Cycling

Lizzie Deignan clinched a third GP de Plouay title as she led home fellow Briton Lizzy Banks in miserable conditions in Brittany. Deignan, 31, was too strong for Banks in a sprint to the line with Italy’s Chiara Consonni finishing third. With the one-day race now in its 19th edition, Deignan is the only woman

Britain’s Mark Cavendish has been left out of Bahrain McLaren’s Tour de France squad. It is the second year in a row the 35-year-old has missed the Tour, having not been selected by previous team Dimension Data in 2019. The sprinter has won 30 Tour stages, four short of Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 victories.

Any team that returns two positive coronavirus tests within a week during the Tour de France will be removed from the race, say organisers. This year’s delayed three-week race starts on Saturday, 29 August and runs until 20 September. Riders and team staff will be in a bubble from the day they arrive in Nice

Britain’s Adam Yates will leave Mitchelton-Scott to join Team Ineos from next year. The 28-year-old has signed for the British team on a two-year deal. It means he will no longer race for the same team as twin brother Simon, who on Wednesday signed a new two-year deal to stay with the Australian outfit Mitchelton-Scott.

Team Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov wants the UCI to rethink race barrier safety following the “scary” crash which left sprinter Fabio Jakobsen in a coma. “I hope the UCI will rethink security measures for the riders because that kind of thing shouldn’t happen,” said the 23-year-old. Deceuninck Quick Step rider Jakobsen will require several facial

Britain’s Adam Yates is set to battle for stage wins rather than focusing on the general classification standings at this year’s Tour de France. The 28-year-old has been selected in Michelton-Scott’s eight-man line-up for the Tour’s start on 29 August. Yates will “approach his first Grand Tour in several years without general classification ambitions” say

Britain’s Simon Yates signs a new two-year deal to stay with Mitchelton-Scott, the team with whom he won the 2018 Vuelta a Espana. The 28-year-old had been linked with a move away after a takeover bid for the team fell through earlier this year. “The journey with the team has been great so far. I’ve

Chris Froome has been left out of Team Ineos’ Tour de France squad. There had been some doubt four-time winner Froome had the form to make the squad following injuries from a crash a year ago. Geraint Thomas, who won in 2018, also misses out, with the team focusing on last year’s winner Egan Bernal

Italy’s Mattia Cattaneo became the fourth Deceuninck-Quick Step rider to suffer a major accident in two weeks as he crashed at the Giro dell’Emilia. Cattaneo, 29, has a fractured vertebra but will not need surgery and must rest for six to eight weeks. Team-mate Fabio Jakobsen was badly injured in a crash at the Tour

Fabio Jakobsen will require “multiple facial surgeries” after his crash at the Tour of Poland, but says he is “glad to be alive”. The Deceuninck Quick Step rider was involved in a horrifying crash during a sprint finish two weeks ago. He was pitched through a barrier and into spectators following a tangle with Jumbo

Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel has vowed to come back stronger after his crash during Saturday’s Il Lombardia race. The 20-year-old suffered a fractured pelvis when he crashed on a descent, striking the wall of a bridge before somersaulting on to his back and over the edge. The Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider was flown home from Italy on

Criterium du Dauphine leader Primoz Roglic has withdrawn from the race before the final stage because of injuries sustained in a crash on Saturday. The Jumbo-Visma rider was left “in a lot of pain” after the crash on stage four but managed to finish in 10th. The 30-year-old Slovene led by 14 seconds after Saturday’s

Remco Evenepoel has crashed and fallen several metres off a bridge during the Il Lombardia race. The Deceuninck-Quick Step rider was part of a leading group who were descending off the Colma di Sormano – the highest climb on the race. The 20-year-old was lying around fourth in the group when he struck the wall

Egan Bernal has pulled out of the Criterium du Dauphine to “rest a bad back,” according to fellow Team Ineos rider Geraint Thomas. Bernal, 23, was in seventh place in the overall standings, 31 seconds behind leader Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma. The Colombian has been in good form during the warm-up races for the Tour

Britain’s Chris Froome says he is “optimistic” of a Tour de France place despite trailing behind Team Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal. Froome has been some way off 23-year-old Colombian Bernal – the 2019 Tour winner – in recent warm-ups, as he tries rediscover his form. Ineos have three former Tour champions to choose from for

Olympic and world champion cyclist Elinor Barker says there is still a lot of “ignorance” surrounding women’s sport, with women facing different attitudes to men doing the same event. The Briton, 25, has won five world titles plus European Championships and Commonwealth Games golds. Barker feels her efforts would be viewed differently if she were

Chris Froome lost more time to Egan Bernal during the brutal mountainous second stage of the Tour de Dauphine. The four-time Tour de France winner is now nearly 14 minutes behind Team Ineos team-mate Bernal, who is fourth in the overall standings, led by Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic. Roglic won the 135km stage, with Bernal 10th

Chris Froome lost ground on Team Ineos rival Egan Bernal on the first day of the Criterium de Dauphine. Bernal sits five minutes 33 seconds ahead of Froome after the gruelling opening 218km stage from Clermont-Ferrand to Saint-Christo-en-Jarez. Jumbo-Visma’s in-form rider Wout van Aert won the stage, six seconds ahead of Bernal – who was