Cycling

Several riders and a race official were caught up in a horrifying crash on stage one of the Tour of Poland. Dylan Groenewegen, 27, drifted across the road in the final, downhill sprint and he and fellow Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen collided at high speed just before the line in Katowice. Jakobsen, 23, then fell over

Reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal has won the Route d’Occitanie, with Team Ineos rival Chris Froome finishing nearly 10 minutes behind. Froome began the day five minutes and 21 seconds adrift of the 23-year-old, having reacted to fans who were booing him on the previous day’s stage. The pair are racing to be

Jan Riedmann, a 17-year-old member of Bora-Hansgrohe’s feeder squad, has died from head injuries sustained in a collision with a car during training. Riedmann was riding with team-mates from Team Auto Eder Bayern – an under-19 team who provide prospects to Bora-Hansgrohe – in Sugenheim, Germany. “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye

Tour de France champion Egan Bernal won the mountainous penultimate stage of the Route d’Occitanie to take the overall lead in the event. Briton Chris Froome, vying with Bernal for a leader’s spot in the Team Ineos line-up at the Tour de France, finished five minutes, five seconds back. Bernal, 23, finished the 163.5km stage

The Tour de France’s planned start in Denmark in 2021 – the three-day Grand Depart – has been moved back a year. Last week, the start of the 2021 Tour was brought forward by six days so it would not clash with the men’s road race at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics. But the new start

Italian sprinter Sonny Colbrelli of the Bahrain-McLaren team claimed Sunday’s second stage in the four-day Route d’Occitanie in France. The 30-year-old triumphed after a bunch sprint following a 174.5km run from Carcassonne to Cap Decouverte. Britain’s Chris Froome is now 85th overall with Colombia’s reigning Tour de France champion Egan Bernal 12th. Saturday’s stage winner

Chris Froome finished almost one minute behind the leaders as his Tour de France preparations began with the first stage of the Route d’Occitanie. The British rider crossed the line in 70th place in southern France, 56 seconds behind winner Bryan Coquard. Froome, the four-time winner who suffered a serious crash last summer, is bidding

It seems like a long time since life, as we all knew it, stopped in March. Life, as Chris Froome knew it, came to a grinding – and very painful – halt nearly a year earlier; the four-time Tour de France champion suffering terrible injuries in a crash while preparing for a stage during the

Ireland’s Sam Bennett avoided a mass pile-up on the final sprint to win the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Burgos. Italian Jacopo Guarnieri fell on the last corner and Deceuninck-Quickstep rider Bennett sprinted up the final slope to take victory in the 163km stage. French sprinter Arnaud Demare finished second, with Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo

By Tom BrownBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 41 minutes ago41 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Team Ineos rider and 2016 Olympic champion Owain Doull says cycling will look “very different” as the World Tour season resumes in Italy. Doull, 27, is riding the one-day Strade Bianche in Tuscany on Saturday. The 184km (144-mile) race

Three more riders have been withdrawn from the Vuelta a Burgos in Spain after coming into contact with a person who later tested positive for coronavirus. Colombians Sebastian Molano, Cristian Munoz and Camilo Ardila from UAE Team Emirates will not start stage two. On Tuesday, British time trial champion Alex Dowsett and Itamar Einhorn withdrew

The UCI has revealed its 2021 calendar with Ride London-Surrey Classic not included after organisers withdrew. The women’s event, however, will go ahead on 30 May, as part of the women’s World Tour events. The men’s Tour de France will take place a week earlier to accommodate the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics cycling. The Tour will

British rider Alex Dowsett has pulled out of the Vuelta a Burgos after a team-mate contracted coronavirus. Dowsett, who rides for Israel Start Up Nation, withdrew before the race began on Tuesday as a precaution – but an initial test has come back negative. In an eventful first day of World Tour cycling’s return to

Women’s cycling team CCC-Liv have withdrawn from two races in Spain this week because the health risks from coronavirus are “simply too great”. The team will not start Thursday’s Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa or Friday’s Klasikoa Navarra. Cases of Covid-19 in Spain’s Navarra region, where the races will take place, continue to grow. In a statement,

Team Ineos are set to be renamed before this year’s Tour de France. Cycling’s biggest team will become the Ineos Grenadiers, named after a new model of car being released by billionaire Ineos owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe in 2021. Ineos recently announced they would not renew the contract of four-time Tour champion Chris Froome beyond

Throughout July, BBC Scotland’s Sporting Nation series is reflecting on some of the greatest feats and personalities from Scottish sporting history. Here we look at Chris Hoy, a six-time Olympic cycling champion. Chris Hoy may not have been with us on the track in Rio when Team GB beat New Zealand to win Olympic gold

This year’s RideLondon cycling festival will become a virtual event to raise funds for UK charities. RideLondon 2020 was due to take place on 15 and 16 August but was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The festival, which raised £11.5m last year, usually features men’s and women’s professional one-day races as well as events

The Olympic triumphs of Andy Murray and Chris Hoy are to be showcased on BBC Scotland this weekend. Murray won his second tennis Olympic gold medal at the Rio 2016 Games with victory over Juan Martin del Potro. That match will be on BBC Scotland and online on Friday from 19:00 BST. Meanwhile, Hoy’s six