Last night Victoria attended the star studded opening night of Goldie’s Athleticizm exhibition in London Bridge.
The exhibition is of twelve of Britain’s leading Olympic hopefuls including Victoria, Jessica Ennis and Tom Daley.
All of the paintings have been created by urban art pioneer Goldie as part of a special collaboration with adidas to celebrate London 2012.
The exhibition runs from Friday 28th October until Thursday 3rd November.
For more information see here
Victoria competed in three events at the European Track Cycle Championships last weekend in The Netherlands winning two Gold medals.
The three-day event at Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands started with the Team Sprint on the Friday which Victoria won in awesome style with team mate Jess Varnish.
Victoria showed determination and self-belief after her knock back on Saturday in the Sprint by going on to win Gold in Sunday’s Keirin final.
British Cycling’s performance director, Dave Brailsford summed up her performance:-
“You don’t get to be multiple Olympic champion if you haven’t got any guts, and that girl’s got guts – oodles of it. She showed that today, she’s determined and she came back fighting after a tough day yesterday, and she rode a world-class keirin there.”
Victoria will not be competing in next month’s World Cup event in Kazakhstan, as she will instead focus on intensive winter training. The next big event for Victoria will be February’s World Cup, which doubles as the Olympic test event.
The second Cycletta event, Cycletta North took place in Tatton Park, Cheshire.
Cycletta, sponsored by SkyRide is a unique series of woman-only, mass-participation cycle events aiming to inspire female cyclists.
Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton encouraged the 800 participants of varying ability with her usual inspiring words at the start before they headed off to navigate the 40 km route through scenic Cheshire.
Along the route, which navigated country roads of Ashley, Mobberley and the stunning Cheshire countryside, there was an amazing buzz of excitement generated by cyclists and supporting spectators. Cyclists were also supported along the way by mechanics, medics and feed stations.
At the finish line, participants were welcomed home with free massages, helmet hair remedy centre, a chill out area provided by Sky and British Cycling, a Cycletta bracelet and amazing goody bag including Grazia magazine!
Cycletta is already proving to be a success with woman realising they can cycle 40km in one day and enjoy the freedom of being on two wheels. This is aided by Victoria’s support and commitment to inspiring woman to take up cycling as a meaningful fitness and lifestyle pursuit, whilst also providing current cyclists with a fun environment to pursue their passion.
We hope to see many more woman taking to two wheels!
To see more photos and read comments from participants at Cycletta North visit the the Cycletta Facebook page.
To join the female cycling revolution and for more information visit Cycletta website
Victoria was joined by 800 women of all cycling abilities to pedal 40km around the scenic roads of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the first of two Cycletta events for 2011 sponsored by Sky Ride.
Cycletta
Cycletta events are designed to encourage more women to enjoy cycling and fundraise for Macmillan Cancer Research.
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo provided the perfect start venue for all participants with inspiring words from Olympic Champion, Victoria, to kick things off.
At the finish line, participants were welcomed home with free massages, helmet hair remedy centre, a chill out area provided by Sky and British Cycling, a Cycletta bracelet and amazing goody bag to boost satisfaction for completing the route.
There was an amazing buzz of excitement along the route where cyclists were also supported by mechanics, medics and feed stations.
Finisher times ranged from a speedy hour and a quarter to over three hours with Victoria taking her time enjoying the route and talking to participants on the way round, with 75% taking part in their first ever cycling event.
Victoria said “It was such a privilege to ride alongside 100s women in Cycletta South. I was able to speak to lots of girls on the way round and the enthusiasm and atmosphere was infectious. It is great to see so many more women cycling, not just at Cycletta but every day, and we really hope this continues. Well done girls.”
To join the female cycling revolution and for more information visit Cycletta website
Victoria presented a BAFTA at the Television Awards on Sunday night in London alongside heavyweight boxer David Haye.
The Sports Coverage award went to BBC Sport for it’s coverage of the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
She looked stunning in a dress provided by Stella McCartney (below!).
BAFTA TV Awards
Victoria played some of her favourite songs on Radio 2′s Dermot O’Leary’s show on Saturday.
Here’s a list of her 10 favourites but they only had time to play three because she was getting on so well with him!
Smashing pumpkins, Siamese Dream, Today
Massive attack, Mezzanine, Angel
Prodigy. Fat of the land . Breathe
30 sec to mars, This is War, Kings and queens
Foo fighters, Echoes, silence patence and grace. Pretender Or Let it die
Foo fighters, The colour and shape, Evermore
Birds of Tokyo, Birds of tokyo, Plans
Radiohead, The Bends, High and dry
Sigur Ros. Takk. Hoppipolla
Jay-Z and Linkin Park. Collision course EP. Points of Authority/ 99 Problems/One step closer
Victoria with Dermot
Victoria has been photographed as a cyclist from 1896 when the modern Olympics began and from 1984 when women’s cycling was first introduced into the Olympics (below).
As a sustainability partner to the London 2012 Olympics, EDF Energy are aiming to make the the 2012 Games as low carbon as the first Games in 1896.
Their new tv ad which will broadcast for the first time on Sunday aims to emphasize this.
1984
Today’s Evening Standard ES Magazine will feature Victoria on the cover with an additional six pages dedicated to her inside of incredible shots by photographer Jonathan Glynn-Smith.
Watch Victoria take on the Sale Sharks rugby players including England wing Mark Cueto in a fitness test!!
VICTORIA & MARK CUETO
16 Brides get on their bikes with Victoria to get fit for their big day
Victoria helped 16 ladies shape-up by putting them through a ‘Bridal Bootcamp’ on behalf of ‘The Bahamas 16 Islands Wedding Invitation’ promotion.
Victoria has teamed-up with The Bahamas Tourist Office to promote ‘The Bahamas 16 Islands Wedding Invitation’. The Bahamas 16 Islands Wedding Invitation is a once-in-a-lifetime, competition for 16 lucky couples to win a luxury wedding on one of the main 16 Islands of The Bahamas. Once selected the 16 winning couples will marry simultaneously on 16th May 2012, at 16:00 hours on 16 different islands.
Prior to this, a photo-shoot of the 16 woman wearing wedding dresses and sitting astride bikes behind Victoria took place outside The City Point gym in London, attracting rather a lot of attention from passersby. The fact it was in the dreary English rain only added to the lure of tying the knot on one of those 16 Bahaman beaches!
The Bahamas 16 Weddings Invitation will be running until 30th November 2011.
For more information please and to apply click here
Victoria’s Special Wedding Workout will also feature on this website.
Follow the 16 Islands Wedding Invitation on twitter: @Bahamas16wed
Follow Victoria Pendleton on twitter: @v_pendleton