Racing round-up

Cycling’s elite UCI WorldTour represents the pinnacle of our sport: a place where jaw-dropping machinery is standard issue and where heroic rides are par for the course. Squads like Britain’s Team Sky have been fighting on two fronts this week: on the soaring climbs of northern Spain in the Volta a Catalunya and on Belgium’s brutal cobbles.

Chris Froome has gone head-to-head with the men who will challenge him for his Tour de France crown when the Brit rolls out in Yorkshire in July, and you can catch up on all the action from a finely poised Volta by following this link. If the exploits of the hardmen of the Classics – cycling’s brutally hard one-day races – are more your thing, you’ve had a week to remember, with nearly 300km of Milan-San Remo last Sunday, E3 Harelbeke yesterday, and Gent-Wevelgem tomorrow.