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May 31st
- Dutch name strong squad for Olympics road race
- Team Sky 'pleased but not surprised' by Sergio Henao case outcome
- Chris Boardman: Shane Sutton forced out of British Cycling by 'lynch mob'
- Sergio Henao free to race as investigation into biological passport values ends
- UCI to increase personnel at races to help crack down on breaches of rider safety
May 30th
- Drops Cycling: 'The idea is to become the dominant women’s team in Britain'
May 29th
- Vincenzo Nibali wins 2016 Giro d'Italia as Nikias Arndt awarded final stage
- Alex Dowsett breaks British 25-mile time trial record with sub 45-minute ride
- New Bahrain Cycling Team officially confirmed by Sheikh Nasser
- Tinkoff and IAM exit from WorldTour could leave volatile transfer market for riders
May 28th
- Vincenzo Nibali: 'I had to attack'
- Esteban Chaves: 'It's only a bike race'
- Vincenzo Nibali all but wins the Giro d'Italia with dominant ride on stage 20
- Lotto-Soudal rider reportedly in a coma after moto incident
- The key climbs of stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia (video)
May 27th
- Steven Kruijswijk: ‘I lost the Giro d’Italia here’
- Taylor Phinney wins third career US National Time Trial Championship title
- Pedal Heaven claim first ever victory in the Tour Series
- Revealed: Limits power meter put to the test for the first time
- Vincenzo Nibali wins Giro d’Italia stage 19 as Steven Kruijswijk loses pink jersey
- Who's the funniest rider in the peloton? (video)
- Ilnur Zakarin escapes with 'only' a collarbone injury in scary Giro d'Italia crash (video)
- Big things will happen on final Giro d'Italia mountain stages, say team bosses
- Giro d’Italia leader Steven Kruijswijk crashes into snow drift on descent (video)
- Great Britain fails to qualify any places in Olympic mountain bike events
- From horror crashes to kids stealing bidons, this are the top 14 cycling fan fails
- Strava visualises the key climbs of stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia (video)
- Broadcaster Sky commits to supporting cycling 'to 2017 and beyond'
- Movistar boss: 'Carlos Betancur reminds me of Alejandro Valverde'
- 16 ultimate cycling challenges, as voted by you
- Icons of cycling: The bidon
May 26th
- Victoria Pendleton: I'd struggle to earn respect working at British Cycling right now
- Matteo Trentin puts in storming ride to win Giro d'Italia stage 18
- Emma Pooley not going to the Olympics 'for the tracksuit'
- Former England rugby coach Stuart Lancaster on the British Cycling review panel
- Italian cyclist handed four-year ban for EPO positive
- Eddy Merckx: 'Britain has always had great riders, now it's got great champions'
- Brian Cookson 'very concerned' at further Rio 2016 velodrome delays
May 25th
- Astana: Longer cranks not to blame for Vincenzo Nibali's Giro d'Italia performance
- Roger Kluge foils the sprinters with late attack to win Giro d'Italia stage 17
- Cyclocross world champion surprises favourites to win Belgium Tour prologue
- Peter Sagan may ride MTB at the Olympics after wildcard place is requested
- John Degenkolb to Trek-Segafredo 'a done deal'
- Steven Kruijswijk won’t be underestimating his Giro d’Italia rivals
- Trek rider channels his inner-Sagan with a no-handed wheelie (video)
- Charity cyclist, 62, aims to ride Britain's 100 Greatest Climbs in just 12 days
- 'Can we rid Monmouthshire of pesky cyclists now Velothon is over?' councillor asks
- Giro d'Italia gruppetto 'racing full gas from the start to make the time cut'
May 24th
- Alejandro Valverde: ‘Steven Kruijswijk will win the Giro d’Italia’
- The secret life of a soigneur
- Six of the toughest climbs in the final week of the Giro d'Italia
- Kruijswijk repels constant attacks to extend overall lead in Giro d’Italia
- 23,000 police to guard riders and fans at the 2016 Tour de France
- Halfords expands cycling portfolio with £18m acquisition of Tredz and Wheelies
- GB track sprinter sees rear wheel disintegrate on flying lap (video)
- Lorry driver arrested after fatal collision with cyclist in Croydon
