Racing

“I’m just happy I could hold on for that long!”: Mark Cavendish WINS stage three of the Giro d’Italia

The Manx Missile won his 16th Giro stage on the race's final day in Hungary

By a whisker! TT-invading cat drops Jumbo-Visma pro up Giro d’Italia climb

Edoardo Affini at least saw the funny side of the embarrassment: "Not difficult to climb faster than me!"

Return of the 1,000w attack + sprinting uphill at 32mph — Mathieu van der Poel uploads Giro d’Italia stage win to Strava

Van der Poel averaged 528w for the final four minutes of the climb, peaking with a 949w 20-second sprint up the 5 per cent slopes...

Sticky everything: footage of Spanish pro hitching a lift from team car on climb goes viral

Daniel Navarro’s quite blatant helping hand only got him to 21st place on the stage at the Vuelta a Asturias, and he hasn't been disqualified

Amy Pieters shows signs of “awareness” four months after crash that left her in a coma

Dutch national road champion sustained serious head injuries in training camp crash before Christmas

Chris Froome’s mechanic agrees with his boss: “I’m not a huge fan of disc brakes”

Gary Blem says disc brake performance isn’t yet where it needs to be, manufacturers forced the tech onto the peloton, and believes that Froome will reach the top again

Julian Alaphilippe suffers collapsed lung and multiple fractures in huge crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège

The world champion’s Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammate Remco Evenepoel took the first monument victory of his career with a stunning solo escape

Tadej Pogačar to miss Liège-Bastogne-Liège due to family emergency

The defending champion has returned home to Slovenia after his fiancée, fellow pro cyclist Urška Žigart, announced on Thursday that her mother had died

Laura Kenny reveals miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy

“It’s been the hardest few months I’ve ever had to go through,” the five-time Olympic gold medallist wrote on Instagram

“Demoralised” Quick-Step pro claims he was sprayed with urine at Paris-Roubaix

Florian Sénéchal’s comments rounded off a frustrating Hell of the North for the Belgian team, after Yves Lampaert collided with a spectator while in contention for a podium place

What’s going on with Shimano’s wheels? Two carbon Dura-Ace wheels fold in half at Paris Roubaix

The wheels were ridden with flat tyres, exposing the carbon to the harsh cobbles... we try to dissect what might have gone wrong

Sir Bradley Wiggins alleges he was groomed by a coach as a teenager

"I was groomed by a coach when I was younger – I was about 13 – and I never fully accepted that... It all impacted me as an adult… I buried it"

Dylan van Baarle wins Paris-Roubaix for Ineos Grenadiers

29-year-old Dutch rider goes solo to win fastest ever edition of the Hell of the North

The best pro bikes of Paris-Roubaix – with all of the best hacks

Liam Cahill has been out snapping the bikes but did he get the winner’s? We’ll find out later today …

The best bikes of the 2022 Paris-Roubaix Femmes

All the best bikes from down on the ground at the Hell of the North

Elisa Longo Borghini wins Paris-Roubaix Femmes

Italian champion puts in dominant display as Trek Segafredo put two riders on podium again

Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer has a new bike… with part of her PhD thesis etched on the frame

The maths doctorate and shock Toyko Olympic road race gold medallist has two of her favourite equations on the brand new Factor Ostro VAM

Tour de Yorkshire: New hope that race may be back next year

Reviving race is first priority of company that has bought assets of tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire

British Cycling’s “unacceptable” transgender policy suspension makes leading women’s race sponsor pull out, as organisers weigh up offers

CiCLE Classic race director Colin Clews says he has received “numerous” offers from potential backers, including women's rights groups, but is concerned about “politicising” the race

Disc brake injury leaves pro cyclist with 35 stitches

Hugo Hofstetter shared pictures of his damaged helmet and needed hospital treatment on a cut to his right ear

Astana pro “unconscious for 20 minutes” after Amstel Gold crash, has no memory of incident

Worrying TV pictures showed Samuele Battistella motionless after the high-speed crash during yesterday's race

“I feel so bad for him!”: Amstel Gold Race photo finish drama AGAIN as Benoît Cosnefroy celebrates…only to be told result on live TV

Michał Kwiatkowski pips Frenchman — podium beer chug also goes to photo finish

“Dumped by email”: Mother of transgender cyclist Emily Bridges speaks out after British Cycling decision to suspend trans policy

UK's largest network of LGBTQIA+ cyclists PRiDE OUT accuses British Cycling of "bending to political pressure and cowing to the transphobic gender-critical movement"

Jumbo-Visma rider Milan Vader stable after Basque Country crash

UPDATE: 26 year old now stable after being operated on in hospital in Bilbao having fallen over guardrail during descent on yesterday’s stage

Hill-top finishes to bookend tough 2022 Tour of Britain route

This year’s race picks up where the 2021 edition left off in Aberdeen and finishes on the Isle of Wight, as the tour’s comms team continue to do God's work by shooting down complaints about the route

How hard is it to win Tour of Flanders? Mathieu van der Poel uploads mind-boggling power data to Strava

The Alpecin-Fenix phenom powered his way to a second Ronde van Vlaanderen title (and plenty of KOMs)

Nicole Cooke calls for separate category for transgender cyclists

The 2008 Olympic gold medallist says that “there must be fairness to both trans and biological females”, as Pippa York criticises the “endless talk about trans women invading sport… framed as concerns, fairness, safety”

Lotte Kopecky wins Tour of Flanders in Belgian champion’s jersey

The SD Worx rider outsprints Annemiek van Vleuten to take the biggest win of her career, to the delight of the Flemish crowds

Two out of three ain’t bad: Mathieu van der Poel takes second Tour of Flanders win in thrilling finale

The Dutchman makes amends for last year’s defeat, as Tadej Pogačar is outfoxed in dramatic final kilometre

“Accidents happen”: Egan Bernal says time trial bikes are ‘a part of cycling’

The 2019 Tour de France winner was responding to Chris Froome’s call for TT bikes to be banned from pro racing due to safety concerns, two months after horror training crash