Cycling

Britain claimed seven medals, including two golds, on the final day of racing at the Para-cycling Road World Cup. Fran Brown and Fin Graham both followed up time trial wins earlier in the event in Alabama, USA, with victory in Monday’s road races. Graham beat team-mate Ben Watson into second place in the men’s C3

Britain’s Geraint Thomas says finishing second at the Giro d’Italia is still “raw” but he is targeting more success later this season. Thomas, who turned 37 on Thursday, led for much of the final week. But he lost first position to Primoz Roglic in a dramatic mountain time trial on Saturday’s penultimate stage. After the

Mark Cavendish sprinted to victory in his final Giro d’Italia stage as Primoz Roglic secured the overall title. Slovenia’s Roglic finished safely in the peloton to confirm his first Giro title, with Geraint Thomas second. Thomas helped lead out Cavendish in the final stages, with the pair sharing an emotional embrace after the finish. More

Geraint Thomas’ hopes of winning the Giro d’Italia look to have ended in agonising fashion as Primoz Roglic won the penultimate stage on Saturday. Roglic won a brutal mountain time trial by 40 seconds from Thomas to take a 14-second lead into Sunday’s final, processional stage. The Slovenian won the 18.6km stage despite having to

Britain’s Geraint Thomas extended his overall race lead as Italy’s Filippo Zana won stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia. Team Jayco AIula rider Zana edged Frenchman Thibaut Pinot in a sprint finish, with his compatriot Warren Barguil crossing the line in third. Ineos Grenadiers’ Thomas held off attacks from Primoz Roglic to defend the pink

Britain’s Geraint Thomas reclaimed the overall race lead at the Giro d’Italia as Joao Almeida took victory on Monte Bondone in a thrilling 16th stage. After appalling weather marred the Giro’s first two weeks, the general classification race ignited on Tuesday with Thomas, 36, making his move. The Briton finished runner-up in a sprint to

America’s Brandon McNulty won stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia by edging a sprint finish with Ireland’s Ben Healy. EF Education-Easypost sensation Healy, 22, was pipped to the line in Bergamo to deny him a second stage victory of the three-week race. France’s Bruno Amirail of Groupama-FDJ remains in the leader’s overall pink jersey despite

Einer Rubio sprinted to his first Grand Tour stage victory as he claimed a weather-shortened stage 13 at the Giro d’Italia. The Colombian Movistar rider perfectly timed his sprint to pass Thibaut Pinot and Jefferson Cepeda on the final climb at Crans Montana. Britain’s Geraint Thomas maintained his two-second lead at the top of the

Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart is out of the Giro d’Italia after a crash midway through stage 11. The Ineos Grenadiers rider looked in distress after falling before being taken away in an ambulance. Team-mate Geraint Thomas and Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic were also involved in the crash, but both got back up and continued. Geoghegan Hart,

Geraint Thomas feared his chance to win the Giro d’Italia was long gone, but the new race leader says he aims to prove the doubters wrong again. Thomas has inherited the maglia rosa following Belgian Remco Evenepoel’s withdrawal on Sunday due to Covid-19. The world champion was the latest rider to test positive, prompting organisers

Defending champion Demi Vollering won the second stage of the Itzulia Women to extend her overall lead to 56 seconds. Vollering is unbeaten in the event after winning all three stages in last year’s race, and won the first stage of this year’s race on Friday. The SD-Worx rider had to sprint for victory past

Britain’s Lizzie Deignan will race in this month’s Ford Ride London Classique, amid further concerns about the loss of cycle races in the UK. Ride London is the only World Tour race to take place in Britain following the cancellation of June’s Women’s Tour for financial reasons. “I hope to be able to open the

Australian Michael Matthews beat Denmark’s Mads Pedersen to win stage three of the Giro d’Italia. Matthews made a sprint for the line after the final corner and held on to take the 216km stage, which ran from Vasto to Melfi, in five hours one minute 41 seconds. Pedersen finished second, with Kadem Groves, of Australia,

Remco Evenepoel underlined his status as a favourite for the Giro d’Italia by winning the opening time trial on stage one. The Soudal-Quick Step rider took the leader’s maglia rosa jersey with a time of 21 minutes 18 seconds, 22 seconds quicker than Filippo Ganna. Primoz Roglic, seen as Belgian Evenepoel’s main challenger for overall

Tao Geoghegan Hart knows more than most how unpredictable the Giro d’Italia can be. When this year’s race begins on Saturday, it will be the first time Geoghegan Hart has been on the Giro start line since. Once again, the 28-year-old Londoner might not be the out-and-out favourite – but he has every reason to

British Cycling is considering banning transgender women from elite female competition. A new transgender eligibility policy is set to be announced later in May following a review and consultation. It comes after Austin Killips became the first male-to-female transgender athlete to win a UCI women’s stage race at the Tour of the Gila on Sunday.

Former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas is “super excited” to be returning to the Giro d’Italia, which starts on Saturday, 6 May. Thomas, 36, has been named in the Ineos Grenadiers team for the three-week race alongside Ben Swift and Tao Geoghegan Hart. Former Giro winner Geoghegan Hart won April’s Tour of the Alps,

Spain’s Juan Ayuso won the third stage of the Tour de Romandie in Chatel-Saint-Denis to take the yellow jersey. The UAE Team Emirates rider took the 18.8km time trial by five seconds from America’s Matteo Jorgenson. Great Britain’s Adam Yates finished third, 17 seconds behind team-mate Ayuso to move fifth in the general classification. Ethan