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• 'It hasn't sunk in that I am now a world champion'

  10-11-2025 07:17 via bbc.com
  The 24-year-old bike trials rider has competed in the sport since he was six years old.
  
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• Fall and redemption of Becker and Wiggins shows sporting glory does not deliver purpose or meaning | Cath Bishop

  08-11-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Books by former champions demonstrate powerfully that we should not accept abuse and suffering as ‘the price of winning’. Sport must do moreViewed through one end of the lens, the two new autobiographies from the sporting legends Boris Becker and Bradley Wiggins might seem like classic tales of the downfalls of two deeply flawed heroes who then claw their way back to redemption. But viewed through the other end of the lens, we see troubling portrayals of an extremely inhumane and, at
  
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• Israel-Premier Tech’s main sponsor withdraws backing citing ‘untenable’ position

  07-11-2025 21:32 via theguardian.com
  Premier Tech pulls out despite rebranding pledgeTeam’s participation in Vuelta was dogged by protestsThe main sponsor of the Israel-Premier Tech team of the four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has pulled out of funding the team, despite a pledge to rebrand and distance itself from its Israeli identity. The Canadian company Premier Tech, in a statement issued on Friday, said that it had decided to “step down as co-title sponsor of the team, taking effect immediately”.
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• 'Untenable': Israel team loses top sponsor despite changes

  07-11-2025 18:54 via bbc.com
  The title sponsor of the beleaguered Israel-Premier Tech ends its association, despite the team agreeing to remove Israel from its name.
  
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• Reilly misses BMX Worlds as Pardoe leads GB hopes

  07-11-2025 17:58 via bbc.com
  Watch BBC coverage of the BMX Freestyle World Championships this weekend as Sasha Pardoe leads GB hopes with Kieran Reilly out injured.
  
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• Mountain bike world champion Kate Courtney: ‘In pushing your edge, you find you’re capable of more’

  05-11-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  A broken wrist and time away from the sport helped Kate Courtney find new purpose – and the freedom that led to another world titleIn early September, Kate Courtney lined up at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships for the 12th time in her career, but the first time targeting the marathon distance. A figure at the front of the pack in the shorter cross country and short track distances, Courtney would surprise everyone by winning the 77-mile race, claiming the second rainbow jersey of
  
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• Victor Conte, architect of infamous sport steroids scandal, dies aged 75

  04-11-2025 11:33 via theguardian.com
  Balco boss revealed Marion Jones used growth hormonesConte served four months in prison over involvementVictor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including the baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and the Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75.The federal government’s investigation into a company Conte founded, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco), yielded the convictions
  
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• Are all velodromes the same shape and do riders choose their gears?

  27-10-2025 13:19 via bbc.com
  Laura Kenny and Chris Hoy answer: are all modern velodromes the same shape? Who pays for bikes and cycling equipment? And how do riders choose their gearing system?
  
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• Finucane wins keirin silver after sprint disappointment

  26-10-2025 21:58 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Emma Finucane bounces back from sprint disappointment to win keirin silver at the Track Cycling World Championships in Chile.
  
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• GB's Finucane wins silver in women's keirin

  26-10-2025 20:39 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Emma Finucane wins silver in the women's keirin after a close finish with Japan's Mina Sato at the World Track Cycling Championships.
  
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• Morris sprints 'like a champion' to take silver in women's points race

  26-10-2025 19:12 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Anna Morris leaps from sixth to second after the final sprint for the line to take silver in the women's points race at the World Track Cycling Championships.
  
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• 'A thrill' - GB win two more golds at Worlds

  26-10-2025 08:52 via bbc.com
  Great Britain claim two more gold medals at the Track World Championship as Katie Archibald and Maddie Leech win the women's madison while Anna Morris defends her individual pursuit title.
  
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• GB's Archibald & Leech win madison gold

  26-10-2025 01:01 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Katie Archibald and Maddie Leech win gold in the women's madison at the World Track Championships.
  
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• Tarling and Charlton grab GB’s first golds at Track World Championships

  25-10-2025 11:28 via theguardian.com
  Tarling delivers a masterclass in the points raceCharlton emulates Wiggins with individual pursuit titleGreat Britain secured their first gold medals at the Track World Championships in Chile as Josh Charlton claimed his first world title with victory in the individual pursuit and Josh Tarling stormed to victory the men’s points race.Tarling gave a points race masterclass to land gold before Charlton picked up his first rainbow jersey in the individual pursuit – Britain’s first
  
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• Tarling and Charlton win world track golds for GB

  25-10-2025 07:57 via bbc.com
  Josh Tarling and Josh Charlton claim golds for Great Britain at the Track World Championships in Santiago, Chile.
  
