Tour de France

By Richard Moore Sean Yates, one of only four British cyclists to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France leader, is to join Team Sky as a sports director. The 49-year-old, a veteran of 12 Tours, will leave Lance Armstrong's Astana team at the end of the year to become the only British director in the new sq...

By Richard Moore The capture of the 30-year-olds Calzati and Portal – the team's first French riders – could be significant in determining whether Team Sky is invited to next year's Tour de France, with the organisers occasionally inclined to favour teams with a French contingent. Calzati is a former Tou...

By Richard Moore • British cycling team delays naming final roster • Wiggins said to be keen to join Team Sky With 19 riders signed up for the new British team, it had been hoped that the remaining seven, including Wiggins who is under contract for 2010, would be announced by the end of this week.

By editor Former Tour de France stage winner Kurt-Asle Arvesen will race next season for new British cycling outfit Team Sky, his Saxo Bank team announced on Sunday. Arvesen, who pulled out of this year’s Tour de France following a bad crash, won a stage of the world’s most prestigious cycling race i...

By maddog Kurt-Asle Arvesen will race next season for the new British cycling outfit Team Sky, his Saxo Bank team announced on Sunday. The 34-year-old Norwegian champion has raced for the Danish team run by Bjarne Riis since 2004. Arvesen, who won stage 11 of the Tour de France in 2008, was forced to wi...

By maddog If Bradley Wiggins is going to ride for Team Sky in 2010, you won’t hear it from him. The British rider is midway through a two-year deal with Garmin-Slipstream but has been heavily linked to the new ProTour team —an organization born with the mission statement of producing a British Tour de...

By Richard Moore One confirmed Astana rider for 2010 is Alexandre Vinokourov, who has returned from a two-year ban for blood doping. Financial problems this year led to the team removing sponsors' names during the Giro d'Italia, and Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), h...

Team Sky is eyeing up a bold approach to lure Tour de France winner Alberto Contador to their new team.

By Richard Moore We have to see what happens with Astana first," said Contador, who is likely to start next year's Tour as the favourite, whichever team he is riding for. The 26-year-old offered a glowing appraisal of Wiggins's emergence, as a general classification contender saying: "Towards the end of...

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By editor PARIS, Sept 18, 2009 (AFP) – New British cycling outfit Team Sky and French team AG2R were on Friday granted Pro Tour licenses, allowing them to compete in all of the sport’s big races as of next season, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced Friday.

Team Sky, the newly-formed professional British cycling team, have named 10 new riders that will join them ahead of their inaugural season that starts in Jan 2010.

Bradley Wiggins will concentrate exclusively on the Tour de France for the next two years in an effort to conquer cycling's greatest race. Wiggins has held discussions with the British-funded Team Sky being put together by the British Cycling performance director, Dave Brailsford, wi...

By Richard Moore Team Sky, the squad being assembled by the British Cycling performance director will take to the road in six months with selection for next summer's Tour a priority and victory, "with a clean British rider", the longer-term aim for a team that will be one of the best funded in the peloton. Th...