OFF TRACK Send your pictures to mark.sutton@intentmedia.co.uk • heraty shines in herne hill challenge • thule staffer bags sales prize
Silva medal at Olympic venue
HERNE HILL, the only surviving venue from the last but one Olympic Games in London, played host to the Silva time trial where riders got to put the light brand through its paces – like the 550 lumne Pave and 1030 lumen Singletrack – while showing off their pedalling skills in January. Twenty riders took on the 450m Silva time trial challenge at the historic venue, including industry types like Upgrade’s Rory Hitchins (top left). James Heraty, endurance cyclist and journalist took gold, followed by Dan Leyton and Alberto Contrais of Swift Bikes in joint second place. http://silva.se/
Thule sales star
ROB SINCLAIR, Thule sales agent for Scotland, picked up Thule’s award for Salesman of the Year Award’ for 2012. Sinclair (pictured right) was presented with the award by UK area sales manager Neil Sellers (left) for exceeding sales targets and successfully opened new accounts in spite of the tough economic climate. Sellers said: “2012 was a hugely successful year for sales yet Rob in particular never failed to miss a Head Office deadline and his increase in turnover speaks for itself.” Sounds like the Milky Bars are on Sinclair.
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moved off it. While I’ve lived through this process, I know the truth. The truth isn’t what I said and now it’s gone. “This story was perfect for so long.
“I don’t know [if] I have a great answer. This is too late, probably for most people and that’s my fault. I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. It’s not as if I said ‘no’ and
You overcome this disease [testicular cancer], win the Tour de France, have a perfect marriage, children. It’s this mythic, perfect story and it wasn’t true. I am a flawed character. “All the fault and blame is on me and a lot of that is momentum and I lost myself in all that. I couldn’t handle it. The story is so bad and toxic and a lot of it is true..” Lance Armstrong, finally, admits
doping, speaking to Oprah Winfrey in a TV interview, January 17th.
“I can still remember going toe to toe with him and watching the man I saw on the top of Verbier in 2009 to the man I saw on the top of Ventoux a week later when we were in doping control together. It wasn’t the same bike rider.”
Wiggins went on to pour scorn on
Armstrong’s claim that he rode clean in 2009/2010 when Wiggins was denied a podium finish by the American, in the Daily Telegraph, January 24th.
“It’s a credit to Norman Baker that he is securing this increased funding for cycling infrastructure but what we need is long-term, sustained investment and
a strategy to put cycling at the heart of transport policy. "The total funding package works out at less than £1 pound per head of the population per year. The Dutch spend £25 pounds per head per year, and have been doing so for decades. We need to match that level of funding to get Britain cycling.” Martin Gibbs, British Cycling’s
director for policy and legal affairs, gives his view on Norman Baker’s announcement of the ‘biggest investment in cycling ever’ – or £62m – for improving road safety for cyclists, January 30th.