World championships start in Berlin with all eyes on Jason and Laura Kenny five months before Tokyo 2020The final world championships before the Olympic Games is the point when reality, good or bad, hits home for Britain’s track cyclists, and the withd…
World championships start in Berlin with all eyes on Jason and Laura Kenny five months before Tokyo 2020The final world championships before the Olympic Games is the point when reality, good or bad, hits home for Britain’s track cyclists, and the withd…
The Rio team gold medallist is in three events at next week’s world championships in Berlin – including only the fourth MadisonTime after time Elinor Barker travelled to track World Cups and world championships early in her career, competed – usually w…
French cyclist who achieved a record eight podium finishes in the Tour de France but never wore the leader’s yellow jerseyRaymond Poulidor, who has died aged 83, became France’s most popular cycle racer – and arguably its most best-loved sportsman – th…
Route described as ‘the toughest’ by Chris Froome as race organisers plan to use all the mountain ranges and include only one time trialThe Tour de France’s search for novelty and excitement in recent years has taken it in one direction: hillier, short…
The British rider will be on familiar ground at the finish line in Harrogate on Saturday yet the strong contingent from the Netherlands could deny her a second world titleBritish eyes will be on Lizzie Deignan in Saturday’s women’s road race world cham…
The Yorkshire town becomes the centre of world cycling for the next nine days as the UCI Road World Championships represent the sport’s biggest extravaganza in the UK to dateIn world cycling terms all roads lead to Harrogate this week but in the contex…
• Newcastle success for Dutchman who won on Saturday• Stage-two winner Matteo Trentin holds on to green jerseyThe results sheets showed a second stage win in three days for Dylan Groenewegen in a bunch sprint, but this was far from routine. While all e…
• Italian rider triumphs after sprint finish in Kelso• Says his Mitchelton-Scott team ‘worked so hard for that’As the overall contenders began to show their hands in the Scottish Border hills, the stage one winner, Dylan Groenewegen, was caught on the …
• Dutchman’s 12 individual stage win of season• Mark Cavendish misses challenge in final sprintWith Primoz Roglic set fair in the Vuelta a España and Tom Dumoulin’s contract freshly inked in for 2020, this is turning into a golden finish of the 2019 se…
• Dutch team buoyed by summer signing of Tom Dumoulin• Nairo Quintana also among favourites on mountainous routeAs the Vuelta a España celebrates its 25th edition since its move from April to September there is no debate about the success of a shift th…
One of the greats of Italian cycling who won the 1965 Tour de France when he was only 22Felice Gimondi, who has died of a heart attack aged 76, was one of Italy’s greatest cycling champions of the postwar era, a precociously young winner of the Tour de…
Bjorg Lambrecht’s death on Monday was the eighth of an international rider since 2016. Is the sport really worth it?It is almost 25 years since I stood in the French town of Pau on a July afternoon in 1995 and watched the six members of the Motorola te…
If there is any surprise at Bernal’s victory it is that it has taken so long for a Colombian to top the podium and he could now dominate for years to comeA year ago, as Egan Bernal matched the pace of Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas in the Tour de Fran…
A nation must wait for a successor to Bernard Hinault after their hopes disappear in the Alpine mistsWhen Thibaut Pinot fell into the arms of his teammate William Bonnet by the roadside 36km into Friday’s stage of the Tour from Saint Jean de Maurienne …
La Course, which had such a spectacular finish on Friday, will play a vital role in the advancement of women’s cyclingA potentially game-changing development for the whole of cycling was almost lost on Friday afternoon not long after Marianne Vos score…
Pinot and compatriot Julian Alaphilippe’s performances have finally given the host nation something to cheerAs Bastille Day dawns on Sunday, French cycling fans and media could look back on something that has become increasingly rare in recent years: a…
Fifty years after his first Tour de France win the Cannibal’s legacy sets a high benchmark for the likes of Wout van AertWhen Eddy Merckx took to the stage in the Grand Place in Brussels on Thursday, in front of a vast crowd chanting his name at the te…
Race returns to the mountain where one rider hissed ‘assassins’ at organisers and another was forced to forge a new forkIn the local Gascon, Tourmalet means “distant mountain”. That is probably because from either side the top of the Col is visible fro…
Anything could happen at this year’s Tour de France as Astana look to capitalise against Geraint Thomas’s weakened teamThere are few sports events of world status where British success is taken as a given, but in the past 10 years the Tour de France ha…
