Cycling

Frenchman Victor Lafay produced a brilliantly timed attack to win the second stage of the Tour de France. Belgium’s Wout van Aert had appeared perfectly placed to take the 208.9km stage, which ended in San Sebastian. But Lafay burst clear with 900m to go and Van Aert was left banging his handlebars in frustration after

Lorena Wiebes perfectly timed her sprint to beat three-time champion Marianne Vos in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia Donne. The 24-year-old Dutch Team SD Worx rider made her move 150 metres from the finish line in Modena. Her compatriot Vos was second and American Chloe Dygert third in the bunch sprint. Defending champion

Britain’s Adam Yates beat identical twin brother Simon to win stage one of the Tour de France in Bilbao, Spain and take the leader’s yellow jersey. UAE Team Emirates’ Adam, 30, pulled away from Jayco AlUla rider Simon in the final stages of the uphill finish to win his first ever Tour stage. Two-time winner

Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten got the defence of her Giro d’Italia Donne off to the perfect start with a 100th career win in Saturday’s second stage. The three-time champion became the Giro’s oldest stage winner – aged 40 years and 266 days – after a superb solo effort. She broke over the Passo della

The riders of the 110th Tour de France were presented in front of an enthusiastic crowd outside Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. But the team presentations began under grey, drizzly skies with Bahrain-Victorious, and a period of silence to remember their rider Gino Mader: the Swiss 26-year-old who was killed a fortnight ago in his home race,

Dates:1 July – 23 July Coverage: Live text commentary on each stage on the BBC Sport website and app The Tour de France starts on Saturday in Bilbao – with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and two-time winner Tadej Pogacar expected to battle it out for victory in cycling’s greatest race. But will anyone else be

Eritrean Biniam Girmay can bring cycling to “every single country in Africa”, according to his former coach Jean-Jacques Henry. International Cycling Union’s (UCI) Jean-Jacques Henry was Girmay’s first coach in Europe and believes more success awaits at the Tour de France which gets under way on 1 July in Bilbao. “The general classification, I don’t

Dates: 1 July – 23 July Coverage: Live text commentary on each stage on the BBC Sport website and app The 110th edition of the Tour de France starts in Bilbao on Saturday. The previous 109 stagings of the epic race have produced winners from 15 countries – but can you name those countries? Can

Dates: 1 July – 23 July Coverage: Live text commentary on each stage on the BBC Sport website and app The 110th edition of the Tour de France gets under way in Bilbao, Spain on Saturday, 1 July and finishes in Paris on Sunday, 24 July. The riders will tackle eight mountain stages and an

Britain’s Tom Pidcock says he loves descending but that the death of fellow cyclist Gino Mader has hit him hard. Mader died aged 26 following a high-speed crash during a descent at the Tour de Suisse this month, where Ineos Grenadiers’ Pidcock was also competing. Pidcock, 23, won stage 12 of last year’s Tour de

Britain’s Tom Pidcock will aim for stage wins at the Tour de France this year as Ineos Grenadiers also include 2019 winner Egan Bernal in their squad. Pidcock, 23, will aim to build on his 2022 success, when he won on the legendary climb up to Alpe d’Huez. “I’m excited to be back for another

England’s Fred Wright paid an emotional tribute to late team-mate Gino Mader after winning his first British National Road Championship title. Wright, 24, attacked late in the 189km contest and tearfully pointed to the sky as he crossed the line. “I was racing with him on my mind,” Wright said of Bahrain Victorious team-mate Mader,

British Olympic champion Bethany Shriever won gold in the fourth round of the UCI BMX Racing World Cup in the Netherlands. The 24-year-old kicked off the season by winning both women’s elite races in Turkey earlier this month. And she raced to a third victory of the campaign in Papendal on Sunday in 33.911 seconds.

Britain’s four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been left out of Israel-Premier Tech’s eight-man squad for next month’s race. Froome, 38, who has not won a race since 2018, had faced many mechanical issues in the build-up to the Tour. “Physically I was ready, but unfortunately I was unable to show my full

Kieran Reilly clinched Team GB’s first gold medal at the European Games with victory in the men’s BMX freestyle park, as Declan Brooks took bronze. Reilly, 21, posted an unassailable score of 92.33 points with his stunning second run, having already led with 88.96 on his first outing. British team-mate Brooks looked set for silver

Two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar says a crash in which he fractured his wrist came at the “perfect time” for the 2023 Tour. The 24-year-old Slovenian, who rides for UAE Team Emirates, was injured at the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race in April. But the timing of the accident meant he was able to rest before

Josh Tarling became the youngest British elite men’s time trial champion when he won by more than one minute at the National Road Championships. Fellow Welsh riders Anna Morris and Elinor Barker took silver and bronze in the women’s race won by the Isle of Man’s Lizzie Holden in Darlington. Tarling, 19, was one minute

Team SD Worx rider Marlen Reusser has won the third edition of the Tour de Suisse Women’s race. Switzerland’s Reusser finished one minute and two seconds ahead of teammate Demi Vollering, from the Netherlands, in the overall standings. “I had great support from Demi,” said Reusser. “And for the last thirty kilometres it was just