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• I'll never forget the words 'it's incurable' - Sir Chris Hoy on cancer diagnosis

  05-11-2024 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Chris Hoy says he "will never forget the words it's incurable" as he opens up about the moment he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer.
  
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• American BMX star Hannah Roberts wins fifth straight freestyle world title

  21-12-2024 20:13
  
  Roberts rebounds from Paris heartbreak with world titleTokyo Olympic champion Martin wins third world goldAmerican Hannah Roberts roared back from her Paris Olympic heartbreak on Saturday by claiming her fifth consecutive BMX freestyle world title at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Abu Dhabi.Roberts, 22, set the bar with a 95.70-point first run, a score no competitor could beat. Her second run scored 94.58, a mark that would have been high enough to win the event. Continue reading..
  
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• Finucane named BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2024

  20-12-2024 06:58 via bbc.com
  
  Track cyclist Emma Finucane is the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year for 2024, winning the award for the second year in succession after an incredible season that saw Olympic and world triumphs.
  
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• Keely Hodgkinson wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 – as it happened

  17-12-2024 22:18
  
  The Olympic 800m champion took the big prize in the BBC’s annual jamboree, with darts star Luke Littler second and Joe Root thirdRoot has a live chat from his hotel in New Zealand. It’s just gone 8am there, the morning after the Test series ended, and he’s looking a little bleary-eyed. Only once, in 2021, has he scored more runs than he has this year. “It’s been a hell of a journey, but it seems to get more and more enjoyable,” he says.Jimmy Anderson on Root.
  
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• Cavendish wins BBC Lifetime Achievement award

  17-12-2024 21:45 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Mark Cavendish to be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
  
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• Sir Mark Cavendish celebrated on home stamps

  17-12-2024 18:19 via bbc.com
  
  Milestones in the Manx Missile's record breaking career are showcased in an eight-stamp collection.
  
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• Mark Cavendish: ‘Spoty lifetime award is nice but as a competitor you want to be shortlisted’

  16-12-2024 19:00
  
  Cycling’s finest sprinter says he achieved all he could in the sport, and that he is lucky to retire on his own terms“Oh mate, for the last couple of years I’ve been broken,” Mark Cavendish says with a throaty chuckle as he considers the state of his body after decades on the bike. Cavendish will turn 40 next May and his extraordinary career finally ended last month when he won his final race in Singapore to follow his record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage victory thi
  
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• Watch Urban Cycling World Championships on BBC

  16-12-2024 09:13 via bbc.com
  
  Watch live coverage on BBC Sport of the BMX freestyle park finals at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.
  
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• VeloPark to re-examine safety after Marchant crash

  12-12-2024 18:11 via bbc.com
  
  Lee Valley velodrome bosses are to explore potential improvements to rider and spectator safety after Katy Marchant's crash into the crowd.
  
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• British talent 'will be lost' from 'broken pathway'

  10-12-2024 17:34 via bbc.com
  
  Professional road cycling in Britain has a "broken pathway" after the demise of the final two domestic teams, says Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield.
  
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• Rohan Dennis pleads guilty to charge relating to death of Olympic cyclist wife Melissa Hoskins

  10-12-2024 04:41
  
  Adelaide Olympian faces up to seven years in jail after pleading to lesser charge of creating likelihood of harmFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCyclist Rohan Dennis will not be found responsible for the death of his wife – fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins – but could be jailed for up to seven years after pleading guilty to a new charge.Dennis, 34, had appeared in the Adelaide magistrates court on Tuesday
  
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• Dennis pleads guilty over wife Hoskins' death

  10-12-2024 04:26 via bbc.com
  
  Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis pleads guilty over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins.
  
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• Legend Merckx, 79, breaks hip in bike accident

  09-12-2024 19:48 via bbc.com
  
  Cycling legend Eddy Merckx suffers a fractured hip in a fall from his bike on Monday, according to Belgian media reports.
  
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• Luke Littler named on six-strong Sports Personality of the Year shortlist

  09-12-2024 08:00
  Teenager could become youngest winner since 1958Hodgkinson, Yee, Bellingham, Root and Storey included Luke Littler will have a shot at becoming the youngest winner of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award for more than 60 years, after being named on a six-strong shortlist headed by the Paris 2024 Olympics stars Keely Hodgkinson and Alex Yee.The England footballer Jude Bellingham, the cricketer Joe Root and the Paralympian Sarah Storey make up the list. But, surprisingly, there is
  
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• Team GB track cyclist Katy Marchant taken to hospital after dramatic crash

  08-12-2024 00:33
  
  Marchant reportedly suffers broken forearm in crashUCI Track Champions League in London is called offThe British cyclist Katy Marchant has reportedly suffered a broken arm after a dramatic crash at the UCI Track Champions League meeting in London, which led to the remainder of Saturday’s races being suspended.Marchant was involved in a collision with the German rider Alessa-Catriona Pröpster during the first round of the women’s keirin competition. Pröpster and Marchant vee
  
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• GB's Marchant crashes into London velodrome crowd

  08-12-2024 00:08 via bbc.com
  
  Racing is abandoned in the Track Champions League in London after British Olympic champion Katy Marchant and another rider crash over the barriers into the crowd.
  
