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Getty Images 7 hours ago Olympic champion Bethany Shriever will lead an 11-strong British team at the BMX Racing World Championships as she aims to retain her world title. Two-time world gold medallist Shriever, 25, triumphed in Glasgow in 2023 to reclaim the rainbow bands she first won in 2021. The 2024 World Championships take

Getty Images 3 hours ago Italy’s Jonathan Milan sprinted to victory on stage four at the Giro d’Italia as Tadej Pogacar retained his overall lead. Lidl–Trek rider Milan, 23, edged out Australia’s Kaden Groves and German Phil Bauhaus in a bunch sprint. It comes one day after Milan was outsprinted by Belgium’s Tim Merlier on

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport 1 hour ago Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard says he hopes to regain enough fitness to attempt to win the title for a third successive year. The 27-year-old Dane was injured in a freak crash during a race in northern Spain, which left him with a broken collarbone

Getty Images 2 hours ago Belgium’s Tim Merlier powered to victory in stage three of the Giro d’Italia. The Soudal Quick-Step rider narrowly finished ahead of Jonathan Milan and Biniam Girmay in a hectic bunch sprint. Race leader Tadej Pogacar, who won stage two on Sunday, and Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas launched an attack with

Getty Images 13 minutes ago Paralympic silver medallists Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl led a British podium clean sweep on the final day of the Para-Cycling Road World Cup in Ostend. The pair, who won the women’s B time trial gold on Friday, added the road race to their list of honours. They finished in

Reuters Ben Collins BBC Sport journalist 5 May 2024 Tadej Pogacar recovered from a mechanical issue at the bottom of the final climb to earn his first stage win at the Giro d’Italia. The Giro favourite was third in Saturday’s opening stage and suffered a puncture in Sunday’s 161km mountain stage, about 11km from the

EPA 5 May 2024 Demi Vollering clinched the Vuelta Femenina title as she won the final stage of this year’s race on Sunday. The SD Worx-Protime rider carried a 52-second advantage into stage eight – an 89km mountain stage from Madrid to the Valdesqui ski resort. And Vollering, last year’s Tour de France winner, attacked

Getty Images 1 hour ago Ecuador’s Jhonatan Narvaez outsprinted Giro d’Italia favourite Tadej Pogacar to win the opening stage of the first Grand Tour of the year. Ineos Grenadiers rider Narvaez charged to the finish line in Turin to push Slovenian Pogacar into third, with Germany’s Max Schachmann taking second. UAE Team Emirates rider Pogacar

Getty Images 4 May 2024 Marianne Vos closed in on a second successive Vuelta Femenina points title after sprinting to victory on the penultimate stage. The Dutch rider beat American Kristen Faulkner into second place in Siguenza, winning the 138.6km stage by two seconds to move 86 points clear in the standings for the green

SWPix 3 hours ago Great Britain secured three golds in the time trial events at the Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend, Belgium. Daphne Schrager (WC2) and Fran Brown (WC1) were both victorious before the tandem pair of Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl claimed the WB event. Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall were third behind

Getty Images 3 May 2024 France’s Evita Muzic won the sixth stage of Vuelta Femenina with race leader Demi Vollering finishing second and extending her overall lead. Muzic, riding for FDJ-Suex, pipped the Dutch rider to the line after the pair pulled clear on the steep, final climb to Laguna Negra in northern Spain. Vollering,

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport 25 minutes ago Hot sun, torrential rain, hail, snow, ice… the Giro d’Italia is often the most entertaining race of the road cycling season. Beginning in Turin on Saturday, three weeks of competition for the pink jersey over 3,400km – 44,650m of which will be ascending – creates a

Getty Images 3 May 2024 Luke Rowe is to retire from professional cycling a year early at the end of the 2024 season, following his latest injury. The 34-year-old Welsh rider had a contract until the end of 2025 but has confirmed this will be his final season in the men’s World Tour peloton. Rowe

Getty Images Dafydd Pritchard BBC Sport Wales 3 May 2024 Geraint Thomas is in race mode. And this close to the start of the Giro d’Italia, race mode means rest mode. The former Tour de France champion reclines on his hotel bed in Turin for a Zoom call, decked out in his Ineos Grenadiers training

Getty Images 1 hour ago Dutch rider Demi Vollering impressively rode away on the final climb to win stage five of Vuelta Femenina and take the leader’s red jersey. In the race’s first mountain stage, Vollering, of the SD Worx-Protime team, set the pace on the ascent from Jaca in north-eastern Spain before a solo

Getty Images Joe Rindl BBC Sport journalist 1 hour ago Kristen Faulkner won stage four of Vuelta Femenina in Zaragoza as Marianne Vos took the red jersey from Kata Blanka Vas. American Faulkner attacked from five kilometres out on the day’s final climb and held on to win solo, 10 seconds ahead of a group

Getty Images 55 minutes ago Marianne Vos won stage three of Vuelta Femenina with a powerful sprint in Teruel, Spain. Vos crossed the line ahead of fellow Dutch rider Charlotte Kool and Canadian Olivia Baril, following strong work from her Visma-Lease a Bike team. The 36-year-old now has three stage wins in the event to

Getty Images 21 minutes ago British rider Lizzie Deignan was involved in a crash late on stage two of the Vuelta Femenina as Alison Jackson sprinted to victory in Spain. Deignan, who has only just returned from a broken arm sustained in the Tour of Flanders a month ago, went down in one of two