Cycling

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 Katie Falkingham BBC Sport Senior Journalist 14 minutes ago World champion sprinter Emma Finucane and reigning Olympic mountain bike gold medallist Tom Pidcock headline Team GB’s initial cycling squad for Paris 2024. Pidcock will compete in both the mountain bike event and the road race in Paris. The 24-year-old became the first Briton

Getty Images 22 June 2024 British BMX rider Kieran Reilly qualified for his maiden Olympics but defending champion Charlotte Worthington faces an anxious wait after missing out at the Olympic Qualifier Series in Budapest. Reilly, the men’s freestyle park world champion, was third in the first leg of the OQS in Shanghai last month and

EPA 56 minutes ago Tom Pidcock came from last to first to win short track gold at the Mountain Bike World Cup in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Britain’s Olympic and world champion slipped out of his pedal in the first of six laps before being involved in a minor collision as he attempted to make up ground.

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.

Getty Images 20 June 2024, 13:09 BST Updated 47 minutes ago Britain’s Katie Archibald – a cycling gold medallist at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics – will miss next month’s Games in Paris after breaking her leg in a freak accident. Archibald, 30, broke two bones in her leg and tore ligaments off the bone

Getty Images 9 hours ago Two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard will compete in this year’s Tour de France after overcoming serious injuries sustained earlier this season. The 27-year-old Dane has not raced since suffering a broken collarbone and ribs and a collapsed lung in the Tour of the Basque Country at the start of April.

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 10 minutes ago The Tour de France will start in Barcelona for the first time in 2026. The opening two stages will be in Catalonia, with the third stage starting in the Spanish region before crossing into France. It will be the third occasion Spain has hosted the race’s Grand Depart, having previously

Getty Images 2 hours ago British rider Adam Yates held off team-mate Joao Almeida in stage eight to win the Tour de Suisse. Yates finished second in Sunday’s time trial, but it was still enough to claim overall victory by 22 seconds. It was the fourth stage in a row in which the Team Emirates

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 23 minutes ago Cyclist Mark Cavendish has been given a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours. Cavendish won the men’s road race at the 2011 World Championships and has sprinted to a record-equalling 34 Tour de France stage wins, matching Eddy Merckx’s haul. The 39-year-old from the Isle of Man will try to

Getty Images 1 hour ago British rider Adam Yates has kept his lead in the Tour de Suisse with a second-place finish behind Portugal’s Joao Almeida in a shortened stage six. The stage was originally planned to run 151.1km from Locarno, but snowpack made Nufenen Pass impassable and also ruled out an alternate route over

Getty Images 1 hour ago Next year’s RideLondon Classique has been cancelled after cycling’s world governing body moved its place on the women’s World Tour calendar to a date when London cannot host it. Next year’s race was scheduled to take place from 23-25 May, but was pushed back a week to 30 May to

Getty Images 8 hours ago A silver medal credited to Great Britain at the 1900 Olympics has been reassigned to France after new information came to light about the cyclist who won it. British citizen Lloyd Hildebrand finished second in the men’s 25km cycling race in Paris 124 years ago. But the International Olympic Committee

Getty Images 1 hour ago British rider Adam Yates extended his lead in the Tour de Suisse with a hard-earned victory in stage five. Yates now has an overall lead of 35 seconds, with fellow Britons Oscar Onley and Tom Pidcock sitting seventh and eighth in the general classification standings. Three stages remain, with the

Getty Images 3 hours ago The UCI will trial yellow cards to make professional cycling a “safer sport”. David Lappartient, president of the sport’s governing body, said the cards will be issued “for any offence likely to pose a risk” to safety on a trial basis, from 1 August until 31 December in men’s and