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Getty Images 2 hours ago Scotland’s Katie Archibald is hoping she finds fresh inspiration in next week’s British Track National Championships after global success in 2024 left her feeling flat. The two-time Olympic champion will race in the championships – held in Manchester from 21-23 February – for the first time in six years after

Getty Images 1 hour ago Great Britain’s women won silver in the team sprint on day one of the European Track Cycling Championships as the men’s team took bronze. The trio of Lauren Bell, Rhian Edmunds and Rhianna Parris-Smith finished in 46.929 seconds to take second place in the event for a third consecutive year

Getty Images Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales 9 hours ago Great Britain cyclist Rhys Britton says he is embracing every opportunity after losing a year of his career to concussion. The 25-year-old crashed in training in 2023 and says the next year was a “write off”. He missed out on a place at the Paris

Getty Images 4 hours ago Soudal-QuickStep have pulled their development team out of the Tour du Rwanda because of safety concerns amid an ongoing conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The M23 rebel group has captured almost all of the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which is the largest city in eastern DR

Getty Images 4 hours ago Five teams, including Britain’s Ineos Grenadiers, pulled out of the third stage of the Etoile de Besseges road cycling race in France following incidents of traffic interfering with the peloton. Friday’s stage from Besseges-Besseges was neutralised early on after riders came across a vehicle on a roundabout. The day before,

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Former Tour de France champion Egan Bernal has won his first race since his life-threatening crash in 2022. Bernal, 28, of the British Ineos Grenadiers team, won the national individual time-trial championships in his native Colombia, beating Walter Vargas by seven seconds and Ineos

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 6 February 2025 Britain’s Ethan Hayter says he wants to “enjoy racing again” as he prepares to debut with his new team. Hayter, last year’s British road race champion, left Ineos Grenadiers to join Belgian squad Soudal-Quick Step on a two-year contract, a deal announced last August.

Getty Images 6 hours ago Cycling’s world governing body the UCI has banned the general use of carbon monoxide rebreathing equipment. It was established last year some teams were using it to measure haemoglobin levels in their riders’ blood before, and after, altitude training. There had been questions around whether it could be used to

Getty Images 4 minutes ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock won the the AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia in his first race since joining the Q36.5 Pro team last month. Pidcock, 25, comfortably held on to his advantage on Saturday’s final flat run, having won two of the first four stages. The double Olympic champion, who retained

Getty Images 32 minutes ago Great Britain won mixed team relay gold on the opening day at the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships. Zoe Backstedt, Milo Wills, Zoe Roche, Oscar Amey, Cat Ferguson and Thomas Mein edged out Italy by two seconds as Britain won the title for the first time. GB had finished second in

Getty Images 39 minutes ago Cycling’s world governing body, the UCI, says it has no plans to move the 2025 Road World Championships away from Rwanda amid the ongoing conflict in neighbouring DR Congo. Rwanda is set to become the first African nation to host the event from 21-28 September. The M23 rebel group has

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport senior journalist 2 hours ago Cycling’s world governing body the UCI is expected to vote for a ban on the use of carbon monoxide rebreathing equipment this week, after it was established last year some teams were using it to measure haemoglobin levels in their riders’ blood before and

Getty Images 1 hour ago Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan has signed a one-year contract with British team Ineos Grenadiers for the 2025 season. The 30-year-old has won stages at the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana, and has twice finished on the podium at the prestigious Milan-San Remo one-day Monument. He joined

Ineos Grenadiers Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Britain’s Ineos Grenadiers cycling team insist they will remain in the sport, but are searching for new partners to keep pace with competitors. Ineos, who won seven Tours de France between 2012 and 2019, mostly as Team Sky, suffered their worst season in 2024.

Team Visma-Lease a Bike Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Britain’s Simon Yates will try to win the Giro d’Italia for his new Visma-Lease a Bike team before supporting Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France. The 32-year-old joined the Dutch team after spending his whole World Tour career with Australia’s Jayco-AlUla,

Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 3 hours ago Britain’s Tom Pidcock says he will not contest this year’s Tour de France with his new Q36.5 team. The 25-year-old left Ineos Grenadiers in December following three successful years with the top British team. “We’ll have a year out from the Tour and try

Getty Images Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales 2 hours ago Emma Finucane says she will go back to the drawing board in 2025 in the hope of becoming “unstoppable” at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The 22-year-old track cyclist ended 2024 with an Olympic gold medal, two Olympic bronzes, two World Championship golds and

Getty Images Dame Laura, 32, gave her body to cycling for more than a decade. She is Britain’s most successful female athlete. “Every training session I went in there to give 100%, every race I went in there to give 100%. “I took it to the limit – if I wasn’t sick after a race