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Italian Matteo Spreafico, who was riding in the Giro d’Italia, has been suspended after a banned substance was found in two anti-doping tests. Spreafico, 27, of the Vini Zabu-KTM team, returned two adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for Enobosarm on 15 and 16 October. Spreafico has the right to request and attend the analysis of the

Ireland’s Daniel Martin won stage three of the Vuelta a Espana and cut Primoz Roglic’s overall lead to five seconds. The 34-year-old Israel Start-Up Nation rider attacked in the last 200 metres of the climb to Laguna Negra’s summit, holding off defending champion Roglic. Britain’s Hugh Carthy finished eighth for the second day in succession

Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart put himself right in contention to win the Giro d’Italia after finishing a superb second on a dramatic stage 18. The Ineos Grenadiers rider fought superbly up the Stelvio Pass, the hardest climb in the race which tops out at 2,757m, to claw back more than two minutes in the overall

Britain’s Chris Froome lost nearly 20 minutes at the Vuelta a Espana as Marc Soler won the second stage. Froome, 35, fell back from the peloton with 41km to go of the hilly 152km stage from Pamplona to Lukenberri. Ineos Grenadiers’ Froome is now nearly 30 minutes off the overall lead. Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma

Ben O’Connor won stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, as Joao Almeida held on to the leaders’ pink jersey. The NTT Pro Cycling rider broke away from a lead group of 14 riders which had led most of the way on the mountainous 203km stage from Bassano del Grappa to Madonna di Campiglio. Britian’s Tao

Cycling can hopefully become “the sport of the nation” in Scotland thanks to an £8m investment in facilities, says Paralympian Neil Fachie. The Scottish government and sportscotland are providing the cash over the next two years to tap into the increased interest in cycling. Fachie says Scotland is “slightly lacking” at grassroots level compared to

Two-time winner Chris Froome struggled as Slovenia’s defending champion Primoz Roglic took the opening stage of Vuelta a Espana. Briton Froome, 35, in his final Vuelta for Ineos Grenadiers, was dropped on the penultimate climb and is more than 11 minutes behind the leader. Roglic pipped a small pack including Ineos’ Richard Carapaz and Irish

UAE Team Emirates rider Fernando Gaviria has tested positive for coronavirus for a second time this year and is out of the Giro d’Italia. The Colombian tested positive in the Giro’s latest round of testing, as did a Team AG2R La Mondiale staff member. Gaviria also tested positive for Covid-19 at the UAE Tour in

The Vuelta a Espana starts in the Basque region on Tuesday, covering 2,897km (1,800 miles) in 18 stages before it finishes in Madrid on Sunday 8 November. The race was due to begin on 14 August in the Netherlands, while a trip to Portugal was also been removed because of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the

Last updated on 19 October 202019 October 2020.From the section Cycling Briton Stephen Williams is “extremely proud” to be set for his first Grand Tour after battling back from injury. The Welshman, 24, rides in the Vuelta a Espana, starting on Tuesday, after recovering from a knee problem that kept him out for 18 months.

It’s been a strange year for us all, for very obvious reasons. But if Ineos Grenadiers fail to win a Grand Tour in 2020, you know the world will be in a state of change. A maelstrom of a season, which began with Chris Froome not having his contract renewed by his near-lifelong paymasters, has

World champion Julian Alaphilippe crashed out after hitting a motorbike as Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel won at the Tour of Flanders. Alaphilippe, 28, was part of what would become the winning breakaway, when he hit a race motorbike 35km from the finish of the 243km one-day epic. That left Van der Poel, 25,

Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart won his first Grand Tour stage to climb to fourth place overall at the Giro d’Italia. His win on stage 15 gave Ineos Grenadiers their fifth stage victory at the 2020 Giro, while Deceuninck-Quick Step’s Joao Almeida held onto the leader’s pink jersey. Several of the main contenders lost time on

Ineos Grenadiers rider Filippo Ganna claimed his third stage win at the 2020 Giro d’Italia as Joao Almeida extended his overall race lead on stage 14. Italian world time trial champion Ganna finished ahead of team-mate Rohan Dennis with Brandon McNulty in third. McNulty’s effort on the 34.1km time trial from Conegliano to Valdobbiadene saw

Italy’s Diego Ulissi claimed his second victory at the 2020 Giro d’Italia in a sprint finish on stage 13. Ulissi, 31, edged out Portugal’s Joao Almeida, who extended his overall race lead after collecting six bonus seconds on the line. Austria’s Patrick Konrad was third, with Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart finishing fourth on the 192km

A leading team wants the Giro d’Italia to end a week early, citing a “clearly compromised” coronavirus bubble. EF Pro Cycling – winners of two of the 12 stages so far – wrote to race organisers asking for the race to end this Sunday. However, cycling’s governing body, the UCI rejected, the request. On Tuesday,

Ineos Grenadiers’ Jhonatan Narvaez won stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia in treacherous conditions. The Ecuadorian, 23, was the best of a breakaway group ahead of the peloton, in which Joao Almeida retained the leader’s pink jersey. Rain fell across most of the 170km stage, which started and finished in Cesenatico, causing several punctures. Mark

Britain’s Chris Froome will race against Tour de France runner-up Primoz Roglic at the Vuelta a Espana. Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic, 30, lost the Tour de France on the final time trial to Tadej Pogacar in September in one of the event’s most dramatic finales. Four-time Tour winner Froome, who rides for Ineos Grenadiers, is aiming to