Racing

Rohan Dennis says ‘mental struggles’ led him to abandon Tour de France

Team Ineos rider concedes he is obsessive and says he divides his pedal strokes into multiples of five throughout a road race

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Jumbo-Visma to take three leaders to the Tour de France

Dumoulin, Roglic and Kruijswijk will all head to France while sprinter Groenewegen will ride the Giro and Vuelta

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Geraint Thomas targets Tour de France – but accepts he may have to play team role

Team Ineos star reflects on emergence of Egan Bernal and possible return of Chris Froome

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Team Ineos partners with Formula 1 giant Mercedes-AMG Petronas

Collaboration also includes Sir Ben AInslie's Ineos Team UK Americas Cup challenge

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe explains Team Sky takeover … to two of its riders (and fellow Monaco residents), Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe for their podcast

Billionaire's Ineos petrochemicals group took over UCI WorldTour team in May

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Stocking thriller: The O-Seat is a bike saddle cover with a ‘discreet pocket’ for slipping in a vibrating sex toy

Also recommended for "road racers, mountain bikers, bike tourers, leather lovers and even commuters", the O-Seat houses a Lovesense vibrating sex toy for an extra pleasurable ride...

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Video: Riders forced to dodge dog at cyclo-cross race in Belgium

Canine’s intervention didn’t stop Mathieu van der Poel getting back into winning ways

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Matthew Glaetzer wins Track World Cup silver ahead of cancer treatment

Australian sprinter already underwent surgery for thyroid cancer last month

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UCI moves to suspend Caja Rural after second doping case

Last year's Portuguese national champion, Domingo Goncalves, was provisionally suspended earlier this week

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‘So, Rohan, let’s take a look at what you could have ridden’ – Merida unveils Bahrain-McLaren’s new TT bike

World TT champ will be on a Pinarello Bolide with Team Ineos next year - but here's his former team's new time trial ride

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UCI postpones planned Classics Series after backlash

Season-long competition featuring 21 one-day races was due to start next year - but teams and organisers aren't keen

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Rohan Dennis makes ‘dream’ move to Ineos, drawn by team’s ‘innovation’ in time trialling (+ video interview)

Two-time world time trial champion left Bahrain-Merida in October following rows over equipment

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Geraint Thomas says Chris Froome was wearing a sarong that “didn’t leave anything to the imagination” when the pair first met

2018 Tour de France champion talks through his career on superbike racer Eugene Laverty's PrePro Podcast

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Freeman tribunal: Former British Cycling doctor suffers blow as panel says Shane Sutton testimony is admissible

Freeman says testosterone gel was for Sutton… but Sutton says it wasn’t

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Track sprinter Vicky Williamson switches to bobsleigh

World Championship bronze medallist missed several years of racing after horrific crash in 2016

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Trans track cyclist Rachel McKinnon blames Donald Trump Junior for increase in hate mail

“Why should my right to compete be contingent on not winning?”

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Chris Froome in race against time for Tour de France fitness

Team Ineos star talks about his return from injury in Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe's Watts Occurring podcast

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Landslides may result in decisive Poggio climb being dropped from next year’s Milan-Sanremo

Climb crested 5.4km from finish is often the launch pad for race-winning attacks

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Astana to race on Wilier bikes in 2020

Just a few days after the Kazakh team announced they have ended their partnership with Argon 18, Wilier Triestina have been announced as their replacement bike sponsor

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Julian Alaphilippe crowned 2019’s top male rider as he wins the Vélo d’Or

Deceuninck-Quick Step rider followed up early season wins with two weeks in yellow at the Tour de France

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The Angliru – pro cycling’s toughest climb? – set to feature in 2020 Vuelta (+ video of Contador’s swansong win))

Last appearance in Spanish Grand Tour saw Froome seal overall and Contador close career with stage win

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Miguel Indurain to ride six-day Moroccan mountain bike race, the Titan Desert

The race’s six stages take hundreds of riders from the Atlas Mountains to the Sahara Desert

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Helmets to be made compulsory for hill climb competitors?

Proposed amendment to CTT regulations would make helmets mandatory for all riders, not just juniors

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Idea transgender people are going to take over women’s sport is “absolutely ridiculous” says Philippa York

York - who came fourth in the Tour de France as Robert Millar - says sport should be more welcoming to those who are LGBTQ rather than “pretending to be a homogenous Disney Land”

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Five cool things coming soon from Pinarello, Look, Elite, Scribe and Vulpine

Some of the latest and greatest bikes and gear we're testing at the moment, with reviews coming soon...

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Riders should be free to choose whether watts and heart-rate are displayed during e-racing says pro riders’ union

“Sensitive data is the individual rider's exclusive property and cannot be shared without their permission”

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Welcome to Yorkshire still has high hopes of Tour de France return

Beleaguered agency also remains in talks to bring opening stages of Vuelta to the region

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Alex Dowsett signs for Israel Cycling Academy

Six-time British time trial champion joins Dan Martin at WorldTour hopefuls

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Ineos would pull out of cycling if rules were broken says Sir Jim Ratcliffe

“The day any of that enters our world then we would leave cycling”

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Harrogate says ‘no thanks’ to Tour de Yorkshire after Worlds experience

Town hosted Tour de France and World Championships but enthusiasm for bike races appears to be waning

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