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Spain’s Marc Soler won stage five of the Vuelta a Espana as Rudy Molard claimed the overall race lead from defending champion Primoz Roglic in Bilbao. UAE Team Emirates rider Soler prevailed from the breakaway after launching a solo attack with 15 kilometres to go. France’s Molard crossed the line fourth, among a group of

Instagram Olympian Katie Archibald said she tried desperately to save her partner Rab Wardell as he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in bed beside her. The champion cyclist expressed her devastation after Wardell, a mountain biker, died aged 37 on Tuesday morning. His death came two days after he won the Scottish MTB XC Championships

Evie Richards became Britain’s first elite women’s mountain bike cross-country world champion in 2021, and took gold for England in the same event at the Commonwealth Games earlier this month. She defends her world title at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Les Gets, France, from 23-28 August. I love my life as a

Ben Fitzhugh Mountain biker Rab Wardell has died in his sleep aged 37 – just two days after winning the Scottish championship. Wardell won the elite men’s title at the Scottish MTB XC Championships in Dumfries and Galloway at the weekend. The rider appeared on BBC Scotland’s The Nine programme on Monday evening, describing how

Defending champion Primoz Roglic has claimed the overall leader’s red jersey after winning the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday. The Slovenian Jumbo-Visma rider produced a stunning late effort to finish first in the 152.5km ride from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Laguardia. Roglic made his move with 300 metres left to pass Trek-Segafredo’s Mads

Great Britain won 60 medals as they finished second in the medal table behind host nation Germany at the European Championships in Munich. Meanwhile, a further 27 medals were won at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome, where GB ended the competition second to hosts Italy. British teams topped the standings in both gymnastics and

Ireland’s Sam Bennett made it back-to-back stage wins in the 2022 Vuelta a Espana with victory in Sunday’s third stage. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider made his move in a sprint finish to beat Mads Pedersen for the second day in a row, with Britain’s Dan McLay third. Jumbo-Visma rider Edoardo Affini took the leader’s red jersey

Irish rider Sam Bennett won stage two of the Vuelta a Espana after edging out Mads Pedersen in a sprint finish. The Bora-Hansgrohe sprinter crossed the line in three hours 49 minutes and 34 seconds after the flat 171.1km ride from s’Hertogenbosch to Utrecht. It was Bennett’s fourth stage win at the three-week Grand Tour.

Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock produced a dominant display as he won men’s mountain bike cross-country gold at the European Championships in Munich. Olympic champion Pidcock, 23, completed the 34.9km course in one hour 18 minutes nine seconds after moving clear on the fifth lap of the eight-lap race. The Ineos Grenadiers rider is the first

Britain’s Dan Bigham smashed the Hour record with a distance of 55.548km around the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland on Friday. Bigham, an aerodynamics specialist and race engineer for British cycling team Ineos Grenadiers, beat the previous record of 55.089km set by Belgium’s Victor Campenaerts in 2019. The Hour record is the longest distance cycled

Colombian rider Nairo Quintana has denied using a banned substance after he was retrospectively disqualified from the 2022 Tour de France. Analysis of two blood samples from the 32-year-old showed the presence of banned drug tramadol. Quintana has now been stripped of his overall sixth-place finish, but has 10 days to appeal against the decision.

Dutch cyclist Amy Pieters has been moved to an intensive neuro-rehabilitation facility in the Netherlands as she continues her recovery from a crash in training. Pieters suffered severe brain damage after falling during a training camp in Alicante in December 2021. After undergoing surgery, she was put into an induced coma and regained consciousness four

Colombian rider Nairo Quintana has been disqualified from the 2022 Tour de France for an in-competition drug infringement, the UCI has announced. Analysis of two blood samples from the 32-year-old showed the presence of banned drug tramadol. Quintana has now been stripped of his overall sixth-place finish, but has 10 days to appeal against the

Two-time Grand Tour winner Egan Bernal says he is “super happy” to return to racing after a near-fatal crash. His comeback on Tuesday with Ineos Grenadiers at the Tour of Denmark saw him two minutes behind stage one winner Olav Kooij. “I’m super happy to be racing again. I’m hoping to go all the way

Great Britain’s Neah Evans and Pfeiffer Georgi saw a Madison medal slip away on the final lap of an enthralling race at the European Championships in Munich. The pair went into the 15th and final sprint on 36 points, level with France at the top of the standings. But their earlier exertions caught up with

When Ryan Henderson faced several months of rehabilitation after suffering a fracture of his C3 vertebra in a motorcross accident at the age of 16, going on to make history on a BMX bike would have seemed a very unlikely prospect. Ten years on from that serious incident, the Belfast man last week became the

Contributed A bike designer who helped Great Britain win gold at the 1992 Olympics has died. Mike Burrows, from Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk, was best known for designing what became the Lotus Type 108 bike, ridden by Chris Boardman at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. The married father-of-one died on Monday, aged 79. Boardman,

Former Giro d’Italia winner and double Olympic silver medallist Tom Dumoulin has announced his retirement from cycling with “with immediate effect”. The Dutch cyclist posted his decision on Twitter, two months after saying he would retire following September’s Road World Championship in Australia. The 31-year-old won the Giro in 2017 and the world time trial