Victoria Pendleton

Who will get your vote?

Sports Personality shortlist announced on Monday 1 December. After a quite sensational year, it is no surprise that the list is one of the strongest we've ever had. And what a selection it is: Lewis Hamilton, the youngest ever...

Mildenhall award Pendleton gold

Mildenhall Cycling Club have created new honorary awards to celebrate the Olympic success of former member Victoria Pendleton. Club members voted unanimously at their Annual General Meeting to create bronze, silver and gold...

Cycling-Meares Takes Out Top Cycling Award

Anna Meares competes in the Women's Sprint Finals track cycling event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) MELBOURNE—A year that started in near-tragedy ended in popular acclaim when Anna Meares won...

Steve Peters, cycling’s psychiatrist

Summer seems a long time ago, yet the Beijing memories have hardly dimmed. Sailors, swimmers, cyclists . . . especially the cyclists. Even when you say it now, there is a vague sense of unreality: 14 medals, eight received on...

Give us hairdryers and you’ll get a nation of fitter women

Poor facilities put girls off sport, poll shows Changing rooms with hairdryers and full-length mirrors would help to encourage women and girls to take up sport, a poll published today suggests. The findings, by the Women’s...

Queen of the road: Nicole Cooke talks to Anna Kessel

Nicole Cooke sighs. 'I don't want to make enemies,' she says as we discuss track cycling versus road racing - two disciplines often naively lumped together despite being worlds apart. 'It's like rugby union and rugby league,'...

Queen of the Road

Nicole Cooke talks to Anna Kessel about the battle for equality in cycling and her love of the sport for itself Nicole Cooke sighs. 'I don't want to make enemies,' she says as we discuss track cycling versus road racing - two...

Column: Time to set sights on Olympics 2012

Given our national/media obsession with cricket, it was no surprise that the week-long third Commonwealth Youth Games, which concluded in Pune on October 18, did not make a splash. India topped the medals table with 76, which...

Cyclists And Lorry Drivers Can Coexist Peacefully

Taking heart, perhaps, from George W. Bush's oft-quoted declaration, the Metropolitan Police are launching a campaign to encourage lorries and cyclists to share the road safely. Traffic officers will be out during rush hour...

Cycling stars of future take the stage

FIFTY of the UK's best Under-16 riders will be battling for the title of DHL Future Stars Champion at the opening Revolution meeting of the new season in Manchester on Saturday. The Future Stars series showcases the best of up...

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