The Guardian:
Tom Hall of Lonely Planet answers your questions about worldwide travelQ: My daughter and her husband like booking mystery short breaks for one another; it's now her turn to book a four- or five-day break starting on 26 December. So far so good, but the complicating factors are: finding anywhere between Christmas and New Ye (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
In the wake of the London mayor's heroics this week, we want your stories of cycling's good samaritansGuardian reader Lissendis commented on one of this blog's recent posts:This bike blog is getting a bit depressing. It seems as if the purpose of most of the recent threads is to get us all moaning about something.Ample evid (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• British cycling team delays naming final roster• Wiggins said to be keen to join Team SkyTeam Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team.With 19 riders signed up for the new British team, it ha (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Manchester's World Cup was a chance for the young cyclists who are keeping Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins on their toesFor Great Britain's cyclists, the weekend's World Cup in Manchester was a matter of setting a marker – as the performance director, Dave Brailsford, put it – so the team knows what to look forward to in the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans race hand-cycle wheelchairs in US, but London marathon allows only push-rim chairsMore than 20 disabled American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan raced wheelchairs in the New York City marathon yesterday. Some of the men and women served alongside British forces, but when London holds its marat (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Olympic gold medallist expected to be named in squad• 29-year-old yet to comment on future prospectsThe saga of Bradley Wiggins' future on the road could be resolved by the end of the week, with Team Sky poised to complete their line-up for the 2010 season.The two-time Olympic individual pursuit champion, who equalled the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Top Briton's 'exciting' form brings him best last lap time• Women's team pursuiters finish with a world recordGreat Britain's cyclists left Manchester tonight with 10 gold medals from the opening World Cup of the winter, four fewer than last year's haul, but it is 22-carat metalware to judge by the flood of records and pe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• New mark of 4min 15.015sec is fastest under current rules• Team Sky rider is a contender for time trial in Tour de FranceThe individual pursuit's status as an Olympic event is in the balance, but it can still bring a crowd to its feet, as Geraint Thomas of Wales found at the World Cup in Manchester when he set the second (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Team GB are switched on despite possible changes to the 2012 track cycling programmeA year ago this week, Great Britain's cyclists assembled for the World Cup in Manchester in the euphoric haze that followed the team's domination in Beijing. Against a relatively weakened international field the squad continued where they ha (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Michael Barry, Chris Sutton and Serge Pauwels join Team Sky• Bradley Wiggins remains at Garmin-SlipstreamTeam Sky have recruited three further riders to their squad for the 2010 season, but there is still no sign of Bradley Wiggins.Michael Barry, Chris Sutton and Serge Pauwels have signed deals with the British squad, whi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Kazakh cycling federation claims Contador will stay• Money issues a result of technicalities says teamThe Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will remain with the Astana team at least until his contract expires at the end of next year, the Kazakh Cycling Federation's deputy president Nikolai Proskurin has said.The Span (Read More)
The Guardian:
He is not the only star to claim to detest the sport that made him rich and famous"I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have." So writes Andre Agassi in his new autobiography, Open, published this week. It is 2006 and one of the world's most feted sports sta (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Kazakh-backed team have missed UCI deadline• Wiggins's move to Team Sky also back on agendaThe protracted saga of which team Alberto Contador will ride for next season took another twist yesterday when it emerged that the Tour de France winner's Astana team has not yet met the International Cycling Union (UCI)'s criteria (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
'The rider may terminated the present contact," says brother FranGarmin, Caisse d'Epargne, and Quict Step in battle to sign championTour de France champion Alberto Contador is free to leave Astana since the Kazakh team have not yet been granted their elite status for 2010, according to the International Cycling Union's regu (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• World No1 rider shocked by her speed in victory• Endurance riders outshine sprinters in men's eventVictoria Pendleton brushed off the challenge of the emerging generation at the Manchester Velodrome last night, in the opening session of the British track cycling championships, to claim her seventh women's 500 metres time- (Read More)