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The final stage of a Grand Tour, the Vuelta, being raced in November, saw Pascal Ackermann edge out Sam Bennett whilst Primoz Roglic got his Grand Tour win with Hugh Carthy’s epic ride netting him third place overall and Dan Martin 4th (more…)

Tim Wellens won a second stage on the roads of Vuelta 2020 after the day’s breakaway stuck and he beat Michael Woods and Zdenek Stybar to the finish line (more…)

Roglic regains overall lead in Vuelta a España with an impressive third stage victory that sees him equal on time with Carapaz – Dan Martin 3rd overall, Carthy 4th (more…)

Primoz Roglic loses red leader’s jersey on sixth stage of the Vuelta a España, Hugh Carthy 8th and now second overall, Dan Martin 3rd overall; Ion Izagirre  wins the stage and Richard Carapaz leads  (more…)

Peter Sagan creates his Italian masterpiece on stage 10, grabbing first Giro d’Italia win in style with stunning solo victory, Ben Swift 4th – Race leader João Almeida third and extends lead (more…)

In a drama filled finished, Primoz Roglic nicked the win from world champion Julian Alaphilippe who celebrated early and then was later relegated from second plac (more…)

Connor Swift finishes his Tour in a breakaway, Sam Bennett wins final stage in Paris, Tadej Pogacar gets to celebrate winning the 2020 Tour de France (more…)

Tadej Pogacar smashed the time trial stage of the Tour de France to almost take two minutes out of Roglic and take the yellow jersey from his fellow countryman (more…)

Soren Kragh Andersen became the fourth rider with two stage wins at the 107th Tour de France after Wout van Aert, Caleb Ewan and Tadej Pogacar. No changes in the Overall (more…)

Former world champion Michal Kwiatkowski and Giro winner Richard Carapaz (both Ineos) combine to ride away on final big mountain stage with Kwiatkowski given the stage win – Roglic continues to lead overall (more…)

Trek-Segafredo scored yet another podium placing at the Giro Rosa with UCI Women’s World Tour leader Lizzie Deignan sprinting from a select group to finish runner-up to Lotte Kopecky in Maddaloni. Crash for Vos and World Champion Annemiek van Vleuten (more…)

After a star studded breakaway dominated the stage, it was the turn of the GC riders to fight for the stage win and time gains with Miguel Angel “Superman” Lopez take time from Roglic who took time off the rest of his GC rivals (more…)

Yet another stage win for Marianne Vos as she continues to dominate the Women’s Giro stages beating Hannah Barnes into second on stage 6; Annemiek van Vleuten continues to lead the GC, Lizzy Banks in 11th (more…)

Lennard Kämna claimed his first Tour de France stage win on stage 16 at Villard-de-Lans after attacking of the days breakaway – the GC battle saw some little skirmishes but nothing came of them ahead of the queen stage on Wednesday (more…)

Britain’s Lizzy Banks (Équipe Paule Ka) victorious after outstanding performance on Stage four of the Giro Rosa in Italy while Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-SCOTT) extends her lead overall (more…)

Tadej Pogacar wins key mountain stage ahead of countryman and race leader Primoz Roglic, last years Tour winner Bernal loses big time, Adam Yates in the GC mix attacking (more…)

Marianne Vos attacked her way to victory on stage 3 of the Women’s Giro; World champion Annemiek van Vleuten extended her race lead on the summit finish in Assisi. (more…)

On a key day for the GC riders ahead of the Time Trial, Mathieu van der Poel wins the stage from the breakaway but Simon Yates finishes 6th and keeps the leaders jersey in Tirreno Adriatico (more…)

Soren Kragh Andersen solos to victory ahead of the GC peloton of 50 riders on Stage 14 of the Tour de France; Primoz Roglic holds on to his yellow jersey, Bora-Hansgrohe hammer the stage for Sagan’s Green Jersey challenge (more…)

Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) retains the race lead after a stage six sprint won by Tim Merlier at Tirreno Adriatico (more…)

Vuelta a España champion Simon Yates showed the first signs of top form today, attacking with four kilometers to go to take a spectacular solo victory on today’s Queen stage at Tirreno Adriatico. (more…)

