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Dave5N said:
He's not exactly been that impressive the rest of the year, but that was a race featuring all of Britain's top riders, so I guess he deserves some recognition...
Cycling Weekly's top 30 British riders of 2009
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He's not exactly been that impressive the rest of the year, but that was a race featuring all of Britain's top riders, so I guess he deserves some recognition...
Well, one thing's for sure. If a list of the same nature had been produced when I started cycling there would have been one woman on it. That might have been unfair, but that's the way it was.
And one other thing. Victoria Pendleton at no.9. That may or may not be right, but if someone had done achieved what VP achieved in 2009 (which was, for her, a quiet year) twenty years ago, we'd be reaching for the smelling salts. Mandy Jones used to bring cycling on to mainstream Saturday afternoon telly, and commentators (I think Hugh Porter was Central TV's cycling guru) used to rave. Now we sort of used to it. It's a bit like watching cyclists commute in London - sometimes I have to remind myself how far we've come.
And one other thing. Victoria Pendleton at no.9. That may or may not be right, but if someone had done achieved what VP achieved in 2009 (which was, for her, a quiet year) twenty years ago, we'd be reaching for the smelling salts. Mandy Jones used to bring cycling on to mainstream Saturday afternoon telly, and commentators (I think Hugh Porter was Central TV's cycling guru) used to rave. Now we sort of used to it. It's a bit like watching cyclists commute in London - sometimes I have to remind myself how far we've come.
