Diary >> Cycling

A Day Cycling with Dallaglio and Flintoff

8 May 2012

It was not the most encouraging of introductions. The day before it was my turn to experience cycling on the Dallaglio Flintoff Cycle Slam the last group of riders appeared at the hotel over 14 hours after they had left that morning. Over the previous few hours the rest of them had arrived, a collec...
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Hoy Remains the Real McHoy

10 April 2012

You've got to hand it to Sir Chris Hoy. Disqualified as part of the GB team sprint at the Melbourne world track cycling championships just finished, and then beaten by compatriot Jason Kenny in the individual sprint semi final Hoy's hitherto invincibility was suddenly called into serious questi...
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Never, Ever Underestimate Sir Chris Hoy

21 February 2012

I'll be honest. I was really beginning to wonder about Sir Chris Hoy. I watched him win all three gold medals in Beijing live from the Laoshan Velodrome, a superhuman effort that ended with tears of joy and relief. His was an extraordinary performance at an extraordinary Olympics but, at the age...
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Once a Dope, Always a Dope

9 February 2012

If I could get a hot dinner for every sportsman insisting their innocence when caught doping I'd be a very fat man. I raise this issue for two, relevant reasons. First Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title, somewhat belatedly, this week and given a two year ban whilst ...
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Cav Could Add Sports Personality Accolade As Yet Another Badge of Honour

8 December 2011

Mark Cavendish continued his inexorable journey towards winning the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award after yesterday swooping up the Sports Journalist’s Association’s Sportsman of the Year award, to add to his award received last week at the Jaguar Academy Awards. Bearing in mind he ...
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At Last Cav is the Man!

28 September 2011

It has taken him four stunning years to finally be greeted with complete, British sporting approval but by becoming world road race champion on Sunday in Copenhagen Mark Cavendish has belatedly propelled himself into the upper hierarchy. Cav became the first British cyclist since the ill-fated T...
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Mark Cavendish is the Biggest Name in World Cycling

25 July 2011

Today Sportsvibe hails Mark Cavendish as Britain's latest sporting hero, even if Cav's triumph yesterday in the Tour de France is hardly an overnight success. The Manxman became the first ever British winner of the Green Jersey - which denotes the best sprinter in the race - in the history of the...
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Class Act McHoy is Tuning Up for London

28 March 2011

Sir Chris Hoy may not have left the track cycling world championships in Holland over the weekend in stunning form after claiming two bronzes and a silver in the team sprint, individual sprint and keirin but do not be too alarmed. The 35-year-old Scot is keeping his power dry just a little for Londo...
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Hoy Proves Best On Four Wheels, Not Two!

20 August 2010

They came to simply enjoy themselves but put six, high-achieving sportsmen and women together�on a race track and the competitive juices quickly begin to show. Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Chris Hoy, Dame Kelly Holmes, James Degale, Tasha Danvers and Andy Turner had a Top Gear-style Hot Lap competition a...
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Wiggins Set To Produce Greatest Hits!

2 August 2010

Bradley Wiggins has a reassuring view about his Tour de France efforts that finished last week with a 24th place in General Classification. It's not that 24th is exactly bad after the world's most gruelling sporting event. It's just that it was disappointing after he claimed 4th place last year in h...
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