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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

Josie Knight and Will Perrett won silver and bronze medals for Great Britain on day four of the UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen. Knight, 25, won silver in the women’s individual pursuit after being beaten by Germany’s Franziska Brausse by more than three seconds in the final. In the men’s omnium, Perrett won bronze

Great Britain’s Katie Archibald and Oliver Wood won gold in the women’s omnium and men’s scratch race at the UEC European Track Championships. Olympic champion Archibald dominated from start to finish in her four-race event to win a 19th European title. Wood powered clear on the final lap of the 15km race to add to

Great Britain won women’s gold and men’s silver in the team pursuit at the UEC European Track Championships. Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Neah Evans and Katie Archibald beat world champions Italy by more than two seconds over the four-kilometre mark. Oliver Wood, Ethan Vernon, Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham lost to Italy, the Olympic champions,

Great Britain made a winning start to the UEC European Track Championships by securing two medals on the opening day. The women’s team of Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane and Lauren Bell pushed Germany all the way in sprint final but had to settle for silver. Ali Fielding, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin lost to the

Getty Images Two men have been jailed for a knifepoint robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish. Romario Henry, 31, of south-east London, and Ali Sesay, 28, of Kent, broke into Mr Cavendish’s home in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021. Henry, who denied the crime, was found guilty of two counts

British rider Zoe Backstedt won silver in the women’s under-23 race at the Cyclo-cross World Championships. The Netherlands’ Shirin van Anrooij, 21, sealed a dominant victory to take the rainbow jersey in Hoogerheide. She beat 18-year-old Welsh rider Backstedt by 33 seconds at the end of the 45-minute race, with Czech Kristyna Zemanova in third