Racing

Jack Bobridge retires at 27 due to rheumatoid arthritis

Current Australian road champ still holds individual pursuit World Record after beating Chris Boardman's 'unbreakable' time in 2011

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Sir Bradley Wiggins named in Great Britain Cycling Team squad for 2017

British Cycling says it wants to give five-time Olympic champion "flexibility" while he considers his future

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Muur van Geraardsbergen returns to Tour of Flanders

Start moves to Antwerp for 2017

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Top Kenyan cyclist has leg amputated after Tour of Rwanda crash

Samwel Mwangi was riding for Kenyan Riders Downunder, which Chris Froome visited in 2013

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Video: Balance bike racing – It’s fast, it’s furious… It’s tiny tots on two wheels

Top cornering skills, crashes and drama in ultra-competitive race action with a fantastic finish

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Video: Riders disqualified after argy-bargy at top cyclo-cross race

TV cameras capture the pushing and shoving at Sunday's Flandriencross in Hamme

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Thieves steal £50K of JLT Condor team bikes

Around ten JLT Condor bikes, including Olympian Ed Clancy's racing machine, were stolen from a Central London warehouse over the weekend

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Aberdeen set to host UK’s Pearl Izumi Tour Series

The Scottish city is set to debut on the country's premier criterium circut in 2017

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Are TUEs a problem in cycling? Diabetic pro team says no

Therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) are "literally a matter of life and death" for Team Novo Nordisk

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UCI tells race organisers team sizes must remain the same for 2017

Governing body says parties had agreed to monitor the implications of such a change before making a decision

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Smaller teams for Tour de France and other major races

ASO, RCS and Flanders Classics say move will increase rider safety and make for more exciting racing

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One Pro Cycling drops to UCI Continental level after bike sponsor withdraws

CEO and former England cricketer Matt Prior tries to put positive spin on bad news

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Six-figure damages awarded against Swiss ex-pro cyclist who caused death of fellow rider during race

Close overtake led to crash that claimed victim's life

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Transgender cyclist is first female finisher at Arizona race

Jillian Bearden is also working with the International Olympic Committee as it refines rules on transgender athletes

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Philippe Gilbert ordered to pay former team 300,000 euro for breach of contract

Ex-world champ argued his contract with Omega Pharma Lotto was rendered invalid by team's merger with Quick Step

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Sir Bradley Wiggins hints that Ghent Six may have been his last top-level race (+ videos)

Comments in press conference saw him outline problems of maintaining peak racing fitness

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Help Herne Hill Velodrome get a £7k coffee machine…via Twitter

Software company, Convene, is offering to donate the La Marzocco coffee machine to the iconic South London velodrome in return for 1.5k Twitter followers

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Ex world champ van der Poel rides 200km home after Koksijde cyclo-cross cancelled

It was a perfect day for the Dutch National Headwind Cycling Championships, mind

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Wiggins and Cavendish win Six Days of Ghent (+ video)

British pair took a lap in final Madison race - also, watch Cav dancing to YMCA

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Video: Insane winds force cancellation of 2016 Koksijde Cyclocross World Cup

Check out the devastating winds that forced the UCI to cancel the first World Cup cyclocross race in 14 years

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British Cycling accentuates the positive in annual report

President talks up successes but acknowledges the two investigations relating to the organisation

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Criterium International cancelled with organisers citing packed calendar

Race has lost the backing of partners in Corsica where it has been run since 2010

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Alex Dowsett to try and reclaim UCI Hour Record from Sir Bradley Wiggins

Manchester will be venue for record attempt in New Year

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Norwegian federation claims Qatari police driver deliberately knocked female rider off bike at World Championships

Head of sport believes Susanne Andersen was targeted because of the way she was dressed

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Wiggins: “Nothing’s going to piss on my parade”

He still doesn’t seem 100 per cent certain that he won’t sign up for a couple more parades though

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“Donald Trump” claims Box Hill KoM on Strava

So much to prove. Sad.

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Tour of Cambridgeshire adds four-rider team time trial

Closed road event takes place over the same course as the individual time trial earlier in the day

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Cavendish: “I’ll try my best” to give Wiggins a winning send-off

World Madison champions starty Six Days of Ghent tonight as Wiggins brings curtain down on career

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Beaten US presidential candidate targets 2,800-mile Tour Divide bike race (+ video)

Gary Johnson has already completed Transalp race and the Cape Epic

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Fabian Cancellara beats Sir Bradley Wiggins in his last ever race (+ video)

More than 6,000 fans pack into Ghent's 't Kuipke velodrome to say "Ciao, Fabian"

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