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• 'Utterly dominated' - GB's Charlton wins individual pursuit gold

  25-10-2025 01:12 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Josh Charlton defeats Rasmus Pedersen to secure his first world title with a victory in the Individual Pursuit at the World Track Championships.
  
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• GB's Tarling wins first track world title with points race victory

  25-10-2025 00:58 via bbc.com
  Watch as Josh Tarling becomes the first British rider to win the Men's 40km Points Race at the World Track Championships.
  
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• Archibald wins historic silver at World Track Championships

  24-10-2025 16:42 via bbc.com
  Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald won silver in the women's elimination at the World Track Cycling Championships in Santiago, becoming the first British cyclist to win a medal in the event.
  
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• Archibald wins silver as GB take team pursuit bronze

  24-10-2025 11:19 via bbc.com
  Katie Archibald wins a silver in the elimination race while Great Britain claim bronze in the women's team pursuit at the Track World Championships.
  
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• Tour de France unveils 2026 route with double Alpe d’Huez for men and Ventoux debut for women

  23-10-2025 14:13 via theguardian.com
  Men’s race starts in Barcelona on 4 JulyWomen’s race starts in Lausanne on 1 AugustThe 2026 men’s and women’s Tours de France will climax on two of the most famous climbs in world cycling, Alpe d’Huez and Mont Ventoux. The mountains will host key stages, with the Ventoux featuring in the Tour de France Femmes for the first time.A double stage finish to the ski station at Alpe d’Huez will provide the pivotal moment in the 113th running of the men’s race,
  
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• Richardson wins 'bittersweet' first medal for GB

  23-10-2025 09:41 via bbc.com
  Matt Richardson claims his first medal for Great Britain as they win silver in the men's and women's team sprint at the Track World Championships.
  
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• GB beaten to world gold by Netherlands in sprints

  23-10-2025 01:41 via bbc.com
  Great Britain win silver in the women's and men's sprints at the Track Cycling World Championships in Santiago, Chile.
  
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• 'High school to Hogwarts' - will GB magic bring Richardson gold?

  21-10-2025 09:13 via bbc.com
  Matt Richardson is preparing for his maiden track cycling World Championships since his surprise switch from Australia to Great Britain.
  
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• GB win two more world golds on final day

  20-10-2025 00:44 via bbc.com
  Great Britain win two more gold medals on the final day of action at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• Bate signs off with world gold amid GB success

  19-10-2025 01:11 via bbc.com
  Stephen Bate secures a golden finish to his 12-year career by winning the men's tandem individual pursuit title at the Para-cycling Track World Championships.
  
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• Ex-Paralympic champion Bate swaps saddles for sandpaper

  18-10-2025 08:18 via bbc.com
  On retiring from paracycling, Steve Bate plans to use his carpentry skills to create medal displays.
  
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• Unwin & Holl win GB's third gold on day two in Rio

  18-10-2025 01:05 via bbc.com
  Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl triumph in the women's B individual pursuit to claim a third gold for Britain on day two of the Para-Cycling World Championships.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: World Cup heroics, shock defeats and sumo

  17-10-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Have you been following the news in football, darts, tennis, rugby, sumo wrestling, snooker, cycling and the NFL? Continue reading...
  
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• Cundy wins 22nd world track title in Rio

  17-10-2025 00:21 via bbc.com
  Jody Cundy wins his 22nd world track gold medal with victory in the 1km time trial at the Para-Cycling World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• Pogacar rules cycling world with total pedal power after brushing off mid-season blues

  13-10-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  A fifth successive Il Lombardia triumph completed another dominant season for the Slovenian, while on the women’s tour Pauline Ferrand-Prévot divided opinionTadej Pogacar’s command of world cycling now seems limitless. The man from Slovenia ended 2025 as he began it, dominating a coveted Italian classic, Il Lombardia, to win the “race of the falling leaves” for the fifth consecutive time.The 27-year-old started his European season by winning the Tuscan gravel race,
  
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• Tadej Pogacar caps stunning season with fifth straight Il Lombardia triumph

  11-10-2025 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Slovenian equals Fausto Coppi’s tally of victoriesMatches Eddy Merckx in 1975 with Monument winTadej Pogacar captured Il Lombardia for a fifth time in succession, equalling Fausto Coppi’s record of victories in the season-ending Monument race.The Slovenian crossed the line first in Bergamo after a trademark attack on the Passo di Ganda climb to blitz the rest of the field and become the first man since Eddy Merckx in 1975 to win three Monuments, the Tour de France and a world title i
  