- British Cycling warns riders about speaking out on scandals in leaked email
- Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish to appear at London Six Day
- Rider rubbish is becoming a sad by-product of cycling's popularity
May 23rd
- André Greipel signs up with Lotto-Soudal for another two years
- Number of fines for cyclists in new Australian road laws outweighs motorists 375 to one
- Chris Boardman pokes fun at British government's inadequate cycling strategy
- IAM Cycling announce end of team after 2016 season
- Geraint Thomas signs new contract with Team Sky
May 22nd
- Mark Cavendish wins stage eight of the Tour of California as Alaphilippe wraps up overall title
- Vincenzo Nibali unfazed by Giro d'Italia mountain time trial loss
- Steven Kruijswijk blasts rivals in Giro d’Italia mountain time trial as Nibali fades
- Giro d’Italia leader Steven Kruijswijk’s mountain time trial bike revealed
- Giro d'Italia stage 15 mountain time trial start times
May 21st
- 11 stunning photos from the Giro d'Italia's day in the Dolomites
- 'Doctors said I couldn't race again; now I've won a stage of the Giro d'Italia'
- Astana confident Vincenzo Nibali will regain lost time in Giro d'Italia mountain time trial
- Kruijswijk moves into Giro d’Italia pink as Chaves wins stage 14 and rivals lose time
- British Cycling stands by Jess Varnish decision, report suggests
- Runaway horses almost cause havoc on Giro d'Italia stage 13 (video)
- Illness forces 2012 champion Ryder Hesjedal to abandon Giro d'Italia
- Owain Doull: Signing to Team Sky will not get in the way of Olympic focus
May 20th
- Rohan Dennis wins Tour of California time trial as Julian Alaphilippe retains overall lead
- Team Sky: 'Even without Mikel Landa we showed we're still in the Giro d'Italia'
- Nairo Quintana picks altitude training over racing ahead of Tour de France
- Team Sky grab stage 13 win at Giro d'Italia as Andrey Amador takes overall lead
- What your mid-ride café order says about you
- Giovanni Visconti takes a tumble whilst sprinting for KOM points at the Giro d'Italia (video)
- Graham Briggs takes solo win in Tour Series Edinburgh round
- How they used to train: Jacques Anquetil’s time trial training
May 19th
- Julian Alaphilippe maintains overall lead as Tom Skujins wins Tour of California stage five
- André Greipel beats Caleb Ewan to victory on Giro d'Italia stage 12
- The finishing circuit for the Giro d'Italia stage 12 looks quite dangerous
- French farmers request Giro d'Italia wolf mascot stay at home when race crosses border
- Local MP bemoans 'massive inconvenience' caused by upcoming Velothon Wales race
May 18th
- Peter Sagan wins stage four of the Tour of California
- Bob Jungels breaks away to conserve maglia rosa in a thrilling finale to Giro d'Italia stage 11
- Tom Dumoulin abandons Giro d'Italia on stage 11
- Wiggle will now collect your bike and service it if you live inside the M25
- People distrust cyclists who wear yellow more than others, claims study
- Sir Dave Brailsford has Welsh cycle route named in his honour
- Peter Kennaugh breaks collarbone in Tour of California crash
- Jon Mould wins Motherwell Tour Series to extend JLT Condor's overall lead
May 17th
- Julian Alaphilippe takes Tour of California lead as Peter Kennaugh crashes out
- Team Sky: No 'plan B' for Giro d'Italia overall
- Team Sky confirm that they have signed Owain Doull
- Bob Jungels rides into pink as Giulio Ciccone wins Giro d'Italia stage 10
- Up to 31 athletes from six sports could be banned from Rio Olympics as Beijing doping samples retested
- 'I'm not upset that he's home': Team bosses have their say on Katusha decision
- Amateur racer suspended for chasing down riders in a race he hadn't entered
- Mikel Landa abandons the Giro d'Italia with illness on stage 10
- Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish looking relaxed at the Tour of California
- Michael Rogers handed top role at Bjarne Riis's new cycling project
- Owain Doull will ride for Team Sky next year, according to Bradley Wiggins
