Cycling

Available for over a year Ineos Grenadiers – formerly known as Team Sky – were the dominant team at cycling’s most famous race, the Tour de France, during the 2010s. Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal all claimed the yellow jersey while leading a squad of riders …

Pogacar’s triumph was his fourth win in five races this year, with three of them in Monuments – the five most prestigious, and difficult, one-day races in road cycling. The outlier was a second-placed finish at Paris-Roubaix last month. Despite this dominance, in Seixas he has a new rival who …

Colombian Cristian Camilo Munoz has died from a knee infection following a crash six days ago. The 30-year-old did not finish the Tour du Jura one-day race in France in which the accident occurred, and was treated by medics following the incident. He then travelled with his NU Colombia team …

Pidcock, who is famed in cycling for being a ‘demon descender’ – following his 2022 Tour de France stage win on Alpe d’Huez, in which he reached speeds of 100km/h – described the crash in March as “like one of these horror crashes you see… I [was] lucky I could …

Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno remains in a critical condition after suffering serious injuries in a collision with a vehicle last month. The 23-year-old, who finished 14th overall in last year’s Vuelta a Espana, was injured in a training ride on 31 March. Spanish media, external reported that Guardeno suffered a …

Lucinda Brand of the Netherlands collided with a spectator during the women’s Paris-Roubaix, which was won by Germany’s Franziska Koch. Brand, 36, of Lidl-Trek, was chasing the leaders through one of the infamous cobbled sectors of the notoriously fraught one-day ‘monument’ race in northern France, when she chose to ride …

Wout van Aert beat four-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar in a thrilling sprint finish to win the Paris-Roubaix title. Van Aert and Pogacar entered the famous Roubaix Velodrome together after breaking away from other contenders with about 50km of the 260km race remaining, before the Belgian unleashed a …

New Zealander cyclist Kiaan Watts has been banned for 25 days by cycling’s global governing body after he punched a fellow rider in the head during a race last month. Watts, 24, hit out at Dutchman Marijn Maas with 33km to go as the pair competed at the front of …

Available for over a year The famous Paris-Roubaix cycling race is now in its 130th year, with the next edition taking place on the 12 April. This year, the men’s riders will cover over 258 kilometres over a “hilly course”, that takes in the famous cobblestones. Lizzie Deignan won the …

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar won a record-equalling third Tour of Flanders in imperious fashion after dropping Mathieu van der Poel 18km from the finish. The 27-year-old has now won both Monument races this season, having triumphed at Milan-San Remo in March. Sunday’s victory draws Pogacar level with Van der Poel …

Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno is in intensive care after suffering serious injuries in a collision with a vehicle. The 23-year-old Spaniard finished 29th in the Tour of Catalonia last week and was 14th overall in last year’s Vuelta a Espana. Guardeno was injured during a training ride on Tuesday. His …

Britain’s Ethan Vernon won a sprint finish on a shortened stage four of the Volta a Catalunya. The 25-year-old NSN Cycling Team rider surged to the front on the run-in to the line in Camprodon and comfortably held off France’s Dorian Godon, with fellow Briton Tom Pidcock in third. Ineos …

Italian Debora Silvestri has been taken to hospital after a serious crash during the women’s Milan-San Remo one-day classic. The incident, in which a rider went over a barrier in trying to take avoiding action, happened on the descent of the famous Cipressa climb and involved a number of competitors. …

Tom Pidcock launched a late attack to win the Milano-Torino race on the 150th anniversary of the first edition of the world’s oldest classic. The Pinarello-Q36.5 rider was making his debut in the Italian one-day race and went clear during the final 600m to win its 106th edition. The 26-year-old …

“The latest forecasts make an arrival in the Auron resort unfeasible, with the rain-snow line estimated to be around 1,100 metres altitude,” said race organisers on Friday evening., external “The conditions do not allow the finish to be moved to another mountain top.” Denmark’s two-time Tour de France winner Jonas …

Strade Bianche starts and ends in Siena and features uneven gravel on Tuscany’s famous white, chalky roads, including the Monte Sante Marie section. Pogacar made his decisive move there, just as he did two years ago, and when Seixas attacked about 18km from the finish, only Del Toro went with …

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Matthew Brennan became the first Briton since cycling great Sir Mark Cavendish to win the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne one-day race in Belgium. The 20-year-old’s sprint finish was too much for his rivals as he surged to victory in the 195km race and followed Cavendish’s success in 2012 and 2015. “I’ve ridden this …

Fachie won double gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. With five gold medals and one silver, he is Team Scotland’s second most successful athlete. “Had it not been Glasgow I don’t think I would have been going,” he explained. “Yes, I have been drawn back in, purely because …

Fachie said: “In some ways it’s a bit of a surprise, given that I thought my cycling career might be over, but the lure of another Commonwealth Games in Scotland was pretty strong. “I’m both excited and a little nervous about getting back into race shape and being on that …