Columbia’s Dani Martinez won stage 13 of the 2020 Tour de France as he beat the Bora-Hansgrohe duo Maximilian Schachmann and Lennard Kämna on top of the col d’Puy Mary. (more…)

After finishing second and third already on stages in his first Tour de France, Marc Hirschi, soloed to victory 30km on stage 12 defying the strongest riders in the race also wanting that win (more…)

Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) took his second Tour de France victory this year, the fifth in his career, after he managed to fend off his rival Sam Bennett. Peter Sagan relegated whilst Primoz Roglic leads overall (more…)

Sam Bennett adds a Tour de France stage win to the ones from the Giro and Vuelta and is now in Green again after a crash affected stage; Primoz Roglic leads overall (more…)

Tadej Pogacar won his first Tour de France stage after his GC select group caught lone attacker Marc Hirschi, who soloed 90km, with just 2km to go (more…)

The first day in the Pyrenees saw a big break stick and from that, Nans Peters won the stage solo; in the GC battle, Pogacar took time back after his loss in the crosswinds yesterday; Adam Yates leads (more…)

After a crazy stage where GC riders were dropped on a sprint stage due to the cross winds, a lead group of 40 formed with race leader Adam Yates and Wout van Aert who won his second stage of the race (more…)

Victory for Alexey Lutsenko out of the day’s breakaway as the GC battle takes a day off in the mountains; Adam Yates continues to lead (more…)

Twenty-four hours after the triumph of his leader Primoz Roglic at Orcières-Merlette, Wout Van Aert thrillingly broke free of his domestique role to grab a second consecutive victory for Jumbo-Visma – Adam Yates in yellow (more…)

Primoz Roglic showed that he is definitely in top shape as the Slovenian champion took his third Tour de France stage win in Orcières-Merlette – Julian Alaphilippe, fifth on the line, retained the yellow jersey (more…)

Caleb Ewan brings some joy back to his team as he wins stage 3 ahead of Sam Bennett, Julian Alaphilippe leads overall from Adam Yates (more…)

After a stage of many crashes, Alexander Kristoff won the first bunch sprint of the 2020 Tour de France beating world champion Mads Pedersen and Cees Bol. It’s Kristoff’s fourth stage win in the Tour de France & the second Norwegian to take the yellow jersey after Thor Hushovd (more…)

In the finale of La Course by le Tour de France, Trek-Segafredo teammates Elisa Longo Borghini and Lizzie Deignan put on a show that saw Deignan win the sprint against Vos (more…)

Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) won his teams third stage in this years Critérium du Dauphiné, Daniel Martinez wins the overall taking time from Pinot (more…)

In a drama filled race, Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) wins the Tour of Lombardy from George Bennett – heavy crash for Remco Evenepoel sees him out for rest of season (more…)

Lennard Kämna soloed to his first professional victory at the end of a stage that saw three of his Bora-Hansgrohe teammates abandon the race, including his leader Emanuel Buchmann (3rd overall before his abandon). (more…)

Davide Formolo holds on from early breakaway to win stage 3 solo; race leader Primoz Roglic second on the stage ahead of GC rival Thibaut Pinot (more…)

Primoz Roglic solo’s to victory in the mountains to continue Jumbo Visma’s domination of races on stage 2 of the Critérium Dauphiné – post race reactions from the riders (more…)

Wout Van Aert continues to stun the cycling world with his third win in four races on stage 1 of the Critérium Dauphiné (more…)

New Zealand’s George Bennett (Jumbo Visma) solo’s to a magnificent victory in Gran Piemonte (more…)

Monument win for Wout Van Aert at longest ever Milan San Remo to go with Strade Bianche victory as he beats Julian Alaphilippe to the line in a two up sprint  (more…)

The Belgian Remco Evenepoel took an emotional victory, which he dedicated to Fabio Jakobsen, after attacking with 51 kilometers to go – Simon Yates 3rd (more…)

World champion Annemiek van Vleuten demolished the field once again today, claiming victory at Clasica Navarra to make it three-from-three solo race wins this season (more…)

Lizzie Deignan 9th in Spanish race Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasiko, Hannah Barnes 33rd. Only 35 finishers as World champion Annemiek van Vleuten wins in style (more…)

113 riders from as far as London took to the start of the 2020 Magnificent 7 which forms part of a month long festival of the outdoors in Sheffield. (more…)

