Cycling

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 ...

Paralympic champion Jenny Holl and road cyclist Oscar Onley pick up the top prizes at the Scottish Cycling Awards.

One of Great Britain’s most successful road cyclists, Lizzie Deignan, will retire at the end of next season.

Olympic medalists Jack Carlin and Neah Evans, and Paralympic champions Fin Graham and Jenny Holl, are among the nominees for the main prizes at this year's Scottish Cycling Awards. Mountain biker Heather Wilson and road cyclist Oscar Onley will complete the line-up for the male and female rider of the year prizes at Saturday's event. Carlin claimed team sprint silver and sprint bronze in Paris to take his Games tally to four and make him the third most decorated Scottish Olympian.

Mark Cavendish says that he would be unlikely to be a professional cyclist if he was starting his career now.

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.

Britain's Mark Cavendish, the most successful sprinter in cycling history, ends his career with victory in the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore.

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.

Cycling great Mark Cavendish announced his retirement from the sport on Saturday, writing on social media that his final race will be Sunday's Tour de France Singapore Criterium.Cavendish bows out on Sunday in the Singapore Criterium.

Cycling great Mark Cavendish announced his retirement from the sport on Saturday, writing on social media that his final race will be Sunday's Tour de France Singapore Criterium."Sunday will be the final race of my professional cycling career," wrote the 39-year-old British sprint legend, the record stage winner on the Tour de France with 35, in a post on Instagram.

Britain's Mark Cavendish, the most successful sprinter in cycling history, will retire after racing in the Tour de France Criterium in Singapore.

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

Six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy tells BBC Breakfast about his life with terminal cancer and the legacy he hopes to leave.

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

Cyclists using a mobile phone while riding in Japan could face up to six months in jail under strict new rules that entered into force Friday.Unlike many other countries, riding a bicycle on the pavement is allowed in usually law-abiding Japan and a common sight.

The next generation of Eritrean cyclists are aiming to emulate and surpass Biniam Girmay, who has attained several landmarks for Africa.

The 2025 Tour de France route has been announced in Paris, with the race almost certain to come down to another slugfest between three-time winner Tadej Pogačar and two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard.

The 2025 Tour de France will be staged exclusively in France for the first time in five years.

Cavendish was expected to retire at November’s Tour de France Criterium in Singapore

The men’s race will return to Paris for the traditional finale while the women’s edition begins in Brittany and ends in the Alps

Warner Bros Discovery and Eurosport have won exclusive rights to show the Tour from 2026

Six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy says it is a 'huge comfort' to know that his story could save lives.

The Slovenian became the first man since 1998 to win both the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia in a single year this season

British road race champion Ethan Hayter has become the latest in a growing number of INEOS Grenadiers riders to air their frustration over Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS’ management of the WorldTour cy...

The six-time Olympic cycling champion announced his original cancer diagnosis in February

The French transport minister is expected to meet with cycling associations on Monday following the death of a cyclist in Paris after a dispute with a driver. The 27-year-old cyclist, Paul Varry, was allegedly deliberately run over last Tuesday by an SUV driver, who now faces preliminary charges of murder. The incident has sparked protests across France, with demonstrators calling for safer roads for cyclists and an end to “motorized violence.”

The athlete, who initially revealed his diagnosis earlier this year, has been given two to four years to live

Sir Chris Hoy resolutely returned to BBC broadcasting duties as a sporting world queued to send well wishes after he revealed his cancer is terminal.

Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy has announced that he has terminal cancer and that doctors have given him two to four years left to live.

The six-time gold medallist has been given just two to four more years to live – but the inspirational figure has responded with a remarkably positive outlook

Many US riders are turning their back on the sport in Europe to ride in gravel races back home. There is less support but more opportunities

Cavendish is set to don running trainers as he takes on the Paris Marathon before entering the world of cycling management

Mark Cavendish has revealed he will “stay in cycling management” once he has finished racing.

World champion Tadej Pogačar launched yet another solo attack to win the Tour of Lombardy for the fourth straight time on Saturday. In a near-identical move to his attack at the worlds two weeks ago, the three-time Tour de France champion surged ahead some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the end. The undulating and scenic race in autumn, known as the “ Classic of the Falling Leaves ” started in Bergamo and finished 255 kilometers (158 miles) later, with riders tackling iconic climbs such as Colma di Sormano and San Fermo della Battaglia before reaching Como's famed lakefront.

After the two years from hell that she had been through in the build-up to the Paris Olympics, a journey which would have broken many, it was ironic that it was something as mundane as a garden step that tripped up Katie Archibald in the end.

The 30-year-old broke her leg after tripping in her own garden

Lachlan Morton has completed the fastest-ever cycle around Australia, a trip of just over 8,800 miles or 14,200 kilometers in just 30 days.

Pogacar completed cycling’s ‘Triple Crown’ with an extraordinary win at the World Championships in Switzerland

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar completed one of the most dominant seasons in cycling history by claiming his first road world title in Switzerland thanks to a spectacular attack from 100 kilometres out.

The Tour de France and Giro d’Italia winner dominated the World Championship road race in Zurich to complete one of the greatest seasons in cycling history

Tadej Pogačar completed his dominant, record-equaling year on Sunday as he won the men’s road race at the world championships, becoming the first male cyclist for 37 years to win the rainbow jersey, Tour de France and Giro d’Italia all in the same year.

Tadej Pogačar cemented his status as cycling's biggest star with a devastating solo attack to win the men's road race at the world championships on Sunday. The three-time Tour de France champion surged ahead just over 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the end.

Tadej Pogacar became the fourth cyclist to win the Tour, Giro and worlds road race in one year.

Kopecky surged past her rivals in a bunch sprint in Zurich to make it back-to-back victories after she triumphed in Glasgow last year

Belgian Lotte Kopecky repeated as world road race champion in a sprint finish in Zurich.