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• Pogacar & record-breaking Kopecky claim Tour of Flanders wins

  06-04-2025 18:09 via bbc.com
  Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar wins his second Tour of Flanders title, with defending champion Mathieu van der Poel finishing third.
  
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• Tadej Pogacar and Mauritius’ Kim Le Court claim Liège-Bastogne-Liège glory

  27-04-2025 21:35
  
  Pogacar leaves rivals behind with uphill attackLe Court wins four-way sprint in women’s raceTadej Pogacar launched one of his trademark uphill attacks to win the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic race for the third time on Sunday. The defending champion made his move about 35km (22 miles) from the end of the undulating 252km (156-mile) trek to open up a gap of 10sec at the top, and then kept increasing it all the way to the line.It was his third victory overall at the
  
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• Women's Tour of Britain set for record field

  24-04-2025 17:17 via bbc.com
  This year's Women's Tour of Britain is set for its largest field, with 18 teams taking to the start line.
  
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• Pogacar overcomes wet conditions to win Fleche Wallonne

  23-04-2025 18:18 via bbc.com
  
  World champion Tadej Pogacar battles cold and rain-sodden conditions to claim a second Fleche Wallonne title in Belgium.
  
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• Tadej Pogacar dances up Mur de Huy to claim victory in Flèche Wallonne

  23-04-2025 16:55
  World champion surges clear on race's brutal final climbKévin Vauquelin second, with Tom Pidcock coming thirdTadej Pogacar bounced back in style after his Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race heartbreaks as he claimed a second Flèche Wallonne title with an early attack in the finale on Wednesday.The world champion attacked when 400 metres from the finish on the brutally steep Mur de Huy and never looked back, prevailing over France’s Kévin Vauquelin and third-placed Tom
  
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• 'Some athletes need to be fully focused... I'm not like that'

  23-04-2025 16:41 via bbc.com
  Scotland has a rich history in producing track cyclists who have become big names. Lauren Bell may be yet to achieve that, but she believes that could soon change.
  
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• Barry Hoban obituary

  22-04-2025 17:18
  
  British cyclist whose record of 11 Tour de France finishes from 12 starts stood until 2024Barry Hoban, who has died aged 85, was one of the first generation of British cyclists to make a mark in European professional cycling, a prolific sprint winner whose UK record of eight stage wins in the Tour de France stood for 34 years until the greatest sprinter of them all, Mark Cavendish, reached his peak. His record of 11 Tour finishes from 12 starts stood until 2024 when it was eclipsed by Geraint Th
  
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• British cycling legend Hoban dies aged 85

  22-04-2025 15:13 via bbc.com
  Eight-time Tour de France stage winner Barry Hoban dies at the age of 85.
  
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• British cyclist Pidcock wins Laureus Award

  21-04-2025 22:30 via bbc.com
  British cyclist Tom Pidcock wins Action Sportsperson of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards.
  
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• Skjelmose beats Pogacar in thrilling photo finish

  20-04-2025 18:14 via bbc.com
  Mattias Skjelmose wins the Amstel Gold Race via a thrilling photo finish as Britain's Tom Pidcock fails to defend his title.
  
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• Skjelmose stuns Pogacar and Evenepoel with sprint to Amstel Gold Race win

  20-04-2025 18:07
  
  Danish rider pips favourite Tadej Pogacar at the lineBredewold tops all-Dutch podium in women’s raceMattias Skjelmose claimed a shock victory at the men’s Amstel Gold Race as he won a sprint finish against the favourite, Tadej Pogacar, and the Olympic champion, Remco Evenepoel.It was supposed to be a fight between Pogacar – the world champion – and Evenepoel but Denmark’s Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) had not read the script as he beat Pogacar by the width of a tyre. Evenep
  
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• Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85

  20-04-2025 14:25
  
  Yorkshire-born cyclist won eight stages of Tour de FranceFamously beat Eddy Merckx at Gent-Wevelgem in 1974The pioneering British road sprinter and Classics rider Barry Hoban has died at the age of 85. Hoban was for many years the UK record holder for stage wins in the Tour de France notching up a tally of eight during his 17-year professional racing career, a total bettered only by the greatest sprinter of them all, Mark Cavendish, in 2009.Hoban’s first stage victory in the Tour, in 1967,
  
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• Evenepoel wins on return from serious injury

  18-04-2025 18:19 via bbc.com
  
  Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel wins the Brabantse Pijl in his first race back since suffering multiple bone fractures in a serious crash last year.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Rory McIlroy, Marc Márquez and Champions League

  18-04-2025 09:00
  
  Have you been paying attention to the football, snooker, golf, motor sport, hockey, chess, cycling and boxing? Continue reading...
  
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• Women’s Tour of Britain gets go-ahead for northern England and Scotland

  16-04-2025 19:31
  
  Race will start in Dalby Forest and finish in GlasgowLotte Kopecky expected to defend titleThe 2025 women’s Tour of Britain will go ahead in northern England and the Scottish Borders in early June, despite speculation that this year’s event was in difficulty.Buoyed by news that the men’s and women’s Tour de France will start in Britain in 2027, this summer’s four-day women’s race will start in Yorkshire on 5 June and end in Glasgow. Continue reading...
  
