Cycling

Great Britain won three bronze medals on the opening day of the Track Cycling World Championships in France. Welsh rider Jess Roberts secured individual bronze in the women’s 10km scratch race on her championships debut and dedicated the achievement to her late grandfather. “I’m really happy with that because my grandad passed away on Saturday,”

Jess Roberts wins Great Britain’s first medal of the 2022 Track Cycling World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, with bronze in the women’s scratch race – dedicating it to her grandfather who died at the weekend. Watch live coverage of the Track World Cycling Championships on BBC Three, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website.

Ineos Grenadiers have signed French multiple world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot for 2023. The 30-year-old is the first female rider to be signed by the team, who are diversifying from their roots in road cycling. Ferrand-Prevot has won eight mountain bike world titles as well as road, cyclocross and gravel world titles. “Signing with the Ineos

More than 700 organisations and individuals have signed an open letter to British Cycling calling for the governing body to “renounce” its sponsorship deal with oil giant Shell. British Cycling said the eight-year deal would bring “wide-ranging support and investment” to the sport. However, after announcing the deal on Monday, it has been accused of

Sarah Storey will lead a 27-strong British squad at the Para-cycling track World Championships as she returns from injuries sustained in an August crash. Storey, Britain’s most successful Paralympian with 17 golds, suffered broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung in the incident in Quebec, Canada. The 44-year-old will seek to defend her women’s C5

British Cycling has announced a sponsorship deal with oil company Shell. The partnership, which runs from this month until the end of 2030, will bring “wide-ranging support and investment”. This include initiatives to make cycling more accessible for disabled people and target a ‘net-zero’ status. “We’re looking forward to working alongside Shell UK to widen

Dates: 12-16 October Venue: Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button, BBC Three, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app. In any elite sport a champion elect needs every element of preparation to come together in the right moment. In track cycling, chasing that moment has to

The first combined UCI Cycling World Championships will be broadcast live across the BBC. The event in Scotland in August 2023 will host 13 world titles brought together in an 11-day event. Cycling’s world governing body the UCI will stage combined championships every four years ahead of an Olympic year. Chair of the event, Paul

Italy’s Filippo Ganna has smashed cycling’s hour world record – registering 56.792km in 60 minutes on a track in Switzerland. He beat the previous UCI mark, 55.548km, set by his Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Dan Bigham in August, by a margin of 1.244km. Ganna, 26, rode a specially designed 3D-printed Pinarello bike at the Tissot Velodrome

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Lombardy for a second time as Vincenzo Nibali and Alejandro Valverde bowed out of professional racing. The UAE Team Emirates rider out-sprinted Movistar’s Enric Mas after a gruelling 253km race, with Bahrain Victorious’s Mikel Landa claiming third, his first podium in a Monument – the big five one-day

The final World Tour race of the road cycling season marks the end of a classic year of racing. This year, Il Lombardia – or the ‘race of the falling leaves’ as it is known – also brings to an end the careers of two of the sport’s legends. At 37, it feels as if

Dates: 12-16 October Venue: Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button, BBC Three, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app. Five-time Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny and double Olympic champion Katie Archibald are among a 20-strong Great Britain squad for the Track Cycling World Championships in France.

Five-time Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins says it is vital to increase the safety of children in sport. Briton Wiggins, 42, revealed in April that he was groomed by a coach as a child and is urging people to support a new NSPCC safety initiative. The child protection charity said that the number of adults

Britain’s Olympic and world champion Beth Shriever finished third overall in the BMX World Cup despite finishing last in the eighth and final round. Dutch rider Laura Smulders claimed the overall women’s title ahead of Switzerland’s Zoe Claessens. Colombia’s Mariana Pajon Londono won the round eight final in front of a jubilant home crowd in

Olympic silver medallist Kye Whyte finished second in the BMX Racing World Cup in Bogota, Colombia. The 23-year-old crossed in 32.646 seconds behind France’s Joris Daudet. Daudet finished in 32.037secs with Ecuador’s Alfredo Campo third in 32.798secs. After seven rounds, Whyte is third in the overall World Cup standings on 1,738 points, with American Cameron

Journalist David Walsh reported on Lance Armstrong’s doping for over 12 years, claims the champion cyclist strongly denied. Walsh and The Sunday Times even faced being sued for libel for the claims. It wasn’t until 2013 that Armstrong finally admitted he did use performance enhancing drugs and promised TV presenter Oprah that he would apologise

Ukraine plans to hold its Track Cycling National Championships in the UK at the Geraint Thomas Velodrome of Wales. The decision to hold the event in Newport “is to allow Ukrainian elite track riders to have their National Championships in a safe place” due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Velodrome is free

Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel has pleaded guilty to assaulting two teenage girls in Sydney, Australia, the night before the men’s World Championship road race. The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider was charged with two counts of common assault and fined 1,500 Australian dollars (£909) after a confrontation with the girls, aged 13 and 14. His lawyer