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' As Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Bradley Wiggins and others proved last summer at the Beijing Olympics, Britain rules the world when it comes to cycling, and not just on the track inside the world's velodromes. Nicole Cooke is the women's Olympic and world road race champion, Mark Cavendish won four stages of last year's Tour de France, and Shanaze Reade is the women's world BMX champion.
But you may not be quite so familiar with brother and sister combo Gee and Rachel Atherton.See the full content of this document
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Now That's a Family Outing
They happen to be the current male and female world downhill mountain bike champions after they both clinched the world title in Italy last year.
Rachel, 21, is blonde and pretty, feminine and tomboyish at the same time, while 24-year-old Gee (real name George) is lean and athletic with long, dark hair. They have an elder brother, too, called Dan, and he's not too shabby either when it comes to mountain- biking, having finished third in the 2008 world rankings. All three live together in a cottage not far from Shrewsbury and they eat, sleep and breathe mountain-biking.The Athertons now form Team Commencal, a self-sustained mountain bike team sponsored by Red Bull...See the full content of this document
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