Cycling

Welshman Stevie Williams has won stage three of the Arctic Race of Norway to take the overall lead of the race. The Israel-Premier Tech rider won on a cold and wet day in the Arctic Circle, coming from the back of the group to take the victory. Williams, 27, leads Clément Champoussin ahead of Sunday’s

Geraint Thomas will lead Ineos Grenadiers’ eight-man squad at this year’s Vuelta a Espana. Welshman Thomas, 37, came close to victory at the Giro d’Italia earlier this year before finishing second to Primoz Roglic. The 2018 Tour de France winner will compete in the Vuelta for only the second time. “I’m going there to try

Para-cyclist William Bjergfelt says winning his first world title in Glasgow “really helps his case” to earn selection for the Paris Paralympics next year. Bjergfelt missed out on the 2020 Games in Tokyo due to a broken leg. “I’m hugely motivated, this really, really helps my case going forward,” Bjergfelt told BBC Sport. “As a

Former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been banned from all sport for four years for violating anti-doping rules. Freeman was struck off in 2021 because of misconduct after a hearing by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. During the tribunal process, Freeman was charged with two violations by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Beth Shriever regained the women’s BMX world title at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Olympic champion Shriever led from start to finish to reclaim the

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock won gold in the men’s cross-country mountain bike at the Cycling World Championships. Olympic champion Pidcock lit up the race and broke clear with

Great Britain’s Joshua Tarling finishes in third place to claim a brilliant bronze medal in the elite individual time trial, with Remco Evenepoel winning gold and Filippo Ganna silver. READ MORE: GB’s Tarling wins surprise Worlds time trial bronze Available to UK users only.

Great Britain’s former Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart will join Lidl Trek on a three-year deal from next season. He started riding for Ineos Grenadiers in 2017, winning the 2020 Giro and this year’s Tour of the Alps. Geoghegan Hart, 28, is currently recovering from a broken hip sustained in a crash at this

Switzerland successfully defended their team time trial mixed relay title in dramatic fashion at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Elise Chabbey and Marlen Reusser, sprinted over the line to clinch victory for the Swiss by seven seconds from France, with Germany in third. Swiss success came despite Reusser, their strongest female rider, crashing 13km

A protest has halted the Men’s Elite Road Race at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland. The event was paused with just over 190km (118 miles) of the 271km (168 miles) remaining, with Edinburgh to Glasgow route blocked west of Falkirk. The protest took place on a narrow stretch of the B818 near the

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain won two golds, a silver and two bronze medals on day one at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. William Tidball timed his sprint perfectly to

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Eritrean history maker Biniam Girmay is out of the Cycling World Championships in Scotland because of injury. The 23-year-old was hoping to become Africa’s first world champion in

Venues: Glasgow & across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Follow live across the BBC on television, online, the BBC Sport app & BBC iPlayer Being in the midst of a race is Olympic champion Katie Archibald’s “happiest place in the world”. In those moments, nothing else matters. The nerves vanish. The emotional crash has yet

Denmark’s Emma Norsgaard held on to claim victory on stage six of the Tour de France Femmes by metres as Charlotte Kool chased her down. Norsgaard was part of a three-rider breakaway away with nearly 100km left of the stage from Albi to Blagnac. The chasing peloton, led by Dutchwoman Kool, caught the other two

Tokyo gold medallist Beth Shriever is hoping for a “whole new Olympic experience” when she defends her BMX title in Paris next year. Shriever beat Colombia’s Mariana Pajon by 0.090 seconds in the women’s final in 2021, but crowd sizes were strictly limited in Japan because of Covid. She also won gold at a BMX

Liane Lippert won the sprint for the line as the German claimed victory on the second stage of the Tour de France Femmes. Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who won stage one, launched her sprint at the end of a wet, 152km hilly route from Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac first. But Lippert, 25, surged past her to take

Tadej Pogacar salvaged some pride by taking stage 20 of this year’s Tour de France as Jonas Vingegaard all but sealed the defence of his title. Pogacar has been unable to challenge Vinegaard’s supremacy in the past week, but sprinted past the Dane to win on the final day of competitive racing. Vingegaard holds a

Kasper Asgreen claimed his first Tour de France stage victory as he held on to win stage 18 from an epic breakaway. The Soudal Quick-Step rider, 28, was part of a four-man group which seemed destined to be caught during the closing stages in Bourg-en-Bresse. But the leaders managed to stay clear, with Dane Asgreen