Cycling

Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard is calling for a ban of the controversial carbon monoxide rebreathing method used by athletes to measure their performances. Speaking to Le Monde newspaper, the Visma-Lease a Bike rider said in an interview published Saturday that his team makes a proper use of the method, but that some riders misuse it to artificially increase their performances. The use of carbon monoxide was put under the spotlight during the Tour de France last year when the cycling website Escape Collective reported that riders from multiple teams inhaled the toxic gas to optimize altitude training.

The former sports director of a Belgian women’s cycling team was banned for five years on Friday after riders alleged he inflicted “inappropriate behavior of a psychological and sexual nature." Gert Vervoort faced charges related to sexual abuse, sexual harassment and protection of physical and mental integrity, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said in announcing the verdicts of its independent ethics commission. Vervoort was director of the Belgian second-tier team Proximus-Cyclis, now Team Velopro–Alphamotorhomes, when the alleged misconduct started in 2023.

Britain's Ineos Grenadiers cycling team insist they will remain in the sport, but are searching for new partners to keep pace with competitors.

Britain's Adam Yates will try to win the Giro d'Italia for Visma-Lease a Bike before supporting Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France.

There is a voice note waiting for me on my phone when I get off the plane at Ronaldsway airport. “Mate, I’ll be there in less than five minutes. Head outside the terminal building and you’ll see me. Green Defender.” Sir Mark Cavendish is as good as his word, pulling up outside the Isle of Man’s tiny airport five minutes later on the dot and stepping out of his car to welcome me, and the photographer, Nik, to the island.

Dubbed a "motorway for cyclists" where avid amateurs can chase Tadej Pogacar up mountains teeming with the highest concentration of professional cyclists per square mile in the world, Spain's Costa Blanca has forged a new reputation for itself in recent years.It was like a motorway for cyclists, there were cyclists everywhere," said Spanish rider Alex Aranburu, a new arrival at Cofidis.

The double Olympic champion has joined Swiss-based team Q36.5 after terminating his contract with Ineos

Britain's Tom Pidcock says he will not contest this year's Tour de France with his new Q36.5 team.

Belgian Guillaume de Mevius claimed stage six behind the wheel of a Mini as the Dakar Rally resumed on Saturday after a rest day.It was a good day for the Mini team with De Mevius followed home by his Portuguese teammate Joao Ferreira, with five-time champion Nasser Al-Attiyah in third.

Here's how to watch NBC Sports' nightly coverage of the 2025 Dakar Rally on Peacock.

Welsh freestyle BMX rider James Jones announces his retirement from the sport at the age of 30.

Sir Chris Hoy said his health situation is a "best case scenario" as he issued an update on his terminal cancer diagnosis. Earlier in 2024 the six-time Olympic gold medallist, 48, shared that a tumour was found in his shoulder and a second scan found primary cancer in his prostate, which metastasised to his bones. "Treatment has worked really well, everything is stable... In the current situation, the best case scenario."

Have you ever dreamed of running the length of Africa? How about summiting Mount Everest three times in less than two weeks? Here’s a recap of the most incredible extreme sporting achievements of 2024.

After a whirlwind year in which she announced herself as British cycling’s next biggest star, there are times Emma Finucane still has to pinch herself.

PFL puts on the most fights in its existence in 2024, and because of that, the odds of a memorable scrap unfolding went up. There were some solid, competitive and entertaining affairs over the past 12 months, and as 2024 comes to a close, PFL has named its…

Sir Mark Cavendish said it was “nice to be appreciated” after it was confirmed that he will be awarded the lifetime achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show on Tuesday.

After suffering multiple fractures when he crashed into one of their vehicles, two-time Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel is teaming up with the Belgian Post Office to raise awareness of road safety for cyclists and reduce the number of “dooring” victims. “All road users must take each other into account,” Evenepoel said. The new campaign, called "Remco Reflex,” was launched this week in partnership with Evenepoel’s cycling academy.

Dame Sarah is GB’s most-decorated Paralympian with 19 gold medals but is angry at a lack of exposure for para-sport

Rohan Dennis admits to creating likelihood of harm in fatal car incident last year

Rohan Dennis, the Australian former world champion cyclist, has admitted running over and killing his fellow Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins while at the wheel of his utility vehicle.

Wisconsin Bike Fed's 2024 Santa Cycle Rampage fundraiser in Milwaukee draws record crowd with more than 1,700 riders.

Sarah Storey has accused cycling chiefs of failing to properly promote disabled athletes after the Paralympic great was rated 100-1 by bookmakers to win the Sports Personality of the Year award.

