- Kenny left at ‘breaking point’ by traumatic experience
- Olympic gold medallist to compete at Commonwealth Games
Laura Kenny, Britain’s five-time Olympic gold medallist, has revealed she contemplated walking away from cycling at the start of this year after a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy left her at “breaking point”.
Kenny said in April that she had miscarried at nine weeks in November and had a fallopian tube removed in January due to an ectopic pregnancy – when a fertilised egg implants itself outside the womb. The 30-year-old won the madison at last year’s Tokyo Games, where her husband, Jason, became Britain’s most decorated Olympian, with seven golds in cycling.
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Laura Kenny is experiencing deja vu as she prepares for the Commonwealth Games, which start this week.
Marianne Vos claims victory on the second stage of the Tour de France Femmes and also takes the leader's yellow jersey.
The evergreen Marianne Vos emphatically out-sprinted her five breakaway companions to claim stage two and the yellow jersey
The neutralised zone successfully negotiated, the flag has dropped, and the stage proper is under way. The weather is a pleasant 24C – much more sensible than the 40C-plus temperatures the riders endured for much of the men’s race.
We’re rolling on stage two.
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The Tour de France torch has passed to Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, but 2018 champion Geraint Thomas proves he remains a power in the sport with a third-place finish.
After hardships and disappointments – and two bright sparks – focus turns to the Vuelta and a home world championships
It’s the hope that gets you. In an ordinary year, two remarkable stage wins at the Tour de France would be considered a successful campaign from the peloton’s Australian contingent. But given the buzz that surrounded general classification prospects, particularly after Jai Hindley became the first Australian in history to win the Giro d’Italia in May, the absence of an Australian in the top 20 as the Tour concluded on Sunday left lingering disappointment.
The buzz had focused on Ben O’Connor and Jack Haig, who both arrived in Copenhagen for the grand depart anointed as race leaders for their respective teams. O’Connor finished fourth at last year’s Tour after a stunning solo stage win catapulted him up the general classification standings; Haig impressed last year and looked in fine form during early season racing.
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Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard secures his first Tour de France victory as Jasper Philipsen of Belgium sprints to victory on the final stage in Paris.
Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory in Paris as Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo-Visma clinched his triumph in the overall race
105km to go: Luke Rowe of Team Ineos stops to (I think) slap on a bit of sun cream. I think he’s going to stop at the shops for a bag of crisps and a can of drink, too.
The moment that Tadej Pogacar launched a surprise attack and
won the 2022 Tour de France
messed about with Vingegaard and Van Aert for a bit.
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- DSM rider and stage favourite leads Dutch one-two
- Alana Castrique carried off in ambulance after crash
Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands lived up to expectations as she won the opening stage of the women’s Tour de France and claim the first yellow jersey of the resurrected race on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.
The DSM rider, the pre-stage favourite, timed her sprint to perfection to beat her compatriot Marianne Vos and the Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who were second and third respectively.
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Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes wins the first stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, holding off compatriot Marianne Vos in the final sprint.
Lorena Wiebes out-sprinted Marianne Vos on the Champs-Élysées to take the yellow jersey at the Tour de France Femmes
70km to go: The official Tour de France Femmes Twitter account is @LeTourFemmes – why not give them a follow?
71km to go: The Dutchwoman Nina Buijsman (Human Powered Health) has clipped off the front, and impressively managed to distance the entire peloton with her solo attack. She has a lead of about 12secs, I reckon, although there is no live timing on the screen at the moment.
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As the riders head into Paris on the final stage of this year’s Tour, here are some of our favourite images from the last three weeks of exhilarating racing
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The likes of Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock have flourished in a race which has offered no respite and hit record speeds
Fifteen years have passed since the new Tour de France organiser, Christian Prudhomme, announced his intention of “sexing up” the race – my words not his – after watching a dramatic stage across Burgundy. Since then the Tour has gone in one direction: shorter stages, more hilltop finishes, the odd gravel road, cobbles, a search for routes where crosswinds may affect the peloton, fewer and shorter time trials; a search for ways to create tension and excitement, to avoid the race becoming predictable.
The 2022 Tour looks like the culmination of that process. Barring accidents or illness – not an idle statement in a Tour where Covid-19 has played a lead role – Jonas Vingegaard will ride up the Champs-Élysées on Sunday having won the fastest ever Tour, one which has seen only two conventional bunch sprints as of Saturday.
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Wout van Aert wins the stage 20 time trial as team-mate Jonas Vingegaard all but seals Tour de France victory on the penultimate day.
On Sunday, women’s cycling will gain crucial momentum when the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes rolls away
In the long march of women’s bike racers towards parity within their sport, there have been obvious turning points, moments when the process has noticeably accelerated and gained fresh, and crucially lasting, momentum.
It was 1958 when the UCI incorporated women’s world championships, against their will and in miserly fashion, remaining at the mercy of organisers who might not want to be part of the process. The accession of women racers to the Olympics in 1984 was immense, although again there was no initial recognition that women could or should be allowed to race for the same medals as men. Others might point to the first women’s Tour of Flanders in 2004, or to the founding of the Women’s Tour in the UK in 2014.
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