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Second place for Adam Yates in the Milano-Torino.

GB's Katie Archibald wins all four women's omnium events to claim world title at the Track Cycling World Championships in Roubaix, France.

Great Britain's Katie Archibald won silver in the women's points race at the Track Cycling World Championships.

 

The Olympic madison champion was beaten to the gold by four points by Belgium's Lotte Kopecky.

 

Archibald finished with 72 points, 12 points clear of third-placed Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands.

 

It is the 27-year-old's fourth medal of the week, having won gold in the women's omnium and bronze in the team pursuit and madison.

 

Archibald was in third place in the standings going into the final sprint, but crossed the line first to lift herself into the silver medal position.

I'd completely forgotten the Track Cycling Championships were on at the same time as the Road ones this year! Will definitely need to get caught up with those.

The UK is to bid to host the 2026 Tour de France Grand Depart.

 

The government has also confirmed funding for the English Rugby Football Union's bid to host the 2025 World Cup, as the RFU plans to stage the "best-attended women's Rugby World Cup ever".

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Philip Hindes has announced his retirement, aged 29.

 

As 'man one' in the team sprint event, Hindes helped Great Britain win gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

 

Hindes also won silver at the 2016 Track Cycling World Championships and at two Commonwealth Games (Glasgow 2014 and Australia 2018).

I've been reading about Hindes in Chris Hoy's autobiography - an interesting character as he's actually German, and he also claimed he 'deliberately crashed' at the London Olympics so that they could get a restart!

Finally got round to finishing watching the Track World Championships - some good races, that Madison at the end was incredibly exciting! A decent medal tally for Team GB and nice to see Nicholas Paul getting a silver for Trinidad & Tobago, happy a Carribbean country is becoming more prominent in the world of cycling.

Mark Cavendish said he had been "overwhelmed" by messages of support after suffering two broken ribs and a collapsed lung in a crash at the Six Days of Ghent on Sunday.

 

The 36-year-old British cyclist was competing in the Madison when Olympic and world champion Lasse Norman Hansen crashed in front of him.

 

He then rode into the Dane's bike, sending him crashing to the floor.

 

After initial treatment, Cavendish was taken to hospital on a stretcher.

Katie Archibald claimed the women's endurance title in the inaugural UCI Track Champions League.

 

The 27-year-old Scot won the elimination race on Friday and secured her victory with second place in Saturday's scratch race.

 

Archibald's win was already assured before she powered to an impressive first place in the elimination race.

 

"It feels like a really big deal if I'm honest," said Archibald, who won Olympic Madison gold in the summer."

 

She added: "I'm so happy with the springboard of the Olympics and everything I've carried through from there."

Have people seen the news about Cavendish being the victim of violent robbery? Very distressing.