Queens of the classics

Below: ‘The Roubaix finish line is different to other races. You can’t be straight on because there are still riders doing laps of the track. I’d only arrived about four minutes before winner Pauline

A lot can happen in just four seconds. A dropped object falls 78.4m. The Earth travels 120km. A top sprinter runs 40m. A Grand Tour turns on its head. When the Tour de France Femmes kicked off under c

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

A-list riders turn out in force for Rossi’s 100km of Champions race

It was not on the climb of the Madonna del Ghisallo, as in 1946, 47, 48 and 49, that Fausto Coppi won his fifth Tour of Lombardy. It was in a sprint, on the boards of the Vigorelli, beating a bunch of

The British cycling icon talks James Shrubsall through her astonishing journey, on and off the bike