Cycling

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

Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel claimed the World Championship road race title after producing a stunning solo breakaway win in Australia. It caps off an incredible season for the 22-year-old, who became Belgium’s first Grand Tour champion in 44 years when he won the Vuelta a Espana. He finished two minutes and 21 seconds ahead of France’s

Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel was arrested and charged with assaulting two teenagers in Sydney the night before the men’s World Championship road race. The 27-year-old, a Tour de France stage winner, was among the favourites to win Sunday’s race in Wollongong. He was charged with two counts of common assault after police were

Venue: Wollongong, Australia Dates: 18-25 September Coverage: Live coverage on Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app plus highlights on BBC Two Annemiek van Vleuten claimed victory in the women’s road race at the Road World Championships despite riding with a fractured elbow. The 39-year-old Dutchwoman injured her right elbow in

Venue: Wollongong, Australia Dates: 18-25 September Coverage: Live coverage on Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app plus highlights on BBC Two Great Britain’s Zoe Backstedt won the junior road race to complete a golden double at the Road Cycling World Championships in Australia. The 2021 winner attacked early to successfully

Venue: Wollongong, Australia Dates: 18-25 September Coverage: Live coverage on Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app plus highlights on BBC Two Annemiek van Vleuten will ride in the women’s road race at the Road World Championships in Australia on Saturday despite fracturing an elbow. Doctors said the Olympic time trial