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Mark Cavendish second to Tim Merlier in the Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré – Lewis Askey wins the Combativity prize after being out front until eight miles from the end (more…)

Victory number three this season for Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s fast man as Sam Bennett takes yellow on Paris-Nice opening stage (more…)

The young Belgian Mauri Vansevenant outsprinted an elite group at the GP Industria & Artigianato to win his first pro race for his team Deceuninck – Quick-Step who had two wins and a two seconds from four pro races on the weekend (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel was the rider of the race in the Men’s Strade Bianche with several attacks decimating the front group before riding away solo for the victory. Tom Pidcock was 5th and Simon Carr 11th (more…)

John Archibald of Eolo-Kometa makes the breakaway in Trofeo Laigueglia “the roads were really very narrow and it was not easy to stick together” (more…)

Bauke Mollema solo’s to the win in Trofeo Laigueglia, John Archibald gets in the days breakaway, James Knox is 7th (more…)

Sprinter Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) is back in France for the first time since winning the prestigious green jersey at last year’s Le Tour (more…)

Wout van Aert has spent the past weeks on Tenerife to prepare for the spring classics. “Wout’s level is better. Much better ”, says Merijn Zeeman, sports director at Jumbo-Visma, in conversation with Het Laatste Nieuws. “But he won’t be top shape for Strade Bianche yet.” (more…)

A race that managed to scrape through the chaos of a pandemic in 2020, Paris-Nice is back in 2021 with Giro winner Tao Geoghegan Hart among the stars revealed along a host of sprinters (more…)

Continuing our Q&A with riders from the Tofauti Everyone Active Team and in this one, 16 year old Domini Radway-Fatuga from South West London answers the questions (more…)

After a super agressive race with the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Jhonnatan Narvaez, the race came down to a bunch sprint and victory for former world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek Segafredo) (more…)

Italian Andrea Bagioli nets Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s sixth victory of the year after a powerful solo attack Drôme Classic (France) (more…)

Hannah Barnes (Canyon SRAM) sprinted to fifth place at today’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in Ninove, Belgium. “I gave it everything so I can’t be too disappointed” (more…)

Italian Davide Ballerini kicks off the Classics campaign by taking the biggest victory of his career in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Coventry’s Jake Stewart was second. (more…)

Lotto Soudal rider Caleb Ewan has won the final stage of the UAE Tour, Pogacar the overall and second for Adam Yates despite a crash with 40km to go (more…)

Irishman Sam Bennett does it again at the UAE Tour benefitted from a flawless lead-out and came out on top for the second time in three days at the World Tour race (more…)

Feature length chat to Ribble Weldtite’s Jack Rees about his team’s goals for 2021, when their season will start and the challenges they face. (more…)

Despite all the problems that Jumbo Visma team have had with injuries and riders taking a break (Dumoulin), the team showed what strength in depth it has as yet another of their riders, Jonas Vingegaard, racing to victory on a stage of the UAE Tour (more…)

British rider Simon Yates confirms his return to the Giro d’Italia in Team BikeExchange  colours ready to fight for pink (more…)

Bauke Mollema, Giulio Ciccone and Vincenzo Nibali to look for opportunities for their team Trek Segafredo in the  2021 Giro d’Italia  (more…)

CAMS-Tifosi, a UK-based UCI Continental women’s cycling team, reveals their rider line-up for the Healthy Ageing Tour now confirmed for March (more…)

Sam Bennett was the clear winner on Wednesday afternoon, capturing his first victory of the year after showing a clean pair of wheels to his opponents (more…)

Ribble Cycles has appointed Simon Picton, former Red Bull Senior Creative Manager, as its new Head of Creative (more…)

Adam Yates and Tadej Pogačar go man-on-man on the summit finish for stage 3 of the UAE Tour with the TDF winner Pogacar winning from last years UAE winner Yates who is now second overall (more…)

Mark Cavendish is set to make his first appearance in 14 years at the Le Samyn race in Belgium on March 2nd (more…)

Over on the website for the Eolo Kometa Cycling Team is a chat with Scotland’s John Archibald who says about his first race for the team; “my path to Clásica de Almería was a bit unconventional if you compare it to my teammates” (more…)

This weekend: Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s team for the opening of the classics weekend as World Champion Julian Alaphilippe returns on the cobbles at the end of this week (more…)

The course for the mountain warriors on bikes in the 2021 Critérium du Dauphiné 2021, consisting of eight stages (30 May to 6 Jun), has been unveiled (more…)

There was a day of drama and celebration on day 2 of the UAE Tour when Filippo Ganna won yet another time trial in the rainbow stripes whilst race leader Mathieu van der Poel had to leave the race after a positive for Covid in his team (more…)

