Racing

Oleg Tinkov throws down €1,000,000 Grand Tour challenge to world’s top riders

Russian entrepreneur wants to see Contador, Froome, Nibali & Quintana race Tour, Giro & Vuelta in 2015

Cycling risks losing Paralympic spot as UCI misses Tokyo 2020 application deadline

Embarrassment for Brian Cookson, who made boosting para-cycling one of his pre-election pledges

Andy Schleck set to announce retirement?

Trek Factory Racing calls Thursday press conference with 29-year-old

Updated: Astana’s UCI licence at risk as it pulls out of Tour of Beijing after Iglinskiy EPO positives

Kazakh team withdraws from year's final WorldTour race after Maxim Iglinskiy chooses not to ask for testing of B sample

Giro d’Italia 2015 route unveiled in Milan (+ stage-by-stage video)

From Liguria to Milan - 7 stages for the sprinters, 5 in the high mountains, and a monster individual time trial

Dan Martin of Garmin-Sharp wins Il Lombardia

Irish rider attacks from back of strong group to win second Monument of his career

Astana’s Maxim Iglinskiy reportedly set to confess to doping next week

Team will race in Italy and Kazakhstan tomorrow, says La Gazzetta dello Sport, but will withdraw from Tour of Beijing

ASO looking to US for sponsor of week-long women’s Tour de France?

One-day race on Champs-Elysées in July was better received in US than Europe, says ASO president

Aussie track stars head for Revolution Series as Orica-GreenEdge confirmed as riding

GB vs Australia showdown looms in 2014/15 track competition, now expanded to six rounds

Ebola fears force cancellation of major African race, Tour du Faso (+ video)

28th edition of race that is subject of recent documentary cancelled on orders of Burkina Faso government

Astana on start list for Il Lombardia but will they be on the start line?

Fall out from second Iglinskiy doping suspension may mean Kazakh team voluntarily drops out of final monument of 2014

Festka to build new bike for Ondřej Sosenka’s hour record attempt in 2015

Ondřej Sosenk, whose nine year hour record was broken by Jens Voigt, aims at another attempt next spring

Oh brother… Astana’s Maxim Iglinskiy joins sibling Valentin in testing positive for EPO

UCI document reveals elder sibling tested positive days after helping Vincenzo Nibali win Tour de France

Team Sky confirms signing of Nicolas Roche and four others

Sky adds Brit, Czech rising star, first Dutch rider & Irishman, plus welcomes return of original member

Iranian cyclist wins Keirin gold at Asian Games – and gets excused military service

21-year-old Mohammad Daneshvarkhourram says his mother was in tears after victory in South Korea

Michal Kwiatkowski wins UCI World Championships road race for Poland

Pole attacks on final climb in Ponferrada and manages to stay away

France’s Pauline Ferrand Prevot wins the world championship in close sprint finish

Pre-race favourites Marianne Vos and Lizzie Armitstead out of medals as they are caught ahead of the line

Success for 16 year old Ruairidh Brown at the 2014 Special Olympics

Dyspraxic youth takes medals in all his races despite barely being old enough to compete

Great Britain riders back Ben Swift for World Championship glory tomorrow

Sky rider, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas look ahead to race - but warn it could be unpredictable

Lizzie Armitstead backs British Cycling in selection row

Team is “best of what we’ve got at the moment,” says Olympic silver medallist

Three-day Tour de Yorkshire planned for May 1-3

Welcome to Yorkshire teams up with Tour de France organisers for new stage race

Cadel Evans announces his retirement – but stays on with BMC

Australia's first world champion and Tour de France winner hangs wheels up

UCI aim to establish independent doping tribunal in 2015

Disciplinary proceedings currently delegated to national federations

Japanese track medallists fined – for doing victory lap on road bikes

“It’s easier to hold the flags on a road bike!” says one of pair who fell foul of commissaires at Asian Games

Joanna Rowsell says British women should have been in Worlds time trial

Former British champion backs Emma Pooley in criticising selection process

You know you want to: registration opens for 105 Km hill climb in Taiwan – Emma Pooley to give it a go

Hehuan Mountain features gradients of up to 27 per cent

Mark Cavendish says Tour de France crash will give him extra motivation to keep cycling

Former world champion aims to ride track circuit this winter to get back in shape

Sir Bradley Wiggins beats Tony Martin to win World Championship Time Trial

British rider adds rainbow jersey to Olympic title after putting nearly half a minute into German; Dumoulin of Netherlands third

Sir Bradley Wiggins confirms Hour record attempt in June

Inspired by Jens Voigt, British rider says it will give him “something to get out of bed for in the winter”

Tour of Beijing scrapped as Cookson fulfils manifesto pledge over GCP conflict of interest

News comes as 2015 UCI WorldTour Calendar confirmed