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opportunity lost perhaps? I wonder if Ned might have remained had the Metro published a full page correction in the next edition.
Admire your conviction Ned, but would't it have been better to eductae the stupids from within the organisation?
I very much doubt it. He may have tried that previously.
The fact that he is prepared to give up something he liked doing means it's important to him. On top of that the publicity is likely to be much more effective - a number of Ned's twitter followers are likely to give them some entirely justified grief, flagging the issue for their own followers in the process.
Agreed, well done to Boulting, definitely one of the good guys. And yet some idiots are still arguing it's the responsibility/fault of the rider ffs!
Horrible for the US guy, let's hope he'll be back on a bike in short order, as nasty as losing a part of your leg is there is no reason he can't carry on cycling even if that might not be at a top level but you just never know.
The women only doing 137km for the Olympic course is pretty sad, just why, in this age of equality why are the races still so short, surely the strongest riders will benefit from a harder/longer ride and that's really what we want isn't it?
Well done Ned for standing up for what you believe in, not just knuckling under like so many other journalists have done. I hope that some other, rather more ethical, publications snap up a contributer of such proven worth.
Not sure that the utter idiot of a driver being known to the police is much of a surprise, I'd have put money on it.