Cycling

Mark Cavendish escaped with only grazes and bruises after a fall during the penultimate stage of the Tour of Oman on Monday. It is the British rider’s first race since a high-speed track crash in Ghent in November saw him hospitalised. “I had a touch of wheels and unfortunately I came down quite heavily,” said

Sprinter Mark Cavendish won stage two of the Tour of Oman to take the overall lead from Fernando Gaviria and claim his first victory of 2022. Cavendish edged Australia’s Kaden Groves at the end of the 167.5km stage from Naseem Park to Suhar Corniche. It is the 36-year-old’s first victory of 2022 and 157th of

Mark Cavendish opened his 2022 season with a second-place finish on the opening stage of the Tour of Oman. Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria took the win for UAE Team Emirates, holding off the 36-year-old Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl rider in a sprint finish to the 138km stage from Rustaq Fort to Muscat. Cavendish edged Australia’s Kaden Groves

The Tour of Britain will return to Yorkshire for the first time since 2009 when the race resumes this September. Britain’s flagship men’s road cycling event will travel to Dorset for the first time and also feature a first full stage within Gloucestershire. Aberdeen and the Isle of Wight had already been confirmed as the

Ineos Grenadiers’ Egan Bernal has left hospital as he continues to recover from multiple operations after a high-speed crash in his native Colombia. The 25-year-old said he nearly died after he hit a stationary bus while riding his time trial bike in January. He had neurosurgery, spinal surgery and other procedures after he sustained back,

Africa’s former top cycling outfit Team Qhubeka has named the riders who will compete in its colours in UCI Continental races in 2022. The team, which was registered in South Africa until December last year as Team Qhubeka NextHash, is now registered in Italy. The change came after Team Qhubeka NextHash failed to secure a

Two-time Olympic medallist Elinor Barker says she is already planning her return to cycling after she has her first child this spring. The five-time world champion says female athletes starting a family during their careers is getting increasingly normal and she is looking forward to her ‘career 2.0’ starting possibly as early as the summer.

The 2023 Cycling World Championships will take place between 3 and 13 August in Glasgow and across Scotland. The inaugural 11-day event will include 13 different cycling disciplines across road, track, BMX and mountain biking events, as well as Para-cycling. Six venues have so far been confirmed, with Glasgow’s Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Emirates Arena,

Egan Bernal is to have further surgery on his spine following his high-speed crash in his native Colombia. The 25-year-old said he nearly died after he hit a stationary bus while riding his time trial bike in January. The Ineos Grenadiers rider had spinal surgery and other procedures after he sustained back, leg, knee and

Tom Pidcock has become the first Briton to win the Cyclo-cross World Championship. The Ineos Grenadiers rider beat Lars van der Haar by 30 seconds to claim the coveted rainbow jersey and gold medal for the first time. The cyclo-cross is one of three world titles Pidcock could win in 2022, including the mountain bike

Great Britain’s Zoe Backstedt wins the junior world UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships title with a dominant victory in Arkansas, USA. Available to UK users only. Watch Tom Pidcock in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships men’s elite race via the Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website from 20:20 GMT on Sunday, 30th January.

Dates: 29-30 January Venue: Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA Coverage: Saturday 29 January 16:50-18:00 GMT – Junior women’s race, 2020-2140 GMT – Women’s elite race. Sunday 30 January 20:20-22:00 GMT – Men’s elite race. Watch via the Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website Britain’s Tom Pidcock says cyclo-cross is the hardest discipline in cycling,

Egan Bernal says he nearly died following a high-speed crash in his native Colombia. The 25-year-old had spinal surgery and other procedures after he sustained back, leg, knee and chest injuries. The Ineos Grenadiers rider remains in intensive care at the Clinica Universidad de La Sabana in Bogota. “Having had a 95% chance of becoming

Ineos Grenadiers rider Brandon Rivera has fractured his elbow and dislocated a shoulder in Colombia, three days after team-mate Egan Bernal’s serious crash in the same area. Local media report the 25-year-old is being treated at the same clinic as Bernal on the outskirts of Bogota. Former Tour de France champion Bernal, 25, suffered back,

Off a long, straight road in Alicante province, Mark Cavendish sits in a dusty valley, smiling with team-mates during a break in the day’s training among the jagged hills and orange trees of eastern Spain. It’s unseasonably warm and windy for January, but Cavendish’s obvious high spirits rise above the continual gusts – as well

Time trial bikes are becoming too dangerous for riders to train with on public roads, says Egan Bernal’s Ineos team-mate Tom Pidcock. Pidcock, 22, believes the serious injuries suffered by Bernal on Monday, and his own crash in June, could be a result of the riding position. “Positions are getting more and more extreme and

Colombian rider Egan Bernal is “stable” after he was taken to hospital following a crash in training, his Ineos Grenadiers team have confirmed. Bernal, who won the 2019 Tour de France and last year’s Giro d’Italia, was training near his hometown in Colombia. “He was accompanied to hospital by team medical staff and was conscious

A 20-year-old man says he has landed the world’s first BMX triple flair. Kieran Reilly, from Gateshead, landed the trick – three full backflips and a 180-degree rotation at the end – at Asylum Skatepark in Nottinghamshire on 15 January. After crashing about 30 times during practice runs, Kieran said it was an “amazing feeling”