Good morning and welcome to the liveblog of the Tour de France Femmes. Stage 3 sees the peloton cross into France after two days of racing on Swiss roads. On paper, this could be a day for the breakaway, with the organisers having designed a demanding route. However, the sprinters' teams may still b...

Tadaj Pogaar will lead the UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad at the Vuelta a Espaa, the team has announced today.This years Vuelta covers 3,275km. It starts in Monaco, where Pogaar resides, on 22 August, hugging the east and south coasts of Spain, and finishes in Granada on 13 September. Unusually, it omits the typical climb-heavy stages through the north of the country.Its the first time Pogaar has returned to the Vuelta since 2019. That was a year before his first of five Tour de France victories and the first time he had been let loose on a three-week grand tour. This year's Vuelta avoids the north of Spain and finishes in Granada rather than Madrid. lavuelta.es At that race, he finished third behind Primoz Rogli and Alejandro Valverde, mopping up three stage wins along the way.The Vuelta is the final grand tour missing from Pogaar's palmars, having won the Giro dItalia in 2024 to go alongside his five Tours de France. The 2019 Vuelta was Pogaar's grand tour debut, finishing third. Justin Setterfield/Getty Images According to Pogaar: Im excited to say Im going back to La Vuelta. It was my first ever Grand Tour back in 2019 and an amazing experience. Spain is a country I love to visit and race in and I think the time is right to go back.At the 2026 Vuelta, Pogaar will be supported by Joo Almeida, Jay Vine, Pavel Sivakov, Kevin Vermaerke, Domen Novak, Ivo Oliveira and 20-year-old Spaniard Pablo Torres.UK viewers will be able to follow the race live on TNT Sports/HBO Max and, for the first time for several years, watch free-to-air highlights, which will be provided as part of 5s deal with TNT Sports to air a number of major cycling events. Vote now: who is the greatest Tour de France rider of all time?

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Thijs Zonneveld has blasted the UCI and race jury's enforcement of the rules around riders' handlebar position as Riejanne Markus received two warnings while in a breakaway glory pursuit on Sundat's Tour de France Femmes stage 2. The Lidl-Trek rider was warned about her position on the bars and how...

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Emma Finucane came into the Commonwealth Games dreaming of singing the Welsh national anthem atop the podium. After four days of competition, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau might have rather got stuck in the 23-year-olds head, after she won four golds at Glasgow 2026, the first sprinter to take such a haul in one Games. Together with two bronzes from 2022, Finucane is also now Waless most successful Commonwealth Games athlete.The rider from Carmarthen even ended the week in Scotland as Waless flagbearer at the closing ceremony, something that was revealed live to her on Welsh-language channel S4C. I honestly feel like Im in a dream, she said, I never thought Id be carrying the Welsh flag in front of the whole nation. Riding for Wales, representing Wales, has been one of the best weeks in my life, and I cant. It would be an honour to do thatComing into these games, I hadnt ridden for Wales for four years. Coming into these games, being part of Team Wales, weve been going on about how much passion we have, how much drive we have. We are such a small nation, but we have so much belief and I wanted to look down at the dragon on my jersey and do it proud. Every race I went out there and did it, and the nation has been behind me. The Commonwealth Games is so special, and I cant believe I get to stand on the top step, and I feel like Im in an absolute fairytale.(Image credit: SWpix.com/Olly Hassell)The gold rush began on the opening day at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, as the Welsh trio of Finucane, Lowri Thomas and Rhian Edmunds defeated their teammates-turned-rivals in England (Rhianna Parris-Smith, Sophie Capewell, Katy Marchant) in the team sprint. The trio broke the Commonwealth Games record twice in qualifying and then the final, topping out at 46.760s.On Friday, another gold came, this time in the individual sprint, where she defeated Englands Sophie Capewell, her training partner and friend, in the final. Again, Finucane set a new Games record. Her victory on Saturday, in the kilometre time trial, saw Finucane become the first Welshwoman to win three golds in one Games. She raced the 1,000m in 1:05.285, as Antipodean opposition could not get close enough to her time. Post-race, the 23-year-old said she felt her legs were going backwards, such was the pain.It seemed inevitable, then, that Finucane was going to win once more, in the keirin on Sunday, and she did it in style, dominating from the front with two laps to go to make history again. I cant believe I found this sport and this sport found me, she said.GB and IoM medalsGold x 12Mens tandem B kilometre TT - Neil Fachie (Sco)Mens team pursuit - Henry Hobbs, Charlie Tanfield, Will Tidball, Ethan Vernon (Eng)Womens team sprint - Lowri Thomas, Emman Finucane, Rhian Edmunds (Wal)Womens individual pursuit - Anna Morris (Wal)Womens points race - Anna Morris (Wal)Womens individual sprint - Emma Finucane (Wal)Mens tandem B sprint - Neil Fachie (Sco)Womens kilometre TT - Emma Finucane (Wal)Mens scratch race - Henry Hobbs (Eng)Mens C1-C3 Individual Pursuit - Matthew Robertson (Eng)Womens keirin - Emma Finucane (Wal)Mens points race Matt Bostock (IOM)Silver x 10Mens tandem B kilometre TT - James Ball (Wal)Womens C4-C5 individual pursuit - Morgan Newberry (Eng)Womens team sprint - Rhianna Parris-Smith, Sophie Capewell, Katy Marchant (Eng)Mens team sprint - Joe Truman, Hamish Turnbull, Harry Ledingham-Horn (Eng)Womens individual sprint - Sophie Capewell (Eng)Womens individual pursuit - Jess Knight (Eng)Mens elimination - Mark Stewart (Sco)Womens points race - Jess Roberts (Wal)Mens tandem B sprint - James Ball (Wal)Mens kilometre TT - Joe Truman (Eng)Bronze x 11Womens team pursuit - Meg Barker, Anna Morris, Ciara Oliva, Jess Roberts (Wal)Womens tandem B sprint - Lizzi Jordan (Eng)Womens team sprint - Maddy Silcock, Iona Moir, Lauren Bell (Sco)Womens individual sprint - Rhian Edmunds (Wal)Womens individual pursuit - Erin Boothman (Sco)Mens C1-C3 kilometre TT - Finn Graham (Sco)Womens scratch race - Erin Boothman (Sco)Mens keirin - Harry Ledingham-Horn (Eng)Mens elimination - Henry Hobbs (Eng)Womens tandem B kilometre TT - Sophie Unwin (Eng)Mens scratch race - Ethan Vernon (Eng)