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Becky James

August 2017

  • Becky James, pictured with her silver medal won in the Keirin event in Rio, has announced her retirement.

    Becky James retires from cycling at 25, one year after Olympic silver medals

    Team GB’s leading sprinter Becky James has announced her retirement only one year after winning two silver medals at the Rio Games

May 2017

  • Christine James injured

    Mother of champion cyclist Becky James injured in cycle crash

    Christine James was allegedly hit sideways at speed by a car while cycling near her home in Abergavenny, south Wales

September 2016

  • Britain’s Laura Trott on her way to winning the omnium gold medal at Rio on 16 August.

    Team GB's cycling heroes call for 'legacy of everyday cycling'

    Laura Trott and Jason Kenny among Rio Olympians signing letter to Theresa May demanding real action on cycle transport

August 2016

  • Becky James, silver medallist in the women’s sprint, says of Shane Sutton: ‘Shane was a massive supporter of me. I can’t thank him enough for what he did for me.’

    Becky James and Katy Marchant back Shane Sutton’s return at British Cycling

  • Becky James at the Rio Olympics

    From sickbed to silver for Becky James with Olympic keirin success

March 2016

  • Laura Trott celebrates her scratch gold at the Track Cycling World Championships in London.

    Laura Trott takes world gold but Bradley Wiggins forced to settle for silver

    Laura Trott claimed Britain’s first gold medal at the Track World Championships but the men’s pursuit team were denied by Australia in the final

February 2016

  • Becky James at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester

    Worlds return puts Becky James on road to Rio after two years off track

    The former world champion is upbeat, injury free and targeting an Olympic medal as well as one in London after a complex knee injury and a cancer scare

September 2015

  • Becky James

    Becky James: I was in a really unhappy place, my world was upside down

    After becoming a double world champion in 2013 Becky James endured torrid injury problems, a health scare and the series of concussions suffered by her boyfriend, George North, but she tells Donald McRae she is now back on the road to the Rio 2016 Olympics

February 2015

  • Becky James

    Becky James has had setback but is still on track for Rio 2016

    British sprinter’s recovery from a knee injury has been delayed, admits Great Britain’s technical director Shane Sutton

October 2014

  • Becky James, the track cycling specialist, is determined to ride at the 2016 Olympics

    Becky James forced off road but still targets 2016 Olympics in Rio

    Track cycling specialist has been hit by shoulder and knee injuries but tells William Fotheringham ‘I can get to Rio’

June 2014

  • Becky James

    Becky James to miss Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with knee injury

    Becky James, the 2013 world sprint and keirin champion, has withdrawn from the Wales cycling team for next month’s Commonwealth Games with a knee injury

March 2014

  • Track World Champs BC

    Behind the scenes at the track world championships – in pictures

    As the British team suffered a lacklustre world championships, British Cycling brought their staff photographer Luke Webber to document the highs and lows of the world championship campaign in Cali. As the curtain closes, we bring you his best images from Colombia

  • Jason Kenny

    Great Britain men leave Cycling World Championships empty-handed

    The British men left Colombia without a medal but Becky James took bronze in the keirin and Laura Trott scooped a second successive world omnium silver
  • Joanna Rowsell celebrates a gold in the individual pursuit at the track cycling world championships

    Joanna Rowsell clinches gold in world track cycling individual pursuit

    Britain's Joanna Rowsell bounced back from a chest infection to beat defending champion Sarah Hammer and win the three-kilometre event in Cali, Colombia.

November 2013

  • GB women's pursuit team

    Britain's women smash world record in team pursuit at World Cup

    Great Britain's Trott, King, Rowsell and Barker have won gold in the women's team pursuit, smashing the world record in the process, at the World Cup in Manchester

October 2013

  • Becky James

    Becky James: I'd love to rewind to amazing feeling of winning world gold

    Becky James views this weekend's World Cup in Manchester as a stepping stone to defending her world titles in February, she tells Donald McRae
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