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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

Getty Images 22 minutes ago Lidl-Trek won the opening team time trial stage of the women’s Vuelta on Sunday despite a crash on the final corner. The team features British rider Lizzie Deignan, who has returned to competition despite breaking her arm when she crashed out of the Tour of Flanders just four weeks ago.

Getty Images 2 hours ago Geraint Thomas says he is “in a great place” as he prepares to lead a strong Ineos Grenadiers team at May’s Giro d’Italia. Former Tour de France winner Thomas, 37, is targeting both Grand Tours in 2024, having been runner-up in Italy 12 months ago. Ineos also include top 10

By Martin Heath BBC News, Northamptonshire A BMX rider said he had dedicated the last three years towards his dream of winning a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. Kieran Reilly of Corby, Northamptonshire, trains at the town’s internationally renowned urban sports venue, Adrenaline Alley. Last year, the 22-year-old became the first British man to

Rex Features By Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales Training for an Olympics is hard enough at the best of times, but throw in a two-year-old and seven-time world champion Elinor Barker has got her work cut out. “He’s an incredibly well-travelled toddler,” she told BBC Sport Wales. “When he gets in the car, he doesn’t

Getty Images Welshman Stephen Williams pulled off the biggest victory of his career by winning La Fleche Wallonne in Belgium. The Israel-Premier Tech rider, 27, is the first British male winner of the 88-year-old spring classic. But fellow Briton Tom Pidcock was among several riders to abandon the race amid torrential conditions in Ardennes. “I’m

Getty Images Anna Shackley, one of Britain’s most talented young cyclists, has been forced to retire aged 22 because of heart issues. The Scot is the reigning British Under-23 road race champion and won bronze in the under-23 event at last year’s World Championships in Glasgow. She was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia in January and

Getty Images World Athletics’ decision to award prize money at the Paris Olympics goes against the Olympic spirit, says the head of cycling’s governing body. World Athletics will become the first federation to offer prize money at an Olympics this summer. Gold medallists in athletics events will earn $50,000 (£39,400). “The Olympic spirit is to