Trek Factory Racing have announced the opening of their women's team, with Lizzie Deignan (formerly Lizzie Armistead) as their main signing.

Great to see two important cycle races being on terrestrial TV today.

We've got Track, Road, BMX and Mountain Bike over 10 days to look forward to at the European Multisport Championships.

 

 

Ethan Hayter has signed as a Stagiaire for Sky for next season so we might see him in some of the lesser road races.

Team Sky rider Gianni Moscon has been banned for five weeks by the UCI, after he tried to hit another rider during stage 15 of this year's Tour de France.

 

The Italian, 24, was disqualified from the race after the incident with Team Fortuneo-Samsic's Elie Gesbert.

Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome will be leading Team Sky at next month's Tour of Britain, it has been confirmed.

Irish cycling team Aqua Blue Sport have folded today after not being invited to any of this year's Grand Tours :(

Anyone else watching the Tour of Britain? Greipel won the first sprint stage, and Meyer won the second stage from the breakaway just seconds away from the chase group! Tonelli takes the leader's jersey though, finishing just behind Meyer after being in the break with him all day.

 

Both Thomas and Froome are clearly riding for leader Wout Poels (7th in GC) - Thomas is 3 minutes back and Froome 12 minutes back :o

Yes, I've been catching bits of this. Yesterday was a really good stage, excellent last 40k.

Julian Alaphilippe wins the sprint in Stage 3! Bevin, who finished second, takes the jersey while Meyer (yesterday's winner) stays in 2nd. Tonelli falls to 25th.

Kristina Vogel update - doesn’t look very good.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/45451442

Simon Yates and his twin brother Adam will lead Britain's men's team at the Road World Championships in Austria which starts on the 22nd September.

 

 

Must've missed posting about the Tour of Britain finale - Alaphillipe won, somewhat predictably :P

 

Interesting to not include Froome & Thomas in the World Championship team but I guess they're probably both quite tired after the seasons they've had. And with Simon Yates doing so well at the Vuelta he's a great fit.

TV coverage of the World Champs is split between Eurosport and the BBC. Eurosport has full coverage of all the time trials and the minor road races, but the Men's and Women's Road Races next weekend are BBC only.

That's pretty annoying as someone who doesn't have access to Eurosport. Although with one TV between 12 of us chances are I won't get to watch it at all :(

Australia's Rohan Dennis has won the men's individual time trial.

 

Sorry my mistake, the men's individual time trial was available to watch on the BBC website.

A mixed time trial relay will be introduced for the first time for next year's Road World Championships in Yorkshire.

The start and finish venues for the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire cycle race have been revealed by the organisers.

 

The stages will begin or end at Barnsley, Bedale, Bridlington, Doncaster, Halifax, Leeds, Scarborough and Selby.

Nice to see it in Leeds again (although hardly unexpected) - would love it to come up to York but somehow I can't see it happening :(

Not good news to hear that Geraint Thomas has had his Tour de France trophy stolen from a cycling show in Birmingham.