Yorkshire has been selected to host the 2019 World Championships. Following on from the success of the Grand Depart in 2014 which saw millions of spectators line the county’s roads, UCI president Brian Cookson declared that, “Yorkshire has proved it is a fitting host for road cycling’s leading annual event. We are sure there will be world-class crowds to match.”
The news will be popular among riders as well as spectators. At the moment the World Championships are being held in Doha in temperatures of up to 40 degrees centigrade...
Read MoreThe breakaway was caught in good time, there were lead out trains in the final kilometres, a recognised sprinter won the stage and there was no change to the GC standings. What? Unusually for this year's Vuelta we had a more conventional Grand Tour Stage today after some brutally hard climbing in the mountainous North of Spain and Southern France.
With temperatures as high as 45 degrees, the peloton still had to work hard to finish. The day began with some controversy after more than 90 riders who missed yesterday's time cut were allowed to continue...
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