Cycling

Track cyclist Grace Lister will travel with greater expectations when she heads to her second Commonwealth Games next month. The 22-year-old from Shrewsbury was last week named in a 23-strong England cycling squad for the Games, which begin in Glasgow on 23 July. Lister finished 14th in both the individual …

“You don’t know whether it is the last time you ride your bike. “Everything can change very quickly and I think that was something we were always pretty aware of, both me and my sister, and I think, even with school and stuff, we knew we needed to apply ourselves …

Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl retained their road race title as Great Britain won 18 medals, including three golds, at the 2026 UEC Para-cycling Road European Championships in Italy. Unwin, who is visually impaired, and Holl won road race gold at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, as well as the …

The opening leg will start and finish in Lincoln, before heading to the coast for the second stage between Boston and Skegness. The race then moves to Hull, before heading into the Wolds for the finish in Beverley, East Yorkshire. North Yorkshire then hosts stage four, starting in Helmsley and …

Belgium’s Wout van Aert is set to miss next month’s Tour de France with an elbow injury. The 31-year-old, who won the Paris-Roubaix in April, is a key rider for his team Visma alongside four-time Grand Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard. Van Aert suffered the injury after falling in training before …

Slovenian rider Urska Zigart broke her jaw in a heavy crash at the start of the final kilometre of stage two of the Tour de Suisse Femmes in Locarno on Thursday. Zigart lost control riding at high speed over a speedbump and crashed hard on to the ground, rolling and …

Stage four on Saturday will see the riders take on a 24km time trial and Backstedt, winner of five time trials so far in her short career, will be among the favourites to take back-to-back victories. “Tomorrow will be super brutal with the heat,” she said. “Every day has been …

Tadej Pogacar and Marlen Reusser secured the Tour de Suisse titles as each won the final stage of their respective races on Sunday. World champion Pogacar was competing in the men’s race for the first time and led Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz by more than four minutes heading into the fifth …

Tadej Pogacar and Marlen Reusser secured the Tour de Suisse titles as each won the final stage of their respective races on Sunday. World champion Pogacar was competing in the men’s race for the first time and led Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz by more than four minutes heading into the fifth …

Track cyclist Grace Lister will travel with greater expectations when she heads to her second Commonwealth Games next month. The 22-year-old from Shrewsbury was last week named in a 23-strong England cycling squad for the Games, which begin in Glasgow on 23 July. Lister finished 14th in both the individual …

Antonia Niedermaier became the virtual leader, attacking with 80km to go, with Elisa Longo Borghini and Niamh Fisher-Black joining her to form a breakaway group. But Vollering then dropped Van der Breggen with 39km remaining on the Colletta di Brondello, the final climb of the race, and reached the lead …

Demi Vollering claimed victory on a shortened queen stage of the women’s Giro d’Italia on Saturday but admitted it was the “weirdest finish line of my life”. A summit finish in Sestriere had been scheduled for the eighth and penultimate stage, but organisers reduced the route by 28 kilometres as …

Elisa Balsamo won her fourth sprint victory in four opportunities at the Giro d’Italia Women, finishing ahead of Maggie Coles-Lyster and Georgia Baker on stage six. The Italian was launched by team-mate Lucinda Brand, overtaking Coles-Lyster with 50m to go after the Canadian started a bunch sprint to the finish. …

“It’s completely changed how I think about it. I thought I’d be coming into this in a great place and trying to get that gold medal. But having had that time off, you just completely rethink it. “It’s frustrating knowing what I would like to do versus where I’m actually …

Demi Vollering won stage five of the women’s Giro d’Italia as Anna van der Breggen retained the overall leader’s pink jersey. Dutch rider Vollering pipped her compatriot to the line in a four-way sprint at the end of the first mountain stage of this year’s race, with Germany’s Antonia Niedermaier …

Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen claimed victory in the 12.7km individual time trial to take the leader’s pink jersey at the women’s Giro d’Italia. The four-time Giro champion won stage four in 31 minutes and 38 seconds, with world time trial champion Marlen Reusser one minute and fours seconds …

Overnight leader Elisa Balsamo strengthened her position at the top of the women’s Giro d’Italia standings by winning the second stage with a perfectly timed sprint in Caorle. Balsamo, 28, was handed a win in Saturday’s opening stage after Lorena Wiebes was disqualified for a bike weight violation, just hours …

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard launched an attack during the tough final climb to clinch victory in Saturday’s stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia. It ensures the 29-year-old from Denmark will win the race as long as he safely finishes Sunday’s final stage in Rome and become just the eighth man …

Denmark’s Michael Valgren secured his first Grand Tour stage win of the Giro d’Italia in a nail-biting final 3km challenge to the finish line. “That’s for my son,” he said as he collapsed to the floor at stage 17’s finish line, holding up a green model his son had built …

Norway’s Fredrik Dversnes won stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia after the final lap in Milan was neutralised because of rider complaints about the race conditions. The 29-year-old Uno-X Mobility rider was rewarded for his breakaway and crossed the line for the biggest win of his career, ahead of three …