Chris Froome is set to win the 2016 Tour de France after Spaniard Jon Izaguirre won stage 20 to Morzine.

Leicester got another lucky break during the week.

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Paul Kimmage said he felt like a member of the Beatles when he lay down, drowned in a pool of his own sweat, on the kerb at the top of O’Connell Street, basking in the moment of helping secure the Nissan Classic for his Irish compatriot Sean Kelly in 1987.

Greg LeMond believes Lance Armstrong was capable of a top-30 finish at best in the Tour de France with a level playing field.

Lance Armstrong’s former team-mate Tyler Hamilton believes the disgraced cyclist is “not 100 per cent” sorry.

One of Lance Armstrong’s biggest critics today dismissed the former cyclist’s public show of contrition, labelling him “delusional”.

The second segment of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance Armstrong was never going to contain the same level of fireworks but it did produce a hint of the anticipated waterworks.

Pat McQuaid breezes into the hotel foyer, unruffled by the mayhem of Christmas shopping.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has dismissed Greg LeMond’s challenge to his authority as “populist” and destined to fail.

International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid has vowed to continue to improve the sport, despite continued calls for his resignation.

International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid has vowed to continue to improve the sport, despite continued calls for his resignation.

Irish author and campaigning sportswriter Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.

World cycling governing body, the UCI is to set-up an independent commission to look into the allegations made against it following the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Lance Armstrong.

The embattled International Cycling Union were today meeting in an effort to draw a line under the Lance Armstrong affair and amid calls for a change of the organisation's leadership.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called for the resignation of Pat McQuaid, the president of cycling’s world governing body the UCI.

Stephen Roche has cautioned against finding people “guilty through association” in the wake of the United States Anti-doping Agency’s scathing reporting into Lance Armstrong.

The International Cycling Union’s honorary president Hein Verbruggen has dismissed an article in which he appears to defend Lance Armstrong as “misleading”.

Greg LeMond knows Lance Armstrong more than most and better than most.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond believes Lance Armstrong will never admit to having taken performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career despite the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report which detailed the Texan’s role in the most successful and sophisticated doping programme in sports history.

Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond believes the impending release of documents relating to Lance Armstrong’s lifetime ban from cycling is “the best thing” to happen to the sport.

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CADEL EVANS became the first ever Australian and only the fourth anglophone to win the Tour de France in the race’s 98 year history after the three-week race reached its conclusion on a glorious day in Paris yesterday.

Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died at the age of 50.

The titanic tussle for the 2010 Tour de France title is set to end in Alberto Contador’s favour after the defending champion increased his advantage in today’s penultimate stage.

TOUR DE FRANCE leader Andy Schleck believes he fared better in the latest battle with nearest rival Alberto Contador yesterday as the race entered the Pyrenees.

THE first Alpine stage of the 2010 Tour de France witnessed the fall of a legend as Lance Armstrong declared: “My Tour’s finished”.

PLEASE mind your toes, reader; there’s quite a big name about to be dropped in a second or two.

Eurosport commentary, Milan San Remo, 1992: “And it’s Kelly in there as well! A previous winner of the race; what a finish we’re going to have. The firemen are behind pumping in the coals to try to catch Argentin, anybody with anything left in their legs is trying to get in position before the descent of the Poggio.”

MARCUS BURGHARDT — best remembered for being knocked off his bike by a dog in last year’s event — profited from a transitional day in the Tour de France to escape to victory on the 18th stage from Bourg d’Oisans to St Etienne.

MUCH is made of Vittorio De Sica’s ground/heartbreaking 1940s motion picture, The Bicycle Thief, which is based on a very simple ideal for a story — man against the elements.

SPAIN’S Alberto Contador last night insisted he was determined to enjoy the “extraordinary” feat of winning the Tour de France despite the doping scandals which have once again plunged the sport of cycling into controversy.

If there was any doubt cycling could not be further shamed by Floyd Landis’s doping case it was wiped away when Greg LeMond claimed he had been threatened with revelations of sexual abuse by a representative of the 2006 Tour de France winner.

FLOYD LANDIS was yesterday confirmed as Tour de France champion after the traditional final stage finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly is to be honoured with a hall of fame sporting award in Co Tipperary this weekend, it emerged today.

ITALIAN Giuseppe Guerini produced an exceptional display of tactical riding to claim victory on the 153km 19th stage of the Tour de France.

SPANIARD Marcos Serrano claimed victory on the 189km 18th stage of the Tour de France between Albi and Mende yesterday after holding off a strong challenge from Cedric Vasseur and Axel Merckx.

JAN ULLRICH believes six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's decision to quit after this year's race in July has set up a classic confrontation.

Lance Armstrong is within touching distance of a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title this evening after a drama-filled time-trial won by Britain’s David Millar.

JAN ULLRICH fired a warning shot at Tour de France leader Lance Armstrong yesterday in an 18th stage won by Pablo Lastras of Spain in a sprint finish.

Jan Ullrich fired a warning shot at Tour de France leader Lance Armstrong today in an 18th stage won by Pablo Lastras of Spain in a sprint finish.

Lance Armstrong fought off a brave attack from Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan to retain the leader‘s yellow jersey in what remains one of the closest races ever in the 100-year history of the Tour de France.