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Matthew Brennan powered to victory in a sprint finish on stage three of the Tour of Britain. The 20-year-old British rider benefited from a lead-out from his Visma-Lease a Bike team-mate and race leader Olav Kooij, coming through to cross the line first in a frantic finale on the 122.8km …

Dutch rider Olav Kooij sealed back-to-back victories at the Tour of Britain by winning a sprint finish on stage two. The Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider went round the outside of Great Britain’s Sam Watson on the final corner on the way to winning the 174.06km stage in wet weather …

Dutch rider Olav Kooij won the opening stage of the Tour of Britain after fending off a strong challenge from Tord Gudmestad. The pair went toe-to-toe in the closing stage of the 167.6km route between Woodbridge and Southwold. But the 23-year-old Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider crossed the finish line …

Australian Jay Vine secured his second stage win of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday as Jonas Vingegaard regained the overall lead. After Movistar’s Pablo Castrillo had attacked the remaining members of the breakaway on the final climb, he was reeled in by Vine. The 29-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG …

There are people and there is leadership, but numbers are becoming ever more influential in assessing performances and deciding who truly is the best of the best. Speed, distances, heart rate, VO2 max aerobic capacity tests, biomechanics, injury risk, sleep, mood, stress, positions, heat maps, formations – it is too …

Fin Graham won his fourth successive road race World Championship title as Great Britain’s Para-cyclists brought home nine medals from Belgium. Graham, 25, launched an attack inside the final kilometre and held off France’s Thomas Peyroton Dartet to retain his C3 crown. His victory came two days after he won …

Jonas Vingegaard won stage nine of the Vuelta a Espana with a solo attack to narrow the gap to overall leader Torstein Traeen to just 37 seconds. The two-time Tour de France winner shaved two minutes off Traeen’s lead in the ride from Alfaro to the Valdezcaray ski resort, landing …

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage eight. The Alpecin–Deceuninck rider edged out Italy’s Elia Viviani (Lotto) and Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) of Great Britain in a photo finish on the 163.5km stage from Monzon Templario to Zaragoza. “I had to …

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is “in good spirits” after surgery following a serious crash which left him with multiple injuries. The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to hospital on Wednesday after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash in …

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is “in good spirits” after surgery following a serious crash which left him with multiple injuries. The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to hospital on Wednesday after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash in …

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is “in good spirits” after surgery following a serious crash which left him with multiple injuries. The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to hospital on Wednesday after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash in …

Getty Images The autocorrect error appeared on the British Cycling website promoting a junior road race in Powys Britain’s official cycling body has apologised after accidentally censoring the name of a small Welsh village on its event listing. Three Cocks, in Powys, hosted two stages of a junior road race …

Spain’s Juan Ayuso claimed victory on stage seven of the Vuelta a Espana as he bounced back from his struggles in the Pyrenees a day earlier. Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was dropped on the final climb in the first mountain stage of this year’s race on Thursday and lost significant …

Spain’s Juan Ayuso claimed victory on stage seven of the Vuelta a Espana as he bounced back from his struggles in the Pyrenees a day earlier. Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was dropped on the final climb in the first mountain stage of this year’s race on Thursday and lost significant …

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is “in good spirits” after surgery following a serious crash which left him with multiple injuries. The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to hospital on Wednesday after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash in …

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome is “in good spirits” after surgery following a serious crash which left him with multiple injuries. The 40-year-old Briton was airlifted to hospital on Wednesday after sustaining five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a lumbar vertebrae fracture in the training crash in …

Jay Vine powered to victory in stage six of the Vuelta a Espana as Torstein Traeen came second to take the overall race lead. Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) led a solo attack in the final 20km after breaking away from a 10-man group which got away early on the 170.3km …

Jonas Vingegaard reclaimed the red jersey at the Vuelta a Espana as his Visma-Lease a Bike outfit came second in the team time trial on stage five. They finished eight seconds behind UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who took the stage victory in Figueres by covering the 24.1km course in 25 minutes …

Sunday’s stage was the second of four starting in Italy before the Vuelta heads into Spain and although it is early for Vingegaard to go into the lead, he said: “You’re not going to let a stage win pass so when I saw the opportunity, of course I’ll take it. …

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen will wear the first red jersey of this year’s Vuelta a Espana after winning the opening stage in a sprint finish. It is the Belgian’s first stage victory since the opening day of the Tour de France at the start of July, two days before a broken …