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level.
2013.
2012.
Bidlake
however,
competitive,
many facets,
the great riders.
France winners,
Dot Tilbury
announced later that year.
week after his Tour victory,
among them Mark Cavendish,
sport continues and has a future,
first Englishman to win the Tour de France.
unquestionably the all-time king of British cycling,
tiple stage-wins in the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia to his credit.
had for over twenty years organised junior cycling events,
and not only for Olympic or World Champions.
Since the first Bidlake award was presented to Hubert Opperman in 1934,
Sir Bradley Wiggins achieved what had always seemed to be an impossibility:
part in the Tour.They probably did not foresee that women would feature in the list either.
always been generous too in recognising the work of behind-the-scenes figures in the sport,
ined that the award would ever be given to British world champions on road and track,
he took the gold medal in the London Olympic time-trial,
had already won the individual pursuit gold medal at both the Athens and the Beijing Olympics.
the Bidlake was ahead of its time in being open to amateurs and professionals alike.
Presenting the award now is more complex than it used to be because the sport has so
the world of British
cycling has clearly changed out of all recognition.The committee in those early days cannot have imag-
and they are a reminder that cycling has to begin at grass roots amateur
In one way
he became the
as well as
Before concentrating exclusively on road racing,Wiggins
in fact they would probably never have imagined that a British rider would even take
competitive and non-
and because we live in an intensely publicity-conscious world in which so many achieve-
Dot’s award recognises the dedication of all the people who work in this way to ensure that the
in the Isle of Man.These events have brought thousands of young people into the sport,
One
It has
or Tour de
to become
his uniqueness recognised in his knighthood
level.
2013.
2012.
Bidlake
however,
competitive,
many facets,
the great riders.
France winners,
Dot Tilbury
announced later that year.
week after his Tour victory,
among them Mark Cavendish,
sport continues and has a future,
first Englishman to win the Tour de France.
unquestionably the all-time king of British cycling,
tiple stage-wins in the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia to his credit.
had for over twenty years organised junior cycling events,
and not only for Olympic or World Champions.
Since the first Bidlake award was presented to Hubert Opperman in 1934,
Sir Bradley Wiggins achieved what had always seemed to be an impossibility:
part in the Tour.They probably did not foresee that women would feature in the list either.
always been generous too in recognising the work of behind-the-scenes figures in the sport,
ined that the award would ever be given to British world champions on road and track,
he took the gold medal in the London Olympic time-trial,
had already won the individual pursuit gold medal at both the Athens and the Beijing Olympics.
the Bidlake was ahead of its time in being open to amateurs and professionals alike.
Presenting the award now is more complex than it used to be because the sport has so
the world of British
cycling has clearly changed out of all recognition.The committee in those early days cannot have imag-
and they are a reminder that cycling has to begin at grass roots amateur
In one way
he became the
as well as
Before concentrating exclusively on road racing,Wiggins
in fact they would probably never have imagined that a British rider would even take
competitive and non-
and because we live in an intensely publicity-conscious world in which so many achieve-
Dot’s award recognises the dedication of all the people who work in this way to ensure that the
in the Isle of Man.These events have brought thousands of young people into the sport,
One
It has
or Tour de
to become
his uniqueness recognised in his knighthood
