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Video: Crashes galore at Cyclo-cross World Championships

Which is more treacherous, mud or ice?

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Sir Bradley Wiggins reveals he turned down Strictly Come Dancing to do The Jump

“I definitely don’t fancy putting on any Strictly Lycra and sparkles,” says cycling legend

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Video: Rider at race in California clings onto bridge parapet to avoid drop into ravine after crash

Incident happened during Saturday’s Santa Barbara Road Race

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Fresh questions for Team Sky as US TV show raises suspicions over mechanical doping at 2015 Tour de France

CBS programme 60 minutes says UCI officials prevented French authorities from weighing wheels of Team Sky bikes following time trial stage

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Former Team Sky doctor and Sir Bradley Wiggins Jiffy Bag courier summoned to testify before MPs

Dr Richard Freeman and Simon Cope invited to appear before select committee next month

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Pro cycling ‘family trees’ lift lid on a changing sport

Graphics in French newspaper L'Equipe help show evolution from ProTour to W

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You may not be able to watch Team Sky on Sky TV this year with Eurosport set to disappear from TV platform’s line-up

News comes as Eurosport announces four-year extension with Giro d'Italia owner RCS Sport

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Videos: Wrong-way peloton and accidental off-roading at Argentina’s Vuelta a San Juan

Opening stage sees some riders vying for a win end up on wrong side of road

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Mechanical doping: “I won’t trust any victories of the Tour de France,” says Greg LeMond

Three-time yellow jersey winner appears on US TV documentary on Sunday; Hungarian who pioneered the technology says he sold it to anonymous buyer for $2 million

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Video: GB junior men sweep podium at Cyclo-cross World Championships

Tom Pidcock wins in fitting tribute to Charlie Craig, who passed away last week aged 15

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Awkward moment as Aussie commentator interviews Peter Sagan “fan” – who turns out to be world champion’s wife

Mike Tomalaris, who has covered more than 20 editions of the Tour de France, gets caught out at Tour Down Under

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Picture gallery: Italy turns pink for the 100th Giro d’Italia

Landmarks across the country bathed in pink light to celebrate a very special edition of the three week race

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Nicole Cooke rejects claim that Team Sky is ‘cleanest’ in cycling

Questions senior figures’ apparent ignorance of riders' medication

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British Cycling ‘run by men, for men’ according to Nicole Cooke

Organisation says it is “absolutely committed to resolving the historic gender imbalance in our sport”

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Tom Boonen says disc brakes “the biggest improvement I’ve seen in my career” and he will be racing on them in 2017

Former world champion to race on discs in 2017 - final race will be Paris-Roubaix

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Team Sky’s Fran Millar: Sports teams can’t be transparent – but they need to be honest

Says team has ‘a job to do’ to win back trust

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Cookson “frustrated” over Wiggins controversy, backs Sutton for Cycling Australia role

UCI president also hints he won't seek re-election in 2021 and tells potential rival to wait four years

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Lance Armstrong saddles up with ex-US Postal colleagues including George Hincapie and Christian Vande Velde for MTB race

Arizona race 24 Hours in the old Pueblo is not sanctioned under UCI rules so banned Texan can ride

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Independent review into British Cycling finally complete – but still won’t be published for another month

Panel has taken evidence from over 80 people

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Christoph Strasser breaks record for cycling across Australia – 3,950km in less than seven days

Occasionally stopped to sleep for 45 minutes at a time

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Owain Doull forced to miss Team Sky WorldTour debut due to ruptured appendix

Shortened stage of Tour Down Under was won by Orica-Scott's Caleb Ewan

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“I’ll see your Everesting, and I’ll raise you the Seven Summits … on a turbo trainer”

Danish cyclist Michael Knudsen is 'climbing' 45,000 metres - equivalent to combined height of highest peak on each continent

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Video: Mike Cotty takes on Gran Canaria’s 44km monster climb

Col Collective's first video of 2017 was shot on Atlantic island's Pico de las Nieves

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Video: Slips, slides and crashes as it all gets messy in the mud at this weekend’s Cyclocross World Cup

Usually the pros make it look easy*, but that wasn't the case at the Italian round of the UCI World Cup this weekend (*ish)

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TUEs a distraction from bigger anti-doping challenges, says Callum Skinner

Skinner released medical history when he featured in Fancy Bears leaked data

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French MP’s call to criminalise mechanical doping rejected

Secretary of state for sport says government will produce report on the issue by the end of the year

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Kickstarter campaign launched for 2016/17 cyclo-cross album

Follows successful campaign to fund equivalent album last year

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Riders pose naked in snow to raise Euros for kit

Team La Bande are 15 riders from seven French teams hoping to raise €5,000 to fund the next stage in their cycling careers

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British Cycling hoping continued testing will discourage mechanical doping

National governing body has been testing at all levels since June

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Video: The Col Collective heads to Switzerland for 2017 – and also tackles Marco Pantani’s local climb

Mike Cotty and crew tackle some less well-known ascents in the Alps and also experience Norway’s midnight sun

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