William Fotheringham
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/ 16 May 2008

The shrink who makes you bigger

”The sign on the door in the bowels of the Manchester Velodrome reads simply ”Steve Peters”, but there is plenty else it could say. Abandon preconceptions all those who enter here.” William Fotheringham reports on the psychiatrist who is turning Britain’s Olympic cycling team into a superfast and ultra-efficient unit.

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/ 3 August 2007

No one deserves the yellow jersey

I didn’t watch Alberto Contador putting on the final yellow jersey of this year’s Tour de France in Paris. As I said, even before the disaster unfolded, this wasn’t a Tour where I was going to get worked up about who won. By Sunday I had gone beyond indifference into mild animosity. To date, there is no evidence against Contador.