Egan Bernal has won the 2021 Giro d’Italia. In doing so, the 24-year-old Colombian adds to his maiden Grand Tour victory, which came at the Tour de France in 2019. More follows… Source: Read Full Article

Egan Bernal celebrates winning stage nine of the Giro d’Italia Egan Bernal blew away his rivals on the Giro d’Italia as he won the ninth stage with a brutal, gravity-defying effort in the final climb to claim the race’s overall lead on Sunday. The 2019 Tour de France champion produced impressive acceleration inside the last km of a gravel road final section […]

Chris Froome said he laughs off suggestions from critics that he should retire and believes he is slowly getting back to his best after multiple injuries suffered in a crash two years ago. Froome spent more than three weeks in hospital after breaking his neck, femur, elbow, hip and ribs in a high-speed crash in the 2019 Criterium du Dauphine […]

Former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman’s fitness to practise medicine is impaired, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal has ruled. Dr Freeman admitted 18 of 22 charges against him at the start of the long-running hearing in 2019 and on Friday was found guilty of all but one, including ordering testosterone to British Cycling headquarters “knowing or believing” […]

Sir Bradley Wiggins has called for a fresh investigation into the Richard Freeman affair but does not believe the testosterone the doctor ordered was to dope a rider. That was the finding last week of a long-running medical tribunal into the former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor’s conduct, which could lead to him being deemed unfit to practise […]

Richard Freeman worked for British Cycling at the London and Rio Olympics There is only one mention of testosterone in Dr Richard Freeman’s highly putdownable book The Line: Where Medicine and Sport Collide, but his description of the hormone as “muscle building” is enough to suggest he was familiar with its powers. Freeman’s claim that he didn’t know testosterone enhanced […]

Richie Porte’s crash in the Paris-Nice event on Sunday took the Ineos Grenadiers rider out of the race but did not lead to any serious injuries, the Australian’s team have confirmed. Porte crashed with 35 kilometres remaining in the first stage after Jumbo-Visma’s George Bennett swerved into the 36-year-old. Porte’s team-mate Ben Swift said at the end of the Sunday’s […]

Chris Froome will look to put mind over matter as he bids for a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title this year and the 35-year-old says he wants to join the growing ranks of athletes competing at the top level late into their careers. Froome said he could see himself racing into his 40s and pointed to the example of […]

“Winning with Dan [Tullet] and Ben [Turner] on the podium next to me was incredible. That’s the best memory and biggest moment in my career.” Now Pidcock faces the world’s best in the elite Cyclocross World Championships this weekend, with his eyes glinting gold. But cyclocross isn’t just down to ability, but luck as well. Last weekend saw Pidcock take […]