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Cavendish
Pro Cycling
Road World Championships winners and records: every elite road race and time trial champion
The UCI Road World Championships have produced some of cycling’s most recognisable champions, from Alfredo Binda, Eddy Merckx and Jeannie Longo to Marianne Vos,...
Pro Cycling
A brief history of Great Britain at the UCI Road World Championships: Burton, Simpson, Cooke and Deignan
When the UCI Road World Championships return to Montréal in September 2026, Great Britain will arrive with another generation trying to add its name...
Pro Cycling
Great Britain at the 2026 World Championships: can Pidcock, Onley or Bäckstedt end an 11-year wait for road race gold?
Eleven years have passed since a British rider last pulled on the elite road race rainbow jersey.
Lizzie Deignan was 25 when she won in...
Men's Cycling
Tour of Britain Men 2026 preview: Cosnefroy heads an open GC battle as Kooij and Merlier target the sprints
The 2026 Lloyds Tour of Britain Men begins in Lincoln on Wednesday with a route that looks relatively straightforward until you examine where its...
Men's Cycling
Tour de France 2026 in historical context
The Tour de France 2026 will be remembered first for Tadej Pogačar winning a fifth yellow jersey, but reducing the race to that one...
Men's Cycling
The greatest Tour de France sprinters
The Tour de France has never belonged only to climbers and general classification riders. Every July, the sprinters give the race its other kind...
Men's Cycling
Every British Tour de France stage winner
British riders have now won Tour de France stages in almost every possible way. They have won from sprints, breakaways, mountain attacks, prologues, individual...
Men's Cycling
The greatest British riders at the Tour de France
British cycling’s relationship with the Tour de France has changed completely over the last 70 years. What began with isolated pioneers trying to survive...
Men's Cycling
Telekom team history: Germany’s Grand Tour machine and its layered legacy
Team Telekom was more than a successful cycling team. For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, it became the closest thing Germany had to...
Men's Cycling
Sir Mark Cavendish waves the flag to start the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans
Sir Mark Cavendish has officially started the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans, waving the flag at 16:00 local time on Saturday, 13th June,...
Men's Cycling
HTC-Columbia men’s team history – from fresh start to one of cycling’s great winning machines
HTC-Columbia only existed for a few seasons in that name, but it left a much bigger mark on men’s cycling than its lifespan suggests....
Men's Cycling
Châteauroux becomes ‘Cavendish City’ in tribute to Tour de France sprint legend
Châteauroux has renamed itself ‘Cavendish City’ in honour of Mark Cavendish, recognising the British rider’s trio of Tour de France stage wins in the...
