Closed circuit town centre racing is returning to Silloth next month.
Dual world champion Mathieu van der Poel announced on Wednesday that he would not be competing in the mountain bike event at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, prefering to focus on his bid to win gold in the road event instead. Since then, however, Van der Poel, 29, who also won the road racing world championship last August, has returned to the road winning both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
Dutch sprinter Olav Kooij won a mass sprint in Naples to take stage nine of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday after a languid 214km run from the Apennines.Sunday's stage left Avezzano in the Apennines for a 75-kilometre downhill until the peloton caught sight of the west coast, signalling the turn toward Naples.