NEW YORK — A record number of New Yorkers took to the town on two wheels this year, according to the city’s Department of Transportation data — the fourth straight year of all-time cycling highs. The DOT’s annual cycling survey — which uses bicycle traffic over the East River bridges as an indication of citywide trends — counted an average of 28,108 riders a day over the four river crossings. ...

The Olympic champion was takent to hospital after colliding with a German opponent and falling over the barriers

Louisville is hosting the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships for the second year in a row at Joe Creason Park. Here's what you need to know

Britain’s Katy Marchant suffered a broken arm and the UCI Track Champions League’s final round was cancelled following a nasty crash at the Lee Valley VeloPark on Saturday night.

Pidcock departed Ineos Grenadiers by mutual consent earlier this week and has now joined a new outfit

Tom Pidcock has officially parted company with Ineos Grenadiers after the two parties reached an agreement to terminate his contract by mutual consent. The Yorkshireman, whose future had been the subject of speculation going back months, is widely expected to sign for Q36.5, the second-tier Swiss ProTeam.

The double Olympic mountain biking champion clashed with the team throughout 2024

I took Pinarello’s Dogma XC hardtail back to where it first won gold to find out what made the Italian XC racing thoroughbred so dominant

Remco Evenepoel, an Olympic cycling gold medalist, was taken to a hospital with injuries.

The 24-year-old has undergone surgery on a fractured rib, shoulder blade and hand after crashing into the door of a postal vehicle

Today, Paris Saint-Germain and Nike announced the launch of their new lifestyle collection, ‘Cycling Redefined’, which celebrates the French capital’s rich cycling history. This capsule collecti...

Evenepoel’s bike frame snapped in the incident before he was transported to hospital in Anderlecht for assessment

Cavendish surpassed the record of Eddy Merckx with a 35th stage win in his farewell edition of the Tour

The more that comes to light about Sir Bradley Wiggins’s sad descent into bankruptcy, the more people are asking where it all went wrong for the face of Britain’s greatest sporting summer.

More than 1,200 people are expected for the Santa Cycle Rampage, a 12-mile ride that eventually comes close to where Marquette hosts Wisconsin.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has revealed that disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong has offered to pay for him to have therapy in the United States to help with his mental-health struggles.

In the heady summer of 2012, Sir Bradley Wiggins was at the height of his fame. Already a successful cyclist with six Olympic medals under his belt, he became a household name as the first Briton to win the Tour de France. He was chosen to strike the bell to open the London Olympics in front of an audience of millions, was named Sports Personality of the Year that December, and soon after was knighted for his services to cycling. The public called him “Sir Wiggo”; the Sun newspaper issued a stic

Sir Bradley Wiggins’s bankruptcy has been followed by a doubling of the claims against his estate to almost £2 million, according to a report by his company’s liquidator.

Rien Schuurhuis never expected to win this year’s cycling world championships. For the sole representative of the Vatican City in the 200-strong field, simply being at the race in Switzerland was enough.

When Joe Dominey took up cycling in 2005, he had no idea his newfound passion would lead him back to a place he loved so much. Growing up in Astoria as the son of teachers Carl and Jean Dominey, Dominey was a decorated athlete at Astoria High School and Linfield University. He was named a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics second team All-American for his senior football season ...

The 39-year-old bowed out of the sport with his famous sprint finish in Singapore

The 39-year-old from the Isle of Man broke famed Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx’s long-standing record for most career Tour de France stage wins with his 35th victory in July. Fittingly, for his final race Cavendish wore No. 35 on his race jersey and won in a dash to the line for the 165th victory overall in his career. “I’m quite emotional actually,” Cavendish said.

Mark Cavendish was close to tears as he signed off his professional career with one final win in the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore on Sunday.

Mark Cavendish has confirmed he will bring the curtain down on his glittering career in Singapore on Sunday.

When Donna Wright shelled out £1,500 for a stationary Peloton bike in 2021 as the pandemic raged on, she was following in the slipstream of a global sporting phenomenon.

Pogacar is set to be paid nearly £7m per year as he commits his future to UAE Emirates

Ned Boulting is standing in the rain at Stockport train station when I call, having just missed his connection. He jokes that it feels rather apt given the gloomy news which broke in cycling last week when it was announced that ITV had lost the rights to the Tour de France from 2026.

INTERVIEW: Four decades of free-to-air Tour de France coverage is coming to an end in the UK and Boulting, the voice of ITV’s long-running broadcasts, believes it is a symptom of the decline of road racing in Britain, writes Lawrence Ostlere