Cycling

Great Britain won two gold medals and one bronze on the second day of the European Track Championships. Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Laura Kenny and Josie Knight beat Italy by just over three seconds to take women’s team pursuit gold in Bulgaria. Elinor Barker – who rode in the team pursuit qualifying and first round

Great Britain won two medals, including elimination race gold from Matt Walls, on the first day of the European Track Championships in Bulgaria. The 22-year-old secured Britain’s first medal of the event, with Portugal’s Iuri Leitao the runner-up and Russia’s Sergey Rostovtsev third. Milly Tanner, Lusia Steele and Blaine Ridge-Davis then won silver in the

Tour de Yorkshire organisers have decided to further postpone this year’s scheduled event until 2022. The sixth edition had been due to start at the end of April but was delayed in March because of coronavirus. Previous plans were to reschedule it for 2021, but race partners are unable to plan or commit resources until

British Cycling has sacked a senior coach for gross misconduct and a “long-term pattern of inappropriate relationships” with riders. The governing body said it followed repeated warnings to Kevin Stewart that his behaviour “fell short of the values and standards expected”. An investigation into the senior sprint coach found no evidence of any physical relationship

Jumbo-Visma cyclist Dylan Groenewegen has been banned for nine months for causing the crash that left Fabio Jakobsen in a coma at the Tour of Poland. His ban will be backdated to the incident and will end on 7 May 2021. Deceuninck-QuickStep rider Jakobsen later said he was “glad to be alive”. He has had

By Dafydd JonesBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 54 minutes ago54 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Elinor Barker hopes spectators will be able to attend the Olympic Games in Tokyo following news of a “milestone'” coronavirus vaccine. The 2016 Olympic champion track cyclist says competing in front of crowds in 2021 would be the perfect

Olympic track cyclist champion Elinor Barker says the British team have improved during their enforced time away from racing due to the coronavirus pandemic. Barker is back in action this week at the European Track Championships in Bulgaria, her first event since being crowned world points race champion at the Track Cycling World Championships in

London Irish chief executive Brian Facer is to leave in the new year for the same role at British Cycling. Facer, 50, will succeed Julie Harrington in January, having been with London Irish since October 2017. Despite relegation from the Premiership in his first season, the former Northampton Saints commercial director oversaw promotion a year

Britain’s Alex Dowsett will attempt to regain cycling’s hour record in December. Dowsett, 32, held the record for riding the furthest in one hour in 2015. The Israel Start-Up Nation rider will try to beat the current record of 55.039km set by Belgian Victor Campenaerts in Mexico in 2019. “It’s going to be a very

Britain’s Hugh Carthy secured a podium finish at the Vuelta a Espana as Primoz Roglic won the red jersey. Defending champion Roglic, who suffered a dramatic defeat by Tadej Pogacar in the Tour de France, retained his Vuelta title, with Richard Carapaz second. Carthy’s surprise podium comes a fortnight after Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart won

A man who came third in a bicycle race might not seem like a game changer. But it gives a clue to the very creditable possibility Britain is on the verge of another golden period in a sport in which it has seen immeasurable success across the previous decade. Hugh Carthy’s hard-fought podium place as

Britain’s Hugh Carthy is on the verge of an unexpected third place at the Vuelta a Espana with Primoz Roglic set to win. Barring incident on Sunday’s largely processional final stage to Madrid, Carthy will stand on the podium behind Roglic and Richard Carapaz. Carthy’s podium comes a fortnight after Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart won

Defending champion Primoz Roglic extended his lead at the Vuelta a Espana to 45 seconds after finishing second in stage 16. The 31-year-old Slovenian, who has won four stages in this year’s race, was edged out by Denmark’s Magnus Cort Nielsen. Britain’s Hugh Carthy finished 28th and remains in third place, with his deficit extending

Belgian Jasper Philipsen held off Pascal Ackermann in an uphill sprint finish to win stage 15 of the Vuelta a Espana in tough conditions, as Primoz Roglic held on to his overall lead. The UAE Team Emirates rider, 22, took his first Grand Tour stage win on the longest leg of this year’s race. Britain’s

Former British champion Ian Stannard has been forced to retire because of rheumatoid arthritis. The Ineos Grenadiers rider was one of the first riders to join the team as Team Sky in 2010 and his biggest wins came in the one-day Omloop Het Nieuwsblad races in 2014 and 2015. Stannard also helped Chris Froome and

Lotto-Soudal’s Tim Wellens secured his second win of this year’s Vuelta a Espana following a sprint finish at the end of stage 14. The Belgian, 29, pipped EF Pro Cycling’s Michael Woods at the climax of the 204.7km route from Galician city Lugo to Ourense. Jumbo-Visma’s champion Primoz Roglic held on to his 39-second lead

Primoz Roglic placed himself in pole position to retain his Vuelta a Espana title with a sensational time trial display as Briton Hugh Carthy impressed to stay in contention. Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic took stage 13 and now holds a 39-second advantage over Ineos Grenadiers’ Richard Carapaz, having overturned his 10-second lead. Carthy ate away at the

Organisers of the Tour de France have announced the route for 2021, which includes a double ascent of the iconic Mont Ventoux. Cycling’s biggest race will start on 26 June after this year’s event was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The race’s Grand Depart is in the north-west city of Brest and ends in Paris