A teammate of the Tour de France defending champion Tadej Pogacar has tested positive for Covid-19, and the team now face a nervous three days to see if others on the team fall sick.

The Tour de France is once again upon us, celebrating its 109 edition with the Grand Départ taking place in Copenhagen this year. Two big names that will be sorely missed in Denmark include teammates Julian Alaphilippe, who continues to recover from an earlier crash this season, and Mark Cavendish. Plenty of big names remain however, as FloBikes gives a list of the favorites expected to be among the battle for yellow.

Tadej Pogacar will begin his bid for a third straight Tour de France title later this week alongside four of the same teammates who helped him to last year's yellow jersey. The Slovenian was unsurprisingly on Monday named in the UAE Team Emirates line-up for the race, which gets underway in Copenhagen on Friday.

Biniam Girmay of Eritrea won the prestigious Gent Wevelgem classic on Sunday, becoming the first sub-Saharan cyclist to win a one-day classic.

American rider Brandon McNulty won the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race after a solo breakaway on Thursday but three-time Vuelta a Espana winner Primoz Roglic took over the leader's yellow jersey.

Climbers will rejoice with the 2022 edition of Paris-Nice as the eight-day stage race has plenty of hilly stages and a mountain-top summit finish in Southern France’s Col du Turini. However, the route offers enough diversity for all riders with a rolling-hill time trial mid-stage race and flatter stages early in the week.

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad marks the start of the 2022 spring classics on Saturday, Feb. 26. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is often referred to as the miniature Tour of Flanders because it features the Ronde’s much-loved finale over the Muur van Geraardsbergen into Ninove.

Sprinter Mark Cavendish won stage two of the Tour of Oman on Friday to take the overall lead from Fernando Gaviria.

Teams selected for this year's Tour de France which runs from July 1 to 24 have been announced (teams, country, main riders):QualifiedAG2R Citroën (FRA): Benoît Cosnefroy (FRA), Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)Alpecin (BEL): Mathieu van der Poel (NED)Arkea-Samsic (FRA): Nairo Quintana (COL), Warren Barguil (FRA)Astana (KAZ): Vincenzo Nibali (ITA), Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)Bahrain (BAH): Sonny Colbrelli (ITA), Matej Mohoric (SLO)BikeExchange (AUS): Dylan Groenewegen (NED), Michael Matthews (AUS)Bora (GER): Sam Bennett (IRL), Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS)Cofidis (FRA): Guillaume Martin (FRA), Bryan Coquard (FRA)DSM (NED): Romain Bardet (FRA)Education First (USA): Rigoberto Uran (COL)Groupama-FDJ (FRA): Thibaut Pinot (FRA), David Gaudu (FRA)Ineos (GBR)Intermarche (BEL): Alexander Kristoff (NOR)Israel SN: Chris Froome (GBR), Jakob Fuglsang (DEN), Michael Woods (CAN)Jumbo (NED): Primoz Roglic (SLO), Wout Van Aert (BEL)Lotto (BEL): Caleb Ewan (AUS)Movistar (ESP): Enric Mas (ESP)Quick-Step (BEL): Julian Alaphilippe (FRA), Fabio Jakobsen (NED)Trek (USA): Giulio Ciccone (ITA)UAE (EAU): Tadej Pogacar (SLO), Marc Soler (ESP)Invited:B&B Hotels (FRA): Franck Bonnamour (FRA)TotalEnergies (FRA): Peter Sagan (SVK), Pierre Latour (FRA)

Colombia's Fernando Gaviria won the first stage of the Tour of Oman on Thursday leaving British cycling great Mark Cavendish trailing in his wake.

Team UAE's Rafal Majka won stage 15 of the Vuelta a España on Sunday with a solo break to victory from an epic 85km, while Intermarche's Odd Christian Eiking held on to the overall leader's red jersey.

Double Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar's UAE team said Tuesday they have signed 31-year-old New Zealander George Bennett on a two-year deal from Jumbo.

Raucous crowds cheered Wout Van Aert to a frantic stage 11 win on the Tour de France on Wednesday after a double ascent of Mont Ventoux.

The 2021 Tour de France route is one that will demand a truly versatile general classification contender. The opening stages in Brittany will test the mettle of the peloton with technical classics-style roads exposed to harsh coastal conditions. The parcours features high alpine and pyrenean passes, numerous sprint opportunities, and two significant individual time trials, which will prove decisive in the overall battle.

Andreas Kron was awarded the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse on Friday after Rui Costa was penalized for swerving across the road in the final sprint.