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• Derek Gee faces €30m damages claim after ending Israel-Premier Tech contract over ‘personal beliefs’

  11-10-2025 10:11 via theguardian.com
  ‘Decision weighed heavily on conscience’Team says case will go before arbitral board of UCICanadian cyclist Derek Gee says he is facing a damages claim of €30m from his former team Israel-Premier Tech after ending his contract over what he described as “personal beliefs”.The 28-year-old finished fourth at this year’s Giro d’Italia, but left Israel-Premier Tech shortly before September’s Vuelta a España, a race which was subject to pro-Palesti
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Cole Palmer, Women’s Cricket World Cup and Cape Verde

  10-10-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Have you been following the big news in football, cricket, rugby, cycling, UFC, horse racing and the NFL? Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’m the total opposite to Cav and Brad’: Geraint Thomas on how a normal bloke won the Tour de France

  07-10-2025 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The two-time Olympic gold medallist details the grit and sacrifice needed to succeed and says Ineos are held to a different standard than other teams“I’m pretty laidback and don’t take myself too seriously off the bike,” Geraint Thomas says as, in retirement, the 2018 Tour de France winner reflects on the contrast between his relaxed public persona and his real self. “I think people assume I’m like that in every aspect of my life. But when it came to training
  
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• Israel-Premier Tech to change its name and move away from ‘current identity’

  06-10-2025 20:10 via theguardian.com
  Cycling team became focus for pro-Palestinian protests‘Step is essential to securing the future of the team’The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team, whose participation in the Vuelta a España triggered a series of pro‑Palestinian protests that resulted in the race’s premature end last month, has announced it will change its name and move away from “its current Israeli identity”.The decision comes three weeks after World Tour cycling teams suggested they ma
  
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• Unstoppable Tadej Pogacar defends men’s road race world title in Rwanda

  28-09-2025 18:53 via theguardian.com
  Pogacar reclaims rainbow jersey he won last yearRemco Evenepoel second, Ireland’s Ben Healy thirdTadej Pogacar lit up Kigali’s climbs with a trademark long-range attack to claim a second consecutive men’s road race world title on Sunday.There was an air of inevitability surrounding the event in Rwanda as the Slovenian cemented his legacy among cycling’s all-time greats. Pogacar triumphed as the world championships were staged in Africa for the first time, with hundreds of
  
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• Magdeleine Vallieres hits heights to win Canada’s first world road race title

  27-09-2025 17:14 via theguardian.com
  Unfancied Vallieres breaks clear on final climbFisher-Black and García complete podiumCanada’s Magdeleine Vallieres took a surprise gold in the women’s road race at the Road World Championships after a decisive attack on the final climb on Saturday in Kigali. The 24-year-old was in a lead group with New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black and Spain’s Mavi García near the end of the 164km slog on a hilly circuit in the Rwandan capital when she burst clear.Powering u
  
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• Broken Britain with a Brechtian twist | Brief letters

  25-09-2025 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Royal Shakespeare Company | Hospital pass | Cycling essentials | Rear-view mirror | Trump-Epstein statueI agree with Dr Sebastian Kraemer about the power of drama to counter the rise of reactionary populism (Letters, 24 September). Next year the Royal Shakespeare Company is putting on Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a satirical allegory on the rise of the Nazis, starring Mark Gatiss. If they can record it and put it on TV, it could make an impact to equal that of Mr Bates vs the
  
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• Care privatisation costs hit the NHS – and then the taxpayer | Brief letters

  24-09-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Private care providers | System-built housing | Donald Trump | Tax in Rwanda | Cycling essentialsSurely the cost and scarcity of places in private care homes – all too readily shut by owners whose sole concern is profit – is a major reason that up to one in seven hospital beds are occupied by people fit to be discharged, and another “privatisation premium” that we all pay (UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation, 16
  
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• Marlen Reusser and Remco Evenepoel take world time trial titles in Rwanda

  21-09-2025 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Swiss Reusser beats Kigali field by 51.89sec to take goldBelgium’s Evenepoel passes Pogacar on way to victorySwitzerland’s Marlen Reusser overcame illness this year to win the women’s individual time trial at the cycling Road World Championships in Kigali on Sunday, while Remco Evenepoel of Belgium won a third successive men’s individual time trial title.Reusser finished 51.89sec quicker than the rest of the field for a dominant victory, taking the rainbow jersey in a tim
  
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• Cycling world heads for Rwanda under a cloud of controversy after Vuelta chaos

