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Elle Macpherson calls on Londoners to get on their bikes

17.06.09

Supermodel Elle Macpherson joins Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton to encourage Londoners to get on their bikes ... more

Olympic hero Chris Hoy collects knighthood

11.06.09

Cycling: Triple Beijing Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy is set to collect his knighthood... more

Cheryl Cole tops Glamour's TV personality poll

03.06.09

Cheryl Cole has won another gong after being named TV personality of the year in Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.... more

Wake-up call will spur us on, says boss

30.03.09

Cycling: Great Britain boss Dave Brailsford admitted the team�s mixed display at the Track Cycling World Championships was a �wake-up call� and believes they could benefit in the long term ... more

Wendy Houvenaghel makes up for near miss by striking gold

27.03.09

Cycling: Wendy Houvenaghel bounced back from her defeat in the individual pursuit final to win team gold with Joanna Rowsell and Lizzie Armitstead at the Track Cycling World Championships... more

Road to fame is hard going on a bike, admits Pendleton

20.03.09

As she prepares to go to the world championships, Olympic golden girl reflects on her lack of celebrity... more

Pendleton leads the way as Brits clean up on track

03.11.08

Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton has hailed the new generation of talented British women cyclists... more

16 days we will never forget

16.10.08

Jacques Rogge could not have put it any better as he brought the Games of the XXIX Olympiad to a close and marvelled at what he had just seen.... more

Beijing stars set for heroes' welcome

15.10.08

Thousands are expected on London's streets to cheer more than 350 of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic heroes... more

Hoy to join Olympians for parade across capital

13.10.08

Triple gold-winning cyclist Chris Hoy is the latest sporting star to confirm he will be taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic parade through London's streets... more

Golden night for the British stars of Beijing

09.10.08

Victoria Pendleton swapped her bike for an evening dress and in the process confirmed her status as Britain's most glamorous Olympic champion.... more

London's gold medal trio will lead Olympic parade

03.10.08

Gold medal winning Londoners Christine Ohuruogu, Rebecca Romero and canoeist Tim Brabants will lead a parade of Olympic and Paralympic athletes through the capital... more

Mayor and gold medallist take 50,000 on ride through car-free London

22.09.08

London was given a vision of a car-free city when much of the centre was shut to traffic for Britain's biggest mass cycle ride, London Freewheel... more

Major roads closed for 50,000 to cycle in city centre

18.09.08

Beijing Olympics cycling heroes Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton will join the Mayor to lead London's biggest free cycling event this weekend... more

Stella�s gold for being a champion of real women

18.09.08

The size zero debate has gone all quiet. No models have collapsed or died on the catwalk this year. The heroin-chic look is long dead and a lot of the girls do look reassuringly healthier. But it's all relative, isn't it?... more

'Broadcasters need to show more women's events on TV'

10.09.08

Andy Burnham criticised broadcasters for failing to show enough women's sports on television, including all-female football matches... more

The night even Liz Hurley got squiffy... and she wasn't the only one

03.09.08

Elizabeth Hurley has perfected the art of red carpet glamour. But even she succumbed to the lure of the free bar at last night's star-studded GQ awards and left the event looking uncharacteristically worse for wear. ... more

A bunch of golds at GQ awards

03.09.08

The lustre of Olympic gold shone brightly even among the stars at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards when five of Britain's record haul of medal winners were surprise guests... more

Chris Hoy pedals into the record books

19.08.08

Chris Hoy becomes the first British athlete for 100 years to win three gold medals at a single Olympics with victory in the men's individual sprint... more

Team GB storms into Olympic history books

19.08.08

London's Christine Ohuruogu stormed to a gold medal in the women's 400 metres as Beijing became the best Olympics for Britain for 100 years ... more

I want to be the Phelps of 2012 says golden girl Becky

18.08.08

Double gold medallist Rebecca Adlington has said she dreams of having the same success as her hero Michael Phelps... more

Sexist chiefs are holding me back, says Pendleton

08.08.08

Victoria Pendleton fears she could miss out on a medal because women are treated " horrendously" in cycling by Olympic chiefs... more

Cycling stars on brink of history

06.08.08

Riders ready to overtake athletics as Britain's premier sport with a hard work ethos that shames the rest of our competitors... more

British athletes leave London for Beijing

29.07.08

As they fly out to Beijing this week, images of 20 star athletes will appear on billboards by the Thames to encourage the British public to cheer them on... more

Brailsford hails best ever team of cyclists

09.07.08

Cycling is expected to be Britain's top-performing sport next month, with a forecast of six gold medals... more

Bank on Reade to jump to it in Beijing

08.07.08

The BMX track star looks a certainty for Olympic gold having never lost a race in 10 years... more

Queen Victoria ready to rule in Beijing

19.06.08

Victoria Pendleton admits she is already feeling the pressure of the Beijing Games. As one of the British stars of this year's world track cycling championships, she took her tally of world titles to six and cemented her status as 'Queen Victoria' of the track... more