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Trhas Tesfay, who fled war in Ethiopia, says she suffers hunger headaches as she cannot eat Home Office hotel mealsOne of Ethiopia’s elite female cyclists will be pedalling at the front of one of London’s biggest bike races next month while living in an asylum seeker hotel on less than £10 a week.Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay, 22, rode a bicycle for the first time when...

Neil and Lora Fachie targeted along with pilot Corinne HallCyclists ‘shaken up’ by incident on opening day of worldsThree members of the British para-cycling track team were robbed of their silver medals and other possessions in a mugging after the opening day of the world championships in Rio de Janeiro.Lora and Neil Fachie, who are both double Paralympic champions, and pilot Corinne Hall were...

Set up to honour the Australian national team cyclist killed by a car, the group was behind the successful A Metre Matters campaignFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian cycling safety advocacy body behind the successful A Metre Matters campaign is being wound up after federal government funding was...

Regulator demands recall of two models, understood to affect about 10,000 of the popular productsDutch authorities have ordered a leading European manufacturer of cargo bikes to suspend sales and recall thousands of its products amid safety concerns over frame breakages.The Dutch regulator for food and consumer product safety (NVWA) called a temporary halt to trading by Babboe, which makes family cargo bikes seen daily...

The 47-year-old says he is undergoing chemotherapy, which is ‘going really well’The Olympic track cycling champion Chris Hoy has announced he has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.The six-time gold medallist told followers on his Instagram account that he had hoped to keep his diagnosis private but said his hand was forced. He added that he is receiving treatment and remains optimistic for the months...

Blaze broke out at Croydon building Friday morning, with firefighters highlighting risks from lithium batteriesAn e-bike workshop has been destroyed in an early morning fire in Sydney’s inner west, causing road closures along the suburb’s shopping strip.Residents were woken just before 5am on Friday after the fire broke out at the building on Elizabeth Street in Croydon. Continue reading...

Husband Rohan Dennis, a fellow world champion rider, has been charged with killing Hoskins with his vehicle on the weekendThe devastated family of world champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins have remembered her as a freewheeling spirit with a big heart as they struggle to come to terms with her death.The 32-year-old mother of two died in hospital after she was struck by a car on...