Cycling

Getty Images Dan Roan Sports editor @danroan 3 hours ago 254 Comments The Grand Depart of the men’s Tour de France is set to return to Great Britain in 2027, BBC Sport has learned. Britain last hosted the start of the world’s most famous cycling race in Yorkshire in 2014, when it began in Leeds,

GARY WEIGHTMAN Catherine Nicoll BBC Isle of Man 28 February 2025 Cycling legend Sir Mark Cavendish and equestrian Yasmin Ingham have taken the top honours at the Isle of Man Sports Awards. Cavendish also received a lifetime achievement award at the annual event, held at the Villa Marina on Thursday evening, following his retirement from

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport senior journalist 4 hours ago Tom Pidcock said goodbye to Ineos Grenadiers at a training camp in December in Denia, Spain, “on good terms” following a career-defining three years which ended with the 25-year-old being “no longer compatible” with one of cycling’s biggest and most successful teams. A couple

Getty Images 4 hours ago Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome suffered a broken collarbone in a crash at the UAE Tour. The 39-year-old Briton sustained the injury in a mass pile-up in the opening 10km of Sunday’s final stage. His team Israel-Premier Tech said: “A CT scan confirmed a fracture to the right

PA Media 23 February 2025 Lauren Bell and Matthew Richardson completed a hat-trick of sprint medals on the final day of the British Track Cycling Championships in Manchester. Scotland’s Bell won the women’s individual sprint to go with her team sprint and keirin victories, while England’s Richardson won the men’s keirin to complete the men’s

PA Media 22 February 2025 Anna Morris broke her own world record for the third time in a week to win the women’s 4km individual pursuit title at the British Track Championships in Manchester. The Welshwoman had broken her own record twice in one day when winning gold at last week’s European Track Cycling Championships.

SWpix 4 hours ago Matthew Richardson won the men’s sprint final on his debut at the British Track Cycling Championships in Manchester. The 25-year-old, who switched his allegiance to Great Britain after collecting two silver medals and a bronze for Australia at the Paris 2024 Olympics, beat Peter Mitchell to gold, with Marcus Hiley finishing

Getty Images 1 hour ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock sprinted clear on stage two of the Vuelta a Andalucia to claim his fourth victory of the season. After a sharp final climb Q36.5 rider Pidcock launched his sprint with 150m to go, with his former Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Brandon Rivera finishing second. Another ex-colleague, Pavel Sivakov,

Getty Images 6 hours ago The first stage of the Volta ao Algarve ended in chaotic scenes after a large part of the peloton headed the wrong way. Italy’s Filippo Ganna raised his arms in celebration after crossing the line first after many of his rivals mistakenly headed up the wrong side of the finishing

Getty Images 3 hours ago Welsh rider Josh Tarling won stage two of the UAE Tour to take the overall lead in the week-long race. Three days after his 21st birthday, the Ineos Grenadiers rider won a 12km test against the clock ahead of Switzerland’s Stefan Bissegger and three-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar.

19 hours ago Tom Williams BBC Sport, Norfolk Reporting fromNorwich BBC/Shaun Whitmore A teenage BMX racer’s dream of qualifying for the Olympics and winning a medal has been given a major boost. Jared Hill, 16, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, has been selected for the Great Britain Cycling Team Olympic Development Squad for 2025. Jared, whose

Getty Images 3 hours ago Former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal has broken his collarbone during the closing stages of a race in Spain. Ineos Grenadiers said their 28-year-old rider fractured his clavicle in a crash while competing in the Clasica Jaen-Paraiso Interior, which was won by Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski. “I was feeling really

9 hours ago Few elite sportspeople are more laid back and easy-going than Geraint Thomas. On the bike, though, it is a different story – as the Welshman’s success attests. The 2018 Tour de France winner and double Olympic track cycling champion is set to retire at the end of this season – and we

Getty Images Dafydd Pritchard BBC Sport Wales 1 hour ago Life as a cyclist is relentless, so after nearly 20 years of looking forward, eyes fixed on the road ahead, Geraint Thomas has not had much time to reflect on the past. Things are different now, though. This season will be Thomas’ last of a

Getty Images 6 hours ago Rhian Edmunds won keirin silver on the final day of the European Track Cycling Championships to help Great Britain finish third in the medal table. Wales’ Edmunds was pipped to gold by nine-thousandths of a second by Dutchwoman Steffie van der Peet in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. It was a third silver

SWPix 2 hours ago Britain’s Anna Morris broke the individual pursuit world record twice in one day as she claimed gold at the European Track Cycling Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. The Welshwoman first set a new world record time in the qualifiers, clocking four minutes 28.306 seconds. She then bettered that in the final, clocking

Getty Images 2 hours ago Josh Charlton powered to victory in the men’s individual pursuit to win Great Britain’s first gold medal of the 2025 European Championships in Belgium on Friday. World silver medallist Charlton overcame Portugal’s Ivo Manuel Alves Oliveira with a dominant display to claim his maiden elite European title. Charlton was joined

Getty Images 45 minutes ago Great Britain won silver and bronze medals in the team pursuit events on day two of the European Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. The men’s quartet of Josh Charlton, Michael Gill, Noah Hobbs and Rhys Britton battled hard in the gold medal ride-off with world champions Denmark, but fell half a