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• Finucane wins to cut gap in Track Champions League

  07-12-2024 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  Britain's Emma Finucane closes the gap in the women's sprint standings as she claims victory in the Track Champions League at Lee Valley VeloPark.
  
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• GB's Pidcock leaves Ineos for Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

  06-12-2024 13:08 via bbc.com
  
  Great Britain's Tom Pidcock signs a three-year contract with Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team.
  
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• GB's Pidcock to leave Ineos Grenadiers team

  04-12-2024 20:45 via bbc.com
  
  Great Britain's Tom Pidcock is to leave the Ineos Grendiers team at the end of the season despite having three years left on his five-year contract.
  
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• ‘Creating our own utopias’: the Black cycling revolution sweeping the globe

  04-12-2024 16:00
  I speak to a former elite racer about my love of cycling and the grassroots groups breaking cultural barriers to entryDon’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThis is an edited version of The Long Wave newsletter, to sign up and receive the complete email in your inbox every Wednesday click hereHello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week I spoke to the world championship-winning cyclist Marlon Lee Moncrieffe about his new book, New Black Cyclones: Racism, Representati
  
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• 'A long journey' - Evenepoel has surgery after crash

  04-12-2024 11:16 via bbc.com
  
  Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel says he will "come back stronger" from surgery after breaking multiple bones in a crash.
  
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• ‘I kept his secret’: Emma Finucane on pushing past limits and her boyfriend’s cycling defection

  03-12-2024 21:00
  
  Triple Olympic medallist is fiercely honest about the storm of emotion that engulfed her in the Paris velodrome and being unable to tell her family Matthew Richardson would soon be joining her in Britain‘It’s a good question,” Emma Finucane says as she thinks searchingly of the most important lesson she has learned about herself after a year like no other for the 21-year-old sprint cyclist. She won three Olympic medals, including one gold, and two world champion titles while ca
  
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• Remco Evenepoel sustains multiple fractures after collision with post van

  03-12-2024 17:23
  Bike collided with the open door of vehicle in BelgiumIncident broke double Olympic champion’s bike in twoThe double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel suffered fractures to his rib, right shoulder blade and hand, his team, Soudal-QuickStep, said on Tuesday. According to ­Belgian media, the 24-year-old crashed into an open door of a postal vehicle while he was on a training ride in Oetingen.Evenepoel, who claimed gold in the men’s road race and time trial at the Pari
  
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• Evenepoel sustains several fractures in crash

  03-12-2024 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  Double Olympic cycling champion Remco Evenepoel has sustained several fractures after a crash on on a training ride.
  
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• Archibald's lead cut in Track Champions League

  30-11-2024 20:55 via bbc.com
  
  Katie Archibald's maintains her lead in the women's endurance competition at the Track Champions League, though her advantage is cut by two points after Saturday's third round.
  
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• Archibald extends lead in Track Champions League

  29-11-2024 23:22 via bbc.com
  
  Katie Archibald extends her lead in the women's endurance competition in the second round of the Track Champions League.
  
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• Matthew Richardson’s grand cycling betrayal will leave an asterisk to his glittering career | Kieran Pender

  26-11-2024 01:10
  
  After issuing the findings of its review into the Olympic hero’s defection to Great Britain, Cycling Australia’s upset is understandableConflicting national allegiances in sport are no simple thing. It is hardly unreasonable for someone with more than one national background to feel competing tugs when it comes to flying the flag on the international stage. Emotion and pragmatism collide to force hard decisions.Australia is a deeply multicultural nation – more than one in four
  
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• Matthew Richardson’s grand cycling betrayal will leave an asterisk on his glittering career | Kieran Pender

  26-11-2024 01:10
  
  After issuing the findings of its review into the Olympic hero’s defection to Great Britain, AusCycling’s upset is understandableConflicting national allegiances in sport are no simple thing. It is hardly unreasonable for someone with more than one national background to feel competing tugs when it comes to flying the flag on the international stage. Emotion and pragmatism collide to force hard decisions.Australia is a deeply multicultural nation – more than one in four Austral
  
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• Richardson wins sprint and keirin on GB debut

  23-11-2024 21:27 via bbc.com
  
  Matt Richardson wins the men's sprint and keirin finals at the Track Champions League event in France as he races for Great Britain for the first time since switching nationality from Australia.
  
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• I don't want to see Tour de France crash - Georgi

  21-11-2024 11:32 via bbc.com
  
  British champion Pfeiffer Georgi says she does not want to see her crash at the Tour de France Femmes where she fractured her neck.
  
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