AMONG the many luxuries of life at Team Sky will be a bus equipped to Formula One specifications, with three-stage reclining seats, individual iPod docking stations and internal lighting in three colours to suit every mood.
DRESSED in his new dark suit and shiny black shoes, Peter Kennaugh looked every inch the boy on his first day at school as he joined the team for their disco-chic launch at Millbank Tower in London last week. The analogy is not inappropriate.
A 19-year-old German cyclist killed by a lorry in New Zealand last week had blogged only days before her death about the danger posed by speeding drivers on the country’s roads posed only days before her death.
Mia Pusch, from Fulda, north-east of Frankfurt, died last Tuesday after being struck by a lorry on State Highway 3 near the town of Bulls in the country’s North Island while on an extended solo cycling trip through Australian and New Zealand.
19-year-old talks of lack of space given by overtaking lorry drivers
Los Angeles doctor Christopher Thompson has been sentenced to five years in jail after deliberately braking in front of a pair of cyclists on Mandeville Canyon Road, a winding five-mile residential street popular with local cyclists.
Christopher Thompson gets half the maximum sentence; judge calls for respect