  20-09-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  First road world championships in Africa should be cause for celebration – instead the sport is mired in controversyAfrica’s first hosting of the road world championships should be a moment of celebration for cycling and the continent but Rwanda instead finds itself the backdrop to a sport mired in infighting and controversy.The Vuelta a España ended on Sunday after three weeks of racing characterised by mass pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the presence of the Israel-Pr
  
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• Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew

  18-09-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for powerHigh fives all round at Hamas high command. The triumphant clink of Gaza Cola tins pings across the bunker. It’s been a tough week for the lads, what with five of their members being killed in the Doha airstrike, but you’ve got to celebrate the little victories, yeah? And as they use what remains of their fragile satellite internet connection to r
  
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• Cycling teams could boycott races involving Israel-Premier Tech after Vuelta chaos

  15-09-2025 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Protests forced cancellation of final stage in MadridDismay at Israel-Premier Tech’s refusal to withdrawWorld Tour cycling teams may refuse to race against Israel-Premier Tech following the multiple protests during the Vuelta a España that exploded into street violence in central Madrid on Sunday.Sources within rival teams have expressed their dismay to the Guardian at the refusal of the team to withdraw from the Vuelta and the lack of protection from the International Cycling Union
  
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• Spain’s PM calls for Israel to be banned from sports events after Gaza protests force end to Vuelta race

  15-09-2025 14:12 via theguardian.com
  Pedro Sánchez speaks after Gaza protesters forced cycle race’s early end, while €700m deal with Israeli defence firm said to be offSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for Israel to be barred from international sports competitions for as long as its “barbarism” in Gaza continues, as the Spanish government reportedly cancelled a contract worth nearly €700m (£605m) for Israeli-designed rocket launchers.The cancellation, reported by
  
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• Final stage of Vuelta a España abandoned after pro-Palestine protesters swamp finish line – video

  15-09-2025 12:26 via theguardian.com
  The final stage of the Vuelta a España was abandoned in chaotic and violent scenes, after groups of pro-Palestine protesters swamped the finish line area and presentation podium in central Madrid on Sunday.The race leader Jonas Vingegaard, his Visma Lease-a-bike team and the rest of the peloton were forced to turn back from the city centre, with more than 55km still to race on stage 21. In an official statement, Vuelta organisers said: “For security reasons, stage 21 of La Vuelta ha
  
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• Vingegaard wins Vuelta after final stage cancelled amid pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid

  14-09-2025 22:47 via theguardian.com
  Organisers cancel stage and declare Vingegaard winnerProtesters threw barricades into the street on Gran VíaThe final stage of the Vuelta a España was abandoned in chaotic and violent scenes, after groups of pro-Palestine protesters swamped the finish line area and presentation podium in central Madrid on Sunday.As huge crowds engulfed the finish area, the race leader Jonas Vingegaard, his Visma Lease-a-bike team and the rest of the peloton were forced to turn back from the city ce
  
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• Vollering in nasty crash as Wiebes wins Tour de France Femmes stage three

  28-07-2025 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  GC rider Demi Vollering crashes 3.6km from the finishMarianne Vos second on stage but reclaims yellow jerseyDemi Vollering’s hopes of continuing in the Tour de France Femmes are uncertain after she crashed at speed on the approach to the finish of stage three in Angers.Vollering landed on her back and left side, and hit her head, but was able to remount and finish the stage, which was won by Lorena Wiebes of Team SD Worx-ProTime. “Stupid crash,” the 2023 champion told teammates
  
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• Wiebes wins chaotic stage of Tour de France Femmes

  28-07-2025 18:57 via bbc.com
  
  Lorena Wiebes out-sprints Marianne Vos to win a chaotic stage three of the Tour de France Femmes as Vos regains the yellow jersey.
  
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• Tour de France Femmes 2025: Lorena Wiebes wins stage three sprint but Vollering suffers crash – as it happened

  28-07-2025 18:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Lorena Wiebes won a chaotic sprint in Angers while Marianne Vos reclaimed the yellow jerseyBlood, sweat and gears: best images from the men’s raceWilliam Fotheringham on Tadej Pogacar | Email Amy157km to go: Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) attacks and manages to briefly get ahead, but the peloton swiftly reel her back in.160km to go: And we’re off! Without Longo Borghini, 146 riders set off as the race flag is dropped. Continue reading...
  
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• Blood, sweat and gears: the best pictures from Tour de France 2025 – gallery

  28-07-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After 21 stages and 3,338km, this year’s Tour came to an end in Paris. Here are our favourite images from the last three weeks Continue reading...
  
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