Cycling

P eter Sagan is the greatest cyclist of his generation: a genius on a bike and a showman on and off it. With his €4 million salary and other earnings the Slovak might also be the best paid rider in the history of the sport. But he is finding it difficult to win the races that matter. The exception is the world championship road race, which he has won three years in a row: a curiosity we’ll return to.

Neah Evans grabbed a bronze in the points race yesterday and has ambitions to add to that medal haul before her Australian Commonwealth Games experience is over.

SCOTLAND have their first gold medal of the Commonwealth Games after Neil Fachie powered his way to gold in the men’s blind and visually impaired 1,000m time trial.

The overwhelming majority of bicycle thefts in Scotland go unsolved, new figures have shown.

Whisper it, but Katie Archibald could be Scotland’s star turn at these Commonwealth Games.

From the largest team ever to travel away, Scotland has a coterie of athletes ready and able to win medals and here are ten in a good position to shine on the Gold Coast, writes Moira Gordon

Forget the road to Damascus, it was offshore, on a rig that was being battered by wind and rain that Kyle Gordon had his moment of revelation.

Winning a gold and silver medal at the Olympic Games hasn’t changed Callum Skinner’s life but it has given him a more credible platform from which to air his views.

It’s difficult to say precisely
what gives Jonny Wale his endearingly singular status in cycling.

There was a visible recoiling from Gold Coast cycling medal hope Jack Carlin when it was put to him yesterday that he could be Scotland’s successor to Chris Hoy, as he sat in the Glasgow Velodrome that takes the name of the multi-gold Olympian.

Having worked hard to make a name for himself in the cycling world, John Archibald would be forgiven a growing irritation at constantly being introduced as “Katie’s brother”.

Chris Froome has backed Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford and dismissed as “absolute rubbish” claims he was among those treated with corticosteroids in the build-up to the 2012 Tour de France.

Floyd Landis has called for Sir Bradley Wiggins to be stripped of his 2012 Tour de France title in the wake of allegations made in a parliamentary report.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has described a parliamentary report that has heavily criticised him and the cycling team he used to lead as “sad”.

Katie Archibald and Emily Nelson won gold in the women’s Madison at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

On 12 October I went to Monaco to interview a relaxed Chris Froome. It was peak off season: the brief sweet spot between ending racing and resuming training. He’d been for a run the day before and mentioned that his legs were aching. How far did he run? “About 5k.”

The streets of Glasgow will once again become a racetrack for Europe’s elite cyclists this summer as part of the rebranded European Championships.

Chris Froome has denied a report that he is looking to negotiate a short ban rather than fight to prove his innocence after returning an adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug salbutamol during last year’s La Vuelta.

Chris Froome’s renewed protestations of innocence yesterday were accompanied by doubts about why the four-time Tour de France champion was not immediately suspended for failing a doping test.