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3 unusual facts about British Cycling


British Cycling

BSkyB began sponsorship of British Cycling on 24 July 2008.

British Cycling continues to work with NASA, McLaren Group and many other organisations to improve track speeds.

NICF

British Cycling, the British national governing body for cycle racing



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2003 UCI Road World Championships

David Millar was handed a two-year ban and stripped of his world time trial title by the British cycling federation for taking the banned performance enhancer EPO.

Audax

Audax UK, British cycling club that oversees long-distance cycling in the United Kingdom

International Cycling Association

"After a modest start in the early 1890s," said the British cycling official George Herbert Stancer, "the ICA achieved considerable success, eventually gaining the support of all the important sport-controlling bodies in the cycling world.

Joanna Rowsell

Rowsell was picked up by British Cycling's Talent Team programme in 2004, after being tested at her school.

Michael Jayston

In the last 2 years, he has read a new abridged recording of Geoffrey Household's sequel Rogue Justice, (also on BBC Radio 7) and in 2010 he also lent his voice to a series of vocal interludes on an album celebrating the Giro d'Italia, released in May by British cycling clothing company Rapha.