Eurosport gave me the opportunity to work at the world championships in Harrogate back in the awful weather.Īfter various bar jobs, I managed to get my way into Cycling Weekly in late February of 2020 where I mostly write about racing and everything around that as it's what I specialise in but don't be surprised to see my name on other news stories. This got me a chance to go to the London Six Days, Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Britain to name a few before eventually joining Eurosport's online team while I was at uni, where I studied journalism. It took me a few more years to get into the journalism side of things, but I had a good idea I wanted to get into cycling journalism by the end of year nine at school and started doing voluntary work soon after. In fact, it was Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck's battle in the fog up the Tourmalet on stage 17 of the Tour de France. I started watching cycling back in 2010, before all the hype around London 2012 and Bradley Wiggins at the Tour de France. Proud Yorkshireman from the UK's answer to Flanders, Calderdale, go check out the cobbled climbs!

Hi, I'm one of Cycling Weekly's content writers for the web team responsible for writing stories on racing, tech, updating evergreen pages as well as the weekly email newsletter. In France, it is known as the Course à l'Américaine and as Americana in Spain and Italy. The race is named after the first event in Madison Square Garden in New York but is known by different names around the world. The favourites are world champions and well-known road cyclists, Michael Mørkøv and Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark in the men's and Kirsten Wild and Amy Pieters of the Netherlands in the women's. This year's event will see 16 teams of two riders take part, meaning there will be 32 riders on the track at the same time at the Izu Velodrome. They later went on to become world champions just before Wiggins retired from the sport. Theīritish duo of Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins took part that year. The last winners of the gold medal in the event for the men were the Argentinian duo, Walter Pérez and Juan Curuchet in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This has since changed and the sport makes its return to the Games in Tokyo. The Madison has been in the Olympic Games before from 2000 to 2008 but was removed from the Games in London back in 2012 due to the fact that there was no women's race at the time. Sometimes the chief commissaire will pair the rider off with another team. This will leave the other rider on their own. If one of the two riders in a team suffers a mechanical or crashes they will be allowed to rejoin the race but it must be within two laps. Once a rider has done the rider should move as high up on the track as they can to avoid disrupting the racing below them. The change is often a hand-sling but a push is also allowed if the former is not possible. This is the zone between the black and red lines in the bottom half of the track. Riders who are racing should stay as close to the bottom of the track as possible and rider changes should also happen low on the track below the 'stayers line' on the track. Sprint points are doubled on the final lap. A bell will ring for the start of the final lap of the race. The sprint points available are five, three, two and one point(s) with a whistle blown to indicate that the lap is a sprint lap. If they are level after this then it will be based on where the riders placed in the final sprint.

This could be decisive if riders are tied on laps at the end of the race. It isn't all about laps though as the riders also have to battle for sprint points too.

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