Joshua Crow-Stewart solo’d to victory in the 3/4 (Spring Chicken) and Ollie Maxwell outsprinted Jack Freeman to win the National B (Roy Thame Cup) at Hemel Hempstead’s road races on Saturday (more…)

Ivan Cortina outsprints Peter Sagan to win the 212.5-km third stage of Paris-Nice after a long, rainy and windy day between Chalette-sur-Loing and La Chatre on Tuesday. (more…)

Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo stole the show from race leader Maximilian Schachmann’s when he took the second stage of Paris-Nice over 166.5-km after outsprinting his rivals to the line (more…)

The 59th Edition of the Eddie Soens Memorial at Aintree on Saturday was won by Jacob Tipper of Ribble Weldtitle from Joe Holt and Matt Taylor. (more…)

Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) attacks with more than 30 kilometers to go, catches and drops the members of the breakaway and hold off an entire peloton to solo to victory in Kuurne Brussel Kuurne. (more…)

Adam Yates climbed to his first race win of the season in a dominant display up the Jebel Hafeet climb on stage three of the UAE Tour. Now leads overall. (more…)

Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) stormed to victory on the opening day of the Volta ao Algarve just as he did in 2019 (more…)

Phil Bauhaus hit back and retook the top spot in the SaudiTour Overall by winning stage 5 from Bouhanni – Richard Jones of Ribble Weldtitle got himself into the days main little breakaway (more…)

Nacer Bouhanni won the sprint at the end of stage 4 to take the overall lead in the race; Jacob Tipper (Ribble Weldtite) gets in the days breakaway (more…)

Phil Bauhaus wins stage 3 and now leads overall, Charles Page (Ribble Weldtite) is best young rider on the stage in 11th (more…)

Stage 2 of the SaudiTour saw Niccolo Bonifazio win the stage while Rui Costa hangs on to the overall; Charles Page of Ribble Weldtite was 14th (more…)

Rui Costa wins stage 1 of the SaudiTour; Olly Moors (Ribble/Weldtite) gets in the days big breakaway – reactions from Olly and Rui Costa (more…)

Racing for the Under 23 Memil Pro Cycling team, British rider Ollie Morgan is looking to find his feet in the pro peloton – here’s his report of the race on Thursday (Jan 30) (more…)

Caleb Ewan wins his second stage in this years Tour Down Under on stage 4 whilst Daryl Impey takes time out of Race Leader Ritchie Porte (more…)

Jake Crossley and Connor Backhouse winners at week 1 of the East London Velo Winter series at Redbridge on Saturday, January 18 (more…)

Rob Walker of Cambridge University won the Finsbury Park CC road race on Sunday with an attack on the last lap. (more…)

Bauke Mollema of Trek Segafredo won Italy’s final classic of the 2019 season with a solo victory at the end of the Monument, the Tour of Lombardy, Race of the Falling Leaves (more…)

Alvaro Hodeg wins rain-soaked Münsterland Giro for Deceuninck – Quick-Step, Connor Swift 15th and Chris Lawless 11th (more…)

On a mad(s) day in Yorkshire for the Elite Men’s Road Race Championship, after a controlled race in the countryside, the finale saw many of the favourites fail and the underdog Mads Pedersen win the biggest bike race of his career (more…)

Double Giro Rosa champion Annemiek van Vleuten stormed to her debut UCI Road Race World Championship following a staggering solo attack with more than 100-kilometres to go in Yorkshire. (more…)

Yorkshire 2019 got off to a flying start on Saturday with the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International taking place in glorious conditions (more…)

More wins for Quickstep as Fabio Jakobsen wins the final stage of the Veulta in Madrid whilst after a brilliantly exciting race, Primoz Roglic wins his first Grand Tour (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel wins again and confirms his overall victory on the final stage of the 2019 Edition of the Tour of Britain (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel edges closer to Tour of Britain title with Warwickshire stage win and extends overall lead (more…)

Stage 17 of the Vuelta and crosswinds and a sensational Deceuninck – Quick-Step team effort carries James Knox into the top 10 overall, with just four stages remaining and a stage win for Philippe Gilbert (more…)

In what is turning out to be a sprinters feast, Dylan Groenewegen beat Britain’s Matt Walls to the line to win his third stage whilst Matteo Trentin took back the overall lead ahead of the time trial (more…)

