Dan Martin remains sixth as team receives additional boost

Tour de France: His QuickStep Floors teammate Marcel Kittel is the winner of 10th stage

Dan Martin’s Tour diary: More thrills than spills for us in first week

With three stage wins and my two podium finishes it’s been an excellent start for my team

Tour de France: Marcel Kittel takes stage seven in photo finish

German rider claims third stage win of this year’s race after pipping Boasson Hagen

Kittel negotiates tightrope for another stage win

Overall positions remain the same with Froome in yellow and Dan Martin in fourth

Overall Tour de France position now main aim for Dan Martin

Monday’s performance had echoes of when stage victories were rider’s main focus

Tour de France: Dan Martin gearing up for tough third stage

Martin and Nicolas Roche finished in the main bunch in stage two on Sunday

Tour de France: Marcel Kittel takes stage two for Quick-Step

Dan Martin’s teammate came home in first as Chris Froome crashed out in the rain

Tour de France 2017: A stage-by-stage guide

A look at all 21 stages from Düsseldorf through to the Champs-Élysées in Paris

A 28-year wait is over as Sam Bennett wins stage of Paris-Nice

The 26-year-old from Carrick-on-Suir surged at the last 150m to overtake the pack and win

Andriy Grivko kicked off Dubai Tour after punching Marcel Kittel

German race leader was left bloodied by incident on stage three of race

Mark Cavendish makes it a Tour de France four-timer

Manx rider beats Marcel Kittel in the final straight to win his 30th career stage

Tour de France: Mark Cavendish makes it three wins in six days

British rider now second on all-time list with 29 stage wins

German rider Marcel Kittel leads way after first three stages of Giro d’Italia

Nicolas Roche has solid start, sitting 21st overall

Sam Bennett back to form in Norway

Carrick-on-Suir rider takes third place on opening stage of Artic Race

Sam Bennett’s withdrawal from Tour just temporary setback

Bora-Argon 18 team manager Ralph Denk has high hopes for the future for Irishman

Battle of evenly-matched favourites points to an intriguing Tour de France

Contador, Froome, defending champion NIbali and Quintana all set out with high hopes

Alberto Contador set for Vuelta a España but Nicolas Roche opts out

Dan Martin continues build-up to Vuelta in French Tour de l’Ain

Vincenzo Nibali claims Tour de France title in Paris

Marcel Kittel claims stage victory in exciting sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees

Kristoff steals in to leave Bauer in tears

New Zealander was in touching distance of country’s first individual stage win

Andre Greipel triumphs in a sprint finish

Sky problems continue as Spaniard Xabier Zandio exits the tour after injury

Marcel Kittel already looks unstoppable in Tour de France

German rider makes it two stage victories out of three in London

Marcel Kittel sprints home to second stage win in London

German speedster takes final stage in England on The Mall

Vincenzo Nibali makes late break to take stage and yellow jersey

Italian times his bid to perfection on tough second stage to Sheffield

Mark Cavendish philosophical over Tour de France exit

British sprinter takes blame for crash on first stage of race

Mark Cavendish’s Tour de France could be over after crash

Sprinter suffers seperated AC joint trying to force his way past fellow sprinter Simon Gerrans

Bouhanni takes Giro d’Italia stage to Bari

Dan Martin vows to be back in the saddle before end of season after operation

Kittel boils to fever point and pulls out of Giro d’Italia

The German won successive stages in Belfast and Dublin but had to withdraw from race because of illness

Dublin in the pink as Giro d’Italia sweeps down from the North

Crowds line the streets as the race snakes from the Clontarf seafront towards its city-centre finale

Consecutive stage wins show Kittel force to be reckoned with

Michael Matthews retains pink jersey despite German's win in Dublin

Kittel comes to the boil again nicely in Dublin

The German won his second successive stage in the Giro d’Italia in a sprint finish at Merrion Square

Marcel Kittel takes stage two of Giro d’Italia in sprint finish

Giant-Shimano control finish in Belfast and hold on to pink jersey

Dan Martin’s Tour Diary, Day 13: Wrong for teams to profit from rivals’ misfortune

A day like this in the wind shows that anything can happen

Cavendish claims 25th Tour stage win as Contador closes gap on Froome

Team Saxo-Tinkoff make decisive break with 30km to go on stage

Dan Martin Diary - Day 12: Steering clear of trouble as the sprinters fall

‘It could have been a ruinous end to the day, but overall it wasn’t bad’

Chris Froome’s support riders dropping like flies as Marcel Kittel ends Mark Cavendish debate

Edvald Boasson Hagen ruled out of Tour de France with shoulder fracture

Kittel powers past Cavendish to take stage victory

German rider takes third win of the Tour in sprint finish

Sky’s Chris Froome opens gaps which have decisive look to them in Tour de France

But Briton was not quite able to overcome the world time trial champion, Tony Martin of Germany

Marcel Kittel takes sprint and now appears to have the measure of Sky’s Mark Cavendish

Clash of shoulders between Manxman and Kittel’s last lead-out man Tom Veelers on the final bend ended with the Dutchman falling heavily

Kittel the stage king in sprint finish

Ireland’s Daniel Martin remains in eighth place overall in the Tour de France

Dan Martin and Tour de France leaders should yield stage to sprinters

Mostly flat stage should suit Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan

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