Trek Segafredo rider Gianluca Brambilla has won the last stage of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var and with it the overall. Tao Geoghegan Hart was second on the stage. (more…)

On a day where the winds blew the race apart, Mathieu van der Poel returned to the road with a victory on stage 1 of the UAE Tour, defending champion Adam Yates the only Brit to make the breakaway that stays away (more…)

The Central Region is delighted to announce that Anthony Anderson has been selected to become the Junior Road Race Team Manager (more…)

Michael Woods wins stage 2 from yesterday’s winner Bauke Mollema and Woods now leads overall from Mollema and David Gaudu. Ben Tulett first of the Brits in 23rd (more…)

The Trek-Segafredo climber Bauke Mollema wins the uphill finish of Stage 1 at the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var (more…)

Bauke Mollema has won the opening stage of the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var and now leads overall. He went very early in the sprint so as not to get boxed in and held on to win from classics legend Greg Van Avermaet and Valentin Madouas. (more…)

Following consultation with teams and riders, and the introduction of new rules from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), British Cycling can today announce an update to its process for the awarding of elite status to riders and team personnel. (more…)

Climber João Almeida and sprinter Sam Bennett will lead the Deceuninck – Quick-Step team at the year’s first World Tour race, the UAE Tour (more…)

With his season about to kick off, a new lighter Alexandar Richardson (Alpecin-Fenix) is excited to see what this season brings him (more…)

Nairo Quintana will return this week to the roads of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes and the Haut-Var. He tells us about this event, his short-term ambitions, and updates us on his operation on both knees in early fall. (more…)

Pogacar wears number 1 in UAE Tour – Provisional Rider List in full – Brits include Adam Yates, Fred Wright, Chris Froome, Alex Dowsett, Mark Donovan, Harry Tanfield,  (more…)

World star on the road and in cyclocross, Wout van Aert is currently on Tenerife to prepare for the start of his road campaign (more…)

Deceuninck-Quick-Step is holding a third and final training camp in two different hotels with a view to the Spring after the Tour of Algarve was postponed. (more…)

Spring Classics/Tour de France/Olympic Games targets for World Champion Julian Alaphilippe who has had a great start to the season after second in the Tour de la Provence (more…)

Organisers of the Women’s Tour, the SweetSpot Group, have announced that the upcoming edition of the race scheduled for 7 to 12 June 2021 will be postponed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)

Question and answer with 17 year old Martha Lebentz (Team Tofauti Everyone Active) who lives in Suffolk and has been racing since she was 7! (more…)

UCI World Champion Julian Alaphilippe finishes runner-up in his first race of the season in the French stage race, Tour de Provence. (more…)

A look at the podiums and former winner of what is nowadays, the first race of the road race season, the Perfs Pedal Classic, organised by Mick Waite since he was 17(!) (more…)

  Whilst their first scheduled race of the season, Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, has been postponed until May, the British women’s team Drops have plenty  of racing in the Belgian classics on their new Ribble bikes (more…)

The Spanish grand tour’s 76th edition will start in Burgos on the 14th of August and will take place entirely within Spain until the very last stage, that will conclude in Santiago on the 5th of September. (more…)

Davide Ballerini confirmed he is one of the most in-form riders at the start of this season, by surging to victory for the second consecutive day in the Tour de la Provence (France), after a wet stage and a crash-marred finale where Alaphilippe  hit the tarmac (more…)

The Italian Davide Ballerini got his second victory for Deceuninck – Quick-Step at the end of a thrilling stage 1 of the Tour de la Provence and is the race’s first leader. Matt Walls was 5th (more…)

The organisers of the Giro  and many of Italy’s leading cycle races today announced the wildcards for their events and for Eolo Kometa, home to Brits Sean Yates (Performance Director), John Archibald and Mark Christian, their dream of racing the Giro was realised. (more…)

Mark Cavendish is set to race for the first time this season for Deceuninck – Quick-Step at the race he won back in 2015 (more…)

Back in January, we spoke to performance director and former Yellow jersey in the Tour de France, Sean Yates of Eolo Kometa Cycling Team about the challenges of 2021 and a pandemic (more…)

Update: UK Cancelled events now include the Hatherleigh Junior RR (4 April), Pembrey Youth 2-Day (24–25 April) and Isle of Man Youth and Junior Tour (30 April – 2 May). (more…)

In an interview on Sporza, Tom Pidcock’s long time coach and former boss at An Post/Sean Kelly, Kurt Bogaerts says 2021 “will be one big exploration for Tom this year”. (more…)

John Archibald set to start his racing with Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team in the Spanish Mediterranean at the Clásica de Almería on February 14 (more…)

World Champion  Julian Alaphilippe  making his first appearance on home turf since last year’s Tour de France leads his Quickstep team at the sixth edition of the Tour de la Provence ( 11-14 February) (more…)

