Mark Cavendish said on Monday he will retire at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on the career of one of cycling's all-time great sprinters.

As Mark Cavendish celebrated his 38th birthday on Sunday slogging up hills in the Giro d'Italia, local newspapers said that he would use Monday's rest day to announce he planned to retire.

British road cyclist Mark Cavendish has signed a one-year contract with Astana, who as a World Tour team are slated for July's Tour de France.

British cycling star Mark Cavendish and his wife were subjected to a knifepoint robbery while at home with their children, with one masked raider threatening to stab the athlete, a court heard on Tuesday.

British rider Mark Cavendish, targeting a record number of Tour de France stage wins, is set to join the B&B Hotels-KTM team, a source close to the French outfit said Monday.

The cycling transfer season has officially begun. As of August 1, after the Tour de France concludes, teams and riders are able to announce their new contacts for the subsequent season. This 2022/2023 transfer market sees several top riders searching for greener pastures.

Britain's Mark Cavendish and France's Julian Alaphilippe have both missed out on a place in the upcoming Tour de France, their Quick-Step team announced Monday. Double world road cycling champion Alaphilippe only returned to competition on Sunday, two months after suffering multiple fractures in a heavy fall on the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race in Belgium.

Biniam Girmay of Eritrea won the prestigious Gent Wevelgem classic on Sunday, becoming the first sub-Saharan cyclist to win a one-day classic.

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad kicks off the 2022 Spring Classics season on February 26th, the first of the season's major one-day WorldTour events. FloBikes will stream all six Flanders Classics events to subscribers in the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Danish rider Anthon Charmig powered to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Oman on Saturday to take the overall lead from Mark Cavendish.

Sprinter Mark Cavendish won stage two of the Tour of Oman on Friday to take the overall lead from Fernando Gaviria.

Colombia's Fernando Gaviria won the first stage of the Tour of Oman on Thursday leaving British cycling great Mark Cavendish trailing in his wake.

Mark Cavendish said his family were "extremely distressed" after a group of armed burglars assaulted the record holder for Tour de France stage wins and threatened his wife in a raid while his children were in the house.

British road cyclist Mark Cavendish on Tuesday extended his contract with current team Deceuninck-Quick Step by a further year.

British road cyclist Mark Cavendish will extend his contract with current team Deceunink-Quick Step by a further year, team principal Patrick Lefevere said on Thursday. Cavendish broke a lengthy barren patch of illness, injury and poor form by storming back to win four Tour de France stages in 2021, at the age of 36.