Cycling

Track cycling world champion Emma Finucane was in shock when she received the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year trophy. The 20-year-old from Carmarthen was given the award after a breakthrough 2023 – in which she became Britain’s first women’s sprint champion for a decade, won two European silver medals and took four

Sir Bradley Wiggins says the “haunting experience” of his father’s jealousy drove him to become a Tour winner. Wiggins, who retired from cycling in 2016, became the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012. “A lot of my cycling career was about running away from my past really,” said Wiggins, who was

Last updated on 1 hour ago1 hour ago.From the section Cycling Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian Dame Laura Kenny believes women athletes can struggle to get pregnant because of their lifestyle. Kenny, 31, won five gold medals and one silver across three Olympic Games at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The mum-of-two

Speaking to 5 Live Breakfast’s Rachel Burden, Laura explains why she has made the decision to return to cycling with the aim of competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The five-time Olympic gold medallist had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy following the Tokyo Olympics and says she is keen to support other female athletes

It was on a university netball court in rural Leicestershire almost two decades ago that one of Britain’s most ambitious and enduring ideas in women’s sport was born. For 19 years, Loughborough Lightning have been a netball force – having last season won a second Super League title – and the most prominent side in

Tom Williams/BBC By Tom Williams BBC Sport, Cambridgeshire A top amateur cyclist says his sport is less inclusive and welcoming than ever after it banned transgender women from competing in the female category. Josh Jones, 31, from Cambridge, believes British Cycling’s new rules “fail the cycling community”. From next year, these athletes will compete in

Great Britain’s most successful female Olympic athlete Dame Laura Kenny is targeting a fourth Games in Paris next year. Kenny wants to prove that motherhood is no reason to end her career after the birth of her second child in July. She has won five gold medals and a silver across three Olympic Games at

Ineos Grenadiers’ deputy team principal Rod Ellingworth will step down from his role at the end of the year. Ellingworth has been effectively running the British team, previously known as Team Sky. Team principal Sir Dave Brailsford had taken on a wider role across Ineos’ sporting operations. Brailsford is set to take on a key

Sir Chris Hoy believes Katie Archibald is on track for next summer’s Olympics after she stormed to overall victory in the UCI Track Champions League. The two-time Olympic champion said she was far from her best at the World Championships in August in Glasgow. However, the 29-year-old Scot won the Champions League for a second

Britain’s Katie Archibald hopes a triumphant end to this year’s Track Champions League series will propel her to Olympic glory at Paris 2024. The series concluded with two rounds in London this weekend and Archibald, 29, reclaimed the women’s endurance title. She now aims to add to the Olympic gold medals she won in team

Geraint Thomas aims to return to the Tour de France in 2024 and then appear at the Paris Olympics for Great Britain at the age of 38. If the Welshman achieves the latter aim, he will ride at his fifth Games. Thomas turns 38 in May 2024 and the Tour starts on 29 June with

Britain’s Zoe Backstedt won the women’s Under-23 European Cyclo-cross Championships in Pont-Chateau, France. The 19-year-old Welsh rider held off the challenge of Luxembourg’s Marie Schreiber, with Kristyna Zemanova of the Czech Republic in third. Backstedt has now added the cyclo-cross title to the Road European Championships women’s Under-23 time trial gold she won in September.

A fast food meal after a night out in 2017 changed the course of Lizzi Jordan’s life forever, but has opened the door to new opportunities. It left her in a coma and fighting for survival, and when she eventually woke, she was blind. But after hitting what she describes as “rock bottom” Jordan, from

Dutch rider Jeffrey Hoogland has smashed the men’s 1km time trial world record by almost a second. The current world champion posted a time of 55.433 seconds in Mexico as he beat Francois Pervis’ mark from 2013. The Frenchman’s time of 56,303 seconds had been the longest standing track world record. That was also set

PA Media A third man has been found guilty of robbing elite cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta of watches worth £700,000 in a knifepoint raid at their home in Essex. A balaclava-clad gang, armed with large knives, threatened the couple at their house in the Ongar area in 2021. Two men have already

Mark Cavendish says he is “shocked” by how hard the route for the 2024 Tour de France is. Wednesday’s announcement revealed the race, from 29 June to 21 July, will feature two visits to the Alps, with Paris avoided because of the Olympics. Cavendish, 38, has delayed plans to retire in order to try to

At a business dinner in downtown Zurich in the early eighties, Rolf Hess was humiliated by his boss in front of his colleagues because he didn’t know the price of the dollar. “I wanted to punch him,” says Hess, chuckling. “But he was right – you have to know these things [in business].” Now financial

Geraint Thomas has signed a new two-year contract with Ineos Grenadiers. The former Tour de France champion and double Olympic gold medallist had been approaching the end of a two-year extension he signed in 2021. Welshman Thomas turned 37 during this year’s Giro d’Italia, where he finished second behind Primoz Roglic. “Although you ‘never say