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Getty Images Joe Rindl BBC Sport journalist 3 hours ago Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar says the Slovenian Olympic Committee (OKS) not selecting his girlfriend Urska Zigart helped sway his decision to withdraw from Paris 2024. Pogacar, who won his third Tour title on Sunday, pulled out of the Games with “extreme fatigue”, the

Getty Images Joe Rindl BBC Sport journalist 3 minutes ago Tadej Pogacar sealed a sensational Tour de France-Giro d’Italia double by winning the stage 21 time trial into Nice. The Slovenian finished the Tour with a sixth stage victory and became the first man to win cycling’s two biggest races in the same year since

Getty Images 35 minutes ago Belgium’s Victor Campenaerts emerged from a breakaway trio to clinch victory on stage 18 of the Tour de France 2024. Campenaerts, Michal Kwiatkowski and Matteo Vercher remained clear heading into the closing stages of the 179.5km route from Gap to Barcelonnette. The Lotto–Dstny rider, 32, hit the front with 100

Getty Images 1 hour ago New Zealand mountain biker Sammie Maxwell has won an appeal against her exclusion from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after a tribunal found selectors used incorrect medical evidence about her eating disorder to exclude her. Maxwell, 22, was initially denied a place at the Games by Cycling New Zealand’s

Getty Images 1 hour ago Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen won stage 13 of the Tour de France as a crash marred the sprint finish to the line in Pau. Last year’s green jersey winner took his second stage victory of the 2024 edition for the Alpecin-Deceuninck team, pipping his compatriot Wout van Aert and Germany’s Pascal

Getty Images 2 hours ago Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen powered to victory in a sprint finish on stage 10 of the Tour de France as Tadej Pogacar retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Philipsen, who was led out superbly by his Alpecin-Deceuninck team-mate, world champion Mathieu van der Poel, comfortably held off Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay and Germany’s

Getty Images 59 minutes ago Comments Biniam Girmay claimed his second win in the Tour de France in a sprint finish on stage eight as Tadej Pogacar retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Intermarche-Wanty’s Girmay, who won stage three to become the first black African to triumph on the Tour, timed his effort to perfection on

Steven Sutcliffe BBC Sport journalist 1 hour ago Mark Cavendish was determined – perhaps destined – to break the Tour de France stage wins record. Last year was supposed to be his 14th and final Tour, but the dream of ending his career with the outright record motivated him to delay his retirement and make

Getty Images 1 hour ago Comments Tadej Pogacar moved into the leader’s yellow jersey as France’s Kevin Vauquelin won stage two of the Tour de France. Vauquelin took his first Grand Tour stage victory after breaking away from the front group, making the Arkea-B&B Hotels rider the second French winner of the 2024 race already.

Getty Images 1 hour ago The 111th edition of the Tour de France gets under way in Florence, Italy on Saturday, 29 June with the three-week race ending in Nice on Sunday, 21 July. The riders will tackle seven mountain stages including trips to the Pyrenees and Alps during the 3,492km (2,170-mile) race. There will

Getty Images 1 hour ago Geraint Thomas is relishing the “freedom” of his new role after being selected by Ineos Grenadiers for his 13th Tour de France. The 2018 champion has been tasked with supporting team leaders Egan Bernal and Carlos Rodriguez when the race begins on Saturday. At 38, Thomas proved he still has

Getty Images 1 hour ago Four-time champion Chris Froome has been omitted from Israel-Premier Tech’s Tour de France team for the second year running. The British rider, who has not won a race since 2018, finished 81st in the recent Criterium du Dauphine, an event used traditionally to gauge form prior to La Grande Boucle.

EPA Ben Collins BBC Sport journalist 2 hours ago Demi Vollering clinched her first Women’s Tour de Suisse title in style to extend her winning streak in stage races. The Dutchwoman, 27, made it four race victories in less than two months by winning the fourth and final stage in Champagne, Switzerland on Tuesday. The

Getty Images 1 hour ago British rider Adam Yates will start Sunday’s final stage of the Tour de Suisse in the yellow jersey after earning another victory on stage seven. Yates and team-mate Joao Almeida crossed the finish line together – with the Briton deemed slightly ahead of the Portuguese – and 14 seconds ahead

Getty Images 7 hours ago World road race champion Lotte Kopecky has won the 2024 Women’s Tour of Britain after leading the race from the first stage. The Belgian finished fourth in Sunday’s final stage but it was enough to see her claim victory with a 17-second advantage. Britain’s Anna Henderson finished in second place

Getty Images Ben Collins BBC Sport journalist 2 hours ago Primoz Roglic had to dig deep during a dramatic finish to the Criterium du Dauphine to hang on and win his second title in three years by eight seconds. The Bora–Hansgrohe rider went into the final stage with a 62-second advantage over Matteo Jorgenson, which

Getty Images 1 hour ago World road race champion Lotte Kopecky took victory in a photo finish on the opening stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain. The Belgian, 28, crossed the line on Llandudno’s promenande with Italy’s Letizia Paternoster after a fiercely contested sprint at the end of the 142.5km route. Liv AlUla Jayco’s

Getty Images 3 minutes ago Olympic medallists Elinor Barker and Lizzie Deignan will headline Great Britain’s six-strong team for this year’s Tour of Britain Women. Deignan, 35, and Barker, 29, will be joined by Elynor Backstedt, Anna Henderson, Millie Couzens and Flora Perkins. Wales will host the first two stages of the race, which starts