Cycling

By Tom Reynolds BBC Sport in Girona Mike McMonagle Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC Sport app and find the latest in the series here. It is early spring 2021 in Girona, Spain in the middle of yet another Covid-19 lockdown. Exercise is permitted, but only in the local

Getty Images Slovenia’s two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar pulled off a stunning solo ride to win the Strade Bianche in Tuscany. The UAE Team Emirates rider attacked with 81km of the 215km race remaining. He finished a record two minutes 44 seconds ahead of second-placed Toms Skujins in Siena, with Britain’s defending champion

Getty Images By Matt Warwick BBC Sport There’s a comeback in road cycling this year which could be momentous – a huge achievement in a sport so demanding on the body. And, no, it’s not Mark Cavendish… Britain’s former world champion Lizzie Deignan starts the 2024 season looking to regain the race-winning form which made

Getty Images The UCI has suspended members of Cynisca Cycling after the team disguised a mechanic as a rider in an effort to gain entry to last year’s Argenta Classic. American team Cynisca were missing one of their five riders due to illness for the road race in Belgium. Mechanic Moira Barrett dressed as the

SWpix.com By Katie Falkingham BBC Sport at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester Lauren Bell won her second British title inside 24 hours with keirin victory on the last day of the National Track Championships in Manchester. Bell, a two-time team sprint world medallist, held off a late charge from Rhian Edmunds to narrowly pip her

Getty Images Britain’s Kye Whyte won his first final “in ages”, claiming gold at the BMX Racing World Cup in Brisbane. The 24-year-old beat Switzerland’s Cedric Butti by less than two hundredths of a second to win his first gold medal since 2019. The Olympic silver medallist has endured a difficult 12 months but his

SWpix.com By Katie Falkingham BBC Sport at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester Lora Fachie and pilot Corrine Hall won their second gold in as many days at the National Track Championships in Manchester. The two-time Paralympic champions defeated Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl in the women’s Para B pursuit. It completed their double, having pipped

EPA Jan Tratnik claimed victory in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad race and called it the “biggest win” of his life”. The Slovenian finished ahead of Germany’s Nils Politt by three seconds in Belgium in an event that marks the start of the ‘cobbled classics’ season. Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock was eight seconds behind in eighth

SWpix.com By Katie Falkingham BBC Sport at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester Jody Cundy marked his return to the track after a stint on the dancefloor with a comfortable win at the National Track Championships in Manchester. The five-time Paralympic cycling champion, who took part in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing, retained his C4-5 national

Getty Images By Sanny Rudravajhala & Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat “I’ve had quite a few pinch me moments that I never thought I’d get this early on in my career.” Emma Finucane thought she’d “be waiting years” before calling herself a world cycling champion. But the 21-year-old won gold in the sprint race at the

Getty Images Mark Cavendish’s final season in the saddle is already off to a winning start, and his bid for Tour de France history promises to be one of the main storylines of this campaign. But with cycling’s profile continuing to rise after its Netflix treatment, the arrival of a blue-chip sponsor which has dominated

Six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy says he is “optimistic, positive and surrounded by love” after revealing he was diagnosed with cancer last year. The former Great Britain track cyclist, 47, posted on Instagram that his treatment, which includes chemotherapy, “is going really well”. “I am continuing to work, ride my bike and live

Getty Images Britain’s Mark Cavendish claimed his first victory of the season in a sprint finish on stage four of the Tour of Colombia. Cavendish edged out home favourite Fernando Gaviria on the 181.8km route from Paipa to Zipaquira. The 38-year-old’s triumph was his first since reversing his decision to retire – and also the

Getty Images Great Britain won two silver medals and one bronze on the final day of the UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide. Katie Archibald was second in the women’s omnium with 125 points, nine behind New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston. Katy Marchant took silver in the keirin, which was won by Japan’s Mina Sato. Ollie

Getty Images Britain’s Simon Yates won the final stage of the AlUla Tour to claim the overall race win by three seconds in Saudi Arabia. After the final climb up Skyviews of Harrat Uwayrid, Yates beat Belgium’s William Lecerf and New Zealand’s Finn Fisher-Black in a sprint to the finish. Yates, 31, collected a 10-second

Getty Images Great Britain’s Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker put in a dominant display to win the women’s madison at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide. The British pair did not get or need any points from the final sprint as they finished on a total of 31. Australia won the last sprint to

Getty Images Great Britain won gold medals in the women’s team sprint and men’s team pursuit on the opening day of action at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide. World silver medallists Lauren Bell, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane clocked 46.023 seconds to beat China. Joshua Tarling, Rhys Britton, Will Tidball and Charlie Tanfield

PA Media By Matt Warwick BBC Sport British Cycling says it faces a “race against the clock” to hold the Women’s Tour, after collaboration with the previous organiser became “untenable”. The governing body will run the men’s Tour of Britain and Women’s Tour after Sweetspot, which owed many thousands of pounds, was liquidated in January.