Paris-Nice: Gallopin wins stage 6 in Nice.

Tony Gallopin soloed to victory Saturday during stage 6 of Paris-Nice and took over the race lead heading into Sunday's final time trial.

The Lotto Soudal rider slipped away from the yellow jersey group of Michal Kwiatkowski with about 30km remaining and forged his way through the rain to the finish line in Nice. Simon Spilak finished second, followed by Rui Costa in third.

Cold conditions take van Garderen out of contention.

Tejay van Garderen said Saturday's cold and wet conditions at Paris-Nice led to his slide down the general classification. The BMC Racing Team's leader conceded nearly five minutes in the 187.5-kilometer race and fell out of the top 10 on the penultimate day of the race.

"On the descent off the Côte de Châteauneuf, I got really cold and I was just shivering," van Garderen said to the BMC website. "I just felt completely blocked. I tried to stay calm and tried to kind of regroup myself in hopes I would come around on the final climb. But once we started it, my legs were not really working.”

Moser inducted into Giro hall of fame, Démare abandons Paris-Nice.

A spate of riders has decided to put an early end to their Paris-Nice, ahead of the final weekend. Arnaud Démare, Dries Devenyns, Moreno Hofland and Maarten Wynants, Ruben Plaza and Michael Schär all chose not to start the penultimate stage to Nice.

Illness is the major reason for abandoning with Démare and Hofland blaming a fever for their departure, while Devenyns has gone home on doctor’s orders while suffering from a cold. Wynants has followed his teammate out of the race after developing bronchitis in the last couple of days.

2014-15 Races & Results.

Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Stages & Results),

Paris Nice - Mar 8-15 (Stages & Results),

Le Tour de Langkawi - Mar 8-15 (Stages & Results),

Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages),

Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages),

Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages),

UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages),

Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen - Mar 6-8 (Results),

Strade Bianche - Mar 7 (Results),

Strade Bianche Women - Mar 7 (Results),

UCI Track World Championships - Feb 18-22 (Results),

UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships - Jan 31-Feb 1 (Results).

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Larsson tackling World Hour Record eight months after third spinal fracture.

If you want to break the men’s hour record, you’ll have to hurry. Next in line is Swede Gustav Larsson, whose attempt in Manchester on Saturday was announced just a couple of days ago.

“It’s a bit scary to do this kind of thing so early in the year, but I can’t wait for Wiggins. It’s now or it will never happen.”

Larsson will make his attempt only eight months after breaking his back in a nasty crash while training.

From the hospital bed he tweeted a picture of his smashed-up face and the words: “I'll be f###ing back! Just like terminator...“

2015 Paris-Nice LIVE.

Sunday's Paris-Nice Stage 7, a 9.5km Individual Time Trial from Nice to Col d'Eze, gets underway at 11:55am CET (6:55am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider. 

Paris-Nice live streaming video should get underway at around 1:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern, 530am Pacific).

Paris-Nice: Cimolai wins stage 5 in Rasteau.

Ewan grabs Langkawi stage 6 win, extends GC lead 

Tirreno-Adriatico: Poels wins in Castelraimondo.

Wout Poels took an impressive solo victory in Castelraimondo on the fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico.

Poels’ former teammate Rigoberto Uran won the sprint for second place, 14 seconds behind, with Joaquim Rodríguez rounding out the top three.

Poels moves into the lead of the general classification ahead of Urán.

Contador confident before Tirreno-Adriatico showdown on Terminillo.

Alberto Contador is quietly confident he can win Tirreno-Adriatico and get the better of his big-name rivals Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana on the important mountain stage of Tirreno-Adriatico to Terminillo on Sunday.

The Spaniard finished in the first chase group in Castelraimondo on Saturday, 14 seconds behind solo winner Wouter Poels and is now 10th overall at 32 seconds. He crashed with 50 kilometers to go, forcing him to chase to avoid losing time.

Nibali’s lack of form exposed before Tirreno-Adriatico finale.

Vincenzo Nibali preferred to stay in the warm Astana team bus than speak to the media and sign autographs for the tifosi after stage four of Tirreno-Adriatico.

At the start in Indicatore the Tour de France winner had seemed relaxed and ready for the weekend of decisive racing in the hills and especially Sunday’s mountain finish at Terminillo.

However after finishing in a second chase group behind stage winner and new race leader Wouter Poels, and after losing seven seconds to Alberto Contador and other key rivals, he was in no mood to talk.

