Cycling

Getty Images 23 February 2025 Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome suffered a broken collarbone in a crash at the UAE Tour. The 39-year-old Briton sustained the injury in a mass pile-up in the opening 10km of Sunday’s final stage. His team Israel-Premier Tech said: “A CT scan confirmed a fracture to the right

PA Media 23 February 2025 Lauren Bell and Matthew Richardson completed a hat-trick of sprint medals on the final day of the British Track Cycling Championships in Manchester. Scotland’s Bell won the women’s individual sprint to go with her team sprint and keirin victories, while England’s Richardson won the men’s keirin to complete the men’s

SWpix 1 minute ago Matthew Richardson won the men’s sprint final on his debut at the British Track Cycling Championships in Manchester. The 25-year-old, who switched his allegiance to Great Britain after collecting two silver medals and a bronze for Australia at the Paris 2024 Olympics, beat Peter Mitchell to gold, with Marcus Hiley finishing

Getty Images 8 hours ago Welsh rider Josh Tarling won stage two of the UAE Tour to take the overall lead in the week-long race. Three days after his 21st birthday, the Ineos Grenadiers rider won a 12km test against the clock ahead of Switzerland’s Stefan Bissegger and three-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar.

Getty Images 14 February 2025 Josh Charlton powered to victory in the men’s individual pursuit to win Great Britain’s first gold medal of the 2025 European Championships in Belgium on Friday. World silver medallist Charlton overcame Portugal’s Ivo Manuel Alves Oliveira with a dominant display to claim his maiden elite European title. Charlton was joined

Getty Images Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales 11 February 2025 Great Britain cyclist Rhys Britton says he is embracing every opportunity after losing a year of his career to concussion. The 25-year-old crashed in training in 2023 and says the next year was a “write off”. He missed out on a place at the Paris

Getty Images 8 February 2025 Soudal-QuickStep have pulled their development team out of the Tour du Rwanda because of safety concerns amid an ongoing conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The M23 rebel group has captured almost all of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which is the largest city in eastern DR

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 26 minutes ago Britain’s Ethan Hayter says he wants to “enjoy racing again” as he prepares to debut with his new team. Hayter, last year’s British road race champion, left Ineos Grenadiers to join Belgian squad Soudal-Quick Step on a two-year contract, a deal announced last August.

Getty Images 4 minutes ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock won the the AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia in his first race since joining the Q36.5 Pro team last month. Pidcock, 25, comfortably held on to his advantage on Saturday’s final flat run, having won two of the first four stages. The double Olympic champion, who retained

Getty Images 39 minutes ago Cycling’s world governing body, the UCI, says it has no plans to move the 2025 Road World Championships away from Rwanda amid the ongoing conflict in neighbouring DR Congo. Rwanda is set to become the first African nation to host the event from 21-28 September. The M23 rebel group has

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport senior journalist 2 hours ago Cycling’s world governing body the UCI is expected to vote for a ban on the use of carbon monoxide rebreathing equipment this week, after it was established last year some teams were using it to measure haemoglobin levels in their riders’ blood before and

Getty Images 1 hour ago Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan has signed a one-year contract with British team Ineos Grenadiers for the 2025 season. The 30-year-old has won stages at the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana, and has twice finished on the podium at the prestigious Milan-San Remo one-day Monument. He joined

Ineos Grenadiers Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Britain’s Ineos Grenadiers cycling team insist they will remain in the sport, but are searching for new partners to keep pace with competitors. Ineos, who won seven Tours de France between 2012 and 2019, mostly as Team Sky, suffered their worst season in 2024.

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