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Over a quarter of female pro cyclists outside Women’s WorldTour receive no salary, as new report highlights growing gap between Tour de France stars and “Wild West” lower tier – weeks after British squad collapsed following Tour invite snub

The Cyclists’ Alliance’s 2024 survey also revealed that 55 per cent of non-WWT riders earn less than €10,000 a year, while one in four pros have a second job alongside racing

British pro cyclist Leo Hayter to step away from cycling and Ineos Grenadiers after revealing five-year struggle with depression and anxiety

The 23-year-old former Baby Giro winner, who was diagnosed with depression last May, admitted that he hasn’t trained “for some time now” after reaching “breaking point” at the Tour de Hongrie

No, you won’t be able to hack pro cyclists’ electronic gears — Shimano shuts down cheating concerns over £175 jamming device, with immediate firmware update to “enhance security” already in use by pro cycling teams

Has it actually happened, and how seriously are the groupset giants taking it?

“Can’t continue with radio ban”: Pro cyclist breaks back in horrific crash as Visma-Lease a Bike manager slams “complete farce” and “chaos” lack of race radios created, but UCI President hits back at “fake news”

At Tour de Pologne only two riders per team have earpieces as part of a UCI trial aiming to improve safety, but many have been critical, including the team boss who called yesterday's crashes "chaos" and said it "cannot continue"

“I was getting ripped off left, right, and centre by the people looking after me”: Bradley Wiggins slams “sofa surfing” reports as “sensationalism” and explains bankruptcy “mess” in candid Lance Armstrong interview

“I never did the sport for the money, but I realise I should have paid more attention to it. I wasn’t aware of the mess until I was deep in retirement,” says the 2012 Tour de France winner, who was declared bankrupt in June

Horror crash that left track cycling spectator with “machete-like” injury prompts London velodrome to install Perspex barrier, two years after rider catapulted into crowd, “almost killing” children

The shocking collision at the 2022 Commonwealth Games led to calls from Chris Hoy and Laura Kenny to introduce a protective safety screen, which Lee Valley VeloPark now says is “a UK first for an existing velodrome”

“We have sadly raced our last race”: British cycling team who had 14 bikes stolen at Tour of Britain collapses, two months after overnight raid described as “absolute hammer blow to our over-achieving team on a stretched budget”

Lifeplus-Wahoo, the only British team to take part in the Tour de France Femmes, will close after nine years, with bosses blaming “ever-rising cost of racing”, recent bike thefts, and “ongoing partnership dispute”

“Best Parisian driver detected”: Olympic silver medallist Anna Henderson collides with Shimano neutral service car during road race, as Lizzie Deignan reveals “medial emergency” and night in hospital days before strong Team GB showing

Henderson and Deignan both played a pivotal role in teeing up a potential medal chance for British teammate Pfeiffer Georgi, who finished fifth behind solo winner Kristen Faulkner

Kristen Faulkner launches late solo attack to win 2024 Paris Olympic women’s cycling road race

The US rider shocked all pre-race favourites in a thrilling race, as Netherland’s all-time great Marriane Vos and Belgium’s world champion Lotte Kopecky took silver and bronze respectively in a sprint photo finish

“A long walk home”: Norwegian pro left stranded with broken bike after crashing in Paris Olympic race, as team car ignores him calling for assistance and drives past

Former U23 world time trial champion Søren Wærenskjold was left with a broken fork on his Dare cycle after an alleged brake failure and was seen walking back with the bike on his shoulder

Remco Evenepoel survives last minute bike-change scare to make history by winning Paris Olympics 2024 cycling road race

The Belgian becomes the first man to win gold medal in both road race and time trial competitions at the Olympics in the same year, after a heart-in-mouth moment as he suffered a rear puncture with less than 4 kilometres to go

“Pointless” 30kph speed limit on key climb sees pre-race favourite Mathieu van der Poel skip Olympic road race recon

While the world champion’s rivals Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, and Julian Alaphilippe tested out the cobbled climb to Montmartre ahead of Saturday’s road race, Van der Poel reckoned it wasn’t “worth the effort” due to the speed limit

“Kristian Blummenfelt is not to be messed with”: Tour de France stage winner backs 2020 Olympic triathlon champion’s plan to win Tour by 2028 and says he’ll “immediately claim his place” in peloton

“Mentally he is unmatched, he means business”, Victor Campenaerts said after Ironman record holder Blummenfelt confirmed his plans to become a professional cyclist next year – despite turning down contract offer because team “allowed riders to have beers”

Triathlon star with highest ever recorded VO2 max Kristian Blummenfelt reveals ambitious plan to win the Tour de France by 2028

“We won’t go to cycling to retire, but to win”: The 2021 Ironman champ and 2020 Olympics triathlon gold medal winner is rumoured to be in talks with UCI WorldTeam Jayco-AlUla, but can the 30-year-old Norwegian topple the likes of Pogačar and Vingegaard?

