Racing

Huge changes to Milan-San Remo route after seaside mayors veto race

Race a week on Saturday only hits coast 40km from finish – and gains a late climb that could shake things up

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Five cool things coming soon from Rapha, Open, Parcours, FLR and Veloflex

The best bikes, gear and kit we're testing at the moment, with full reviews coming soon...

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Team Ineos to change name to Ineos Grenadiers ahead of Tour de France

New name aimed to “align the team” with the Grenadier 4x4 being developed by Ineos Automotive

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Virtual Tour de France: Stephens and Clarke triumph on the Champs-Elysées

TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank win the women's race, NTT Pro Cycling take the men's edition

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Watch Live Virtual Tour de France Stage 6 on Zwift

Who will win the final stage in Paris?

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Watch Live Virtual Tour de France Stage 5 on Zwift

The Virtual Tour de France heads to Mont Ventoux for stage 5

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Opening stage of first post-COVID UCI race cancelled after motorcycle crash

Confusion surrounds incident on first day of Poland’s Dookola Mazowsza stage race

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McLaren reportedly looking to end UCI WorldTour team sponsorship

Bahrain-McLaren on search for new sponsor as automotive firm focuses on F1

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Video: The most memorable Tour de France Bastille Day stages of the past 25 years

There's no racing on 14 July this year - but from Froome to Jalabert via Armstrong, we look back at some of the moments from the past quarter century that live on in the memory

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New Zwift route to ride as Virtual Tour de France brings users the Casse-Pattes circuit

Egan Bernal and Lizzie Deignan in action on the second weekend of the Virtual Tour

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Chris Froome leaving Team Ineos to join Israel Start Up Nation from next season

Much-rumoured move finally confirmed, but will four-time yellow jersey winner race this year's Tour de France with Team Ineos?

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Video highlights as Virtual Tour de France heads into the mountains

Zwift's Watopia Mountain course was the backdrop as top men's and women's teams battled it out

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Watch Live Tour de France Virtual Stage 2

Watch the pros tackle Zwift's Epic KOM

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Nairo Quintana hit from behind during training ride

Motorist attempted to flee but was stopped by driver who had been accompanying the cyclist

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Watch Live: Tour de France Virtual Stage 1

Today’s 36.4km stage takes in four hilly laps of ‘Nice’

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“Particular challenges” when it comes to bringing back sportives – British Cycling

Governing body also announces that 2020 British National Road Championships has been cancelled

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Virtual Tour de France and Etape du Tour on Zwift next month (+ video)

Our April Fool story turned out to be bang on the money

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Tour de Yorkshire at risk as councils refuse emergency funds

Welcome to Yorkshire warns it will have to cease operating unless it secures £1.4 million cash injection

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Chris Froome team-mate expects him to ride Tour de France with Team Ineos

Dylan van Baarle reckons four-time winner will stay despite rumours he is leaving

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Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi in critical condition after lorry crash

Double amputee ex-Formula 1 driver reportedly lost control of handbike on training ride in Tuscany

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Everesting World Record falls yet again – to WorldTour cyclist Lachlan Morton

EF Pro Cycling rider scales height of world's tallest mountain on his bike in a little over seven and a half hours

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UCI defends decision to honour Turkmenistan dictator

2021 World Track Cycling Championships set to take place in Ashgabat

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“Bullshit!” Johan Bruyneel on Greg LeMond’s insistence he won the Tour de France clean

Lance Armstrong’s former boss, serving lifetime ban, also hits out at Bjarne Riis’s return to the sport

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Chris Froome leaves it late to beat Kevin Pietersen and Melanie C in Wheels For Heroes race (+ video of full race)

Four-time Tour de France winner prevails in handicap-format charity Zwift race broadcast on Sky Sports

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The Tour de Dom is a 610-mile virtual challenge equivalent to London to Durham to Barnard Castle to Durham to London

Complete the distance during Bike Week (which is this week) and you'll get a T-shirt

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Virtual Tour de France on custom Zwift routes planned for July

Six hour-long stages on the weekends when the Tour was originally due to take place

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“A small, almost nothing, story” – Mark Cavendish hits back at report he may miss Tour de France

Bahrain-McLaren sprinter says comments made by team boss Rod Ellingworth to BBC could apply to “99 per cent” of riders

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Everesting World Record broken twice in a week (+ video)

Phil Gaimon vows to regain crown as Keehan Swenson takes it from him after just four days

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Lance Armstrong fears drug use led to testicular cancer – admits to first doping ‘probably at 21’

Texan says he took testosterone in his first season as a pro and says he considers EPO a relatively ‘safe’ drug

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Geraint Thomas predicts riders will “blow up” in final week of Tour de France

2018 champion says lack of racing and training camps could make for exciting race

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