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Tadej Pogacar retained his lead in the UAE Tour despite being handed a penalty for pushing another rider. Ireland’s Sam Bennett won his second stage of the week-long race in a sprint finish into Dubai for his Deceuninck-Quick Step team. Race leader Pogacar, 22, was handed a 10-second penalty to add to his overall race

Britain’s Adam Yates remains second in the UAE Tour after failing to gain time on leader Tadej Pogacar on stage five. Red jersey wearer Pogacar, 22, is now expected to retain his 45-second lead through the final two sprint stages. Jumbo-Visma’s Jonas Vingegaard won the mountainous 166km stage to Jebel Jais. Ineos Grenadiers’ Yates, 28,

Ireland’s Sam Bennett won the 50th race of his professional career in a bunch sprint on stage four of the UAE Tour. The Deceuninck-Quick Step sprinter emerged ahead of his main rivals on a fast left hand bend on Al Marjan Island after 204km of racing. Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar holds on to the leader’s red

Britain’s Adam Yates was second to Tadej Pogacar in the third stage of the UAE Tour following an intense battle up the final mountain. Red jersey wearer Pogacar took victory after he launched himself past Yates about 300 metres before the line. Yates, 28, in his debut race for Ineos Grenadiers, had powerfully led Pogacar

UAE Tour leader Mathieu van der Poel has left the race following a positive coronavirus test for a team member. Dutchman Van der Poel won Sunday’s opening stage, but will not continue after his Alpecin-Fenix team pulled out to “safeguard the race bubble”. “Those who came into contact are self-isolating,” said organisers RCS. The United

Britain’s 14-time Paralympic champion Dame Sarah Storey is on a mission to find female cycling talent in the UK. Storey is heading the Skoda DSI Cycling Academy in a search to find two of the best amateur female riders to try to progress into the professional peloton. “Some women miss out on the transition into

Britain’s Chris Froome made a quiet start in his first race for Israel Start-Up Nation as Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won stage one of the UAE Tour. Froome, 35, making his debut after January’s Vuelta San Juan was called off, is eight minutes 39 seconds back. Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar was sixth,

Ineos Grenadiers’ Tao Geoghegan Hart was involved in a crash but recovered to finish the opening stage of the Tour du Haut Var, won by Bauke Mollema. The British 2020 Giro d’Italia champion finished in 38th place, 14 seconds down, in the three-day race in France. Welshman Geraint Thomas, 34, was Ineos’ first rider home,

By Tom BrownBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 11 minutes ago11 minutes ago.From the section Wales Geraint Thomas says he is ready to show he can still win cycling’s biggest events as he targets both the Tour de France and Olympic Games this summer. The Welshman had a disappointing season last year which ended with

Britain’s Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart is to sponsor a young rider in an effort to increase racial diversity in cycling. The 25-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider has teamed up with his former development team Hagens Berman Axeon to offer the opportunity. He will then “identify, coach and mentor” the rider, who will join the

The 2021 edition of the Women’s Tour has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The UK stage race was scheduled to take place from 7-12 June. Organiser SweetSpot has requested alternative dates of 4-9 October from the sport’s governing body, the UCI. The Women’s Tour forms part of the top-tier UCI Women’s World Tour

Egan Bernal finished third overall at the Tour de la Provence as Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Ivan Sosa won. Bernal, 24, who won the 2019 Tour de France, finished the four-day race strongly as he recovers from a poor defence at last year’s Tour because of a back injury. Germany’s Phil Bauhaus won Sunday’s stage from

Ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been charged by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) with two violations of anti-doping rules, the BBC has learned. The medic is already fighting a General Medical Council allegation that he ordered banned testosterone in 2011 to help dope a rider. The accusation is central to Freeman’s two-year

Britain’s Jake Stewart finished a surprise fourth overall at the Etoile de Besseges race, as Geraint Thomas was 49th for Ineos Grenadiers. Groupama-FDJ’s Stewart, 21, was 10th in the final-stage time trial in the five-day race in southern France. Tim Wellens won overall, a minute ahead of Stewart, in a field packed with high-class riders

The General Medical Council case against former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman was “all over the place”, a medical tribunal has been told. Freeman denies having testosterone delivered to the national velodrome in 2011 in order to help an athlete to dope. Summing up Freeman’s case, Mary O’Rourke QC said: “You’ve

Three-time road race world champion Peter Sagan is one of three Bora-Hansgrohe riders to have tested positive for coronavirus. The Slovakian 31-year-old, his brother Juraj and Erik Baska have all returned “several” positive tests while on a training camp in Gran Canaria. Team doctor Christopher Edler said the trio have “mild, general symptoms” of the

Ineos Grenadiers will race “like Brazil” in 2021 as Briton Geraint Thomas goes for Tour de France victory, says team boss Sir Dave Brailsford. Brailsford wants the team to adapt to the more spontaneous style of racing that propelled Tao Geoghegan Hart to Giro d’Italia success in 2020. “It chimed with a lot of people

Geraint Thomas will be among three Tour de France winners competing in the Etoile de Besseges, a five-day race that begins on Wednesday, 3 February. The 34-year-old Welshman will be joined by Team Ineos colleague Egan Bernal and Vincenzo Nibali of Trek-Segafredo. Team Ineos’ line-up also includes Thomas’ Welsh compatriot Owain Doull. Thomas pulled out