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Demi Vollering continued her remarkable season with a thrilling victory to win the women’s road race world title in Montreal. The Dutchwoman held off a late challenge from Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney to add another title to her collection, following wins at the Tour de France Femmes, Giro d’Italia Women and World …

Available for over a year If you’ve watched cycling on TV, you’ve probably seen people racing away from the rest of the pack, or peloton – then struggling alone for mile after mile, before eventually being caught again. It’s a hard, risky way to go for the victory, and doesn’t …

Ireland’s Eddie Dunbar won the 19th stage of the Vuelta a Espana as Spain’s Enric Mas maintained his overall lead with two stages remaining. Friday’s stage was a hilly slog of 210.8km from Velez-Malaga to Penas Blancas, with Dunbar, 30, catching and passing Santiago Buitrago 300 metres from the finish. …

Primoz Roglic moved into second in the general classification and closed the gap on leader Enric Mas by over 30 seconds as he finished fourth in the time trial on stage 18 at the Vuelta a Espana. The four-time Vuelta winner finished in a time of 35 minutes and 41 …

Great Britain’s Matthew Brennan continued his remarkable Grand Tour debut by sprinting to a fifth-stage victory at this year’s Vuelta a Espana. The 21-year-old Visma Lease-a-bike rider edged out Jordi Meeus and Magnus Cort in a bunch sprint to win the 17th stage of the Grand Tour in Seville. In …

Belgium’s Tim Wellens won the 2026 Tour of Britain as Nils Politt claimed victory on stage five. Wellens began the day with a 21 second lead over Great Britain’s Lewis Askey and extended that to 42 seconds as he finished eighth, 21 seconds behind German Politt, on the final stage. …

Spain’s Enric Mas extended his overall lead in the Vuelta a Espana with a late attack as Slovenia’s Jakob Omrzel won stage 12 to Calar Alto. Omrzel, 20, secured his first Grand Tour stage victory in imperious fashion, riding clear of his remaining breakaway companions on the 17km final climb …

Norway’s Andreas Leknessund secured an emotional first Grand Tour stage win as he led home a Norwegian one-two on stage seven of the Vuelta a Espana. The 27-year-old was part of the break from the start of the stage and after 137 kilometres he left behind his remaining companions on …

Tadej Pogacar recovered from a brief off-road excursion to outsprint Enric Mas and claim his third victory at this year’s Vuelta a Espana, but he was made to fight all the way to the line by the Spaniard on stage six. After attacking on the final climb and rapidly establishing …

The 2026 Mountain Bike World Championships are taking place in Italy this week and BBC Sport will be showing Sunday’s action live from Val di Sole. Coverage of the elite cross-country women’s and men’s events will be on iPlayer and the BBC Sport app and website. There is a strong …

Britain’s Matthew Brennan claimed his second win at the Vuelta a Espana in a sprint finish on stage five. The 21-year-old Visma–Lease a Bike rider comfortably held off Belgium’s Jordi Meeus and Italy’s Vincenzo Albanese on the run in to the line at the end of the 173.3km route into …

The third stage of the Vuelta a Espana was abandoned on Monday because of severe weather and hailstorms in the French Pyrenees. A severe hailstorm hit as the riders scaled the Col de Mont-Louis with 15km (9.32 miles) remaining of the 174km ride from Gruissan to Font-Romeu. Overall race leader …

Great Britain’s Matt Brennan sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday as overall race favourite Tadej Pogacar held on to the leader’s red jersey. The 21-year-old Brennan, riding his first Grand Tour, pounced in the final kilometres of the 214km ride from Monaco …

Australian rider Maeve Plouffe says she narrowly avoided being hit by a car during the first stage of the Tour Of Britain Women. The Netherlands’ Lorena Wiebes retained the leader’s green jersey with victory on stage two. Plouffe, 27, who rides for British continental team O’Shea Red Chilli Bikes, said …

Rui Oliveira won the final stage of the Volta a Portugal in his home city of Porto before dedicating the win to Finlay Tarling’s family. British rider Tarling, 19, died after an accident during stage eight of the race on Friday. The final two stages went ahead with the family’s …

British cyclist Finlay Tarling dies at the age of 19 in a serious accident during the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal. BBC News

Demi Vollering showed her prowess on the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes to become the first two-time winner of cycling’s most prestigious stage race. The Dutch FDJ-Suez rider won the penultimate stage to snatch the leader’s yellow jersey from Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney and carry an eight-second lead into …

Demi Vollering raced clear to win stage eight of the Tour de France Femmes and snatch the leader’s yellow jersey with just one stage remaining. The race lead has changed hands for the second day running, with Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney having won on Mont Ventoux to replace Marlen Reusser at the …

Tour de France Femmes stage six results 1. Kim Le Court (Mau, AG Insurance-Soudal) 4hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds 2. Cedrine Kerbaol (Fra, EF Education-Oatly) same time 3. Puck Pieterse (Ned, Fenix-Premier Tech) 4. Sarah Van Dam (Can, Visma-Lease A Bike) 5. Celia Gery (Fra, FDJ United-Suez) 6. Liana …

Available for over a year Tadej Pogacar has dominated the Tour de France once again, and now has his sights set on this year’s Vuelta a Espana – the only one of cycling’s triple crown races he’s yet to win. Few would bet against him taking that title too. But …