Cycling

Tom Pidcock won his maiden Tour de France stage in style with a solo victory atop the iconic Alpe d’Huez. Four-time winner Chris Froome and fellow Briton Pidcock were part of a five-man breakaway during stage 12. And Pidcock, making his Tour debut aged 22 for Ineos Grenadiers, became the youngest winner on the Alpe

Jonas Vingegaard launched a stunning attack on the final climb of stage 11 to claim the Tour de France lead from defending champion Tadej Pogacar. The 152km mountain stage from Albertville was set to be Pogacar’s biggest test yet in this year’s race. And Jumbo-Visma’s Vingegaard, who was 39 seconds adrift of Pogacar in third,

Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald has announced she will not ride at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as she recovers from a series of injuries. The 28-year-old Scot won the madison with Laura Kenny in Tokyo last year, along with silver in the team pursuit. Archibald won gold and silver medals at Gold Coast 2018

Climate activists forced a 10-minute delay during the 10th stage of the Tour de France after trying to stop riders on the road. The race was paused 36km from the finish as the protestors sat on the road, with one of them wearing a t-shirt saying “We have 989 days left”. The activists were eventually

Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels claimed his first Tour de France stage win on stage nine on Sunday. The AG2R Citroen rider went solo off the penultimate categorised climb and stayed in front for the remaining 60km. He held off a late counter-attack from France’s Thibaut Pinot, who ended up finishing fourth behind Spaniards Jonathan Castroviejo and

Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten has won her third Giro d’Italia Donne title after the final stage was claimed by Italy’s Chiara Consonni. Van Vleuten, 39, who rides for Movistar and was Giro champion in 2018 and 2019, won two stages in this year’s race. She finished one minute and 52 seconds ahead of Italy’s

Belgium’s Wout van Aert sprinted to his second stage victory of this year’s Tour de France as Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead on stage eight. Jumbo-Visma’s Van Aert hung on up a category three climb to the finish to edge out Australia’s Michael Matthews. Pogacar finished third to extend his yellow jersey lead

Tadej Pogacar edged out Jonas Vingegaard to win a hugely exciting stage seven and extend his overall lead at the Tour de France. The two-time defending champion pipped the Dane in the last 20 metres to take his second consecutive stage victory. Pogacar and Vingegaard broke away from Lennard Kamna, who succumbed to the punishing

Tadej Pogacar sprinted away at the finish to win stage six and move into the overall lead at the Tour de France. The defending champion attacked at the top of the short climb into Longwy, pulling away from the peloton to finish ahead of Michael Matthews and David Gaudu. Britain’s Tour debutant Tom Pidcock finished

Australia’s Simon Clarke claimed his first victory at the Tour de France by triumphing on stage five. Clarke, 35, beat Dutchman Taco Van der Hoorn with a lunge on the line in a thrilling sprint finish which featured 20km of cobbles in the closing stages. Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen finished in third place, two seconds

Wout van Aert’s sensational escape in the final 10km of stage four gave him his first win at this year’s Tour de France and extended his overall lead. The Belgian had finished second in each of the first three stages of this year’s race but this time his plan worked to perfection. A breathtaking attack

Dylan Groenewegen snatched victory in a thrilling photo finish to stage three of this year’s Tour de France. Wout van Aert took the lead as he sprinted for the line in Sonderborg but Dutch rider Groenewegen, 29, made a late surge to edge his sixth Tour win. That capped a flat 182km route from Vejle

Riders and staff at Belgium’s Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl team have expressed concerns they could catch Covid-19 after two more staff members tested positive. Fabio Jakobsen won Saturday’s sprint to Nyborg, and team-mate Yves Lampaert claimed the yellow jersey in stage one. But Lampaert said he was afraid he could have Covid after “hugging about 20

Fabio Jakobsen edged a thrilling sprint finish to win stage two of the Tour de France in Denmark. The Dutch rider, making his Tour debut, beat Wout van Aert in Nyborg after a flat 202.5km route from Roskilde. Jakobsen, 25, only returned to cycling 15 months ago after suffering serious injuries at the 2020 Tour

Alejandro Valverde has avoided serious injury in an incident during a training ride on Saturday. Movistar confirmedexternal-link that Valverde, 42, suffered “no fractures or serious injuries” and will remain under observation for 24 hours. The team added that the Spanish rider’s training partner “is also OK”. “Luckily everything has been a scare and I’m fine,”

Yves Lampaert won stage one of the Tour de France as defending champion Tadej Pogacar took time out of his main rivals in the opening individual time trial in Copenhagen. Lampaert rode superbly to negotiate the damp conditions and finish five seconds clear of fellow Belgian Wout van Aert. Pogacar was a further two seconds

Police say 14 locations across six countries have been searched as they investigate possible doping offences in cycling. Officers from France, Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Poland and Slovenia were involved in the raids which took place between 27-30 June. They were co-ordinated by European crime agencies Europolexternal-link and Eurojust.external-link The searches came just days before

Geraint Thomas tells BBC Sport Wales he is looking forward to a big summer ahead as he targets success at the Tour de France and Commonwealth Games. Ahead of his 12th Tour, the 36-year-old believes he has ‘nothing to prove’ and says he would love to win a stage or be up there in the