Cycling

Getty Images 5 September 2024 Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert will miss the rest of this season after Tuesday’s crash during the Vuelta a Espana. Visma Lease a Bike rider Van Aert will require “intensive care” after he suffered a serious knee injury, causing him to abandon the race. The 29-year-old got back on his

Getty Images 5 September 2024 Wales’ Stevie Williams won a second consecutive Tour of Britain stage after a burst for the line in Barnsley. Thursday’s stage three was a 166.1km hilly route starting in Sheffield, taking in the edge of the Peak District, Rotherham and Doncaster. The Israel–Premier Tech rider, 28, narrowly beat a host

Getty Images 42 minutes ago Australia’s Kaden Groves sprinted to his third victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage 17 in Santander. Ben O’Connor maintained his five-second advantage over Primoz Roglic in the leader’s red jersey as they finished safely together in the bunch. But it was a nervous day for the peloton

SWpix.com 4 September 2024 Wales’ Stephen Williams outsprinted Julian Alaphilippe to win stage two of the Tour of Britain in Redcar and claim the overall lead. Israel–Premier Tech rider Williams held off France’s two-time world road race champion Alaphilippe and Britain’s Oscar Onley as a three-man breakaway contested the finish to the 152.1km stage from

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist in Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris 4 September 2024, 07:36 BST Updated 3 hours ago Britain’s Sarah Storey described the Paris Paralympics cycling time trial course as “appalling” after winning her 18th Games gold medal. Storey won the women’s road event for a fifth successive Paralympics on a C5 event course

SWpix 7 hours ago French rider Paul Magnier sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Britain 2024. The 20-year-old Soudal Quick-Step rider hit the front with 150m to go and held off the challenge of Britain’s Ethan Vernon (Israel – Premier Tech) in second. Vernon’s compatriot Bob Donaldson (Trinity Racing) was

Getty Images 2 hours ago Green jersey holder Wout van Aert had to abandon the Vuelta a Espana after crashing on stage 16 as Spanish rider Marc Soler won a tricky mountainous stage. UAE Team Emirates’ Soler finished 18 seconds ahead of Italian Filippo Zana to claim his stage win. Meanwhile, general classification leader Ben

Sophie Hurcom BBC Sport England Sitting on a bike and pedalling is something Simon van Velthooven has done for countless kilometres and hours during his cycling career. He has done it well, winning Olympic, World and Commonwealth medals on the track. He still pedals a bike for a living, but the New Zealander’s life as

Getty Images 3 hours ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock was unable to retain his UCI MTB World Championships cross-country title, taking bronze as South Africa’s Alan Hatherly claimed gold in Andorra. Hatherly, 28, who was third behind Olympic champion Pidcock and Victor Koretzky in Paris, led from the fourth lap and held off the Frenchman to

Getty Images 1 September 2024 Pablo Castrillo claimed his second victory in the mountains on stage 15 of the Vuelta a Espana, as Primoz Roglic closed on overall leader Ben O’Connor in the race for the red jersey. The Spaniard broke clear towards the end of the last climb and held off Russian rider Aleksandr

PA Martin Dowden BBC Sport Scotland in Paris 1 September 2024 Neil Fachie had disappointment oozing out of every pore in the almost-overwhelming heat of the Velodrome National in Paris, after coming up just short in his attempt to defend his Paralympic title. Gold in the men’s B 1,000m time trial went to his Great

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome, Paris 1 hour ago Great Britain are targeting five medals, including three golds, on the final day of track cycling at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. James Ball beat team-mate Neil Fachie to gold in the men’s B 1000m time trial, with Ball having finished

Getty Images 9 hours ago Australian rider Kaden Groves beat green jersey holder Wout van Aert in an uphill finish to win stage 14 of the Vuelta a Espana, while overall leader Ben O’Connor maintained his advantage over Primoz Roglic. Belgian Van Aert, who heads the Vuelta points classification from Groves, lost out in the

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome, Paris 3 hours ago Archie Atkinson suffered a dramatic fall in the final stages of the C4 4,000m individual pursuit final as the British rider won Paralympic silver in Paris. The 20-year-old – the youngest member of GB’s cycling squad – appeared on course

Getty Images 2 hours ago Great Britain’s Evie Richards held off Olympic champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot to win the women’s cross-country short track race at the Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra. France’s Ferrand-Prevot took the lead on the final climb but Richards, 27, claimed the world title with her power proving too much for her

Getty Images 4 hours ago Canada’s Michael Woods won stage 13 of the Vuelta a Espana as Primoz Roglic gained significant ground on race leader Ben O’Connor in the battle for the red jersey. On a difficult day in the mountains of north-western Spain, Israel-Premier Tech’s Woods made a decisive late surge away from the

Getty Images Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome 4 minutes ago Blaine Hunt got a potential Great Britain medal rush in the cycling under way on day two of the 2024 Paralympics as he won silver in the men’s C4-5 1,000m time trial. Making his Paralympic debut at 35, Hunt’s final time of

Getty Images 7 hours ago Pablo Castrillo claimed the biggest win of his career with a brilliant summit finish to beat Britain’s Max Poole on stage 12 of the Vuelta a Espana. The 23-year-old Equipo Kern Pharma rider, making his Grand Tour debut, approached the final kilometre with a lead of around half a minute