Stephen Cummings has joined the Ineos team to take on a varied role as a development Sport Director and coach. (more…)

Winner of two stages in the Etoile Besseges including the final stage time trial, World TT Champion Filippo Ganna is pleased with the form and takes it to the UAE Tour where he says Adam Yates will lead the Ineos team (more…)

Jake Stewart surprised himself with 4th overall in a star studded Etoile de Bessèges after finishing 10th in the crucial final stage time trial; Ganna won his second stage and Wellens the overall (more…)

Birmingham 2022 recruits experienced competition manager Martin Bridgwood to help deliver biggest ever Commonwealth sports programme  (more…)

In the next edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the riders will be faced with a new climb, the Côte de Desnié, a climb of more than four kilometres at about 6%. (more…)

Bikestrong-KTM are entering their fourth year since launching in January 2018 and are looking to continue the momentum of their prior success by hitting the National A, National B, as well as The Tour Series and racing abroad if pandemic allows (more…)

Coventry’s Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ) was surrounded by legends of the sport as he raced to 7th on the stage and 6th on overall (leading young rider) (more…)

Timothy Dupont takes the win after a crash effected finale whilst Christophe Laporte adds two seconds to his general classification lead, Jake Stewart leads best young rider comp. (more…)

At a time when teams are folding & sponsors are pulling away, Ribble Cycles have essentially doubled their investment into cycle sport by having a new team in Drops Cycling on their race bikes (more…)

Question and answer with 17 year old Jake Crossley of Tofauti Everyone Active who is based in Colchester, Essex and did his first race towards the end of 2016 and so has been racing for just over four years. (more…)

Ian Stannard will be remaining active in the peloton after his retirement from racing as the 33-year-old will start as a sports director for Trinity Racing (more…)

Ahead of his first full season at WorldTour, Coventry’s Jake Stewart was 9th on stage 1 of Etoile de Bessèges, a performance where he had the confidence and backing of his World Tour team (more…)

Tao Geoghegan Hart will not defend his title in the Giro d’Italia and instead look to find his feet in the Tour de France and then tackle the Olympic Games Road Race (more…)

Heading to France today (Tuesday) is Connor Swift of Arkea Samsic for his first race of the year before he tackles the Spring Classics – we chat about the challenges he has been facing to get racing. (more…)

Due to the ongoing challenges presented by the pandemic, the Tour of the Reservoir and Stockton Cycling Festival Grand Prix  have been cancelled and Lincoln GP Postponed – this is on top of the Klondike and CiCLE Classic Int already having been cancelled. (more…)

New signing for (Qhubeka ASSOS) Harry Tanfield was one of 25 riders, together with a full complement of staff who spent ten days in Spain for an intensive training camp. (more…)

Calendar Changes for postponed events – WorldTour is the priority says UCI boss David Lappartient (more…)

After his fourth World Cyclo-Cross title, Mathieu van der Poel looks ahead to a season mix of road racing and mountain biking with the Olympics the big goal (more…)

Former King of the Mountains in the Tour of Switzerland (2018), the Isle of Man’s Mark Christian is training hard on the Rock for the 2021 season (more…)

A new month, and a new step forward for Tom Pidcock as from today, the Yorkshire rider is part of the road team at Ineos Grenadiers with the spring classics first up (more…)

Another day of great results for the riders in GB at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium, with Tom Pidcock 4th and Anna Kay 8th (more…)

Great Britain’s Evie Richards and Ben Turner both secured top ten finishes on the opening day of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium (more…)

Tom Pidcock: “When I’m good, people say there are three kings of cyclocross, but then I can do a race where I’m less good and then there are only two kings”.  (more…)

Currently training on the Cote d’Azur, VeloUK caught up with Jake Stewart on January 19 when like a lot of British pros, he was at home in Coventry unable to join his team for the training camp but still putting in the hard yards to be ready for some racing this weekend at GP la […]

Final part in Brother UK Cycling’s look at British domestic racing – Now, more than ever, the sport needs sponsors with vision and integrity. (more…)

In a series of interviews with British pros stuck at home whilst their teams are training in Spain, we chat to Matt Holmes (Lotto Soudal) who a year ago was celebrating his maiden UCI professional victory (more…)

VeloUK chatted last week to John Archibald of pro conti team Eolo-Kometa about being stuck in Scotland whilst his team trained in Spain. (more…)

Dylan Groenewegen received serious threats after the crash in the Tour of Poland, in which Fabio Jakobsen was seriously injured. (more…)

Welcome to Yorkshire, and the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have confirmed that the 2021 Tour de Yorkshire will now be postponed until 2022. (more…)

Three-time winner (2010, 2011, 2014) of the World CX Championships, Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s Zdenek  Stybar, has revealed that he will be at the start of the Worlds held in Oostende, Belgium, on Sunday 31st (more…)