Mathieu van der Poel wins in Kendal to take the leader’s jersey in the Tour of Britain – James Shaw comes close after late move with Sherman and Gallopin (more…)

Patrick Biel was the winner of the regional A Orwell Velo Road Race near Ipswich on September 8 after going solo with 10 miles to go (more…)

Britain’s Claire Steels of Brother UK/Fusion RT took overall victory in Rás na mBan following the final stage in Kilkenny this afternoon (more…)

After a late attack by Alex Dowsett was caught metres from the line, Matteo Trentin took the stage win, his third in the race, and now leads overall. (more…)

Norway’s Amalie Lutro won the 5th stage of the Ras na mBan women’s stage race whilst British race leader, Claire Steels of Brother UK Fusion RT held on to her race leader’s jersey after winning the time trial earlier in the day. Junior Elynor Backstedt was Best British rider on Stage 5 (more…)

Stage 1 of the Tour of Britain finished with a bunch finish won by Dylan Groenewegen; the days break saw Rory Townsend net the Sprinters jersey and Jacob Scott the Mountains one (more…)

Josie Knight won her second stage in two days after victory on stage 2 of the Irish Women’s Stage race, Rás na mBan just ahead of talented Junior Elynor Backstedt who now leads the queen of the mountains competition. Josie Knight leads overall. (more…)

On one of the hottest days of summer, Rupert Graham proved to be the strongest of the five heat resistant resistant supermen remaining in the near race long break to win the 2019 Victor Berlemont Trophy RR (more…)

Stage 3 an historic day for the Irish as Sam Bennett wins the stage whilst Nicholas Roche wears the leader’s jersey – the first time in the race’s history an Irish rider wins the stage while another one leads the general classification (more…)

Miguel Angel Lopez will wear the leader’s red jersey on Sunday after his team Astana dominated the opening team time trial whilst a crash for Jumbo Visma dented their GC challenge (more…)

Leah Thomas wins the final stage and overall in the Women’s Tour of Scotland (Edinburgh) (more…)

Alison Jackson (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) is the first rider to wear the Baillie Gifford Yellow Jersey as she won the second stage of the Women’s Tour of Scotland in Perth (more…)

After the riders had completed 63km of the first stage of the Women’s Tour of Scotland; including two sprints and one climb, race organisers stopped the race due to large sections of standing water on the roads (more…)

Elia Viviani sprinted to glory on The Mall in London, edging out a host of the world’s fastest cyclists in a thrilling climax to win the RideLondon-Surrey Classic road race on Sunday. (more…)

Day 3 of the Manx International and ona grim day for racing with fog and rain on the mountain, Matt Holmes of Madison Genesis won his second stage and the overall as well for a career highlight (more…)

Clasica San Sebastian: Remco Evenepoel rides into the history books as the 19 year old became the youngest ever rider to triumph in a World Tour race (more…)

Stage 21 of the Tour de France saw the changing of the guard in the pro peloton as the new generation of Egan Bernal and Caleb Ewan celebrated great victories on the Champs-Elysées (more…)

Eluned King and Oliver Stockwell of Team Ribble win their British Junior Road Race Championships at Bassingham in Lincolnshire on July 28 (more…)

Vincenzo Nibali solo’d to a memorable stage victory whilst behind the battle for the GC didn’t explode as expected with Alaphilippe cracking and dropping to 5th overall and the rest marking each other all the way to the line (more…)

Snow storm and mudslide cause stage to be stopped; times taken at top of col d’Iseran where Egan Bernal went over the top first and now leads overall (more…)

Lee Desborough winner of round 7 of the Ford CC Dunton Series (LVRC) on July 25 (more…)

Quintana throws his cap into the GC ring with stage win, Bernal attacks into second place, Thomas has a little nudge, Alaphilippe still in yellow, Bardet chasing polka dots (more…)

Ollie Wood (Canyon DHB) sprint clear to win the Sheffield Grand Prix from a four up break, whilst Youth rider Lucas Towers won the Bioracer 2/3/4 support race (more…)

2018 Vuelta España champion Simon Yates attacked his way on stage 15 to take a solo victory at the Tour de France today on another hard summit finish in the Pyrenees, his second stage in this years race. (more…)

Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK/Tifosi) and Joey Walker (Madison Genesis) are the 2019 Circuit Race Champions! Congrats to both riders and all the others who raced – great racing … (more…)

Thibaut Pinot wins the stage on the Tourmalet, Alaphilippe extends his lead as Thomas gets gapped, Yates, Quintana, Porte, Martin & Aru drop out of GC contention (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe beats Geraint Thomas to the stage win and the Frenchman extends his lead overall as some of the GC hopefuls lose even more time than Thomas (more…)

A sprint stage turned into a GC battle royal as crosswinds combined with attacking riding from Ineos & Quickstep to split the GC favourites; winner of the stage was Wout van Aert who opened his TDF account beating the likes of Sagan, Ewan and Viviani to the line (more…)

South African champion Daryl Impey stormed to his debut Tour de France victory in style on stage nine into Brioude. (more…)

Epic win for John Archibald (Ribble Pro Cycling) after a 100km solo effort in the men’s Stockton GP; Sprint victory for Rebecca Durrell (Brother UK/Tifosi) in the women’s (more…)

A blistering finish to the stage saw Thomas De Gendt win after an epic effort off the front all day whilst Julian Alaphilippe attacked to get back and yellow and Geraint Thomas recovered from late crash (more…)

On the longest stage of the 2019 Tour de France, Dylan Groenewegen avenged his recent woes in the Tour de France when he outsprinted Caleb Ewan to win stage 7 (more…)

Shake up at the Tour de France as Dylan Tuens wins the first GC stage, Ciccone takes yellow and Thomas is the best of the GC hopefuls (more…)

Stage 5 of the 2019 Tour de France was won by Peter Sagan who mimicked The Incredible Hulk just like he did in his first victory in 2012. It was Peter’s 12th stage victory … Julian Alaphilippe leads overall before the first big GC day on stage 6 (more…)

Thomas Mein was riding like ten men at home in Newcastle, dragging series leader Matt Bostock round the streets of his home city before Bostock made it three from three in the series – Jacob Scott solo’d his way to third (more…)

Alaphilippe leads the Tour de France after magnificent solo win – An all-out attack with 16 kilometers to go paved the way for a memorable victory in the land of champagne (more…)

The Dutch outfit Jumbo-Visma followed up their win on stage 1 with victory won stage 2 as well keeping Mike Teunisse in Yellow – Thomas and Bernal fare best among the GC favourites (more…)

Elizabeth Bennett (Campinense – Velo Performance) and Rory Townsend (Canyon DHB p/b Bloor Homes) claimed victories as the National Road Series continued with the Curlew Cup and Beaumont Trophy (more…)

Tom Couzens was in a bit of a hurry to win the Monmouthshire Junior Grand Prix, going solo and winning by over a minute and half – Junior national road series (more…)

Leah Dixon (Brother UK – Tifosi p/b OnForm) and James Shaw (SwiftCarbon Pro Cycling) both won the second stage to complete overall victories at the Tour of the Reservoir today. (more…)

Rebecca Durrell of Brother UK/Tifosi and Ollie Wood of Canyon DHB were the stage winners of the two stages held on Day 1 of the Tour of Reservoir (June 22) (more…)

Rory Townsend (Canyon DHB) win his second ‘prem’ in 2019 after victory in the Tour of the Mendips ahead of Scott Thwaites (Vitus pro Cycling p/b Brother UK) and Ian Bibby of Madison Genesis) (more…)

Sophie Lankford (Team Jadan Weldtite – Vive le Velo) topped the podium at the first round of the women’s National Circuit Series – the Bristol Crit. (more…)

Wout Poels won stage 7 after he overhauled Jakob Fuglsang and Emanuel Buchmann who had attacked in the last two kilometres; Fuglsang now leads on GC from Adam Yates  (more…)

Great Britain’s Lizzie Deignan became the first rider to win two Women’s Tour titles as she sealed the 2019 crown at Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday. Elizabeth Banks was 7th overall. (more…)

Britain’s Lizzie Deignan victorous on stage 5 of the Women’s Tour in Wales and now leads overall; Elizabeth Banks in sixth on the GC after 8th on the stage (more…)

Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 6 of the Critérium du Dauphiné and leads KoM classification, Adam Yates still leads overall (more…)