GB’s Will Draper cuts a lonely figure at Challenge Almere on 13 September. In reality, he kept a steady gap of around 50secs for much of the final 10km of the marathon, before catching and then sprint

HIGHLIGHTS 15–19 October

Winning the Downhill World Cup overall title is a quite a feat, and only a handful of Britons have managed it, including Steve Peat, Tracy Moseley, Danny Hart, and Rachel and Gee Atherton. One who doe

PAU 23–26 October

Norway’s Caspar Stornes celebrates winning his first-ever Ironman race – the 2025 Ironman World Championship in Nice, France, on his Champs debut. Stornes’s winning time of 7:51:36 included a 2:29:22

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