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Dan Martin won Stage 17 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia to complete the set of stage wins in each of the three Grand Tours After 14 seasons as a professional cyclist, Dan Martin will retire at the end of October. The Irishman has won five Grand Tour stages throughout his career including an excellent win […]
Tokyo: Darren Hicks’ moment of glory finally arrived on Tuesday as the Australian with one leg rode like a man possessed while refusing to check his heart rate en route to a well-deserved gold medal in the men’s C2 time trial. Hicks’ fairytale story came on a day when 60-year-old Carol Cooke became Australia’s second […]
Rincon De La Victoria, Spain: Michael Storer won his second stage in this year’s Spanish Vuelta on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), with Primoz Roglic falling in the final descent and losing the overall lead to Odd Christian Eiking. Roglic quickly got back on his bike but he and the other top contenders couldn’t keep up with […]
Jasper Philipsen won his second stage at the 2021 Vuelta a Espana as Kenny Elissonde took the overall lead following a mass crash about 12 kilometres from the Albacete finish. Belgian rider Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix) outsprinted Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quick Step) and Alberto Dainese (Team DSM) to win the 184.4km seventh stage between Tarancon and Albacete. The […]
The cycling world has been left shocked by the death of Olivia Podmore, who represented New Zealand at the Rio Olympics in 2016. The 24-year-old’s death, which has been confirmed by her family, followed a post on one of her social media accounts in which she outlined the pressures of high-level sport. Olivia Podmore, 24, […]
Just before Saya Sakakibara rode out for Thursday’s BMX racing quarter-final, she made a phone call. The 21-year-old Australian wanted to talk to her big brother Kai, who turned 25 on Thursday, before going onto the world stage. The call wasn’t just to wish him a happy birthday, it was also to bring him trackside […]
Ordinarily, the big story of today’s stage would be Tadej Pogacar sealing his second Tour de France title, becoming the youngest rider in the history of the race to complete the feat. The 22-year-old Slovenian has dominated the three weeks from start to finish and never looked like relinquishing the yellow jersey since taking it […]
Matej Mohoric took his second victory of this year’s Tour de France on stage 19 as Mark Cavendish was made to wait for a record-breaking 35th win at the race. Mohoric, 26, who already soloed to victory on stage seven, was brilliantly opportunistic again as he made a superb move away from a group of […]
Cavendish wins stage 10 as Morkov, background, celebrates There is a picture of Mark Cavendish, tweeted in February 2019, showing him training in Mallorca. He is smiling alongside Michael Morkov, the three-time Danish road race champion widely considered the best lead-out man in the business: if you want to win cycling’s biggest sprint stages, get […]
Stage 19 map When Mark Cavendish received the late call-up to ride for Deceuninck-Quick Step at this year’s Tour de France, all those involved will have seen one stage victory as a superb achievement. The 36-year-old had not raced at the Tour since 2018 and was being written off by many as over the hill. […]