As expected, Remco Evenepoel is absent from the Belgian national championships this weekend. Despite the race being mandatory for the healthy riders from the European nation, it is a grey area in which it is widely known behind the scenes that riders manage to obtain medical documentation in order t...

Zoe Bckstedt soloed to road race victory at the British National Championships on Sunday, attacking alone with 14km to go in Aberystwyth.The Canyon-SRAM rider doubled up on her time trial victory from Thursday, holding off Josie Knight (DAS-Hutchinson) to take the elite title for the first time. Millie Couzens (Fenix-Premier Tech), the defending champion, finished third.Knight might not have won, but alongside Bckstedt was the standout rider of the race, having been in the early break and then leading for 90km on her own, with a significant gap of up to eight minutes at one point. However, after joining forces with Matilda McKibben (O'Shea Red Chilli Bikes) and Jo Tindley (Smurfit Westrock), Knight's lead was cut down, before Bckstedt attacked alone in search of the leader. With 14km to go, the 21-year-old caught Knight, and passed her.Despite a concerted chase effort behind, Bckstedt held off the remnants of the peloton, with the gap remaining at two minutes to them.Bckstedt also won the under-23 race at the same time. Imogen Wolff (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Erin Boothman (Liv AlUla Jayco Continental) finished in the third group on the road to take second and third in that classification, respectively.More to follow...ResultsBritish National Road Championships, elite women road race (128km)1. Zoe Bckstedt, Canyon-SRAM, in 3:30:442. Josie Knight, DAS-Hutchinson, +1:423. Millie Couzens, Fenix-Premier Tech, +2:024. Pfeiffer Georgi, Picnic PostNL5. Anna Morris6. Imogen Wolff, Visma-Lease a Bike7. Erin Boothman, Liv AlUla Jayco Continental, all at same time8. Josie Nelson, Picnic PostNL, +2:039. Anna Henderson, Lidl-Trek10. Nomie Thomson, DAS-Hutchinson, all at same time

Wilco Kelderman and Zoe Bckstedt are amongst the early winners of this Sunday's national championship day. Many of Europe's nations will crown new - or old - winners and amongst the first is the Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider who has taken his first road race win of his career at the age of 35. K...

Racing against Tadej Pogacar and actually being within a shot at contention is something only a few riders can ever do, but even amongst those, the sentiment is often that of disbelief. Mads Pedersen has described well what it is like sharing a peloton with the Slovenian and racing against him at Pa...

The 2026 national championships have plenty races today and we bring forward a new batch of results. From Spain, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria come new winners and a few of them are quite surprising. Out of these nations, Spain takes the spotlight and after last year the time trial...

Bahrain - Victorious have unveiled their lineup for the upcoming Tour de France, where they will be aiming high in the overall classification as their absolute priority. Off the back of a stellar Giro d'Italia where Afonso Eullio led for almost half of the race, the team has reasons to believe the...