Cycling

Jan 2, 2024, 05:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Australian Olympic track cyclist and former world champion Melissa Hoskins has died after a car accident in the country’s south, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Monday. Australian media has widely reported that Hoskins’ husband and twice world individual time trial champion Rohan Dennis has

Associated Press Nov 14, 2023, 07:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LILLE, France — The 2025 Tour de France will start from the northern French city of Lille, race organizer ASO said Tuesday. ASO gave no further information but said details on the early stages of the 2025 edition will be provided Nov. 30. The

ESPN News Services Oct 4, 2023, 06:26 AM ET Mark Cavendish has delayed plans to retire and will continue to compete for Astana Qazaqstan in 2024, the team announced Wednesday, with the British cyclist set to continue his quest for a record-breaking Tour de France stage victory. Cavendish, who announced his retirement in May, is

Associated Press Aug 29, 2023, 03:40 PM ET LLEIDA, Spain — Four people have been arrested in a plot to sabotage a stage of the Spanish Vuelta by dumping a liquid from an overpass onto the road, Spanish national police said Tuesday. The alleged plan was to empty two drums of liquid, possibly motor oil,

Associated Press Aug 15, 2023, 10:58 AM ET LONDON — The former doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky was given a four-year ban from all sports Tuesday for violating anti-doping rules. The sanction for Richard Freeman was handed down by an independent tribunal of the national anti-doping panel for possession of a prohibited substance

Associated Press Aug 10, 2023, 12:45 PM ET The plan was for Chloe Dygert to win the world championship in the time trial, then carry that momentum toward the Summer Olympics, where the American road cycling star would be the favorite to win the gold medal. That was three years, a career-threatening crash and immeasurable

Associated Press Aug 2, 2023, 07:58 AM ET GLASGOW, Scotland — Eritrean star rider Biniam Girmay has withdrawn from the cycling world championships in Scotland citing injury, hours after it was reported he and three teammates had been denied visas to enter the U.K. The 23-year-old Girmay, who last year became the first Black African

ESPN News Services Jul 23, 2023, 01:43 PM ET Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France for the second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished Sunday on the famed Champs-Élysées in Paris. With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the

Associated Press Jul 22, 2023, 02:39 PM ET LONDON — Five-time Olympic cycling champion Laura Kenny has given birth to her second child. Kenny and her husband Jason, the winner of a British record seven Olympic titles, welcomed son Montgomery on Thursday. In an Instagram post on Saturday showing Montgomery asleep alongside his brother, Albie,

Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 12:46 PM ET COURCHEVEL, France — Jonas Vingegaard is on course to bring the yellow jersey to Paris for a second straight year after the Danish rider took a huge lead over his main rival in cycling’s biggest race. The defending champion dropped Tadej Pogacar on Wednesday in the last