julian Alaphillipe, or pros seeking their first grand tour victory like Michael Woods (Israel – Premier Tech), one thing racing fans may count on is an exciting three weeks of racing in the ever changing weather and steep slopes around Spain.

Britain's Mark Cavendish and France's Julian Alaphilippe have both missed out on a place in the upcoming Tour de France, their Quick-Step team announced Monday. Double world road cycling champion Alaphilippe only returned to competition on Sunday, two months after suffering multiple fractures in a heavy fall on the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race in Belgium.

Time trials for men and women will be held on the same day, course and distance for the first time at cycling's 2022 Road World Championships in Australia, officials said Friday.

Title holder Julian Alaphilippe won cycling's world championships road race on Sunday, after dropping all of his rivals following a series of solo attacks on Flanders' cobbled hills. The Frenchman attacked from 50km out to create an elite group of 17 riders, then again from 15km to edge away to a solo victory in an epic 268km struggle through cycling's heartland. As road race world champion, Alaphilippe will race the next year wearing the fabled rainbow jersey another year after winning in similar fashion at the 2020 event in Italy.

The UCI Road World Championship road races in Flanders, Belgium take place on September 25 and 26th. The Flanders region is a hotbed for professional cycling, known for its steep, and often cobbled climbs.

American Neilson Powless of EF Education-Nippo won the Clásica San Sebastián on Saturday after edging athrilling three-way dash for the line on the Basque city's famous seafront.The 24-year-old from Florida was part of a breakaway over the narrow hillroads outside San Sebastián and finished the 231km course in 5hr 34mins 31sec,just ahead of Slovenia's Matej Mohoric and Mikkel Honore of Denmark.