Arnaud Demare of the FDJ team has won Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia in a sprint finish along the seafront at the port of Messina, Sicily.

The Karkloof Classic Trail Festival on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May has been given an added boost. 

Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez took the overall lead of the Giro d’Italia as Lennard Kamna won Stage 4 after a 23km climb up Mt Etna in Sicily.

Mark Cavendish won Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday in a sprint for the line after a flat 201km run to Lake Balaton in Hungary.

British rider Simon Yates of Bike Exchange has won Stage 2’s individual 9.2km time-trial of the Giro d’Italia.

Mathieu van der Poel won the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia on Friday, a 195km run from Budapest to the hilltop citadel at Visegard.

A broad cast of pretenders to the Giro d’Italia winner’s pink jersey have gathered in Budapest from where the race embarks on Friday, 6 May.

Veteran British sprinter Mark Cavendish will race the Giro d’Italia which starts on Friday, his Quick-Step cycling team have announced.

British cycling team Ineos have named a strong line up to defend the Giro d’Italia title, led by Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz.

Belgium star Remco Evenepoel won the oldest of cycling’s ‘Monument’ races of the year, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, on Sunday.

Tadej Pogacar will miss Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege to be with his grieving fiancée after the death of her mother.

Team Qhubeka will race the 2022 Tour of Sicily led by South Africa’s Nicholas Dlamini as he makes his 2022 European season debut.

Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel won a battle of nerves with Slovenian Tadej Pogacar to claim the 273km-long Tour of Flanders.

Colombia’s Egan Bernal has confirmed he would not participate in any of the three Grands Tours as he recuperates fully from an accident.

Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges said she felt “harassed and demonised” after being barred from a women’s race this weekend.

Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges has been declared ineligible to race in the women’s event at the British National Omnium Championships.

The America-Argentina team of Haley Batten and Sofia Gomez Villafane are the winners of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic women’s category.

The Grand Finale of the 2022 Cape Epic, which finished at the Val de Vie Estate on Sunday, was the scene of an upset for the ages.

Colombia’s Egan Bernal was back on a bike on Sunday, two months after hitting a bus in an accident he was lucky to survive.

The 2022 Absa Cape Epic has been rocked by the death of a competitor during Stage 1 of the ongoing mountain bike race in the Western Cape.

Sonny Colbrelli “was conscious” after suffering cardio-respiratory arrest following the first stage of the Tour of Catalunya in Spain.

The first marathon stage of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic over 92km with 2 850m of climbing will leave the riders with nowhere to hide.

After eight years the Absa Cape Epic returns to Lourensford Wine Estate which serves as the starting point for the 2022 edition of the race.

In the Absa Cape Epic’s 19-year history no two races have ever been the same and that tradition holds true for the 2022 edition of the race. 

Matej Mohoric won Milan-San Remo on Saturday after he made a late burst and then held off race favourites Tadej Pogacar and Wout van Aert.