Emma Pooley: CW's Top British Rider of 2010

Emma Pooley

When you consider that Mark Cavendish won five stages of the Tour de France, it has taken a special season by a remarkable rider to pip him to the title of Cycling Weekly's British Rider of the Year.

Step forward Emma Pooley. The uniquely self-depreciating Pooley deserves all the plaudits that have come her way. That she has been recognised by the nation's sportswriters is peculiar considering how little oxygen her achievements have been allowed in the newspapers.

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