Cycling

Tom Pidcock became mountain-bike world champion on 30 August. Less than a month later, the British rider will have the chance to become world champion again, this time on the road. The 27-year-old from Yorkshire is heading to the UCI Road World Championships in Montréal, Canada, where the elite men’s road race takes place on 27 September. Pidcock arrives in Montréal in impressive form. After winning the mountain-bike cross-country world title in Italy on 30 August, he swapped his mountain bike for a road bike and won the GP Industria & Artigianato just one week later. He then finished fourth at the Grand Prix de Québec on 11 September, competing against some of the riders he could face again at the World Championships. The World...

Some of Britain’s top cyclists will be racing for national glory this week as the 2026 Lloyds National Road Championships return to Ceredigion, Wales, from 25 to 28 June. Over four days of competition, riders will battle for the right to wear the famous British champion’s jersey, one of the most recognisable prizes in British cycling. Around ten national titles will be decided across elite and under-23 categories. The championships begin with the time trials in Lampeter on Thursday 25 June, where riders race individually against the clock and the fastest overall time wins. On Friday evening, attention moves to Aberystwyth for the circuit races, featuring repeated laps around a short town-centre course packed with twists and fast...