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Italian sprinter Sonny Colbrelli of the Bahrain-McLaren team claimed Sunday’s second stage in the four-day Route d’Occitanie in France. The 30-year-old triumphed after a bunch sprint following a 174.5km run from Carcassonne to Cap Decouverte. Britain’s Chris Froome is now 85th overall with Colombia’s reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal 12th. Saturday’s stage winner

Chris Froome finished almost one minute behind the leaders as his Tour de France preparations began with the first stage of the Route d’Occitanie. The British rider crossed the line in 70th place in southern France, 56 seconds behind winner Bryan Coquard. Froome, the four-time winner who suffered a serious crash last summer, is bidding

It seems like a long time since life, as we all knew it, stopped in March. Life, as Chris Froome knew it, came to a grinding – and very painful – halt nearly a year earlier; the four-time Tour de France champion suffering terrible injuries in a crash while preparing for a stage during the

Ireland’s Sam Bennett avoided a mass pile-up on the final sprint to win the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Burgos. Italian Jacopo Guarnieri fell on the last corner and Deceuninck-Quickstep rider Bennett sprinted up the final slope to take victory in the 163km stage. French sprinter Arnaud Demare finished second, with Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo

By Tom BrownBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 41 minutes ago41 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Team Ineos rider and 2016 Olympic champion Owain Doull says cycling will look “very different” as the World Tour season resumes in Italy. Doull, 27, is riding the one-day Strade Bianche in Tuscany on Saturday. The 184km (144-mile) race

Three more riders have been withdrawn from the Vuelta a Burgos in Spain after coming into contact with a person who later tested positive for coronavirus. Colombians Sebastian Molano, Cristian Munoz and Camilo Ardila from UAE Team Emirates will not start stage two. On Tuesday, British time trial champion Alex Dowsett and Itamar Einhorn withdrew

The UCI has revealed its 2021 calendar with Ride London-Surrey Classic not included after organisers withdrew. The women’s event, however, will go ahead on 30 May, as part of the women’s World Tour events. The men’s Tour de France will take place a week earlier to accommodate the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics cycling. The Tour will

British rider Alex Dowsett has pulled out of the Vuelta a Burgos after a team-mate contracted coronavirus. Dowsett, who rides for Israel Start Up Nation, withdrew before the race began on Tuesday as a precaution – but an initial test has come back negative. In an eventful first day of World Tour cycling’s return to

Women’s cycling team CCC-Liv have withdrawn from two races in Spain this week because the health risks from coronavirus are “simply too great”. The team will not start Thursday’s Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa or Friday’s Klasikoa Navarra. Cases of Covid-19 in Spain’s Navarra region, where the races will take place, continue to grow. In a statement,

Team Ineos are set to be renamed before this year’s Tour de France. Cycling’s biggest team will become the Ineos Grenadiers, named after a new model of car being released by billionaire Ineos owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe in 2021. Ineos recently announced they would not renew the contract of four-time Tour champion Chris Froome beyond

Former Formula 1 driver and Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi has been transferred to a specialist recovery centre a month after suffering serious head injuries in a handbike accident. The 53-year-old Italian was placed in a medically induced coma and has had three operations at Siena’s Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital since the accident during a

Throughout July, BBC Scotland’s Sporting Nation series is reflecting on some of the greatest feats and personalities from Scottish sporting history. Here we look at Chris Hoy, a six-time Olympic cycling champion. Chris Hoy may not have been with us on the track in Rio when Team GB beat New Zealand to win Olympic gold

This year’s RideLondon cycling festival will become a virtual event to raise funds for UK charities. RideLondon 2020 was due to take place on 15 and 16 August but was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The festival, which raised £11.5m last year, usually features men’s and women’s professional one-day races as well as events

The Olympic triumphs of Andy Murray and Chris Hoy are to be showcased on BBC Scotland this weekend. Murray won his second tennis Olympic gold medal at the Rio 2016 Games with victory over Juan Martin del Potro. That match will be on BBC Scotland and online on Friday from 19:00 BST. Meanwhile, Hoy’s six

Adam Yates will compete in this year’s Tour de France and his twin brother Simon will race in the Giro d’Italia, say their Mitchelton-Scott team. The Tour de France will take place from 29 August to 20 September having been pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Giro d’Italia, postponed from May, will take

Former Great Britain cyclist Jess Varnish has lost her employment tribunal appeal against British Cycling. Varnish, 29, has spent years in a legal battle over her claim she should be considered an employee of the governing body or funding agency UK Sport. She lost her initial case in January 2019, and has now had her

Media playback is not supported on this device Olympic Rewinds: 14-24 July Watch the best moments of the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button, the BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app. Click here for full details and times Nicole Cooke was just 12 when she told a

A big sporting name switching to another team is nothing unusual – but Chris Froome’s departure from Team Ineos to Israel Start-Up Nation is one of the more bizarre transfers of recent times. Froome has gone to a team who, up until a takeover of Katusha last October, were in pro cycling’s second division –