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Yates is out of contention for the general classification title but claimed his sixth Giro stage win Britain’s Simon Yates claimed his second stage win of this year’s Giro d’Italia as Richard Carapaz claimed the overall lead from Juan Pedro Lopez. This year’s race was blown open on a thrilling stage 14, with Carapaz breaking

Arnaud Demare (purple) won in a thrilling sprint finish Arnaud Demare took his third victory of this year’s Giro d’Italia on stage 13 – his 10th career Grand Tour stage win. In a thrilling sprint finish, the Frenchman held off Phil Bauhaus and Mark Cavendish, who had fought his way past Fernando Gaviria late on.

Oldani claimed the first stage win of his professional career at his home Grand Tour Stefano Oldani became the second Italian winner in two days at this year’s Giro d’Italia as he won stage 12 in Genoa on Thursday. The Alpecin-Fenix rider, 24, formed a three-man breakaway with Lorenzo Rota and Gijs Leemreize, with each

Biniam Girmay won the 194km 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia from Pescara to Jesi Biniam Girmay has been forced to abandon the Giro d’Italia one day after making history as the first black African winner of a Grand Tour stage. Eritrean Girmay won stage 10 on Tuesday but went to hospital after popping a

Biniam Girmay and Mathieu van der Poel left the rest of the bunch well before the Eritrean finally broke his rival Biniam Girmay made history as the first black African winner of a Grand Tour stage – but then had to go to hospital after an accident while celebrating. Eritrea’s Girmay, 22, beat Mathieu van

Laura Kenny received her damehood from the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle Five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny says speaking out about having a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy “gave lots of people a platform” to share their stories. Kenny revealed in April that, after becoming pregnant following last summer’s Tokyo Games, she miscarried at nine

Yates was riding with a strapping on his injured knee Simon Yates’ hopes at the Giro d’Italia look to be over after the Briton endured a difficult day on a gruelling ninth stage won by Jai Hindley. Yates, who injured his knee in a crash in the fourth stage, was dropped by his main rivals

De Gendt has been seen as a breakaway specialist throughout his career Belgian veteran Thomas de Gendt claimed another fine breakaway victory at a Grand Tour by winning stage eight of the Giro d’Italia in Naples. The 35-year-old was part of an initial breakaway before attacking again in the latter stages and winning a four-man

Bouwman’s only other stage victory was at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2017 Dutchman Koen Bouwman secured the first Grand Tour stage win of his career with an impressive uphill sprint on stage seven of the the Giro d’Italia. The 28-year-old was part of a four-rider breakaway during the closing stages of the 196km mountainous

Arnaud Demare (left) has now won seven Giro d’Italia stages in his career France’s Arnaud Demare beat Australian Caleb Ewan in a photo finish to win stage six of the Giro d’Italia. Demare, victorious in Sicily on Wednesday, was pushed hard to the line in Scalea by Ewan and had to wait for confirmation he

Arnaud Demare won two individual stages at the Tour de France in 2017 and 2018 France’s Arnaud Demare won stage five of the Giro d’Italia in Sicily after a thrilling sprint finish. Britain’s Mark Cavendish, looking to win his second stage of this year’s Giro, was heavily fancied but fell away with several kilometres to

Kamna has stage wins from the 2020 Tour de France and Criterium du Dauphine Germany’s Lennard Kamna won stage four of the Giro d’Italia in Sicily, finishing one second ahead of Spain’s Juan Pedro Lopez after a gruelling climb up Mount Etna. Lopez moved into first place in the general classification. The pair broke away

Individual transgender athletes have been at the forefront of recent debate including US swimmer Lia Thomas, British cyclist Emily Bridges and New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Transgender women should compete in an “open category” in order to “protect women’s sport”, say two current elite female runners. The British athletes, one of whom is an Olympian,

The issue of transgender athletes has recently focused on the case of transgender cyclist Emily Bridges Is there an unfair advantage? Should transgender women be banned from competing in female categories? Should there be a separate category established? Or should sport be more inclusive? The conversation around the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sport

Graham made his Paralympic debut in Tokyo last year Britain’s Fin Graham won his second gold medal at the Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend with victory in Sunday’s men’s C3 road race. The 22-year-old, Scot, a double silver medallist on the track and road at the Tokyo Paralympics, had won Friday’s time trial. There

Mark Cavendish’s last Giro win was in stage 21 of the 2013 race Mark Cavendish made it two British wins in two days at the Giro d’Italia as he out-sprinted the peloton to win the third stage on Sunday in Hungary. The 36-year-old, riding the race for the first time since 2013, hit the front

Yates of Team BikeExchange trails Mathieu Van der Poel by 11 seconds as the race heads into its third stage on Sunday Britain’s Simon Yates took stage two in the Giro d’Italia after storming to a surprise victory in the time trial. The 29-year-old completed the 9.2km course in 11 minutes 50 seconds, three seconds

Van der Poel (centre) edged out Girmay (left) after Ewan (right) crashed just metres from the finish line Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel marked his Giro d’Italia debut in style with victory after a chaotic finish to the race’s opening stage. As a classics specialist who excels in punchy climbs, Alpecin-Fenix’s Van der Poel