Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges ‘harassed and demonised’ after being excluded from competition
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges has said she has been “harassed and demonised” after being prevented from racing in a women’s event this weekend.
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On this day in 2012: Great Britain trio win Track World Championship gold
Great Britain’s Joanna Rowsell, Dani King and Laura Trott claimed gold in the 3km team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne on this day in 2012.
IPL media rights: Big boys on board
TV18-Viacom, Amazon, Disney, Sony, Zee buy ITT; Apple could joinMUMBAI: Less than a week of BCCI coming out with the Invitation-To-Tender (ITT) to sell the media rights for Indian Premier League's (IPL) 2023-27 broadcast cycle, all the big players - TV18-Viacom , Disney, Sony, Zee, Amazon and another unnamed company - have bought the document. BCCI sources on Monday told TOI, American tech giant Apple is also expected to pick the ITT next week.
Mathieu van der Poel > Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogacar can win all five Monuments: Blazin’ Saddles on Flanders Week
Forget that it’s actually closer to a fortnight, so-called Flanders Week lived up to its expectation with four races of high-octane action over the cobbles and Belgian bergs played out under a variety of conditions and featuring some humdinging performances as well as some uncharacteristic wobbles. Here are 10 talking points from a sea of potential takeaways… Ad/> Pendulum shifts from Van Aert to Van der Poel /> Ronde van VlaanderenRonde van Vlaanderen Women highlights as Lotte Kopecky beats Annemiek van VleutenA DAY AGO Forced to sit out the Ronde van Vlaanderen after being struck down by Covid, Wout van Aert had the sight of his rival Mathieu van der Poel winning a second crown in his absence further compounded by receiving an alert from Strava shortly afterwards informing him that the Dutchman had taken his KOM for the key Koppenberg-Steenbeekdries-Taaienberg section.
'You can't even buy a hotel room' - Sarah Storey says that it is extremely difficult to earn a living from cycling
Sarah Storey has said that there was a time when she earned nothing for competing in elite cycling. “When I won the able-bodied national series in 2012, there was no prize money for that. Nowadays, that series attracts a prize pot of about £10,000.
Bubba Watson: ‘You reach a breaking point, I thought I was going to die’
Five years after hitting possibly one of the greatest shots in golf’s history, Bubba Watson stared into his bathroom mirror and stopped recognising the man looking back at him. No matter how much he would eat, his body refused to retain weight and he’d lost almost 15kg without any explanation. He looked in horror at the way his ribs now jutted out and the shadows that ran beneath them like sinister valleys. His tall frame, so famous for its unnatural coil and spring, a golf swing nigh on impossible to replicate, suddenly looked so lanky and fragile. The longer he held his gaze, the more the knot that seemed to have taken up permanent residence in his stomach started to tighten. The acid curdled in his oesophagus, the heat burnt across his chest, and the fear raced through his mind uncontrollably; the same words that had kept him up for nights on end. “I can’t breathe, I’m scared, I’m going to die.”
Opinion: On Lotte Kopecky and Team SD Worx - Winners who could yet take it all in 2022
Is Lotte Kopecky the next superstar of women’s cycling? Or is her team a dominant, dynastic force to be reckoned with, one to rival any we’ve seen in the modern era of the sport? Hyperbole perhaps, and it is probably too early in the season to tell either way, but there is a frightening possibility that the answer may in fact be “both.” Ad/> To scrutinise the second question first, there was certainly something terrifyingly, professionally efficient about the way SD Worx delivered Kopecky to victory in Oudenaarde on Sunday afternoon. /> Ronde van VlaanderenRonde van Vlaanderen Women highlights as Lotte Kopecky beats Annemiek van Vleuten10 HOURS AGO From flag drop to finale, their riders were everywhere. Well, not literally everywhere, but everywhere they could be to influence the race in their favour.