Three-time world cycling champion Peter Sagan said Sunday he would have a second heart procedure in his bid to make the 2024 Olympic mountain bike event.

Triple road race world champion Peter Sagan underwent heart checks Friday to deal with an arrhythmia problem that emerged in a mountain bike race last weekend, his personal spokesman told AFP.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot won the cross country mountain bike world title Saturday, making the Frenchwoman the favorite to take gold at the Paris Olympic Games next year.

Cycling's all-time great sprinter Mark Cavendish has nothing to prove, except perhaps to himself, as he embarks on his final Tour de France on Saturday.

The 2023 Tour of Flanders or Ronde van Vlaanderen startlist for Sunday features 175 riders, or 25 teams of seven riders. They will fight, with one only able to win the Belgian monument ending in Oudenaarde after 273.4 kilometers.

The Tour of Flanders or what the Flemish call the Ronde van Vlaanderen is the biggest day in of the year in Belgian cycling, and perhaps in all of Belgium.

Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies), three-time world champion, says that 2023 will be his final season as a professional rider on the road.

Gent-Wevelgem is the first of a busy week of spring classics in Flanders. A technical course with gravel sectors and plenty of cobbled climbs, Gent-Wevelgem kicks off the peloton's final preparations for the Tour of Flanders the following weekend.

Three-time world champions Peter Sagan said on Tuesday he had contracted coronavirus.

The 2022 Tour de France embarks from Denmark, pushes into Switzerland and Belgium, visits Dunkirk and Lourdes, and features five mountain slogs.

A mud-spattered Sonny Colbrelli won a three-way cat-and-mouse struggle to claim victory in the epic Paris-Roubaix bike race in dreadful conditions on Sunday.

The Bora cycling team continued their rebuilding plan by announcing Monday the arrival of the Russian Aleksandr Vlasov until the end of 2024.

Three-time former world champion Peter Sagan will join TotalEnergies on a two-year deal next season, the second-tier French team announced on Tuesday.

August marks the start of professional cycling’s official transfer period, the only time a UCI World Team may recruit riders. From August 1-15th, new pro riders and those with expiring contracts have the opportunity to sign to a new team. For any change of team between two seasons, the transfer period extends from August 1 to December 31st.

The Tour de France rolled out of the Atlantic port of Brest on Saturday, 24 teams of eight riders embarking on a 21-day trek across France with all eyes on defending champion Tadej Pogacar and a dramatic day of action assured on the opening stage.