This year's Tour marks the 50th anniversary of his untimely, controversial death at the world's biggest bike race TOM Simpson was Britain's first road ... was a professional cyclist who became ...

If the average British sports fan knows anything at all about Tom Simpson it’s that he died ... 1965 after becoming Britain’s first professional road race world champion.

It was as if Tommy Simpson had never lived, let alone died." As Millar explains, Simpson "was not the first British cyclist to cross ... in the British professional road-race championship in ...

Hundreds of people will gather on Thursday for an emotional ceremony on a mountain summit where a Tour De France cyclist tragically collapsed and died 50 years ago. Tom Simpson was just 29 when he ...

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin is returning to racing next month ... Dumoulin’s decision to return to the professional ranks came after he “recently ...

Alex Peters (Mosquito Bikes) took victory in the Tom Simpson Memorial Road Race, Round 4 of the National Junior ... Paris-Nice Peugeot – and the 60 Juniors that took the start were racing for the ...

The latest round of the British Cycling National Junior Road Race Series – the Bikeline Tom Simpson Memorial Junior Road Race ... Callum Ferguson of Halesowen A&CC and Jake Cowen of BikeTreks Racing ...