The UCI’s Road World Championships will not take place in Switzerland in September. The event had been scheduled to go ahead in Aigle-Martigny on 20 September, but the Swiss government has extended its restrictions on gatherings of more than 1,000 people to 1 October amid the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers are now searching for an alternative
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The condition of Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen is “evolving favourably” after a crash at the Tour of Poland and he will be moved to his homeland on Wednesday. The 23-year-old has already had five hours of facial surgery in Poland. His Deceuninck-QuickStep team said: “Fabio Jakobsen’s condition is evolving favourably, to the extent that he
The 2021 Tour de France will start in the western French port of Brest after the Grand Depart in the Danish capital of Copenhagen was postponed by a year. As well as hosting the Grand Depart, the Brittany region will host four full stages of the race. Copenhagen pulled out because of a clash with
Chris Froome finished the Tour de l’Ain 26 minutes behind Tour de France rival and Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal. Bernal finished second in the race, 18 seconds behind winner Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic, with Froome 41st. The race across the l’Ain region of France is the second of three crucial races which will decide who will
Belgium’s Wout van Aert beat defending champion Julian Alaphilippe in a thrilling sprint finish to win his first Milan-San Remo title in Italy. Frenchman Alaphilippe attacked to lead the race solo over the final climb with 5.5km to go but Van Aert reeled him in on the descent. They held off the chasers into San
Geraint Thomas enjoyed his return to competitive cycling in Friday’s opening stage of the Tour de l’Ain. The 2018 Tour de France winner finished 24th in a reduced bunch sprint, with Team Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal 14th. Both riders were part of the group given the same time as Deceuninck-Quick-Step winner Andrea Bagioli. “I thought
Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen is out of a coma and in a “good” condition, according to the Tour of Poland organisers. The 23-year-old suffered a high-speed crash at the finish of the opening stage of the race on Wednesday. Jakobsen had facial surgery, but his Deceuninck-QuickStep team denied he had suffered head and brain injuries.
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Dutch cyclist Dylan Groenewegen has apologised for the crash that left compatriot Fabio Jakobsen in a coma. Groenewegen drifted across the road before he and Jakobsen collided near the finish line during stage one of the Tour of Poland on Wednesday. Jakobsen, 23, was airlifted to hospital and has had facial surgery. “I find it
Several riders and a race official were caught up in a horrifying crash on stage one of the Tour of Poland. Dylan Groenewegen, 27, drifted across the road in the final, downhill sprint and he and fellow Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen collided at high speed just before the line in Katowice. Jakobsen, 23, then fell over
Reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal has won the Route d’Occitanie, with Team Ineos rival Chris Froome finishing nearly 10 minutes behind. Froome began the day five minutes and 21 seconds adrift of the 23-year-old, having reacted to fans who were booing him on the previous day’s stage. The pair are racing to be
Jan Riedmann, a 17-year-old member of Bora-Hansgrohe’s feeder squad, has died from head injuries sustained in a collision with a car during training. Riedmann was riding with team-mates from Team Auto Eder Bayern – an under-19 team who provide prospects to Bora-Hansgrohe – in Sugenheim, Germany. “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye
Tour de France champion Egan Bernal won the mountainous penultimate stage of the Route d’Occitanie to take the overall lead in the event. Briton Chris Froome, vying with Bernal for a leader’s spot in the Team Ineos line-up at the Tour de France, finished five minutes, five seconds back. Bernal, 23, finished the 163.5km stage
The Tour de France’s planned start in Denmark in 2021 – the three-day Grand Depart – has been moved back a year. Last week, the start of the 2021 Tour was brought forward by six days so it would not clash with the men’s road race at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics. But the new start
Italian sprinter Sonny Colbrelli of the Bahrain-McLaren team claimed Sunday’s second stage in the four-day Route d’Occitanie in France. The 30-year-old triumphed after a bunch sprint following a 174.5km run from Carcassonne to Cap Decouverte. Britain’s Chris Froome is now 85th overall with Colombia’s reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal 12th. Saturday’s stage winner
Chris Froome finished almost one minute behind the leaders as his Tour de France preparations began with the first stage of the Route d’Occitanie. The British rider crossed the line in 70th place in southern France, 56 seconds behind winner Bryan Coquard. Froome, the four-time winner who suffered a serious crash last summer, is bidding
It seems like a long time since life, as we all knew it, stopped in March. Life, as Chris Froome knew it, came to a grinding – and very painful – halt nearly a year earlier; the four-time Tour de France champion suffering terrible injuries in a crash while preparing for a stage during the
Ireland’s Sam Bennett avoided a mass pile-up on the final sprint to win the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Burgos. Italian Jacopo Guarnieri fell on the last corner and Deceuninck-Quickstep rider Bennett sprinted up the final slope to take victory in the 163km stage. French sprinter Arnaud Demare finished second, with Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo