Racing

British doctors break round-the-world tandem record- after encountering a bear and a knifepoint robber on the way

Lloyd Collier and Louis Snellgrove took 283 days to ride 27,000km through 24 countries

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Giro d’Italia organisers insist queen stage will go ahead despite 12 metres of snow on the Gavia

Around-the-clock works going on to clear snow from summit of highest point of this year's race

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Five cool things coming soon from Sigma, Knog, Schmolke, Look and Rapha

Some more picks of the test pile before our reviewers give their full verdicts...

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Giro d’Italia Stage 9: Roglic smashes time trial and takes 3 minutes out of Yates, Conti still in pink (+ video highlights and lots of reaction)

Slovenian the big winner among GC riders, but botched bike change sees Campenaerts miss out on win

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Giro d’Italia Stage 8: Caleb Ewan takes stage,Valerio Conti stays in pink (plus reaction and video highlights)

Australian rewards team for hard work at front of peloton on longest stage of this year's race

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First Look: Look 785 Huez RS Disc

The disc brake version of Look's top-end lightweight road bike comes with their intriguing Zed 2 cranks with adjustable lengths...

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Britain’s first all-female wounded team to compete in Race Across America

Members have overcome various life changing conditions, including paralysis, amputations, spinal-cord injuries and PTSD

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Former world champion Jack Bobridge found guilty of supplying MDMA

Australian admits recreational drug use while racing in Europe

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Giro d’Italia Stage 7: Astana’s Bilbao wins stage, Conti of UAE Team Emirates still in pink (+ reaction and video highlights)

Basque rider takes first Grand Tour stage win of career after hard-fought day's racing

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ASO pulls Flèche-Wallone and Liège-Bastogne-Liège out of Women’s World Tour, unwilling to provide live TV coverage

New UCI rules require organisers to provide 45 minutes live coverage of all WWT races

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Giro d’Italia Stage 6: Valerio Conti takes overall lead, Fausto Masnada wins stage (+ reaction and video highlights)

Primoz Roglic in early crash and his Jumbo-Visma team lets break - and maglia rosa - go

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Giro d’Italia Stage 5: Ackermann wins, Roglic maintains lead (+ reaction and video highlights)

Rain-soaked roads see organisers take GC times with 10km remaining

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Giro d’Italia Stage 4: Carapaz wins, Roglic takes time on rivals, Dumoulin says challenge over after crash (+ reaction and highlights)

Big crash in closing kilometres splits peloton apart, Dumoulin struggles to finish stage

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Giro d’Italia Stage 3: Viviani first but relegated as Gaviria awarded win , Geoghegan Hart loses time

Team Ineos co-leader Geoghegan Hart loses time as he is caught behind a crash with 5 kilometres left

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Sir Ben Ainslie says it would be “crazy” for Ineos yachting and cycling teams not to learn from each other

Four-time Olyympic sailing champ's America's Cup challenge is being bankrolled by petrochemical firm

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Giro d’Italia Stage 2: Pascal Ackermann takes sprint, Primoz Roglic keeps lead

First road stage of this year's race sees German champ beat Elia Viviani in the final

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Primoz Roglic wins opening time trial at Giro d’Italia (+ reaction and highlights)

Simon Yates second as first Grand Tour of the year gets under way in Bologna

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Simon Yates claims he’s the favourite for this year’s Giro d’Italia

“If I was in my rivals’ position… I would be shitting myself”

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Irish cyclist dies after hitting parked motorbike during road race

Sean Lynch crashed during Frank O’Rourke Memorial race last Sunday

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Former World Champion Jack Bobridge denies supplying MDMA sold in Perth nightclub

Former pro cyclist Alex McGregor says Bobridge supplied him with the drug to sell to others

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Marcel Kittel has left Katusha Alpecin by mutual consent

Kittel says his contract has been terminated early “on his request", citing exhaustion and "not being able to train and race at the highest level"

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UCI Gran Fondo world champion suspended for EPO

Raul Portillo won the time trial and road race in the 40-45 age category last year

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First Look: Wahoo Elemnt Roam

Wahoo's latest GPS now comes with a colour screen and far more extensive mapping capabilities than their other devices. We take a quick look at one that has just arrived in for testing...

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Yorkshire aims to bring back Tour de France and host Vuelta within five years

"It's a question of when the Tour de France comes back not if,” say Welcome to Yorkshire

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Tao Geoghegan Hart and Pavel Sivakov lead Team Ineos at Giro d’Italia

Pair who topped podium at Tour of the Alps head youthful line-up for new sponsor's Grand Tour debut

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Simon Yates says Giro d’Italia is “unfinished business”

26-year-old from Bury spent two weeks in overall lead last year before blowing up on third-last stage

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Chris Lawless wins Tour de Yorkshire for Team Ineos, Greg van Avermaet takes final stage

Thrilling final stage caps four days of racing in region that will host UCI Road World Championships

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Egan Bernal of Team Ineos out of Giro d’Italia after breaking collarbone in training crash

Young Colombian had been due to assume first Grand Tour leadership role

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Alejandro Valverde withdraws from Giro d’Italia due to back injury

World champion has had an uncharacteristically low key spring

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road.cc recap: ten of our top stories this week

Some of our top stories from another busy week on two wheels...

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