TINY Isle of Man will be without one of their top medal hopes at next month’s Commonwealth Games after Mark Cavendish was forced out of the event. The Manx Missile has been out of action since taking a nasty tumble at last Saturday’s Milan-San Remo race, one of the biggest one-day events on the calendar. […]
THE Tour de France are planning to end the use of podium girls from this year. Traditionally stage winners have been greeted at the end of each day by models who present him with the yellow jersey and shower him with kisses. But organisers are set to follow in the lead of sports like Formula […]
THE PDC has announced they will no longer use walk-on girls after pressure from broadcasters and some fans. But a petition to save ring girls – backed by Kelly Brook – has now reached more than 30,000 signatures. Here, we look through the sports that still use women to entertain the crowd. Cheerleaders The whole […]
CHRIS FROOME is under investigation by the UCI after elevated levels of Salbutamol was found in his system during the Vuelta a Espana race, that he won. The UCI, world cycling’s governing body, found that the concentration of the substance in the urine was higher than his permitted levels – but he is not accused […]
CHRIS FROOME is ripping up the record books by racing in both the 2018 Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia. No rider has done the double since Marco Pantani in 1998, but Froome and Team Sky feel this season’s successful Tour/Vuelta efforts have them on course for the gruelling brace. Froome will be on […]