Sentence examples for former cycling from inspiring English sources
Matt Seaton is the Guardian's former cycling columnist and is now an editor at the New York Times.
After years of battling the effects of Parkinson's disease, the former cycling star Davis Phinney got some long-awaited relief.
Gunmen kidnapped a former cycling champion today, in the second abduction this year of a top Colombian cyclist.
A former cycling professional himself, Bruyneel, pictured, managed all of Armstrong's Tour-winning teams – making him the most successful directeur sportif in cycling history.
Then there is Graeme Obree, a former cycling legend known as the Flying Scotsman who fought his depressive demons by breaking the hour record — the ultimate time trial — twice, once making two attempts within 24 hours.
Current and former cycling advocates, although supportive of the city's efforts, have questioned the accuracy of data that is often used to justify the expansion of bike lanes (and the elimination of traffic lanes).
The Commons transport committee should be "embarrassed" by the ignorance it demonstrated during a recent hearing on cycle safety, former Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman has said.
Its most strident expression so far appeared in the Guardian last week, when former Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman, now a policy adviser for British Cycling, alleged that "behind the scenes there is an intense lobbying operation to destroy the plans" and that this is "led by just one company, the Canary Wharf Group, and by the City of London Corporation".
The former British Cycling performance director said: "It was very painful at the time for cycling when we went through that, but actually it served a purpose.
The officials Landis named as encouraging doping — including the former USA Cycling board president Jim Ochowicz, who is known as the "Godfather of American cycling" and the Swiss businessman Andy Rihs — are also gearing up for cycling's most glamorous event.
10) The former British Cycling performance director Peter Keen says the two bodies have become too close?