With sincere regret that the organisers of the Rutland-Melton International CiCLE Classic planned for Sunday 25th April have today announced that the 2021 edition of the race has been cancelled for 2021. (more…)

British cyclocross star from the North East, Thomas Mein is dreaming of the Under 23 world title says his trade team Tormans Cyclo Cross (more…)

After a battle with Michael Vanthourenhout, Tom Pidcock took third place in the World Cup in Overijse. (more…)

Someone I raced against many years ago and in recent years has kept his Women’s team Drops in the spotlight, Bob Varney, talks about his time running his team (more…)

Part 3 of a chat with Ian Watson, founder of the Brother UK-LDN teams for men and women. In this final part we talk about the men’s squad for 2021 (more…)

Part 8 of Brother UK Cycling’s big feature on British domestic road racing and the challenges it faces with a shortage of younger organisers (more…)

Tour de France & Giro stage winner as well overall winner of the Giro, Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo Visma) has decided to stop cycling for an indefinite period (more…)

Back in December 2020, the University of Nottingham Track Team won the British Universities & Colleges Sport Team of the Year 2020 (more…)

CAMS-Tifosi, the UK-based UCI Continental women’s cycling team, has revealed that Emma Trott and Jenny Gretton have joined the team to further strengthen team management ahead of the 2021 racing season. (more…)

With his team about to kick off their 2021 racing campaign in Spain at the Classica Communitat Valencia (UCI 1.2), we speak to team boss Tim Elverson about the season ahead (more…)

Wout van Aert and Team Jumbo-Visma have renegotiated his contract that was due to expire at the end of this year and the team has extended it for three years until 2024. (more…)

Britain’s Adam Yates, last years winner, will take on Tadej Pogačar, and Chris Froome in the 2021 UAE Tour (21st to 27th February) (more…)

Alejandro Valverde has once again announced at the Movistar team presentation that he wants to stop after this year. But will he …? (more…)

Ribble Cycles have announced their new alliance as official bike partner for the Drops-Le Col supported by TEMPUR racing team providing the best bike support to the team it’s had with road and time trial race machine (more…)

The Great Britain Cycling Team has revealed the 12 riders who will represent the Great Britain Cycling Team at the forthcoming UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Ostend, Belgium, (30th – 31st January) (more…)

Brother UK Cycling talks to Olympic Junior Academy rider Imani Pereira-James who will also race for Team Brother UK-OnForm in 2021  (more…)

Tadej Pogačar to work even harder on his time trialling for the 2021 Tour de France and says his team is much stronger and will take on more responsibility to help him win again (more…)

Fernando Gaviria tested positive for corona twice in 2020 and crossed the line first six times but the Colombian still speaks of a disappointing season. (more…)

The World Champion Julian Alaphilippe will make his first outing of the year on home soil in France, at the four-day stage race, Tour de la Provence (11-14 February). (more…)

Coming from a cycling family of legends, and in his 14th season as a professional, Dan Martin admits he is still learning and will do from new teammates Chris Froome and Michael Woods. (more…)

Chris Froome wants to prove that he is not too old to be able to compete for the final victory in a big Tour – “Just look at Valverde,” says the four time Tour winner. (more…)

Feature on the Junior and Under 23 Beeston Race Team coached by former Olympic medallist in the Team Pursuit Bryan Steel (more…)

Starting its 16th season, Astana-Premier Tech in 2021, the Kazakhstan-Canadian team will be focusing on victories at the Grand Tours as well as the classic races.  (more…)

Whilst the UCI list is not complete, here is a list of British riders in UCI teams for 2020 and the British UCI teams as well. (more…)

British junior racing team, Tofauti Everyone Active has confirmed their riders for the upcoming 2021 season, including six current or former national champions. (more…)

In this extract from a major article on the challenges the British domestic road racing scene faces by Brother UK Cycling, they chat to Jonathan Durling, Partnerships Director at The SweetSpot Group, organisers of The Tour of Britain, The Women’s Tour and The Tour Series. (more…)

Tour of Valencia (3-7 February) has unveiled the stages for the coming edition and the star names scheduled to take part in the early season race in Spain. (more…)

Egan Bernal wants to ride the Giro one day but is not making any plans for 2021 given the corona crisis (more…)

Dates and venues for the 2021/22 National Trophy Cyclocross series and the 2022 British Cyclocross Championships have been revealed (more…)

Victim of a huge crash in the Tour of Poland, Fabio Jakobsen of Deceuninck-Quick-Step says “Now I am back on my bike, I cycle with my teammates again.” (more…)

The hillier classics like Leige Bastogne Leige, Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and the Olympic Games are the stated aims for Bauke Mollema’s cycling year (more…)