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Five British athletes are recovering after a sports cycle accident in Belgium. The five riders were all young women, aged between 18 and 20. Three of the cyclists were part of the British Cycling Olympic programme for the 2012 London games.

A bicycle accident which killed a Coventry man in April last year has been ruled as murder, rather than a tragic mistake. After a gruelling six day trial, the presiding judge sentenced driver Sean Richard Fitzgerald to life imprisonment for his a lethal assault on cyclist Paul Webb.

Life is tough if you’re a Cycle helmet. People always accuse you of being ugly and uncomfortable e. Some even question your safety merits – saying they are just as protected without one.

A 19 year old woman has been convicted of death by dangerous driving after killing an army sports cyclist. Katie Hart, a health worker from Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for the death of Major Gareth Rhys-Evans.

Warren Peters, a 45-year-old surveyor from West Sussex, was riding his bicycle along a stretch of road on his seven mile journey home from work when his front wheel hit a pothole in the road. Mr Peters was left unrecognisable, after he was thrown from his bicycle into the road. He suffered multiple fractures to his face and two black eyes as well as multiple cuts and bruises. He looked more like the victim of a vicious mugging rather than a pothole.

The teenager was riding his bike along Blacker Lane in the village of Netherton when it struck the kerb, causing him to fall.
He was taken to Pinderfield Hospital in Wakefield by air ambulance, but died a short time later.