The 22 teams selected for this year’s Tour de France which runs from 1-24 July were announced on Friday.

The Cape Town Cycle Tour is all set for 13 March 2022 with a limited field of 22 500 expected and a pre-race Expo confirmed.

Egan Bernal is targeting a return to the Tour de France in 2022 after his Ineos cycling team announced he’d signed a new five-year contract.

Team Qhubeka NextHash have confirmed that their hopes of racing as a UCI WorldTour team in 2022 are officially over.

The 2022 Absa Cape Epic returns to three of South African mountain biking’s most storied destinations on its 657km trail to Val de Vie.

With less than two weeks to go to the upcoming Tour Durban, defending men’s champion’s Team Enza committed to sending their strongest possible team.

Geraint Thomas suffered that sinking feeling so many other cyclists know so well, stepping out of a cafe to find his bike had been stolen.

A number of former Springbok stars have added their names to the entry for the aQuellé Tour Durban road races on Sunday 28 November, eager to throw their weight behind the annual fundraiser for The Domino Foundation.

Sina Frei of Switzerland and Laura Stigger of Austria wrapped up the 2021 Absa Cape Epic in style as they lead the race from start to finish.

South African marathon champion Matt Beers and French mountain biker Jordan Sarrou – the 2020 cross-country world champion – won the 2021 Absa Cape Epic on Sunday at Val de Vie.

Friday’s Stage 5 of the delayed Cape Epic will see the riders start and finish at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Wellington some 84km later.

Thursday’s Stage 4 of the delayed Cape Epic will see the riders start at Saronsberg and finish in Slanghoek some 73km later (after 1 650m of climbing) in arguably the easiest stage of the 2021 route.

Wednesday’s Stage 3 of the delayed Cape Epic will see the riders start and finish at Saronsberg some 91km later (with 2 100m of climbing) featuring Fanties Pass, arguably the toughest climb of the 2021 route.

Tuesday’s Stage 2 of the delayed Cape Epic will see the riders start in Ceres and finish at Saronsberg some 96km later (with 2 100m of climbing) featuring Old Gydo Pass and the Witzenberg Valley.

Monday’s Stage 1 of the delayed Cape Epic will see the riders start and finish in Ceres for a 98km ride (with 1 850m of climbing) featuring the Death Drop and Dead Man Walking trails.

The 2022 Tour de France embarks from Denmark, pushes into Switzerland and Belgium, visits Dunkirk and Lourdes, and features five mountain slogs.

Making his mark at his local major classic, the Tour Durban, would be the perfect boost for aspiring Glenwood road racer Josh Rheeders.

Local hero Nolan Hoffman won the men’s elite race at the 43rd 2021 Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday.

Kim Le Court De Billot took the title in the women’s Cape Town Cycle Tour race after a thrilling 78km that started in Fish Hoek.

Sunday’s 43rd Cape Town Cycle Tour has attracted a number of celebrities who will take to the start line in the CBD.

Sunday’s 43rd Cape Town Cycle Tour will result in a number of road closures around the city. Here’s the complete list.

Three-time champion Nolan Hoffman leads a star-studded elite field for Sunday’s 43rd Cape Town Cycle Tour that also includes SA’s top-ranked mountain biker Alan Hatherly and Tour de France rider Nic Dlamini.

South Africa’s Louis Meintjes was forced to abandon the 2021 Vuelta a Espana after a crash in Stage 19 on Friday.

South Africa’s mountain bike legend Greg Minnaar has won an incredible fourth world title at the UCI World Downhill Championship in Val di Sole, Italy.

Race favourite Mathieu van der Poel was fortunate to walk away from a frightening crash in the men’s mountain bike race at the Tokyo Olympics.

Team South Africa’s first shot at medals at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics will come in the men’s cycling road race on Saturday, 24 July.

Slovenian rider Primoz Roglic, who was second in last year’s Tour de France, has dropped out of this year’s race.

The Mark Cavendish comeback gathered pace on Thursday as he won his second stage in three days with a triumph on a day for pure sprinters along a 1.7km home straight at Chateauroux.

The Tour de France has withdrawn its legal complaint against the spectator who caused a spectacular mass pile-up on the opening day of the race.

Stage 2 of the 108th Tour de France saw the 180 riders who took to the start cover 183.5km from Perros-Guirec to Mûr-de-Bretagne on Sunday, 27 June.

This year’s Tour de France will feature no fewer than THREE South Africans among the 184-rider peloton.

South Africa’s Stefan de Bod will be among the 184 riders to take to the start line of this year’s Tour de France.

South Africa’s Louis Meintjes will be among the 184 riders to take to the start line of this year’s Tour de France.

Mark Cavendish will return to the Tour de France for the first time since 2018 after he was called up to a Deceuninck squad led by world champion Julian Alaphilippe.

Belgian Victor Campenaerts of the South Africa-registered UCI WorldTour Qhubeka-Assos team won Sunday’s 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia.

Switzerland’s Mauro Schmid, riding for South African-registered UCI WorldTour team Qhubheka-Assos, has won a brutal Stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia.

PYGA Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes and Gert Heyns and Motorlease Perigon’s Robyn de Groot and Amy McDougall are the 2021 KAP sani2c champions.

After another exciting finish in the men’s race at Stage 2 of the KAP sani2c, Matthys Beukes and Gert Heyns managed to extend their overall lead.

The PYGA Euro Steel team of Matthys Beukes and Gert Heyns took the stage win on Day 1 of the KAP sani2c.

Double winner Vincenzo Nibali said he will race this month’s Giro d’Italia after recovering from a wrist fracture.

Matt Beers and Yolande de Villiers won the 2021 South African Cross-Country Marathon Championships in Paarl on Saturday, 1 May.

After 2020 saw a number of shake-ups among SA’s professional mountain bikers, many have settled into new teams and are ready to race sani2c next month.

Team Qhubeka Assos has named its line-up for the five-stage Tour of the Alps which features a return to racing for Nicholas Dlamini.

Luke Armstrong, the son of ex-professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, has been arrested in Texas for sexual assault of a child.

The 2021 edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour will not take place in its usual March slot, but has been postponed to later in the year.