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Mitchelton-Scott’s British rider Simon Yates broke away to win stage five of Tirreno-Adriatico and take overall lead of the race. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas was second in Friday’s stage and climbs up from sixth place overall to third. Rafal Majka of Bora-Hansgrohe, who was third in the stage on the same time as Thomas, is

Lizzie Deignan’s Trek-Segafredo team won the opening team time trial of the Giro Rosa as Elisa Longo Borghini took the leader’s jersey on the first stage. Italian Borghini led the team over the line in 20 minutes 05.99 seconds after the 16.8km Grosseto route. Boels Dolmans finished second, more than three seconds back, with Mitchelton-Scott

Switzerland’s Marc Hirschi took stage 12 of the Tour de France for his first-ever stage win. Hirschi, 22, for Team Sunweb, moved to the front with 28km remaining of the 218km ride from Chauvigny to Sarran. The Swiss rider, in his first Grand Tour, had led for more than 80km on Sunday’s ninth stage before

Britain’s Geraint Thomas slipped to sixth overall at the Tirreno-Adriatico after an attacking finish to the first mountain stage of the race. Australian Lucas Hamilton won stage four in Cascia, while Canada’s Michael Woods kept the overall lead. Thomas and compatriot Simon Yates attacked on the final climb. But Yates’ Mitchelton-Scott team-mate Hamilton escaped on

HSBC has extended its sponsorship with British Cycling to cover the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The bank had announced that it would be ending the deal early, but coronavirus has since disrupted those plans. The deal is understood to be worth £10m per Olympic cycle. “I’m incredibly proud of what our two

Lotto Soudal’s Australian rider Caleb Ewan snatched victory on stage 11 of the Tour de France as the sprinters went toe to toe in a thrilling finish. Seven-time green jersey winner Peter Sagan edged out Sam Bennett for second after muscling aside Wout van Aert in the run-in. Irishman Bennett remains in green. Jumbo-Visma safely

Former Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas moved up to fourth place in the Tirreno-Adriatico after coming 10th on stage three in Italy. The Ineos Grenadiers rider finished alongside fellow Grand Tour champion Simon Yates in a nine-strong group, 20 seconds behind winner Michael Woods. The Canadian EF Pro Cycling rider has a five-second lead

Former world champion Lizzie Deignan will be part of the Great Britain team for the UCI Road World Championships in Italy this month. The 31-year-old won the world title in 2015 and secured a third GP de Plouay crown in Brittany in August. Lizzy Banks, who finished second behind Deignan at Plouay, is named for

Former winner Geraint Thomas says the decision to miss this year’s race was mutually agreed between him and Team Ineos Grenadiers. Instead the 34-year-old Welshman is targeting the Giro d’Italia The 2018 champion had made a second yellow jersey his goal for the season but “didn’t feel in the right shape to be truly competitive”.

Ireland’s Sam Bennett won stage 10 of the Tour de France as Primoz Roglic retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Bennett, 29, edged out Australia’s Caleb Ewan in a sprint finish to give the Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider his first stage win on the Tour. Roglic safely negotiated the flat 168.5km route from Ile d’Oleron Le Chateau-d’Oleron to

Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme and members of staff from four teams have tested positive for Covid-19. Every rider returned a negative test though, so all 22 teams started the 10th stage of the tour. French health authorities and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have said if two members of a team test positive,

Britons Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas safely navigated stage one of the Tirreno-Adriatico, which was won by German Pascal Ackermann in Italy. Bora-Hansgrohe rider Ackermann edged out UAE-Team Emirates’ Fernando Gaviria in a bunch sprint in Lido di Camaiore. Four-time Tour de France winner Froome and 2018 champion Thomas were left out of Team Ineos

For a much-delayed Tour de France that offered a few fans, as little coronavirus as possible and none of the famous British riders who have won it recently, the first week of this three-week adventure had a familiar feel. A British bloke in yellow. “He had some kind of parasite – he was on the

Britain’s Adam Yates surrendered the leader’s yellow jersey as Tadej Pogacar won stage nine of the Tour de France. Yates was dropped from the leading chase group towards the final climb of the 153km mountain stage from Pau. Marc Hirschi led for 80km before being caught a kilometre from the line in Laruns, where Pogacar

Cyclist Elinor Barker has said time spent weighing children at school after lockdown would be better used helping them find a sport they love. The Olympic gold medallist from Cardiff said she had seen athletes starve and dehydrate themselves the day before being weighed for competitions. Her comments came after the National Obesity Forum’s Tam

Britain’s Adam Yates withstood plenty of pressure to hold on to the Tour de France leader’s yellow jersey in a tough day in the Pyrenees on stage eight of the race. The Mitchelton-Scott rider found the going tough in the final 15km of the 141km stage to Loudenvielle. But he found a late surge of

Wout van Aert won stage seven of the Tour de France in a sprint finish as Briton Adam Yates kept the leader’s yellow jersey. The Belgian, who also won stage five, got the better of his sprint rivals at the end of a blustery 168km ride from Millau to Lavaur. The Jumbo-Visma rider edged out

Astana rider Alexey Lutsenko claimed the biggest success of his career with victory in stage six of the Tour de France as Britain’s Adam Yates retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Lutsenko left the rest of the breakaway behind on a tough climb 17km from the end of the 191km stage to Mont Aigoual. Yates finished