Eight-year-old Phoebe cycles 300km in five days to raise money for homeless charity – then climbs Snowdon the next morning
“Every person should feel safe enough to choose walking or cycling”: Sarah Storey and Ed Clancy blast Rishi Sunak’s ‘Plan for Drivers’ – and say active travel “frees up road space for those who really need to drive”Eight-year-old Phoebe cycles 300km in five days to raise money for homeless charity – then climbs Snowdon the next morning
Councillor under fire as another cyclist hit on route where two were killed after cycle lane ripped out One of the first rumours out of the blocks for next year’s Tour – which will begin with a historic Grand Départ in Italy and end with another historic finale in Nice – concerns the inclusion of the Champagne region’s gravel roads, a feature of the chaotic stage four of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes.
However, with Kool unable to follow the wheel of the flying British champion, Georgi found herself temporarily alone at the front as the road flattened off towards the finish, with only the Austrian Schweinberger able to latch on to her wheel. The Royal Parks Police says they have received “several” reports from female motorists who claim to have been harassed and abused by male cyclists in London’s Richmond Park, the site of regular tension between people on bikes and drivers often using the park as a handy short cut to beat the capital’s traffic.
Responding to the allegations, one social media user who regularly cycles in Richmond Park wrote: “It’s absolutely unacceptable behaviour. Not excusing, but I have noticed quite a few allowed drivers don’t display their permit. Of course, these recent allegations aren’t the first time this year that tensions have arisen between cyclists and motorists in Richmond Park.
The 33-year-old – who took 70 wins during a successful if slightly tumultuous 13-year-long career, including three stages apiece at the Giro, Vuelta, Paris-Nice, and Dauphiné, as well as the points jersey at the 2014 Giro – has spent the past year and half struggling to regain his fitness and speed after fracturing his first cervical vertebrae in a horror crash at the 2022 Tour of Turkey.