Heroes, Villains & Velodromes: Chris Hoy & Britain's Track Cycling Revolution
14bikeco's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
some really nice watercolours by Worcestershire artist Jeremy Houghton, commissioned by Lloyds TSB for London 2012 olympus games, depicting the immense performance of the British cycling team in Beijing Sir Chris Hoy Bradley bleedin Wiggins Rebecca rowsandrides Romero Team Pursuit. UP THE LADS I like them via
BBC Sport - Football blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Greetings and salutations, sporting comrades. As I write this, I have a cold sausage number on brown bread with a condiment combo of mustard and mayonnaise alongside me. It's a strange one, but it's definitely a winner. Anyway, rolling on from last week, thanks very much for all your suggestions for our 20 nicest people in sport. This is by no means the definitive list and I am sure there are loads...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sir Chris Hoy brushed aside any doubts about his recovery from a hip injury with victory in the sprint, keirin and team sprint events at the opening round of the World Cup in Manchester. Buoyed by his successful return to international competition, Hoy said the enforced break had sharpened his resolve for his short and longer term goals: next year's World Championships and the London 2012 Olympics....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
GREAT Britain demonstrated their increasing readiness for the London Olympic Games with a sensational show of superiority at the Track World Cup in Manchester.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Manchester's World Cup was a chance for the young cyclists who are keeping Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins on their toes For Great Britain's cyclists, the weekend's World Cup in Manchester was a matter of setting a marker – as the performance director, Dave Brailsford, put it – so the team knows what to look forward to in the five months until the world championship, and in the two years,...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Sir Chris Hoy won his third gold at the UCI Track World Cup on Sunday in Manchester as Great Britain ended the meeting with yet more medals. Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who at this event was making his international return from injury, added team sprint gold to the keirin and sprint crowns he'd already won and in the process replicated his Beijing haul. In all Britain won 10 golds from 17 events,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
• Top Briton's 'exciting' form brings him best last lap time • Women's team pursuiters finish with a world record Great Britain's cyclists left Manchester tonight with 10 gold medals from the opening World Cup of the winter, four fewer than last year's haul, but it is 22-carat metalware to judge by the flood of records and personal-best times that culminated in a world record for the women's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The real problem with Andre Agassi coming out as a tennis-hater is that it casts a pall over the thrills he gave you This week Andre Agassi caused a stir by revealing he once took crystal meth – or "gack" – with a man called "Slim". This led to a failed drugs test, which Agassi explained away by saying he had mistakenly drunk one of Slim's own gack-laced smoothies....
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SIR Chris Hoy and Geraint Thomas showed Great Britain remain the world's leading nation at Manchester's Velodrome with stunning victories at the Track World Cup.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
• Beijing champion forced to work hard to reach final • Geraint Thomas and Chris Newton also win golds Sir Chris Hoy's last outing in a World Cup in February had ended in disaster but tonight there was delight as he overcame a strong field to win the keirin moto-paced race, the first of four events in which the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2008 is expected to play a leading role....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Welshman lights up Track Cycling World Cup event by breaking the world record for the 4km individual pursuit.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Team GB are switched on despite possible changes to the 2012 track cycling programme A year ago this week, Great Britain's cyclists assembled for the World Cup in Manchester in the euphoric haze that followed the team's domination in Beijing. Against a relatively weakened international field the squad continued where they had left off in China, taking 14 gold medals. Twelve months on, the mood is...
Tredz Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Chris Hoy? Tom Simpson? Bradley Wiggins? Steve Peat? Nicola Cooke? Chris Boardman? The nascent British Cycling Hall of Fame is looking for your nominations for the first 50 inductee's. If you need a little help to look beyond the current...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Scotland's top snowboarder wants to emulate Chris Hoy at 2010 Games.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
• Olympic champion breaks record in blue riband event • Geraint Thomas takes pursuit title on his comeback For all that Sir Chris Hoy was world sprint champion in 2008, and is the reigning Olympic champion at the discipline, until yesterday evening he had not won the national title in track cycling's blue riband event. The title is now safely on the Hoy mantelpiece, however, and he will...
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