Emma Pooley News

Best performance : Emma Pooley soloing to the win in the Montreal World Cup after breaking away from the first kilometre.

PENDLE is set to host an exciting top national cycle race next year. British Cycling has announced its 2010 National Road Race Championships are coming to the borough! The date is set for Sunday, June 27th, and the event will include the Elite Men's and Elite Women's races, with more than 300 cyclists taking part.

Northcott, 35, has only been cycling seriously for a year after giving up her previous love, adventure racing, which she admits was taking too high a toll on her body.

The Cervelo TestTeam was the best team in 2009. From Left to Right: Kristin Armstrong, Emma Pooley, Sarah Duster, Christiane Soeder, Kirsten Wild and Lieselot Decroix at the team presentation of the Tour of Flanders.

As the debate hots up concerning the rightful destination of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award Lewis Hamilton's mantelpiece in Switzerland or Rebecca Adlington's in Derbyshire cycling fans might reasonably wonder what Nicole Cooke has done, or more accurately hasn't done, to be a 125-1 no-hoper in the betting.

A team from BVT Surface Fleet is going back to school in Portsmouth, with a sports-themed education roadshow aimed at making engineering fun.

Cervlo TestTeam has announced that Sharon Laws will join the German-registered squad next season.

Evidence suggests that Great Britain are a long way from transferring their track success to the road, following the recent Road Race World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Briton Nicole Cooke's defence of the women's World Championship road race title ended in the most dispiriting fashion today after she withdrew midway through the event in Mendrisio.

Nicole Cooke Olympic and World champion in 2008 was forced to abandon the defence of her World crown in Mendriso this morning after just five laps as the effects of a debilitating virus earlier this summer left her short of strength and stamina on the most demanding of courses.

BOURTONa S Sharon Laws is hoping to finish her cycling season on a high at the World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland on Saturday, when she is part of very strong seven-girl GB team, writes Danny Hall.

Britain's defending world champion Nicole Cooke pulled out of the women's World Championship road race midway through the event on Saturday.

Pooley believes she is in better shape then she was last year and that 'she has moved forward in general as well' enlarge Road cycling's world championships kick off today with Great Britain's first big prospect of striking gold coming as soon as the women's individual time trial this afternoon.

And while likely to be wary of Dutch, German and American rivals, the Welsh cycling icon could finally see her title come under threat from British teammate Emma Pooley.

Bradley Wiggins' rainbow jersey bid was derailed by a blistering ride from Fabian Cancellera and a mechanical problem as the Swiss rider clinched the world time-trial title at the UCI World Road Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland on Thursday.

Great Britain's cyclists have enjoyed countless golden days in recent years but Wednesday wasn't one of them.

Olympic silver medallist Emma Pooley missed out on a podium place at the Road Cycling World Championships time trial in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara is ready to sweep the men's gold medals as cycling's road world championships return to his native Switzerland for the first time in 13 years.

The world's best cyclists will have been cursing under their breaths when soaring temperatures greeted them as they gathered a stone's throw from shimmering Lake Lugano for the World Championships.

Great Britain's Mark Cavendish has until Thursday to prove his fitness for Sunday's World Championship road race.