2024 Olympic XCO Tom Pidcock and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot take home Gold

The Pinarello duo show both a dominant race and one of the most dramatic Olympic XCO races we've seen.

Crash chaos at Olympic Games time trials, as GB’s Anna Henderson wins silver before Josh Tarling denied medal by agonising puncture in sodden Paris

Remco Evenepoel and Grace Brown crowned Olympic time trial champions as numerous riders fall in slippery conditions

Cycling at the 2024 Paris Olympics: All the crucial dates and times for watching the cycling action during the Games

From the velodrome to the road and beyond, there's more than enough cycling action to keep you entertained

Tour de France pro slams “heavier” Look bike for poor performance, but Cofidis team unimpressed and point out same “cutting-edge equipment” has been ridden to numerous big Grand Tour wins

Guillaume Martin revealed he went without a power meter and head unit during the Tour as his "7.7kg" bike was already "one kilo more than the UCI's permitted weight" and he did "not want to make it even heavier"

Mark Cavendish bows out at Tour de France, admits it was “likely” his last race

"I've been very, very lucky to have the career I've had. To work with the people I have, to meet the people I have and to be able to live a dream like everybody's dream."

“I didn’t hear them say that last year”: Patrick Lefevere calls Visma-Lease a Bike “sore loser” after sports director says Tadej Pogačar “doesn’t leave much for others” and questions if Tour de France domination helps his “popularity”

Tadej Pogačar has won more than a quarter of Grand Tour stages so far this year, sports director Merijn Zeeman (whose team won all three Grand Tours in 2023) stating: "It's his choice, of course, but I don't know if that contributes to his popularity"

“With the bottle like this, it’s not correct”: Giulio Ciccone hits out at Santiago Buitrago for ‘sticky bottle’ at Tour de France

The two riders from Lidl-Trek and Bahrain Victorious are embroiled in a battle for the 10th position at the Tour de France with only 10 seconds separating them

What is carbon monoxide rebreathing and why is the entire Tour de France talking about it? Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard insist it’s “nothing suspicious” and “just a simple test”, but others are less convinced

UAE Team Emirates, Visma-Lease a Bike and Israel–Premier Tech all admitted using the controversial test during altitude camps, raising health and ethical questions — but is it safe and are the concerns justified?

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate as Carlos Rodriguez describes Covid as “invisible rival” after teammates Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas test positive

Race organisers, media and guests will have to wear masks, however riders and team staff will be exempt, after Tom Pidcock became the third rider to withdraw from the race due to Covid, however Geraint Thomas, who also tested positive, is still racing

Drunk Tour de France spectator who threw bag of crisps at Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard arrested for aggravated assault, with riders’ union set to take legal action “with pleasure”

The spectator had allegedly spent the afternoon drinking alcohol and was immediately taken away by the French police, as CPA President Adam Hansen called the incident “disrespectful”

TotalEnergies bikes stolen overnight at the Tour de France

The French team had 11 Enve bikes and tools taken, police arriving at the hotel this morning following the break-in

Cyclist undergoes surgery to reattach arm after gruesome criterium crash when limb caught barrier

Spectators rushed to treat the rider and used a belt as a makeshift tourniquet, the shocking incident at a US crit race reportedly almost severing the rider's arm near his shoulder

“Tell me that didn’t just happen”: Aleksandr Vlasov abandons Tour de France with broken ankle, after Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe slammed for allowing dazed rider to immediately continue racing after heavy crash – but team boss says head injury was “minor”

“His head, where he was bleeding, and his elbow, I think these are minor things,” Ralph Denk said – though Geraint Thomas has claimed that Vlasov was vomiting during the stage following his “heavy” crash

“Back with the boys!” Sir Bradley Wiggins joins Lance Armstrong’s podcast during Tour de France

The 2012 Tour winner will be appearing alongside the disgraced Texan and former teammate George Hincapie on the podcast as a special guest over the next week

“It’s an unnecessary risk”: Jonas Vingegaard joins Patrick Lefevere in criticising gravel and cobbled stages in Tour de France… but fans (and Pogačar) think otherwise

The two-time Tour winner said he won’t have any gravel or cobbles if he were to design a Grand Tour, while Lefevere dismissed the stage 9 contested on white gravel — and widely enjoyed by fans — as “nonsense”

Condolence ride to honour André Drege set to replace final stage of Tour of Austria, after Norwegian pro cyclist’s death

Other riders described the news as “devastating”, after the 25-year-old Drege crashed while on a high-speed descent on the penultimate stage of Tour of Austria