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PA Media 57 minutes ago Great Britain’s Stevie Williams won the 2024 Tour of Britain, while Matevz Govekar claimed victory in the race’s sixth and final stage. Welsh rider Williams, 28, who won stages two and three, secured victory in 21 hours 25 minutes 14 seconds, with fellow Briton Oscar Onley 16 seconds behind him

Getty Images 2 hours ago Eddie Dunbar won stage 20 of the Vuelta a Espana as Primoz Roglic all but sealed overall victory. Irishman Dunbar, riding for Team Jayco Alula, attacked with about 5km left to catch leader Pavel Sivakov on the final climb of this year’s race. He caught the Frenchman with about 3km

Getty Images 7 September 2024 France’s Paul Magnier made it three stage wins on this year’s Tour of Britain with victory on day five in Northampton. The Soudal Quick-Step rider won the opening stage in Kelso before triumphing in day four’s Derby to Newark ride. The 20-year-old sealed a hat-trick of stage wins on the

Getty Images 3 hours ago Primoz Roglic claimed an impressive victory in stage 19 of the Vuelta a Espana to finally jump ahead of Ben O’Connor in the general classification. Three-time Vuelta champion Roglic started the day five seconds behind the Australian but now leads by 1min 54secs. Roglic’s team Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe led for most

SWpix 6 September 2024 Frenchman Paul Magnier beat British rider Ethan Vernon to the line in a bunch sprint finish to claim stage four of the Tour of Britain on Friday. Victory for the Soudal Quick-Step rider on the 138.5km route from Derby to Newark-on-Trent was his second of this year’s tour after he also

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist in Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris 6 September 2024, 10:37 BST Updated 1 hour ago Britain’s Sarah Storey won a record-extending 19th Paralympic gold medal as she beat French rider Heidi Gaugain in a thrilling sprint finish to the cycling road race. Storey, 46, was part of the leading pack throughout

Getty Images 5 September 2024, 18:03 BST Updated 23 minutes ago Urko Berrade’s late attack proved decisive as the Spaniard powered to his maiden professional victory on the 18th stage of the Vuelta a Espana. Britain’s 21-year-old Max Poole, riding for Team dsm-firmenich PostNL, claimed a fourth podium of the race after finishing third. Berrade,

Getty Images 5 September 2024 Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert will miss the rest of this season after Tuesday’s crash during the Vuelta a Espana. Visma Lease a Bike rider Van Aert will require “intensive care” after he suffered a serious knee injury, causing him to abandon the race. The 29-year-old got back on his

Getty Images 5 September 2024 Wales’ Stevie Williams won a second consecutive Tour of Britain stage after a burst for the line in Barnsley. Thursday’s stage three was a 166.1km hilly route starting in Sheffield, taking in the edge of the Peak District, Rotherham and Doncaster. The Israel–Premier Tech rider, 28, narrowly beat a host

Getty Images 42 minutes ago Australia’s Kaden Groves sprinted to his third victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage 17 in Santander. Ben O’Connor maintained his five-second advantage over Primoz Roglic in the leader’s red jersey as they finished safely together in the bunch. But it was a nervous day for the peloton

SWpix.com 4 September 2024 Wales’ Stephen Williams outsprinted Julian Alaphilippe to win stage two of the Tour of Britain in Redcar and claim the overall lead. Israel–Premier Tech rider Williams held off France’s two-time world road race champion Alaphilippe and Britain’s Oscar Onley as a three-man breakaway contested the finish to the 152.1km stage from

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist in Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris 4 September 2024, 07:36 BST Updated 3 hours ago Britain’s Sarah Storey described the Paris Paralympics cycling time trial course as “appalling” after winning her 18th Games gold medal. Storey won the women’s road event for a fifth successive Paralympics on a C5 event course

SWpix 7 hours ago French rider Paul Magnier sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Britain 2024. The 20-year-old Soudal Quick-Step rider hit the front with 150m to go and held off the challenge of Britain’s Ethan Vernon (Israel – Premier Tech) in second. Vernon’s compatriot Bob Donaldson (Trinity Racing) was

Getty Images 2 hours ago Green jersey holder Wout van Aert had to abandon the Vuelta a Espana after crashing on stage 16 as Spanish rider Marc Soler won a tricky mountainous stage. UAE Team Emirates’ Soler finished 18 seconds ahead of Italian Filippo Zana to claim his stage win. Meanwhile, general classification leader Ben

Sophie Hurcom BBC Sport England Sitting on a bike and pedalling is something Simon van Velthooven has done for countless kilometres and hours during his cycling career. He has done it well, winning Olympic, World and Commonwealth medals on the track. He still pedals a bike for a living, but the New Zealander’s life as

Getty Images 3 hours ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock was unable to retain his UCI MTB World Championships cross-country title, taking bronze as South Africa’s Alan Hatherly claimed gold in Andorra. Hatherly, 28, who was third behind Olympic champion Pidcock and Victor Koretzky in Paris, led from the fourth lap and held off the Frenchman to

Getty Images 1 September 2024 Pablo Castrillo claimed his second victory in the mountains on stage 15 of the Vuelta a Espana, as Primoz Roglic closed on overall leader Ben O’Connor in the race for the red jersey. The Spaniard broke clear towards the end of the last climb and held off Russian rider Aleksandr

PA Martin Dowden BBC Sport Scotland in Paris 1 September 2024 Neil Fachie had disappointment oozing out of every pore in the almost-overwhelming heat of the Velodrome National in Paris, after coming up just short in his attempt to defend his Paralympic title. Gold in the men’s B 1,000m time trial went to his Great