Looking at the route, with Matt Parker, road Worlds at Mendrisio, 23 September, 2009
The night before the race
With Cav, after the scratch race at the world track championships, 2009
With Dave Brailsford and the team before a training ride to Box Hill for the London-Surrey Olympic test event, 2011, which Cav won. Cav’s on his green-accented Venge, having just won the green jersey in the Tour de France
Job done – on the bus with the rainbow jersey
In the car with Sean Yates, Tour de France 2010
With Dave Brailsford, Tour de France 2013
About the Author
Having represented Great Britain from 1989 until his retirement in 2001, Rod Ellingworth founded and ran the GB Cycling Academy. Alongside Dave Brailsford, he was then instrumental in creating Team Sky in November 2008.
William Fotheringham has been the Guardian’s cycling correspondent since 1994. He has covered twenty-two Tours de France and four Olympic Games and his published work includes the classic biographies Put Me Back On My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson and Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. He also co-wrote Bradley Wiggins’s bestselling memoir My Time.
Copyright
First published in 2013
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