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Britain’s Ethan Hayter won the opening stage of the Tour of the Basque Country to take the early race lead. The Ineos Grenadiers rider, 24, clinched the victory on a short sprint after a leadout from team-mate Omar Fraile in Labastida, Spain. It is the Londoner’s first stage win of the season and 17th as

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Flanders to become the first male cyclist since 1975 to win both the prestigious one-day race and the Tour de France. Pogacar is the third Tour winner to triumph in Flanders after France’s Louison Bobet (1955) and Belgian great Eddy Merckx (1975). “It was amazing. It’s a day

The Women’s Tour will not take place this year after organisers failed to find the funding required for the race. They said last month sponsorship was “urgently needed” for the British event and started a crowdfunding campaign. But now organisers say it has “proved impossible to deliver the event” because of “increased running costs and

Britain’s Pfeiffer Georgi took a fine solo victory at the Classic Brugge-De Panne two and a half years after breaking her back in the same race. Georgi, 22, kicked clear of a six-rider breakaway group with 7km to go and crossed the line one minutes 10 seconds before the chasing pack in Belgium. She had

Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel won the prestigious Milan-San Remo 62 years after his grandfather with a late solo attack. The 28-year-old broke away on the Poggio di San Remo summit with little more than five kilometres remaining. Italy’s Filippo Ganna was second, 15 seconds back, pipping third-place Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar

Britain’s Tom Pidcock will miss the Milan-San Remo race on Saturday with concussion. The Ineos Grenadiers rider, who won the Strade Bianche classic earlier this month, crashed out of Sunday’s final stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico. “This is obviously disappointing for both Tom and team,” said deputy team principal Rod Ellingworth. “We saw at Strade Bianche

Tadej Pogacar clinched victory in the Paris-Nice race on Sunday while fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic won the Tirreno-Adriatico. Two-time Tour de France winner Pogacar was racing in the eight-day event for the first time and won his third stage of this year’s event. He finished alone to beat France’s David Gaudu by 53 seconds, with

Organisers of the Women’s Tour have said that funding is “urgently required” for this year’s event. A £500,000 shortfall must be filled by mid-April or the race could be cancelled, the Press Association reports. Organisers announced the route on Thursday but warned that fresh sponsorship is needed. The race went ahead without a title sponsor

Britain’s Tom Pidcock says winning Strade Bianche is the greatest achievement of his career. The Ineos Grenadiers rider took a commanding breakaway victory at the famous one-day race across Tuscany in Italy on Saturday. Pidcock, 23, also won a stage of the Tour de France on Alpe d’Huez, one of cycling’s legendary climbs, last year.

It’s a scorching hot June afternoon in the middle of an Italian heatwave. There hasn’t been any rain for a month. But grey clouds are slowly rolling in and the humidity is rising fast. A storm is brewing. The kind that only happens once a summer here. Two sisters are in the foothills of the

Britain’s Tom Pidcock claimed a superb solo win in the prestigious Strade Bianche one-day classic in Italy. Ineos Grenadiers rider Pidcock, 23, attacked from the peloton with about 50km remaining to join a breakaway group up the road. He kicked clear with 20km to go and held off the chasers to cross the line alone

Getty Images Professional cyclist Antonio Tiberi has been fined and suspended from his team for shooting dead a minister’s cat in San Marino. The 21-year-old rider reportedly said he was trying out an air rifle and pointed it at the cat’s head and fired. The ill-fated feline belonged to his neighbour, San Marino’s tourism and

Britain’s Adam Yates won the seventh and final stage of the UAE Tour on Sunday as Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel claimed overall victory by 59 seconds. UAE-Team Emirates rider Yates, 30, made it to the mountain finish at Jebel Hafeet 10 seconds ahead of Evenepoel. The success pushed Yates up to third overall, one second behind

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has said that competing in the ongoing Tour du Rwanda has rekindled memories of his childhood growing up in Nairobi, the city where he discovered cycling. The hugely successful road cyclist, who has also claimed two Olympic bronze medals competing for Great Britain, was raised in Kenya and

Britain’s Tom Pidcock slipped from first to seventh on the final day of the Tour of Algarve as Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Dani Martinez won the title. Pidcock won the penultimate stage four to hold the overall lead but his time-trial inexperience showed as he placed 19th in the race against the clock. Colombia’s Martinez finished

Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock took the overall lead of the Tour of Algarve by winning stage four. The Ineos Grenadiers rider led a three-man breakaway up the Alto do Malhao in Portugal, before sprinting away to take the leader’s jersey. Pidcock, 23, leads by five seconds from Soudal-Quick-Step’s Ilan van Wilder with UAE Team Emirates’

George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images Tributes have been paid to cyclist Eileen Sheridan – who “blazed a trail for countless female riders” – following her death at the age of 99. The Coventry resident broke all 21 of the Women’s Road Records Association records, with five of them yet to be beaten, British Cycling said.

Katie Archibald won her 20th European title as she and Great Britain team-mate Elinor Barker clinched madison gold in Grenchen. The pair dominated the 120-lap race, finishing with 38 points – 13 more than silver medallists France, while Italy won bronze with 19. Archibald and Barker now have 30 European titles between them. Elsewhere on