Cycling

Britain’s Chris Froome made a quiet start in his first race for Israel Start-Up Nation as Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won stage one of the UAE Tour. Froome, 35, making his debut after January’s Vuelta San Juan was called off, is eight minutes 39 seconds back. Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar was sixth,

Ineos Grenadiers’ Tao Geoghegan Hart was involved in a crash but recovered to finish the opening stage of the Tour du Haut Var, won by Bauke Mollema. The British 2020 Giro d’Italia champion finished in 38th place, 14 seconds down, in the three-day race in France. Welshman Geraint Thomas, 34, was Ineos’ first rider home,

By Tom BrownBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 11 minutes ago11 minutes ago.From the section Wales Geraint Thomas says he is ready to show he can still win cycling’s biggest events as he targets both the Tour de France and Olympic Games this summer. The Welshman had a disappointing season last year which ended with

Britain’s Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart is to sponsor a young rider in an effort to increase racial diversity in cycling. The 25-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider has teamed up with his former development team Hagens Berman Axeon to offer the opportunity. He will then “identify, coach and mentor” the rider, who will join the

The 2021 edition of the Women’s Tour has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The UK stage race was scheduled to take place from 7-12 June. Organiser SweetSpot has requested alternative dates of 4-9 October from the sport’s governing body, the UCI. The Women’s Tour forms part of the top-tier UCI Women’s World Tour

Egan Bernal finished third overall at the Tour de la Provence as Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Ivan Sosa won. Bernal, 24, who won the 2019 Tour de France, finished the four-day race strongly as he recovers from a poor defence at last year’s Tour because of a back injury. Germany’s Phil Bauhaus won Sunday’s stage from

Ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been charged by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) with two violations of anti-doping rules, the BBC has learned. The medic is already fighting a General Medical Council allegation that he ordered banned testosterone in 2011 to help dope a rider. The accusation is central to Freeman’s two-year

Britain’s Jake Stewart finished a surprise fourth overall at the Etoile de Besseges race, as Geraint Thomas was 49th for Ineos Grenadiers. Groupama-FDJ’s Stewart, 21, was 10th in the final-stage time trial in the five-day race in southern France. Tim Wellens won overall, a minute ahead of Stewart, in a field packed with high-class riders

The General Medical Council case against former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman was “all over the place”, a medical tribunal has been told. Freeman denies having testosterone delivered to the national velodrome in 2011 in order to help an athlete to dope. Summing up Freeman’s case, Mary O’Rourke QC said: “You’ve

Three-time road race world champion Peter Sagan is one of three Bora-Hansgrohe riders to have tested positive for coronavirus. The Slovakian 31-year-old, his brother Juraj and Erik Baska have all returned “several” positive tests while on a training camp in Gran Canaria. Team doctor Christopher Edler said the trio have “mild, general symptoms” of the

Ineos Grenadiers will race “like Brazil” in 2021 as Briton Geraint Thomas goes for Tour de France victory, says team boss Sir Dave Brailsford. Brailsford wants the team to adapt to the more spontaneous style of racing that propelled Tao Geoghegan Hart to Giro d’Italia success in 2020. “It chimed with a lot of people

Geraint Thomas will be among three Tour de France winners competing in the Etoile de Besseges, a five-day race that begins on Wednesday, 3 February. The 34-year-old Welshman will be joined by Team Ineos colleague Egan Bernal and Vincenzo Nibali of Trek-Segafredo. Team Ineos’ line-up also includes Thomas’ Welsh compatriot Owain Doull. Thomas pulled out

The Mayor’s walking and cycling commissioner, Will Norman, said: “We know many Londoners have taken up cycling over the past nine months and we are doing all we can to support this and help avoid the risk of a damaging car-led recovery, including rolling out new cycle lanes across our city.”

Tom Pidcock says he wants to become one of the “biggest guys in cycling” as he prepares to take on the world’s best at the World Cyclo-cross Championships. The 21-year-old has spent the winter competing with two of cycling’s most exciting young talents in Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, and has a

By Katie FalkinghamBBC Sport Last updated on 48 minutes ago48 minutes ago.From the section Cycling BBC Sport’s ‘Generation Next’ follows a group of inspirational young athletes, from a range of backgrounds and sports, as they bid to become our next sporting superstars. Elynor Backstedt was just two when, perched on her grandfather’s shoulders, she watched

Elynor Backstedt, 19, is one of Great Britain’s rising stars in road cycling, but she has had to overcome a catalogue of horrific injuries in her bid to be the next big thing. The world junior bronze medallist tells BBC Sport about putting her body on the line and her dream of winning Paris-Roubaix, just

Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen received death threats following a crash that left a fellow cyclist with serious head injuries. The 27-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider said police protected him and his family after the messages were mailed to him. “[The] police guarded our door. We could no longer spontaneously leave the house,” Groenewegen said. Fabio Jakobsen spent

Former Grand Tour winner Tom Dumoulin is taking an indefinite break from cycling. The Dutch rider’s shock decision comes just days after his Jumbo-Visma team announced their race programme for the season. Dumoulin was set to support team-mate Primoz Roglic at this year’s Tour de France after the team dramatically missed out in 2020 to