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Getty Images 26 May 2024 Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes clinched the RideLondon Classique title after winning each of the race’s three stages. Wiebes, 25, headed into the third stage on Sunday with a 20-second lead over Belgium’s world champion Lotte Kopecky in the general classification. Wiebes took the 91.2km third stage, which ended on The

Getty Images 26 May 2024 Great Britain’s Olympic and world champion Tom Pidcock won the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup cross country race in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, for a fourth year in a row. The 24-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider has an unbeaten record at the course and attacked in the fourth lap to go

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dafydd Pritchard BBC Sport Wales in Bassano del Grappa 1 hour ago Geraint Thomas says this year’s Giro d’Italia might be his final Grand Tour as a team leader. The former Tour de France champion, who turned

Reuters 58 minutes ago Tadej Pogacar underlined his dominance of the Giro d’Italia with a sixth stage win to extend his overall lead to almost 10 minutes with Sunday’s processional run to Rome remaining. The 25-year-old Slovenian rider attacked on the final summit of the 20th stage, powering up Monte Grappa and away from his

Getty Images 25 May 2024 Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes made it two wins in as many days in the RideLondon Classique with victory on the second stage. Wiebes followed up victory in the opening stage by finishing strongly again in a sprint finish to win the 143km run in the Essex town of Maldon. She

Getty Images 43 minutes ago Andrea Vendrame showed his staying power as he stormed to victory on stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia for Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale. The 29-year-old Italian slipped away from survivors of a long breakaway with 30km left of a hilly 157km run from Mortegliano to Sappada. Britain’s Geraint Thomas suffered a

Getty Images 24 May 2024 Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes dominated the sprint finish in Colchester to win stage one of the RideLondon Classique. The SD Worx-Protime cyclist surged to the front in the final stages and finished five seconds ahead of Italian Letizia Paternoster (Liv AlUla Jayco) while Lidl-Trek’s Clara Copponi of France was a

Getty Images 55 minutes ago Tim Merlier displayed his sprinting prowess to win stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia for team Soudal Quick-Step. Merlier, 31, emerged from a wide position in a crowded field to take the victory by half a wheel from Jonathan Milan, with Kaden Groves third. Tadej Pogacar remains in a strong

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport 1 hour ago British Cycling has agreed a multi-million-pound sponsorship with banking firm Lloyds that it described as “game-changing”. The deal is a “multi-year agreement”, but a specific financial figure was not revealed. However, British Cycling chief executive Jon Dutton said: “This is game-changing for British Cycling and we

Getty Images 2 hours ago Georg Steinhauser claimed his maiden career win after a stunning solo ride on stage 17 at the Giro d’Italia. Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar crossed the line in second to strengthen his lead at the top of the overall standings. Antonio Tiberi was third, with Welshman Geraint Thomas fourth. “It’s something unbelievable,”

Getty Images 30 minutes ago Great Britain’s Lizzie Deignan will go head-to-head with Belgian world champion Lotte Kopecky this week at the three-stage Ride London Classique, available to watch on the BBC. Deignan has won several of the sport’s biggest races, including the inaugural one-day Paris-Roubaix Femmes in 2021. She was also the first British

Getty Images 21 May 2024, 18:05 BST Updated 35 minutes ago Australia’s Ben O’Connor called the race organisers “dinosaurs” after a delayed and chaotic start to a shortened stage 16 at the Giro d’Italia, which was eventually won by race leader Tadej Pogacar. Slovenia’s Pogacar extended his huge lead at the top of the general

PA Media 8 hours ago Britain’s Lizzy Banks says she has been going through “absolute hell” after a 10-month case found her at “no fault or negligence” and without sanction following a positive doping test. The 33-year-old, who has competed for Great Britain at the World Championships and won stages at the Giro d’Italia, was

Getty Images 4 hours ago Great Britain’s Olympic BMX champion Bethany Shriever has fractured her collarbone two months before defending her title at the Paris 2024 Games. The 25-year-old sustained the injury at the BMX Racing World Championships in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She crashed out on the final straight in her semi-final on Saturday.

SWPix 19 May 2024 Great Britain won three more gold medals in the road races on the final day of the Para Cycling Road World Cup in Maniago, Italy. Scottish rider Fin Graham completed a double, adding the C3 road race title to the time trial he captured on Friday. Graham, 24, who won silver

Getty Images 8 minutes ago Tadej Pogacar produced a dazzling solo attack to win stage 15 and extend his overall lead in the Giro d’Italia by almost three minutes. Dani Martinez and Geraint Thomas finished fifth and sixth on the day, two minutes 50 seconds behind Pogacar. That means Thomas remains second overall, six minutes

Getty Images 1 hour ago Italy’s Filippo Ganna claimed his first Giro d’Italia victory since 2021 in the individual time trial on stage 14, as Slovenian Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead by 61 seconds. Ineos Grenadiers rider Ganna had to wait more than two hours to celebrate victory after coming out early to set the benchmark with

Getty Images 3 hours ago Great Britain’s BMX world champion Kieran Reilly moved closer to his first Olympics after finishing third in the first leg of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai. Reilly, who won the men’s elite BMX freestyle park title in Glasgow last year, becoming Britain’s first world champion in the sport, scored