Cycling

Speaking to 5 Live Breakfast’s Rachel Burden, Laura explains why she has made the decision to return to cycling with the aim of competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The five-time Olympic gold medallist had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy following the Tokyo Olympics and says she is keen to support other female athletes

It was on a university netball court in rural Leicestershire almost two decades ago that one of Britain’s most ambitious and enduring ideas in women’s sport was born. For 19 years, Loughborough Lightning have been a netball force – having last season won a second Super League title – and the most prominent side in

Great Britain’s most successful female Olympic athlete Dame Laura Kenny is targeting a fourth Games in Paris next year. Kenny wants to prove that motherhood is no reason to end her career after the birth of her second child in July. She has won five gold medals and a silver across three Olympic Games at

Ineos Grenadiers’ deputy team principal Rod Ellingworth will step down from his role at the end of the year. Ellingworth has been effectively running the British team, previously known as Team Sky. Team principal Sir Dave Brailsford had taken on a wider role across Ineos’ sporting operations. Brailsford is set to take on a key

Sir Chris Hoy believes Katie Archibald is on track for next summer’s Olympics after she stormed to overall victory in the UCI Track Champions League. The two-time Olympic champion said she was far from her best at the World Championships in August in Glasgow. However, the 29-year-old Scot won the Champions League for a second

Britain’s Katie Archibald hopes a triumphant end to this year’s Track Champions League series will propel her to Olympic glory at Paris 2024. The series concluded with two rounds in London this weekend and Archibald, 29, reclaimed the women’s endurance title. She now aims to add to the Olympic gold medals she won in team

Geraint Thomas aims to return to the Tour de France in 2024 and then appear at the Paris Olympics for Great Britain at the age of 38. If the Welshman achieves the latter aim, he will ride at his fifth Games. Thomas turns 38 in May 2024 and the Tour starts on 29 June with

Britain’s Zoe Backstedt won the women’s Under-23 European Cyclo-cross Championships in Pont-Chateau, France. The 19-year-old Welsh rider held off the challenge of Luxembourg’s Marie Schreiber, with Kristyna Zemanova of the Czech Republic in third. Backstedt has now added the cyclo-cross title to the Road European Championships women’s Under-23 time trial gold she won in September.

A fast food meal after a night out in 2017 changed the course of Lizzi Jordan’s life forever, but has opened the door to new opportunities. It left her in a coma and fighting for survival, and when she eventually woke, she was blind. But after hitting what she describes as “rock bottom” Jordan, from

Dutch rider Jeffrey Hoogland has smashed the men’s 1km time trial world record by almost a second. The current world champion posted a time of 55.433 seconds in Mexico as he beat Francois Pervis’ mark from 2013. The Frenchman’s time of 56,303 seconds had been the longest standing track world record. That was also set

Mark Cavendish says he is “shocked” by how hard the route for the 2024 Tour de France is. Wednesday’s announcement revealed the race, from 29 June to 21 July, will feature two visits to the Alps, with Paris avoided because of the Olympics. Cavendish, 38, has delayed plans to retire in order to try to

At a business dinner in downtown Zurich in the early eighties, Rolf Hess was humiliated by his boss in front of his colleagues because he didn’t know the price of the dollar. “I wanted to punch him,” says Hess, chuckling. “But he was right – you have to know these things [in business].” Now financial

Geraint Thomas has signed a new two-year contract with Ineos Grenadiers. The former Tour de France champion and double Olympic gold medallist had been approaching the end of a two-year extension he signed in 2021. Welshman Thomas turned 37 during this year’s Giro d’Italia, where he finished second behind Primoz Roglic. “Although you ‘never say

Britain’s world champion Tom Pidcock won the final stage of the Mountain Bike Cross Country World Cup series at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec. The Leeds-born rider, 24, finished 26 seconds ahead of Switzerland’s Mathias Fluckiger, whose challenge was curtailed by two punctures. Pidcock also won the opening race of the season in the Czech Republic, and had

Britain’s Mark Cavendish has delayed plans to retire and will race in next year’s Tour de France. The 38-year-old sprinter, who announced his retirement in May, has signed a one-year contract with his Astana-Qazaqstan team. He will have the chance to break the record for Tour stage wins which he shares with legend Eddy Merckx

Britain’s Mark Cavendish has delayed plans to retire and will race in next year’s Tour de France. The 38-year-old sprinter, who announced his retirement in May, has signed a new one-year contract with his Astana-Qazaqstan team. He will have the chance to break the record of 34 Tour stage wins which he shares with legend

Great Britain’s Evie Richards won the women’s cross-country short track race at the Mountain Bike World Cup in West Virginia. Richards finished in 19 minutes 54 seconds in Snowshoe to beat Dutchwoman Puck Pieterse by five seconds, with Australia’s Rebecca Henderson a further four seconds back. “I can’t believe it. I’m well happy,” Commonwealth champion

Great Britain’s Evie Richards won the women’s cross-country short track race at the Mountain Bike World Cup in West Virginia. Richards finished in 19 minutes 54 seconds in Snowshoe to beat Dutchwoman Puck Pieterse by five seconds, with Australia’s Rebecca Henderson a further four seconds back. “I can’t believe it. I’m well happy,” Commonwealth champion