What messages did the riders have on their top tubes?

The highest ranked German professional road cycling team is heading into 2014 with its sights set high. By combining its existing range of riders, who delivered impressive and continuous results on the roads in 2013, with a number of new signings brought on board to further reinforce the team, Team NetApp–Endura is aiming to take part in the Tour de France for the first time in 2014.

Team Garmin-Sharp today unveiled its new jersey from technical clothing supplier Castelli, along with exciting collaboration news with global conservation organization WWF and the team's official off-bike athletic footwear and clothing sponsor New Balance.

The parcours of the 2014 Tour de France favors climbers. The riders will take on three mountain ranges—the Vosges, the Alps, and the Pyrenees—and five mountaintop finishes. The race will have only one time trial, and its route will include cobbles, which inject unpredictability, particularly for GC riders who might not be used to riding on them.

Tracing a route that limits the strengths of defending champion Chris Froome, the 2014 Tour de France will rattle over bone-jarring cobblestones, pay homage to World War I battlefields, climb unfamiliar mountains in the east of France and have only one time trial.

No riders tested positive for doping at the Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced earlier today.

The pavement of the Champs-Élysées didn't get a chance to cool down before the rumors and revelations started.

The 2013 Tour de France is history. It ended as it began a seeming eon ago on Corsica, with Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) dusting the field. The German took a bunch sprint to win Stage 21, a flat, 133.5-km run from Versailles to Paris, in 3:06:14.

Team Argos-Shimano's Marcel Kittel (Germany) sprints to victory in final stage of Tour de France - a nocturnal ride from Versailles to Champs-Élysées in Paris; Team Sky Procycling's Christopher Froome (Great Britain) takes overall Tour de France victory.