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Victoria Pendleton waves from the Olympic parade bus (Image CC licensed DCMS:Flickr)Victoria Pendleton falls from horse at Newbury
Victoria Pendleton has fallen off her horse during her third competitive race as an amateur jockey, but has walked away from the tumble unscathed.
The Olympic cycling champion, who won keirin gold at London 2012, was unseated from horse Satanic Beat at Newbury after briefly holding second position in the race.
The fall occurred in the final stages of the Rayner Bosch Car Service Handicap.
Victoria Pendleton gets amateur horse racing licence for first flat race on Monday
"I'm fine," the 35-year-old told the Racing Post.
"I lost my balance and couldn't regain it. It's so annoying but it won't put me off."
Pendleton retired from professional cycling in 2012 after winning gold medals in both the Beijing and London Olympics.
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade’s experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with road.cc, Laura has also written for national and specialist titles of all stripes. One part of the popular Streets Ahead podcast, she sometimes appears as a talking head on TV and radio, and in real life at conferences and festivals. She is also the author of Potholes and Pavements: a Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network.
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- eburtthebike 1 min 32 sec ago
Condolences to family and friends for this needless death....
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Also don't forget - Sustrans are a charity *....
- chrisonabike 17 min 14 sec ago
Yes ... but (just due to the large numbers of people affected) this likely would only proceed in the UK at a very ... cautious ... pace....
- hawkinspeter 22 min 34 sec ago
A handful of acorns should be enough to keep you going
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Pfffft! Tampico is so last-year. The best artisanal fibre for cleaning bikes is obviously free-range squirrel hair.
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Can't believe that child threw his bike on the floor at the end of that. Young people today have no respect... ;))
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Shouldn't this be in Horse and Hound or Country Life?
I hope she was wearing a hard hat.
Person falls off horse. Isn't hurt. Quiet news day?
This is not cycling news.
Nope, and I am not even sure it is news, more like celebrity tittle tattle. What next, Chris Hoy stubs toe on pavement, "It's ok he says, I have another 9 and they don't hurt at the moment"...