Cycling

In her own words, Katie Archibald has enjoyed the best year of her glittering career to date and says crowning it off with a Tissot UCI Track World Cup triumph in London this weekend would be the icing on the cake.

The future of Team Sky is in doubt after their principal backer announced it would end its ownership and sponsorship at the end of 2019.

The Meadowbank velodrome track was where it all started for Olympic cycling champion Callum Skinner – now he is eating his dinner off it.

Katie Archibald wants to “solidify”

Tour de France organisers once again appear to have taken aim at Team Sky’s recent dominance by unveiling a 2019 route designed to provoke attacking racing before calling for power meters to be banned in competition.

Geraint Thomas’ Tour de France trophy has been stolen after being displayed at the Cycle Show in Birmingham.

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.