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Mark Cavendish has crashed out of what is set to be his final Tour de France before retirement. The 38-year-old Manxman was involved in an innocuous crash 60km from the finish of the race’s eighth stage – a 200.7km run from Libourne and Limoges. Widely regarded as cycling’s greatest sprinter of all time, Cavendish came

Blanka Vas won a sprint finish to claim victory on stage eight of the Giro d’Italia Donne. The Hungarian rider timed her surge just right as she beat second-placed Chloe Dygert and Liane Lippert, in third, to the finishing line. Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten retained a comfortable advantage of nearly four minutes in overall

Jasper Philipsen denied Mark Cavendish a record 35th stage win at the Tour de France with victory in Bordeaux. Britain’s Cavendish surged into the lead in the final sprint on Friday before Philipsen powered past him in sight of the line on stage seven. Cavendish jointly holds the record for most Tour stage wins on

Annemiek van Vleuten continued her dominance of the Giro d’Italia Donne with an impressive victory in stage seven. The defending champion powered away from France’s Juliette Labous and Italy’s Gaia Realini with 1.8km to go, landing a third stage win of the race. She finished 13 seconds ahead of Labous, with Realini taking third. Van

Last updated on Less than a minute agoLess than a minute ago.From the section Cycling Tadej Pogacar produced a stunning attack on the final climb to Cauterets-Cambasque as he soloed clear of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard to win stage six of the Tour de France. It was a superb response from Pogacar, who lost over

Annemiek van Vleuten won stage six of the Giro d’Italia Donne as she extended her overall lead. The defending champion, from the Netherlands, powered away from the peloton to take victory on the 104.4km run in Canelli. Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes was second after she beat Germany’s Liane Lippert, who was third, to the finishing

Australian Jai Hindley won stage five of his debut Tour de France to take the overall leader’s yellow jersey from Britain’s Adam Yates. Hindley, winner of last year’s Giro d’Italia, claimed a breakaway victory by 32 seconds over the chasing pack. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard opened up a lead over two-time winner Tadej Pogacar on

Jasper Philipsen won for the second day in a row amid a chaotic finish to stage four of the Tour de France. The Belgian edged out Australia’s Caleb Ewan with Germany’s Phil Bauhaus third. The final three kilometres of a relatively flat stage were on the Nogaro motor racing circuit, with a wide, straight 800m

Antonia Niedermaier fended off a late charge from overall race leader Annemiek van Vleuten to win stage five of the Giro d’Italia Donne. The German sprinted to victory ahead of defending champion Van Vleuten and New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black. The 20-year-old timed her race to perfection as Van Vleuten and stage four winner Elisa Longo

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory on stage three of the Tour de France as Britain’s Adam Yates retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Philipsen, 25, edged out Germany’s Phil Bauhaus with Australia’s Caleb Ewan in third in the first bunch-sprint finish of this year’s Tour. Britain’s Mark Cavendish was in sixth as the race crossed

Elisa Longo Borghini edged a three-way sprint to the line to claim victory on stage four of the Giro d’Italia Donne. The Italian, 31, took an emotional win on home soil ahead of Veronica Ewers, with overall race leader and defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten third. Longo Borghini became both Italy’s road race and time-trial

Lorena Wiebes perfectly timed her sprint to beat three-time champion Marianne Vos in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia Donne. The 24-year-old Dutch Team SD Worx rider made her move 150 metres from the finish line in Modena. Her compatriot Vos was second and American Chloe Dygert third in the bunch sprint. Defending champion

Frenchman Victor Lafay produced a brilliantly timed attack to win the second stage of the Tour de France. Belgium’s Wout van Aert had appeared perfectly placed to take the 208.9km stage, which ended in San Sebastian. But Lafay burst clear with 900m to go and Van Aert was left banging his handlebars in frustration after

Britain’s Adam Yates beat identical twin brother Simon to win stage one of the Tour de France in Bilbao, Spain and take the leader’s yellow jersey. UAE Team Emirates’ Adam, 30, pulled away from Jayco AlUla rider Simon in the final stages of the uphill finish to win his first ever Tour stage. Two-time winner

Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten got the defence of her Giro d’Italia Donne off to the perfect start with a 100th career win in Saturday’s second stage. The three-time champion became the Giro’s oldest stage winner – aged 40 years and 266 days – after a superb solo effort. She broke over the Passo della

The riders of the 110th Tour de France were presented in front of an enthusiastic crowd outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. But the team presentations began under grey, drizzly skies with Bahrain-Victorious, and a period of silence to remember their rider Gino Mader: the Swiss 26-year-old who was killed a fortnight ago in his home race,

Dates:1 July – 23 July Coverage: Live text commentary on each stage on the BBC Sport website and app The Tour de France starts on Saturday in Bilbao – with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and two-time winner Tadej Pogacar expected to battle it out for victory in cycling’s greatest race. But will anyone else be

Eritrean Biniam Girmay can bring cycling to “every single country in Africa”, according to his former coach Jean-Jacques Henry. International Cycling Union’s (UCI) Jean-Jacques Henry was Girmay’s first coach in Europe and believes more success awaits at the Tour de France which gets under way on 1 July in Bilbao. “The general classification, I don’t