Racing

Mark Cavendish is left OUT of Team Dimension Data’s Tour de France squad

The Manx sprinter, with 30 individual Tour de France stages to his name, was not included in Dimension Data's eight-man squad announced this morning

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Ben Swift wins national road race title in Norwich

Team Ineos make it one-two as Ian Stannard finishes second, John Archibald of Ribble Pro Cycling comes third

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Both Yates brothers to ride the Tour de France

Adam to lead – speaks cautiously about his chances

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World Tour pro Lachlan Morton wins “unimaginably hard” GBDURO bike-packing event

“I never realised that I had never done anything hard in my life before this”

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Riders benefit from race motorbikes even at 50 metres

Groupama-FDJ performance director says current UCI rules on race motorbikes don’t go far enough

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Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal to jointly lead Team Ineos at Tour de France

Co-leaders will have some very experienced support in race which starts in Brussels a week tomorrow

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Gritfest 2019 – gravel enduro at its best

Dave rides the two-day gravel stage race in mid-Wales

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Christoph Strasser wins record 6th Race Across America title; Team Backstedt take 8-person win

Austrian rider crosses continent solo in 8 days 16 hours 6 minutes for record-breaking win

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Egan Bernal wins Tour de Suisse to give Ineos potential Tour de France leadership headache

Young Colombian pledges support to defending champion Geraint Thomas "if he is better than me"

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Vaughters: Wiggins’ 2012 Tour de France win “blemished” due to triamcinolone use

Manager who led Wiggins to 4th place at 2009 Tour accuses Brailsford of "gaming the system" through TUE use

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Live coverage as James MacDonald makes attempt on 24 hour distance record

48-year-old will need to cover more than 941km by midday Sunday

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UCI changes rules to exclude amateur team who won gold at Track Cycling World Cup

Huub-Wattbike team has won admiration for its innovative approach

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DT Swiss launch £3k superlight wheels to mark 25th anniversary

1283g wheels launched to celebrate DT Swiss 25th birthday

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Boardman launch their first e-bike range, selling exclusively at Halfords

Sold exclusively through Halfords, Boardman have unveiled three new e-bikes all with the sleek Fazua Evation drive system

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Trek launch the Madone SLR 6 Disc Speed with integrated aerobars

The aerobar system makes this new version of the Madone ideal for part-time triathletes and time trial enthusiasts, say Trek, and the aerobars also detach in less than 30 seconds to ride it as a regular road bike

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Koo launch the Billy, a stem-mounted storage solution for your sunglasses

Short of space in your jersey pockets, weather took a turn for the worse? The Billy from Koo is the thing for you...

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UPDATED: Geraint Thomas WILL race Tour de France after emerging “relatively unscathed” from Tour de Suisse crash

Thomas looked dazed on the side of the road after a heavy crash, but remained fully conscious and was taken to hospital for checks. He's now been given the all-clear to race the Tour de France

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Five cool things coming soon from Ribble, Vittoria, Scribe, Rapha and Giro

Some of our top picks from the road.cc test pile this week, with reviews coming soon...

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Sir Dave Brailsford says Chris Froome will be back as Team Ineos star thanks fans for support

Team principal also says crash could lead to review of protection of riders including Kevlar clothing

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First look: Tifosi x Campagnolo Mons with Super Record

This special edition Mons frame with Campagnolo livery was built to show off the best of the Italian brand's components, with stock versions of the Mons frames available to customise with various Campag builds...

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Dan Martin thought Chris Froome ‘could have been dead’ after seeing him crash

Surgeon says Froome will be out for at least six months

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Tom Dumoulin may miss Tour de France due to knee injury

Team Sunweb rider still not fully recovered from crash that put him out of last month's Giro d'Italia

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The 2019 Lauf Gritfest course is set to be epic – in a good way

Full details of each stage on both days - it's a blinder!

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Chris Froome set to be awarded 2011 Vuelta after Juan Jose Cobo receives doping ban

UCI says abnormalities found in Spanish rider's biological passport from 2009 to 2011

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Multiple fractures put Chris Froome out of Tour de France after Dauphiné crash

Team Ineos rider crashed during recon ride for today's time trial, breaking femur, ribs and elbow

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Rod Ellingworth moves to Bahrain-Merida as team principal

Ex-head of performance at Team Sky will lead team co-owned by McLaren

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Video: Cyclist does a Chris Froome as he runs to finish after crash

US rider Eamon Lucas secured 10th place in Belgian kermesse after picking himself up and hotfooting it to the line

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ASO “don’t really seem to care much about women’s cycling” says Joanna Rowsell Shand

Tour de France organisers hold only a one-day race for the women and recently pulled two other races from the Women’s World Tour

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US rider denies deliberately causing crash after being disqualified from race

“A career in crashing people out is not what I’m trying to do. It doesn’t pay very well and you don’t get on very many teams for that skill, and you don’t get to finish very many races”

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After over 1,000 tests at the Giro d’Italia, UCI to roll out further mechanical doping measures

Governing body to introduce an upgrade to magnetic scanning technology plus a ‘tracker’ that can be attached to bikes

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