“It’s a relief. Eighteen months ago there were doubts about whether I could come back and do this”.
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Before that, there will be a chance for home fans to see the man who is now Great Britain’s most decorated Olympian with eight medals – five of them gold – when he lines up at the Tour of Britain.
Great Britain were trailing for most of the 4,000m race, but they stormed back to beat the Australians by nearly a second and post a new world record time of 3 minutes 50.265 seconds.
Sir Bradley Wiggins believes Shane Sutton will be cleared of discrimination allegations and says his long-time mentor wants to return to British Cycling. I wanted to go out like this.
“In some ways I realised what we were going into and that adds nerves to it, these guys (were) bouncing off the ceiling all afternoon in the apartment”. The 25-year-old and Team GB teammate Kat Driscoll were already making in history in qualifying for the final, but Page went one better in winning the silver medal. And maybe Froome will if he wins two more Tour de Frances to become one of the true greats of the most prestigious cycle race of them all.
Varnish made her sensational claims about Sutton and British Cycling in an interview with Sportsmail earlier this year after being dropped from the Olympic Podium Programme for a string of below par performances.
Their comrades in the women’s pursuit team – who would also claim gold the following night – certainly had that expectation.
Nick Dempsey will collect Team GB’s first sailing medal of the Rio 2016 Games after guaranteeing himself silver in the RS:X class. I spoke to him before the final.
If the road is freedom, the track is claustrophobia.
Burke swung off with two laps to go, once Britain had edged into the lead, and Doull did not realise. I was just saying to myself “thank f*** that’s over”. It’s gone now. I’ve been Olympic champion for 12 years.
Wiggins insisted there had been no fall-out, merely that Cavendish had not made the grade. Wiggins said Sutton should subsequently be reinstated and revealed the Australian is still acting as a mentor for some British athletes competing in Rio.
“Doully reminds me of a young Geraint Thomas and he can do anything in the sport, nothing phases him”.
“The reality is we gave Mark the opportunity in Newport to come into the squad and he didn’t deliver”.
Sir Bradley Wiggins has rejected claims that a culture of bullying exists inside British Cycling, pointing to the phenomenal success the Team GB riders have been enjoying here in Rio and suggesting it is actually a culture of excellence.
Rio de Janeiro (CNN) A knighthood, Britain’s first Tour de France victor – and now his country’s most decorated Olympian. Sir David Brailsford, the head of Team Sky for whom he continues to work in an occasional advisory role, once said he sees bicycle races unfold “in colour when the rest of us are watching in black and white”.
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“I’m happy and content with what I’ve done now”. “I’m not doing Tokyo 2020. I’d love to, but I wanted to finish on a high”.
