Tom Pidcock was handed the bronze medal in the U23 road race after the winner, Nils Eekhoff, was disqualified (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)Tom Pidcock says his bronze medal in the under-23 men's road race at the Yorkshire 2019 World Championships changes very little about the day for him, after he was upgraded from fourth to third following the disqualification of winner Nils Eekhoff.
John Archibald at the Dukes WeekenderI have a pair of black dungarees that have small faces drawn all over them. The first time I wore them in front of my boyfriend, he said to me, “I love all the smiley faces on your dungarees!” and I replied, “Baby, it’s only half smiley faces. Can’t you see all the frowney faces?” […]
INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA - SEPTEMBER 25: Podium / Anna Van Der Breggen of The Netherlands Silver Medal / Annemiek Van Vleuten of The Netherlands Gold Medal / Ellen Van Dijk of The Netherlands Bronze Medal / Celebration / during the Women Elite Individual Time Trial a 27,8km race from Wattens to Innsbruck 582m at the 91st UCI Road World Championships 2018 / ITT / RWC / on September 25, 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)In June 1667 the Dutch Navy launched an audacious attack on British warships moored off the Kent coast. Having taken the town of Sheerness, they bombarded Chatham and Gillingham before capturing HMS Royal Charles, the British flagship. Next week eight Dutchwomen could mount...
LANGNAU IN EMMENTAL, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 15: Geraint Thomas of United Kingdom and Team INEOS / during the 83rd Tour of Switzerland, Stage 1 a 9,5km Individual Time Trial from Langnau im Emmental to Langnau im Emmental / ITT / TDS / @tds / #tourdesuisse / on June 15, 2019 in Langnau im Emmental, Switzerland. (Photo by Heinz Zwicky/Getty Images)It is half past four in the afternoon, but Geraint Thomas sounds like he’s just woken up when he answers the call from Cycling Weekly. “Sorry, I forgot you were going to ring,” he says. “I’d dropped off for a bit. I’ve not long been home after travelling back from the Tour of Germany, and […]
Dan Bigham and Joscelin Lowden, who are both riding the inaugural World Championship mixed team time trial for Great Britain in Yorkshire next Sunday, smashed the men’s and women’s course records on the G25/89 course in East Sussex this morning (Sunday September 15). Bigham clocked 48-19 on the rolling, mostly single-carriageway 25-mile course beating the […]
