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The greatest Tour de France sprinter of all time, Mark Cavendish has decided to go round one more time to try and break Eddie Merx record which he matched two years prior. Cavendish, 38, was all set for the 2023 Tour de France to be his last having already announced his retirement and was going […]
Ineos Grenadiers and Italy rider Filippo Ganna has set a new cycling hour world record with a distance of 56.792km, achieving the feat at the Tissot Velodrome indoor track in Switzerland. The 26-year-old, who raced in the prestigious Tour de France earlier this year, smashed the record previously held by Ineos team-mate Dan Bigham by […]
Great Britain’s most successful Olympian and cyclist Sir Jason Kenny has announced his retirement to take on a coaching role with British Cycling. The 33-year-old is the most decorated British Olympian ever having won nine medals including seven golds and two silvers between the 2008 Beijing games and the 2021 Tokyo games. Born in Greater […]
Tour de France and Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish says he and his family are “extremely distressed” after a group of masked robbers assaulted him and threatened his wife at a knife point raid while his children were present. Four intruders broke into Cavendish’s home in Essex in what police described as a “targeted incident” in […]
Former Team Sky Chief Doctor Richard Freeman has been found guilty of ordering testosterone to an unnamed cyclist. The announcement was made today by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester after a two year tribunal in which the case against Freeman was made. Embed from Getty Images After the case began in February 2019, […]
The English Commonwealth games team has a family feel to it this year as several athletes are joined by fellow family members on the Australian Gold Coast. In boxing we have Galal Yafai who has progressed into the final of the men’s light flyweight boxing competition. His two brothers Gamal and Kalid, although not […]
As it is international women’s day, I’m going to take you through who I believe are the biggest names in British women’s sport. Johanna Konta: Tennis is sport where we seem to be hit and miss. We will have a good run and then slip up, but Johanna Konta has been on a roll. Her […]
Featured Photo by Florencia Potter Over £6,000 worth of bikes have been reported stolen throughout Gloucestershire over the past 6 months and the thieves have no plan of stopping anytime soon. Local people have praised Cheltenham for its devotion towards making it safe town to cycle around and Owen Adamson called Cheltenham a ‘very easy’ […]
By Beth Howard and Ellie Kirwin-Jones A cyclist who has lost friends and family to suicide is riding 2,100 miles through Europe to raise money for a mental health charity. Mike Swinford, 26, from Cheltenham, is fundraising for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) by cycling to Malta later this year. On September 1, Mike will […]