Home expectations for fast progress from 21-year-old French climber Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) received a major ...

If you had asked Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil or, more recently, Bernard Hinault or Miguel ... A former mountain bike specialist, he could be racing his first Tour de France this year.

Christopher Bernard Wilder was a race car driver who put his skills behind the wheel to use for other pastimes — kidnapping, rape, torture and murder. In a month and a half in 1984, he careened ...