Tweets of the Week Special: British Cycling under the microscope

It’s been a while since we’ve done a Tweets of the Week Special but this subject certainly deserves it. It starts with Shane Sutton – technical director of British Cycling – being accused of sexist, racist, ableist and bullying behaviour and it ends with British Cycling as a whole coming under the discrimination microscope and submitting to an independent review of its practices. The conversations swept through Twitter like wildfire – here is just a snapshot of some of those.  Continue reading

Rider update: Fabian Cancellara, Robbie McEwen and Geraint Thomas

I had thought that my update would be much more celebratory this time around. Instead, I’ve been looking at x-rays of quadruple fractures and trying to ignore track racing …

Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan)

Image courtesy of RadioShack-Nissan

Results: Won Strade Bianche. Second at Milan-San Remo.

WorldTour ranking: 16th, 86 points. Continue reading