Wout Poels’ win confirms Sky no longer a one-trick pony.

Team Sky’s singular obsession with the Tour de France is officially over.

Not that the UK team wasn’t racing to win every chance it could during the first half decade of its existence, but it was no secret that the team’s energy and focus was directed toward winning cycling’s biggest prize — the yellow jersey.

Sky pulled off the unimaginable not once, but twice, with two different riders, as Bradley Wiggins and then Chris Froome made history in the Tour de France during 2012-13.

How Andrea Guardini is getting his mojo back.

When he burst on the pro scene in 2011, clocking up 11 UCI victories in his debut year as a 21 year old, it appeared that cycling had found a new star sprinter.

Earning comparisons with Mark Cavendish’s own debut year and having a similarly aero sprinting style, many predicated that Andrea Guardini was set for a huge future.

Those early successes included five stage wins plus the points classification in the Tour de Langkawi, victory on stage five of the Tour of Qatar, two stages in the Tour of Turkey and one each in the Volta a Portugal, the Tour of Slovenia and the Giro di Padania.

For a first year pro it was a staggering haul.

2015 Tirreno-Adriatico LIVE.

Saturday's Stage 5 start time: 10:50 CET (2:50 AM PST);

Approximate finish: 16:10 CET (8:10 AM PST);  

Tirreno-Adriatico live streaming video should get underway at around 14:00 CET (6:00 AM PST).

My Story: I crashed spectacularly at Drentse 8.

Daily Distractions.

Fan who brought down Loren Rowney insists it was "accident."

The spectator who brought down Velocio-SRAM rider Loren Rowney as she sprinted for the line at the Drenthe 8 race in the Netherlands on Thursday has been identified, and says the incident was “an accident.”

According to race organizer Femmy van Issum, the male spectator came forward this afternoon, reports Wielerfiets.nl.

“Contrary to many people’s opinion, the man was unaware [of the incident]," she said, adding that his son had tugged his coat immediately prior to the crash.

“That probably led to him sticking out his arm,” van Issum said, adding that photographs showed that he hadn’t been looking at the riders.

Jolien d’Hoore sprints to victory at Ronde van Drenthe.

Jolien d’Hoore sprinted to victory at Ronde van Drenthe, coming off teammate Chloe Hosking’s wheel with the finish line in sight. The Belgian national road champion had a full bike length on Amy Pieters in second place. Ellen van Dijk rounded out the podium in Hoogeveen.

It’s the first World Cup victory for d’Hoore, who notched her biggest result to date on her 25th birthday.

It has been a hugely successful week for Wiggle Honda with d’Hoore’s win at Omloop van het Hageland last Sunday and Giorgia Bronzini’s win at Drentse 8 on Thursday coming ahead of d’Hoore’s victory at the opening round of the ten-race women’s World Cup series.

Youcef Reguigui takes lead at 2015 Tour de Langkawi.

Youcef Reguigui seized the overall lead of the Tour de Langkawi on Saturday after winning the seventh and penultimate stage.

The mountainous 180.8km stage started in Shah Alam and led the peloton up Frasers Hill, 1150 meters above sea level, with a final climb of 5km.

A four-man breakaway went clear and built a lead of nearly 8 minutes before a chase led first by Skydive Dubai and Tinkoff-Saxo, then Sky, began reeling it back in.

Mads Pedersen.

Mads Pedersen, a big winner on the junior scene with a victory at Paris Roubaix, Worlds medals and more Pedersen is now in the Professional Continental ranks after the team stepped up a notch this year.

Danish/Luxembourger squad, Cult Racing has only moved up to the Pro Continental ranks for this season but already they’ve proved themselves to be no respecters of reputation and while perhaps not piling up the wins have been one of the animators of the season’s races, thus far.

2015 Tour de Langkawi LIVE.

Sunday's Tour de Langkawi Stage 8 departs Kuala Kubu Bharu at 2:00pm local (7:00am CET, 2:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Kuala Lumpur at around 4:19pm local (9:19am CET, 4:19am U.S. Eastern). 

Tour de Langkawi live streaming should begin at around 3pm local (8:00am CET, 3:00am U.S. Eastern)..

Video: Kittel talks about his development into a world-class sprinter.

Q&A: Travis Tygart on CIRC and the Geert Leinders case.