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• Four-stage 2025 Women’s Tour of Britain set for northern England and Scotland

  16-04-2025 19:31
  
  Race will start in Dalby Forest and finish in GlasgowLotte Kopecky expected to defend titleThe 2025 women’s Tour of Britain will go ahead in northern England and the Scottish Borders in early June, despite speculation that this year’s event was in difficulty.Buoyed by news that the men’s and women’s Tour de France will start in Britain in 2027, this summer’s four-day women’s race will start in Yorkshire on 5 June and end in Glasgow. Continue reading...
  
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• Person who spat on Van der Poel during race fined

  16-04-2025 14:08 via bbc.com
  
  The person who spat on cyclist Mathieu van der Poel during last month's E3 Saxo Bank Classic is identified and fined by Belgian police.
  
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• Can new wave of African cyclists produce 'second Girmay'?

  16-04-2025 12:03 via bbc.com
  
  Milkias Maekele is among the growing number of African cyclists with a professional deal, and the Eritrean teenager has been tipped to follow in the footsteps of Biniam Girmay.
  
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• Fan hands himself in after bottle thrown at Van der Poel during Paris-Roubaix

  15-04-2025 06:39
  
  Dutchman struck on his way to victory in famous raceAlpecin-Deceuninck and UCI join with condemnationFrench justice officials have launched an investigation after Mathieu van der Poel had a plastic bottle hurled at his face during his triumphant ride to a third consecutive Paris-Roubaix victory on Sunday.“An investigation was opened into the charge of violence with a weapon in order to identify and arrest the perpetrator,” said the Lille prosecutor Carole Etienne on X. The Dutch Alpe
  
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• Man hands himself in after bottle hits Van der Poel

  14-04-2025 17:36 via bbc.com
  A man hands himself in to Belgian police after a water bottle was thrown at Mathieu van der Poel while the Dutchman as riding to victory in Sunday's Paris-Roubaix.
  
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• Rohan Dennis shows ‘no remorse’ over death of Melissa Hoskins, says her family

  14-04-2025 13:11
  
  The Olympian’s mother tells champion cyclist that his temper is his ‘downfall’ during victim statements in Adelaide courtGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastFormer world champion and Olympic cyclist, Rohan Dennis, has shown no remorse and “perceives himself as a victim” despite him accidentally killing his wife, her family has told a court in South Australia.Melissa Hoskins, 32, also an acclaimed world and Olympic cyclist, died when she w
  
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• Van der Poel fends off Pogacar and bottle thrown at face to win Paris-Roubaix

  13-04-2025 18:30
  
  Dutchman earns third straight win despite bottle attackDenmark’s Pedersen also suffers punctureMathieu van der Poel overcame a bottle thrown at his face, a puncture and a fierce challenge by the world champion, Tadej Pogacar, to claim his third straight victory in the Queen of the Classics.The debutant Pogacar, who was looking to become the first Tour de France winner to also prevail in the “Hell of the North” since Bernard Hinault in 1981, overcooked a turn and lost his balanc
  
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• Van der Poel wins third Paris-Roubaix in a row

  13-04-2025 18:12 via bbc.com
  
  Mathieu van der Poel becomes the third rider to win three consecutive Paris-Roubaix titles after beating rival Tadej Pogacar.
  
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• Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt overcomes illness and crash to win Paris-Roubaix

  12-04-2025 20:10
  
  Ferrand-Prévôt is first French winner of women’s race‘It could be my best win ever,’ says Olympic gold medallistFrance’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt overcame sickness and a crash to win the Paris-Roubaix women’s race for the first time on Saturday.
  The 33-year-old delivered a well-timed solo breakaway, added the prestigious and gruelling Spring classic to her Olympic mountain bike gold medal at the Paris Games last year and the 2014 world road r
  
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• Ferrand-Prevot wins women's Paris-Roubaix race

  12-04-2025 19:15 via bbc.com
  Olympic mountain bike champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot becomes the first Frenchwoman to win the Paris-Roubaix race.
  
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• Briton Richards makes cross-country history

  11-04-2025 23:42 via bbc.com
  Great Britain's Evie Richards becomes the most successful female short track cross-country rider ever with victory in Brazil.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Women’s FA Cup, Masters and Michael van Gerwen

  11-04-2025 09:00
  
  Have you been following the football, horse racing, golf, cycling, cricket, rugby union, darts and hockey? Continue reading...
  
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• Tour of Flanders: Pogacar stops Van der Poel’s bid while Kopecky earns third women’s title

  06-04-2025 19:54
  
  Slovenian takes title in style after 19km solo attackLotte Kopecky makes history and adds to previous winsTadej Pogacar denied Mathieu van der Poel a record fourth Tour of Flanders title when the Slovenian won the second Monument of the season in Belgium for the second time in his career on Sunday.The 26-year-old Pogacar, who skipped the 2024 edition to focus on a Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double, had won the Tour of Flanders in 2023. Second in the 268.9-km race, which started in Markt
  
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• Pogacar & record-breaking Kopecky claim Tour of Flanders wins

  06-04-2025 18:09 via bbc.com
  
  Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar wins his second Tour of Flanders title, with defending champion Mathieu van der Poel finishing third.
  
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• 'Win of my life' - Powless stuns Van Aert and Visma

  02-04-2025 19:49 via bbc.com
  
  American Neilson Powless upsets Wout van Aert to win the Dwars door Vlaanderen one-day race with a sprint finish on the line.
  
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