- Jess Varnish: I want to be back on Great Britain cycling team for Rio Olympics
May 16th
- Alexey Tsatevich 'very upset' after Katusha withdraw him from Giro d'Italia
- 'Absolutely unacceptable': Katusha pull sprinter from Giro d'Italia after time trial drafting
- Mikel Landa manages to stay upright despite sliding off road on Giro d'Italia time trial (video)
- Russ Downing 'gutted' not to have won a fifth Lincoln GP but delighted for winner Tom Stewart
- Five unsung heroes from the first week of the Giro d'Italia
- 'Before the start I'm told my bike is too long' - Giro d'Italia time trial winner didn't have it easy
- Tom Stewart and Alice Barnes win in the Lincoln Grand Prix (videos/photos)
May 15th
- Peter Sagan wins Tour of California stage one
- Gianluca Brambilla fights to keep Giro d'Italia lead in stage nine time trial
- Fabian Cancellara leaves Giro d'Italia after placing fourth in time trial
- Chris Froome joined by hundreds of riders for Southampton 'flash ride'
May 14th
- Team Sky's Elia Viviani misses time cut at Giro d'Italia after hard and fast stage eight
- Marcel Kittel leaves Giro d'Italia after stage eight
- Back to plan A for Tom Dumoulin after a disappointing day at the Giro d'Italia
- Gianluca Brambilla takes stage and maglia rosa at Giro d'Italia as Tom Dumoulin suffers
- Live in Southampton? Head down to the University to ride with Chris Froome this afternoon
- Nails thrown on dirt road of Giro d'Italia stage eight climb Alpe di Poti
May 13th
- Orica-GreenEdge 'not worried' about Caleb Ewan's performance at Giro d'Italia
- Limits customers to get power meters 'by end of June'
- André Greipel sprints to victory on stage seven of the Giro d'Italia
- Chris Froome receives OBE at Buckingham Palace
- JLT-Condor dominate opening races of Tour Series
- Mark Cavendish confirmed for Tour of California start on Sunday
- Peter Kennaugh relishing prospect of racing Tour of California after illness
May 12th
- Vincenzo Nibali's tactical mistake sees him lose time at the Giro d'Italia
- Tom Dumoulin's Giro d'Italia rivals say he's racing to win after mountain test
- Tom Dumoulin extends Giro d'Italia lead after surprise attack on first mountain stage
- Ordnance Survey releases incredibly detailed mapping app
- Wiggle launches collect from home bike servicing in London
- Fans will have a say in who wins the Tour de France 'Super Combativity' prize in 2016
- Bad weather will make Giro d'Italia's first mountain stage a tough test
May 11th
- 'It's not that some sprints are more dangerous, it's that some people are more stupid'
- André Greipel sprints to Giro d'Italia stage five victory
- 'Chris Froome asked me about Strava, but I don't know if he was using it'
- Vulpine offer up to 80 per cent off in London sample sale
- Artist designs bikes based on people's attempts to draw them from memory
- Brian Cookson pushes for penalties for Van den Driessche's 'entourage'
- NFTO's start to 2016 'couldn't have gone any better'
- Peter Sagan to return to Amgen Tour of California as defending champion
- Janet Street-Porter bemoans improvements to London's roads, plus more cycling videos
May 10th
- Riders give verdict on surprisingly hard Giro d'Italia stage: 'The last 50km were just painful'
- Tom Dumoulin reclaims pink as Diego Ulissi solos to victory on Giro d'Italia stage four
- Teenagers bring A12 traffic to a standstill by cycling wrong way up dual carriageway
- Victoria Pendleton rubbishes some of Shane Sutton's claims of support towards her
- FDJ boss defends Démare as Milan-San Remo cheating accusations resurface
- Dutch amateur Gijs Verdick dies in hospital following cardiac arrests
- Team Sky announce Tour of California line-up
May 9th
- Eduard Vorganov's provisional suspension for Meldonium positive lifted
- FDJ's Geniez fined after spat with Ag2r rider at Giro d'Italia (video)
- Maarten Tjallingii's children stole the show at the Giro d'Italia podium presentation (video)
- Wouter Weylandt: Giro d'Italia peloton pays tribute five years on
- New London mayor Sadiq Khan must follow through on cycling promises, says Boardman
- Pensioner has car stolen as he tries to stop bike thief
