Cycling

Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen claimed a comfortable victory in the women’s race at the World Road Championships in Innsbruck.

David Millar is both angry and animated, which is unusual. The former cyclist, who won ten grand tour stages in all, projects a public persona of zen-like calm but someone has pressed all his buttons and the Scot is spoiling for a fight.

Simon Yates is set to complete a British grand slam of Grand Tours after extending his lead on the penultimate stage of La Vuelta in Andorra yesterday.

Nearly 7,000 people took part in this year’s Glasgow to Edinburgh charity cycle challenge.

Simon Yates retained the race leader’s red jersey on stage 15 of La Vuelta to increase the likelihood of all three Grand Tours being won by Britons.

Simon Yates recovered the lead of the Spanish Vuelta after pulling away from his title rivals on the final uphill push to win the mountainous 14th stage yesterday.

Cycling champion Geraint Thomas has demanded helmets be made compulsory for cyclists in comments made to a Sunday newspaper.

If road cyclist Hayley Simmonds has learned one thing from her time in Glasgow, it’s to never trust the weather forecast. The 30-year-old woke up for her early morning European Championship time trial expecting bright sunshine on Wednesday but faced anything but – a shower putting an early dampener on proceedings on the road.

Fittingly the curtain came down on cycling’s European Championships with a Scottish medal for the Glasgow crowd to cheer in an event in which the legend whose name adorns the velodrome produced some of his most thrilling moments.

There seems to be quite a disconnect between the reception in Britain, especially Wales, to Geraint Thomas’s Tour de France victory, and the reception elsewhere to yet another win by Team Sky.

Such is the domination Katie Archibald has shown at European Championships, even a silver medal can feel like a relative disappointment.

On the first day of medals at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, the home crowd had been hoping for treble joy. But while Katie Archibald and Neah Evans helped deliver Great Britain’s first gold of Glasgow 2018 there was no medal success for fellow Scot, Jack Carlin.

When Jack Carlin enters the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome 
arena in Glasgow to start his European Championships campaign today his eyes will be drawn to the stands. Not just to locate the army of friends and family there to support him but also, perhaps, to reflect on the fact that was where he was four years ago.

Scottish cycling star Katie Archibald was set to decide last night on whether she will defend her individual pursuit title at the European Championships which get under way as part of Glasgow 2018 
tomorrow.

Geraint Thomas paid tribute to team-mate Chris Froome as he savoured victory in the Tour de France in Paris.

Geraint Thomas is set to win the Tour de France today after protecting his yellow jersey on the stage 20 time trial from Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle to Espelette.

A scene in Time Trial, the recently released film, shows David Millar riding alongside Geraint Thomas during an early season stage race in Italy in 2014. Millar, in his final year, is offloading to Thomas, complaining about the way younger riders race, the lack of respect, the distance, the cold, the sheer pointlessness of, as he put it in another scene, “200 idiots racing each other to a line in the road”.

Sir Chris Hoy is on a tour bus parked outside Glasgow City Chambers, doing his best to promote both cycling and Glasgow ahead of next week’s European Championships, but his flow is interrupted by some nutter on two wheels, screaming obscenities at an unidentified target.

Chris Froome shrugged off a “misunderstanding” that saw a police officer knock him off his bike after Wednesday’s stage of the Tour de France.