Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the countdown to the 2020 Tour de France.
We have a couple of Tour features up already today.
There's also this Nairo Quintana, the end of his time at Movistar and his new beginning at Arkéa-Samsic by Barry Ryan.
Teams will be holding their pre-Tour press conferences in the coming days, starting this afternoon.
Meanwhile, there's other racing to do before the Tour, namely the UEC European Championships.
Ineos – or Ineos Grenadiers as they'll be known – will be introducing their new look later today.
Andy Schleck's GC ratings
Bahrain McLaren have announced that their partnership with the British carmaker will conclude at the end of 2021.
And here's our story.
The women's race, La Course by Le Tour de France, will tackle a 96km route around Nice on Saturday.
Israel Start-Up Nation's press conference has just started. We're in (virtual) attendance, and we'll get you the latest news from it as it comes.
The men's road race at the European Championships has just finished.
The big news from the Israel Start-Up Nation press conference is that Dan Martin will be racing the Tour. He's in the eight-man team despite fracturing his sacral in a crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Meanwhile, Pinarello have unveiled the bikes that Team Ineos will be riding at the Tour after their rebrand to Ineos Grenadiers. The black and red paint scheme on the Dogma F12 and F12 X-Light road bikes is set to match the team's new-look kits.
The first piece of news from Astana's press conference earlier today – team leader and Tour debutant Miguel Ángel López has welcomed the selection of young compatriot Harold Tejada.
Ineos Grenadiers (yep, we've officially made the switch from Team Ineos now) have unveiled their new kit. Leaks have been floating around for a while but the new dark blue and red look is official.
Earlier reports had suggested that teams would have to leave the Tour de France should they record two or more positive COVID-19 tests at the race, but that rule will now be changed, according to French newspaper L'Equipe.
Dan Martin has made it into the Israel Start-Up Nation Tour de France squad, just two weeks after crashing and fracturing his sacrum in the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Those new Ineos Grenadiers kits...
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‘Pretty unfortunate but we are not done with this Paris-Nice’ – Ben O’Connor slips down GC after brutal conditions hit
'Yesterday was a great day for us, today not so good' says Jayco-AlUla DS Hayman after O'Connor tumbles to 20th overall on stage 4 -
'I just want to have a hot shower' - Tirreno-Adriatico peloton suffers for seven hours in cold and rain
Jonathan Milan crashes at speed just 24 hours after winning stage 2 -
'I found an opening, but I was a little far back' - Tom Pidcock impresses in sprint four days after Strade Bianche battle with Pogačar
Q36.5 rider survives seven hours in the rain to take second in Colfiorito sprint
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Former World Champion Romans Vainsteins faces four months in prison for defaulting on family support payments
Latvian arrested at Bergamo airport over €70,000 debt to ex-wife -
History of the Lance Armstrong doping case
From 1999 cortisone test to lifetime ban, how Lance Armstrong became the most disgraced athlete of all time -
'We should never have raced this final' - New Paris-Nice GC leader Jonas Vingegaard unhappy racing resumed after neutralisation
'Everyone was freezing, nobody could feel their brakes' says Dane after brutal fourth stage at Race to the Sun
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Ganna and Van der Poel play Milan-San Remo cat and mouse in cold and wet six-hour Tirreno-Adriatico stage
'When you're racing to win, you don't worry about your rivals' Italian says after late attack chased down -
‘I didn’t even know if we were racing’ – cold, confusing neutralisation dampens Matteo Jorgenson’s efforts on Paris-Nice stage 4
American lost the yellow jersey on Wednesday's decisive climb after a lack of communication around stops and restarts -
I ruined my gravel bike by trying to make it ‘progressive’ - Don’t make the same mistake as me!
Leave race setups to the pros, you’ll have more fun on a normal gravel bike
