Cycling

Team Visma-Lease a Bike Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Britain’s Simon Yates will try to win the Giro d’Italia for his new Visma-Lease a Bike team before supporting Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France. The 32-year-old joined the Dutch team after spending his whole World Tour career with Australia’s Jayco-AlUla,

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 3 hours ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock says he will not contest this year’s Tour de France with his new Q36.5 team. The 25-year-old left Ineos Grenadiers in December following three successful years with the top British team. “We’ll have a year out from the Tour and try

Getty Images Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales 2 hours ago Emma Finucane says she will go back to the drawing board in 2025 in the hope of becoming “unstoppable” at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The 22-year-old track cyclist ended 2024 with an Olympic gold medal, two Olympic bronzes, two World Championship golds and

Getty Images Dame Laura, 32, gave her body to cycling for more than a decade. She is Britain’s most successful female athlete. “Every training session I went in there to give 100%, every race I went in there to give 100%. “I took it to the limit – if I wasn’t sick after a race

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 44 minutes ago Tom Pidcock’s attention to detail is “next level” according to his new team boss Doug Ryder. The British rider, 25, signed for the Swiss Q36.5 team earlier this month after leaving Ineos Grenadiers following three years with the British team. “It’s a game changer

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 1 hour ago Track cyclist Emma Finucane is the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year for 2024, winning the award for the second year in succession. In a year of incredible success, the 21-year-old from

IOMPO Some of the most significant milestones in the career of cycling legend Sir Mark Cavendish are set to be celebrated on a new set of stamps. The Manx Missile became the most successful stage winner in Tour de France history in July when he took his 35th victory. The 39-year-old will be presented with

Getty Images Sophie Trifonoff BBC Sport 8 hours ago The UCI Urban Cycling World Championships are taking place in Abu Dhabi this week and you can watch live coverage of the BMX freestyle park finals on Saturday, 21 December on BBC Sport. The Urban Cycling World Championships start on 17 December and feature three disciplines:

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 1 hour ago British cycling great Sir Mark Cavendish will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The 39-year-old retired earlier this year having won a record 35 Tour de

Getty Images Laura Scott Sports news correspondent @laurascott__ 23 minutes ago The London velodrome that has seen two crashes involving cyclists being catapulted into the crowd says it will “explore what else can be done to improve rider and spectator safety”. Last weekend British Olympic champion Katy Marchant broke her wrist and dislocated two fingers

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport senior journalist 19 minutes ago Comments Professional road cycling in Britain has a “broken pathway” after the demise of the final two domestic teams, says Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield. The 30-year-old Briton, who has competed at the top level in road cycling’s World Tour, said future

Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins. Hoskins died in hospital on 30 December 2023, after being struck by a vehicle being driven by Dennis outside their home in Adelaide. The 34-year-old was initially charged with dangerous driving causing

Getty Images 35 minutes ago Cycling legend Eddy Merckx has suffered a fractured hip in a fall from his bike, according to Belgian media reports. The 79-year-old winner of 11 Grand Tours was cycling with a group when the incident happened near Hombeek, Mechelen. His wife Claudine told reporters that it was “a stupid accident”

Getty Images 56 minutes ago Racing was abandoned in the Track Champions League at Lee Valley VeloPark in London after British Olympic champion Katy Marchant and another rider crashed over the barriers into the crowd. Marchant and German rider Alessa-Catriona Propster left the track at speed along with their bikes and collided with spectators. British

Getty Images 4 December 2024, 17:48 GMT 2 Comments Updated 7 minutes ago Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock is to leave the Ineos Grenadiers team at the end of the season. The 25-year-old has been with the team since 2021 and will depart despite having signed a new five-year contract with them in 2022. Pidcock retained

Getty Images 1 hour ago Katie Archibald maintained her lead in the women’s endurance competition at the Track Champions League, though her advantage was cut by two points after Saturday’s third round. Britain’s Archibald won the elimination race but could only finish 12th in the scratch event in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. It means her

Getty Images 1 hour ago Matt Richardson won the men’s sprint and keirin finals at the Track Champions League event in France as he raced for Great Britain for the first time since switching nationality from Australia. The 25-year-old, who was born in Kent but moved to Western Australia at the age of nine, raced

Pfeiffer Georgi Sophie Hurcom BBC Sport England, West 2 hours ago British road champion Pfeiffer Georgi says she has not watched her crash at the Tour de France Femmes, when she fell and fractured her neck. The 23-year-old went over her handlebars coming out of a roundabout in a mass crash on the fifth stage