Cycling

French cyclist Julien Bernard has given a light-hearted apology after being fined for kissing his wife during a Tour de France time trial. The Lidl-Trek rider was made to pay 200 Swiss francs ($223; £174) by the International Cycling Union (ICU) for stopping briefly during stage seven of the race. The governing body said the

Getty Images 5 July 2024, 16:59 BST Comments Updated 39 minutes ago Remco Evenepoel claimed his first victory at the Tour de France in stage seven’s individual time-trial as Tadej Pogacar held on to the leader’s yellow jersey. The Belgian, who is the current world time trial champion, underlined his credentials as one of the

Getty Images Tyrone Smith BBC Sport Scotland senior reporter 1 hour ago It’s 2017. Neah Evans has just qualified as a vet. She’s started a new job in a good practice. Life looks like it is unfolding nicely in front of her. “Then she says, ‘nah, you know what, let’s give cycling a shot’.” Brother

EPA Ben Collins BBC Sport journalist 4 July 2024, 17:02 BST Comments Updated 5 hours ago Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen clinched victory in a thrilling photo finish to win stage six of the Tour de France. The flat 163.5km route from Macon to Dijon was always likely to end in a bunch sprint, following Mark

Getty Images 3 minutes ago Lizzie Deignan will become the first female British cyclist to compete at four Olympic Games after being selected by Team GB for Paris 2024. Deignan, who won road race silver at London 2012 and competed in Rio and Tokyo, has been named in a four-strong women’s road squad alongside national

Getty Images 4 July 2024 Track cycling and Great Britain have one of the most fruitful relationships in Olympic history. Team GB have won 78 medals on the track, with 33 of those being gold. The likes of Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and Jason and Laura Kenny have become some of the most decorated Olympians

Steven Sutcliffe BBC Sport journalist 1 hour ago Mark Cavendish was determined – perhaps destined – to break the Tour de France stage wins record. Last year was supposed to be his 14th and final Tour, but the dream of ending his career with the outright record motivated him to delay his retirement and make

Getty Images Harry Poole BBC Sport journalist 54 minutes ago Comments Mark Cavendish broke the Tour de France stage wins record as he took his 35th victory in cycling’s greatest race to surpass the legendary Eddy Merckx with a sensational sprint finish in Saint Vulbas. Contesting what is expected to be his final Tour, the

Getty Images Thomas Duncan BBC Sport Scotland 11 minutes ago Jack Carlin has a problem. To win Olympic gold, he has to get the better of the man who he describes as “probably the best track sprinter of all time”. Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen – the defending champion in the team and individual sprint – has

3 minutes ago Comments Tadej Pogacar regained the leader’s yellow jersey in thrilling fashion as he raced clear to win stage four of the Tour de France. With this being the first big mountain stage of this year’s Tour, the general classification contenders feared UAE Team Emirates would send out a message as they attempt

Ben Bloom BBC Sport A few weeks prior to a previous Tour de France, amid the maelstrom of planning involved with eight riders and more than a dozen support vehicles navigating the country, EF Education-EasyPost head performance chef Owen Blandy received notice of an issue at one of the hotels. For reasons unexplained, Blandy was

Getty Images Steven Sutcliffe BBC Sport journalist 1 hour ago Biniam Girmay made history as the first black African to win a Tour de France stage as Mark Cavendish was held up by a late crash on the run into Turin. In a reduced sprint finish, Eritrea’s Girmay powered to victory, with Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria

BBC Look East 4 hours ago Cyclist Ethan Vernon is ready to fulfil whichever role is allocated to him in the hope of helping Team GB win a team pursuit medal at the Paris Olympics. Versatility is certainly a key strength for Vernon, who these days is also a professional road racer and competed in

Getty Images 1 hour ago Comments Tadej Pogacar moved into the leader’s yellow jersey as France’s Kevin Vauquelin won stage two of the Tour de France. Vauquelin took his first Grand Tour stage victory after breaking away from the front group, making the Arkea-B&B Hotels rider the second French winner of the 2024 race already.

Getty Images 29 June 2024, 16:58 BST Comments Updated 5 minutes ago Britain’s Mark Cavendish struggled on stage one of the Tour de France, finishing 39 minutes behind the peloton. France’s Romain Bardet of DSM-Firmenich-PostNL won the Grand Depart from Florence to Rimini in Italy. Bardet’s team-mate Frank van den Broek was second following a

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Britain’s Adam Yates starts this year’s Tour de France as one of the most important riders in the 176-strong peloton. Last year he won the opening stage and wore the yellow jersey, beating his twin brother Simon in the process. This year he is

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Comments Such is the dominance of the Olympics, the Tour de France is taking a literal detour, finishing in a time trial on Nice’s grand promenade instead of the traditional sprint on Paris’ Champs-Elysees. So perhaps it’s a relief, then, that Mark Cavendish will

Jake Stewart Ged Scott BBC Sport England 2 hours ago When Spain’s Alberto Contador eclipsed the much-publicised return of Lance Armstrong to win the Tour de France in 2009, it had a knock-on effect further down the road. For Coventry’s Jake Stewart, a keen nine-year-old rider who had not long started at Solihull Cycling Club,