- Jean-Christophe Peraud: 'I don't remember Giro d'Italia crash'
May 8th
- Lefevere: If no one else works in the Giro d'Italia sprints they will lose
- Marcel Kittel wins stage three of the Giro d'Italia to take the pink jersey
- Dave Brailsford hails 'fantastic' Dutch start to Giro d'Italia
- Peter Graham: The man who raced and beat five world champions
May 7th
- Marcel Kittel gets closer to Giro d'Italia lead with emphatic stage two win
- Etixx-Quick Step branches out its Twitter feed to give us a brief history of tulips
- Preston Park velodrome sees racing return on Sunday
- Ag2r La Mondiale rider crashes into television motorbike which took a wrong turn (video)
- Icons of cycling: The Flying Gate
May 6th
- Fabian Cancellara struggling at Giro d'Italia after illness: 'I hope to make it to Italy'
- Mikel Landa: I expected to lose more time on Giro d'Italia first stage
- Tom Dumoulin wins Giro d'Italia 2016 stage one time trial
- Governing body warns against junior cyclists using caffeine supplements following illnesses
- On his final day as London Mayor, Boris Johnson gets called a 'p***k' by a cyclist
- Germain Burton leaves British Cycling Olympic Development Programme
- Flèche du Sud stage cancelled after serious incident
- Alejandro Valverde: I consider Mikel Landa more dangerous than Vincenzo Nibali at Giro d'Italia
- Four-time winner Russell Downing headlines strong Lincoln GP startlist
May 5th
- Giro d'Italia stars presented to huge crowds in Netherlands (gallery)
- Five of the best Giro d'Italia odds to take advantage of
- Fabian Cancellara exclusive: I've won time trials before when I've felt bad
- Giro d'Italia stage one time trial start order
- Barry Hoban recounts his fight to place third in the 1972 Paris-Roubaix
- Benefits of cycling to work outweigh damage caused by pollution, study claims
- What do YOU think is the most hideous cycling fashion crime?
- Vincenzo Nibali targets long Giro d'Italia time trial for advantage over Mikel Landa
- Wiltshire cyclist seeks Good Samaritan who looked after him when he broke his neck
- Fabian Cancellara's hopes of wearing pink at the Giro d'Italia suffer a setback
- 50 years since Vin Denson's historic 1966 Giro d'Italia stage victory
May 4th
- Team Sky leader Mikel Landa says a Giro d'Italia win 'is for Great Britain'
- 'Take the cyclists out and shoot them,' says Ryanair boss
- Five bold predictions for the 2016 Giro d'Italia
- Your chance to ride with Mario Cipollini in London on Thursday
- 'Rigoberto Uran has a great chance of winning the Giro d'Italia'
- Using thermal cameras to find motors would mean even more motorcycles, says UCI
- Wire strung across Welsh cycle path to 'hurt or to scare people'
- Sir Dave Brailsford: No 'fear culture' at British Cycling
May 3rd
- Lampre-Merida are trying to sign Alberto Contador for the 2017 season
- Racing cyclists get aero benefit from a motorcycle behind them, says scientific study
- Josh Edmondson: I still feel there’s a Grand Tour team out there for me
- No British riders at the Giro d'Italia for the second year running
- Mikel Landa wary of time loss in Giro d'Italia opening time trial
- Tour of Cambridgeshire announces extra places for closed roads time trial
- Nine sprinters to watch at the Giro d'Italia
- Dave Brailsford: 'Leicester City triumph is just a fantastic case study in sport'
- Caja Rural and Bora-Argon 18 among Vuelta a España wildcards
- Lizzie Armitstead ends retirement speculation with contract renewal
- Team Sky confirms 2016 Giro d'Italia squad: Mikel Landa to lead
May 2nd
- Hugh Carthy becomes first British rider to win Vuelta a Asturias
- Chris Froome: 'A tough week, but I'm not worried about the Tour'
- Do you need an aerosuit for road riding?
May 1st
- Thomas Voeckler wins Tour de Yorkshire overall after stage three victory
- Ben Swift ends up in hospital after Tour de Romandie crash
- Nairo Quintana wins 2016 Tour de Romandie overall
- Stalled motorcycle causes huge crash in Red Hook Criterium (video)
- Gary Verity insists Tour de Yorkshire stage two was still a success