Cycling

Welshman Stevie Williams has won stage three of the Arctic Race of Norway to take the overall lead of the race. The Israel-Premier Tech rider won on a cold and wet day in the Arctic Circle, coming from the back of the group to take the victory. Williams, 27, leads Clément Champoussin ahead of Sunday’s

Geraint Thomas will lead Ineos Grenadiers’ eight-man squad at this year’s Vuelta a Espana. Welshman Thomas, 37, came close to victory at the Giro d’Italia earlier this year before finishing second to Primoz Roglic. The 2018 Tour de France winner will compete in the Vuelta for only the second time. “I’m going there to try

Para-cyclist William Bjergfelt says winning his first world title in Glasgow “really helps his case” to earn selection for the Paris Paralympics next year. Bjergfelt missed out on the 2020 Games in Tokyo due to a broken leg. “I’m hugely motivated, this really, really helps my case going forward,” Bjergfelt told BBC Sport. “As a

Former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been banned from all sport for four years for violating anti-doping rules. Freeman was struck off in 2021 because of misconduct after a hearing by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. During the tribunal process, Freeman was charged with two violations by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)

Scottish Cycling chief executive Nick Rennie hopes the successful staging of the World Championships will lead to the Tour de France coming to Scotland. Scotland hosted what is regarded as cycling’s biggest event over 11 days. More than 500,000 spectators are estimated to have watched the events in Glasgow and other parts of the country.

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Beth Shriever regained the women’s BMX world title at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Olympic champion Shriever led from start to finish to reclaim the

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock won gold in the men’s cross-country mountain bike at the Cycling World Championships. Olympic champion Pidcock lit up the race and broke clear with

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Josh Tarling won a surprise time trial bronze at the Cycling World Championships on Friday. Last year’s junior world champion is still eligible for the Under-23

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Ben Wiggins says he “backed up the hype” by winning silver at the Cycling World Championships in Scotland on Friday. The 18-year-old son of five-time Olympic

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock was accused of “crashing out” a rival in order to win a bronze medal at the Cycling World Championships in Scotland. The 24-year-old then

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Great Britain’s Sarah Storey won her 36th Para-cycling gold at the Cycling World Championships. The 45-year-old was the second starter in the C5 individual time trial and set

Great Britain’s former Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart will join Lidl Trek on a three-year deal from next season. He started riding for Ineos Grenadiers in 2017, winning the 2020 Giro and this year’s Tour of the Alps. Geoghegan Hart, 28, is currently recovering from a broken hip sustained in a crash at this

Emma Finucane has set her sights on “smashing” the Paris Olympics next summer after becoming the fastest woman in world cycling. Finucane beat Germany’s Lea Friedrich to win sprint gold at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. The 20-year-old became only the third British winner in the discipline and the first since fellow Welsh rider

Venues: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live on BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button, BBC Sport website and app. Great Britain’s Emma Finucane claimed her first major title as she took gold in the women’s sprint at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Finucane put in superb ride

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Newly-crowned mountain bike downhill world champion Charlie Hatton says he has “almost skipped a few steps” in his career after becoming the surprise gold medallist last weekend. The

Hosts: Glasgow and across Scotland Dates: 3-13 August Coverage: Watch live across BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of live streams on the BBC’s digital platforms Simone Consonni has been ruled out of the remainder of the UCI Cycling World Championships after a crash with an amateur cyclist on an e-bike. The Italian, 28,

Switzerland successfully defended their team time trial mixed relay title in dramatic fashion at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Elise Chabbey and Marlen Reusser, sprinted over the line to clinch victory for the Swiss by seven seconds from France, with Germany in third. Swiss success came despite Reusser, their strongest female rider, crashing 13km

It’s Valentine’s Day – Saturday, 14 February 2004 – but Marco Pantani is alone. He’s holed up in Room 5D of the Residence Le Rose hotel in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini having arrived, out of season, on the previous Monday. Other guests say he’s been behaving erratically. Pantani was 34 years old, and