Emma Raducanu made an MBE after US Open triumphTom Daley and Hannah Cockroft recognised with OBEsBritain’s Olympic and Paralympic heroes from Tokyo dominate the New Year honours list, with golden couple Jason and Laura Kenny receiving a knighthood and …
Ride on, baby: NZ politician cycles to hospital to give birth – for the second time
Green party MP Julie Anne Genter set off for the hospital while already in labour, and gave birth an hour laterNew Zealand MP Julie Anne Genter got on her bicycle early on Sunday and headed to the hospital. She was already in labour and she gave birth …
Women’s Tour of Britain: Demi Vollering takes crown as Balsamo wins final stage
SD-Worx rider wins title after finale in FelixstoweElisa Balsamo of UCI Women’s Continental sprints to stage winElisa Balsamo, of Italy, won the final stage of the rescheduled 2021 Women’s Tour of Britain in Felixstowe, as 24-year-old Demi Vollering se…
Women’s Tour of Britain: Wiebes claims double as Simmonds solo bid falls short
Lorena Wiebes wins back-to-back stages, Vollering holds leadHayley Simmonds caught with 15km to go after solo breakawayLorena Wiebes claimed a historic double at the Women’s Tour of Britain with her second consecutive stage victory, while Demi Vollerin…
How to cycle faster, swim better and conquer pre-race nerves – with advice from Team GB
From Chris Hoy to Ellen White, British Olympians tell you how to up your sporting gameKeely Hodgkinson, 800m silver medallist at Tokyo 2020There is no magic way to get faster at running but there are a few things that beginners can do. The first is not…
Women’s Tour of Britain: Clara Copponi takes lead as Amy Pieters wins stage two
Pieters edges Copponi after ‘hectic’ sprint finish in WalsallBritain’s Joss Lowden to chase time trial win on WednesdayAmy Pieters won a cold and rainy second stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain in a sprint finish, while second-placed Clara Copponi to…
Marta Bastianelli sprints to win opening stage of Women’s Tour of Britain
Italian holds off Chloe Hosking to take bunch sprintFatigued Lizzie Deignan finishes well down the fieldMarta Bastianelli sprinted to a first-ever stage win in the Women’s Tour of Britain in Banbury, as a last-gasp breakaway was reeled in after attacki…
Lizzie Deignan raring for Tour of Britain after fearless triumph on the cobbles
Six-stage race sets off from Bicester on MondayVan Dijk and Van Vleuten ruled out after bruising Paris-RoubaixLizzie Deignan, the winner on Saturday of the first women’s Paris‑Roubaix, will be the main attraction in the 2021 AJ Bell Women’s Tour of Bri…
Lizzie Deignan masters cobbles for glory in first staging of Paris-Roubaix Femmes
British rider solos to spectacular victory over cobblesTreacherous conditions result in spate of crashesLizzie Deignan proved to be the class of the field in the first Paris-Roubaix Femmes as she held off Marianne Vos to take victory at the Vélodrome A…
Rhik Samadder tries … track cycling: ‘It’s like being overtaken by lorries on a motorway designed by Escher’
I am clamped into a razor-thin perineum-mashing machine with no brakes. What could possibly go wrong?This is hardly the place to admit it, but I hate cyclists. I never know if they are going to stop at traffic lights or plough through; they’re often ve…