Racing

Mark Cavendish unlikely to race Tour de France but promises to be ready if required

The Manx Missile told Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team boss Patrick Lefevere he will be ready should something go wrong with first-choice Fabio Jakobsen

Elisa Longo Borghini wins The Women’s Tour – by 1 second

Trek Segafredo’s Italian national champion grabs bonus seconds in Oxford to claim title

Vuelta a Colombia cyclist wins stage…before crashing into his wife while celebrating

Luis Carlos Chía escaped bruised but not seriously injured, while his wife was taken to hospital and needed four stitches

Greg LeMond reveals leukaemia diagnosis

"Fortunately, it is a type of cancer that is treatable, and it is a type of leukaemia that is not life-threatening or debilitating"

Comedy sticky bottle crash sends Ironman Sub 7 pace setter on bike tumbling

"He's a runner, not a cyclist!": Kenyan marathon runner was pacesetting Kristian Blummenfelt when a bottle change went wrong

Brand new Trek Madone breaks cover: exclusive look at radical aero road bike for 2023

What's going on with that seat tube? And what the hell is IsoFlow? Watch the video and read all about the 2023 Trek Madone, being raced for the first time at the Criterium du Dauphine

Tom Dumoulin to retire at the end of the season

Ex-world champion and Giro d’Italia winner says his efforts in training are not translating into performances on the road

SUV driver pulls out of junction and crashes into Olympic champion Katie Archibald

No bones broken for Scottish rider who is returning from injury ahead of Commonwealth Games later this year

Valtteri Bottas sets up an international gravel race in his Finnish hometown

The two-day event will have a prize purse of £17,000

“Trans rights are human rights,” says Rapha – “all athletes should have the opportunity to race”

Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges is pictured in brand’s kit on cover of latest issue of Diva magazine

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Glentress to host 2023 UCI cross-country competitions in Scotland

The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships are expected to attract over one million spectators

Jai Hindley becomes the first Australian Giro d’Italia winner

Hindley held on to his maglia rosa from yesterday with Richard Carapaz coming in second and Mikel Landa third

Jai Hindley poised to make history at Giro d’Italia

Bora-Hansgrohe rider has commanding lead ahead of tomorrow's final stage

Giro d’Italia Stage 20: Richard Carapaz cracks as Jai Hindley moves into race lead

Overall battle finally explodes into life in the Dolomites, Alessandro Covi of UAE Team Emirates wins the stage

Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges insists she has no advantage over rivals

“We're the current punching bag in the culture war,” says 21 year old in interview with DIVA magazine

British Cycling to investigate transgender rider’s win at Fort William

Maxine Yates won the expert category in the women's downhill national series last weekend

Sports director killed at Italian bike race after crash in sprint

Stefano Martolini is said to have died instantly after striking his head; condition of the rider who hit him also serious

Biniam Girmay out of Giro d’Italia with eye injury after bizarre podium prosecco incident

The 22-year-old Eritrean withdraws from the race a day after making history as the first black African rider to win a grand tour stage

“I’d be careful taking training advice from him”: F1 star goes cycling with Lance Armstrong

A certain Texan was pictured training alongside Valtteri Bottas in Colorado

“They just collapsed because of the pressure”: Giro d’Italia hopeful blames disc brakes overheating for ending GC challenge

Wilco Kelderman said his 10-minute time loss began with two stops after breaking a spoke on a descent, something the Dutchman attributes to his disc brakes overheating

“Maybe the easiest race I’ve ever done”: Pros enjoy relaxing Giro d’Italia stage six… but could you have kept up?

Yesterday’s 192-kilometre stage, won by Arnaud Démare, finished half an hour later than the race organisers’ slowest projected time

Tom Pidcock goes cycle commuting — Olympic champion’s 118-mile country-crossing ride to next UCI Mountain Bike World Cup round

Having made a winning return to the mountain bike scene on Sunday, Pidcock got back to the day job on Monday...

World Championships in Harrogate “catalyst for ill feeling”, says organiser hoping to revive Tour de Yorkshire

"The 2019 Worlds is an example of too much of a good thing and it created some ill feeling": Robin Scott is trying to get the stage race back on Yorkshire's roads

“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