Tag Archives: cycling

Escape to Poitou-Charentes

Whether it’s running or relaxation, cycling or shopping you’re after, Poitou-Charentes in France has it covered.

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Travel: Climbing the Col du Glandon

“So this is the profile of the course,” says Andrew Goodman, my chalet host, or, as I like to think of him, my newly appointed cycling coach. He is holding up a diagram that, even to my inexperienced eye, points disturbingly upwards.

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Olympic success sparks London Legacy sport channel

The Olympic Games legacy is set to continue with a 24-hour-a-day sports channel, showing 24 Olympic sports.

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Get on your bike and get rewarded with Gatorade

The Gatorade Hit Squad have taken to the roads of North London and St Albans for the first of many rides around the cycling routes of Britain to reward cyclists out riding with their Gatorade Green Bottles.

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Peleton pacer blog: We hurdled the last mountain

Sorry I have left this so long! I got back from Paris on the July 22, now known as Super Sunday, and the day that Wiggins drove the Sky team home through the cobbled roads of Paris.

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BMX: Team GB’s Shanaze Reade into semi-final

Great Britain’s three-time world champion Shanaze Reade has qualified fifth for the Friday’s semi-final.

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Video: Pendleton and Hoy bow out

Victoria Pendleton believes there is a dearth of cycling talent waiting to take over the Olympic mantle from Sir Chris Hoy and herself.

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Cycling: Trott enters final event of omnium two points down

British track cyclist Laura Trott enters the final event of the two-day women’s omnium event this afternoon two points behind her main opponent Sarah Hammer of the USA.

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London 2012: Trott on track for second cycling gold

Laura Trott remains on track for her second gold in the Velodorome, as she leads in the omnium at the halfway stage.

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Laura Trott: Emerging from the shadows

Four years ago, when watching the Beijing Olympics at home, cyclist Laura Trott never imagined that come London it would be her name on the team sheet. Then, aged just sixteen, London wasn’t even a dream, and it was Rio 2016 she had her sights on. Sportsister’s Louise Hudson caught up with her to find [...]

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