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Getty Images 4 December 2024, 17:48 GMT 2 Comments Updated 7 minutes ago Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock is to leave the Ineos Grenadiers team at the end of the season. The 25-year-old has been with the team since 2021 and will depart despite having signed a new five-year contract with them in 2022. Pidcock retained

Getty Images 58 minutes ago Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel says he will “come back stronger” from surgery after breaking multiple bones in a crash. The 24-year-old Belgian sustained rib, shoulder blade and hand fractures in a crash during training in Belgium on Tuesday. He also suffered lung contusions, dislocated his right clavicle and tore

Reuters 2 hours ago Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel was taken to hospital after sustaining rib, shoulder blade and hand fractures in a bike crash during a training ride. According to Belgian media reports, the 24-year-old crashed into an open door of a postal vehicle while he was on a ride in Oetingen, Belgium. Evenepoel,

Getty Images 1 hour ago Katie Archibald maintained her lead in the women’s endurance competition at the Track Champions League, though her advantage was cut by two points after Saturday’s third round. Britain’s Archibald won the elimination race but could only finish 12th in the scratch event in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. It means her

Getty Images 1 hour ago Katie Archibald extended her lead in the women’s endurance competition in the second round of the Track Champions League. Archibald followed up her opening-round victories in the women’s scratch and elimination races by placing second in both events in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. That took the 30-year-old’s combined points total

Getty Images 1 hour ago Matt Richardson won the men’s sprint and keirin finals at the Track Champions League event in France as he raced for Great Britain for the first time since switching nationality from Australia. The 25-year-old, who was born in Kent but moved to Western Australia at the age of nine, raced

Pfeiffer Georgi Sophie Hurcom BBC Sport England, West 2 hours ago British road champion Pfeiffer Georgi says she has not watched her crash at the Tour de France Femmes, when she fell and fractured her neck. The 23-year-old went over her handlebars coming out of a roundabout in a mass crash on the fifth stage

Getty Images 1 hour ago Paralympic champion Jenny Holl and road cyclist Oscar Onley picked up the top prizes at the Scottish Cycling Awards. Onley won male rider of the year after becoming the first Scottish-developed rider to start the Tour de France, while female rider of the year Holl piloted Sophie Unwin to gold

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Warwick BBC Sport senior journalist 2 hours ago 35 Comments One of Britain’s most successful road cyclists, Lizzie Deignan, will retire at the end of next season. Deignan won several of the sport’s biggest races, an

One of Britain’s most successful road cyclists Lizzie Deignan says she will retire at the end of next season and is “really proud of the career” she has had. Deignan won several of the sport’s biggest races, an Olympic silver medal at the London 2012 Games and was part of a group of top riders

Getty Images 1 hour ago Mark Cavendish says he would be unlikely to be a professional cyclist if he was attempting to start now “because it is completely based on how strong you are”. The 39-year-old rode in his final race last weekend, winning the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore. In July, Cavendish won

Getty Images 10 November 2024, 09:52 GMT 271 Comments Updated 1 hour ago Britain’s Mark Cavendish, the most successful sprinter in cycling history, ended his career with victory in the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore. The 39-year-old from the Isle of Man, who said on Saturday that this would be his final race before

Getty Images 9 November 2024, 12:12 GMT 316 Comments Updated 3 hours ago Britain’s Mark Cavendish, the most successful sprinter in cycling history, will retire after racing in the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore on Sunday. The 39-year-old from the Isle of Man, who said in May that this season would be his last,

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 1 hour ago It is a little over two weeks since six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy announced that his cancer was terminal. It is a measure of the high regard in which the 48-year-old is

GOLAZO Teklemariam Bekit BBC Tigrinya Habtom Weldeyowhannes BBC Tigrinya 3 hours ago Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay is a hero in his cycling-mad homeland. The first black African to win a stage on the Tour de France, the 24-year-old “African King” also took the race’s green jersey earlier this year – inspiring a host of Girmay wannabes

Getty Images 1 hour ago The 2025 Tour de France will be staged exclusively in France for the first time in five years. The 112th edition of the Grand Tour will feature 21 stages, starting in Lille on 5 July and ending in Paris on 27 July. The Tour had raced through Andorra in 2021

Getty Images 4 minutes ago Cyclist Sir Chris Hoy says he has been “blown away” by the number of men seeking cancer advice since he revealed his terminal diagnosis. The six-time Olympic champion, 48, said at the weekend that doctors have told him he has between two and four years to live. In a video

Getty Images Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales 2 hours ago Anna Morris did not own a road bike until she was almost 20 and had not so much as set foot in a velodrome. Only three years ago, she watched the Tokyo Olympics from the hospital where she was working. Now the qualified doctor is