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About Guy Danaway

Guy Danaway and his family live on the outskirts of Rugby. He is chairman of a small engineering company and has been a keen club cyclist for many years. He has edited Cycling Weekly since 1984 and is a regular contributor to the media on cycling issues. More Posts

Living in the present

Writing as someone whose degree of contact with the ways of the modern world is relatively limited and simultaneously – as technological progress continues at its breakneck speed – decreasing exponentially, I am watching from the welcome relative safety of the side lines as the generations [...]

April 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A typical media issue

We all have aspects of the media, or particular media traits, that annoy us or cause us to flirt with contempt towards the medium … and indeed those involved in the stories it runs. One of my pet hates are pieces featuring some obscure university research team that has apparently spent years of [...]

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A domestic eruption

On Friday through to Sunday each week – from about 22.00 to 0100 hours – Northern Ireland broadcaster Stephen Nolan hosts a Radio Five current affairs/news show on Radio Five Live. As my bedside radio is permanently tuned to said station and when I retire each evening I always press its [...]

November 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Charity begins at home

Yesterday, whilst I was continuing my four-day stay in the country, my host (an elderly relative) suddenly announced that he had decided to attend a service at his local church – thereby resuming his regular Sunday routine after a gap of about four months. Long ago he stopped going to the Matins [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

A gem of a day

Yesterday, responding to an invitation, I travelled to a village cricket game on the south coast in glorious sunshine – a journey sadly beset during its last four miles by having to take my place among a gridlocked stream of day-trippers and/or holiday makers on their way to the seaside. I’ve [...]

August 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Froome: le Dauphin

The preponderance of mountains in the final week gave an unfoar advantage to les grimpeurs (climbers) but still produced one of the most exciting Tours in years. Chris Froome went into yesterday’s stage defending a 2′ 38″ lead and knowing the Columbian Nauri Quintana must attack [...]

July 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Ashes, but not as we knew it

Let me begin with a shaggy dog story. Recently, after a two-year hiatus, my elderly father recently returned to the Sky TV fold by taking up a basic Sky Sports package. The tale by which he ‘gave up’ said item is sufficiently bizarre and illogical that it deserves an article, if not a full [...]

July 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Zoom on Froome. Is this right?

I do not always agree or support the sporting press. Particularly in football I find them too ready to report incident rather than analyse, too self important and pompous in positioning themselves as an interface between fan and the game. However in my sport, which has been so besmirched by doping [...]

July 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Le Tour: so far

With a 2’52” lead Chris Froome looks unassailable. As much credit must go to Geraint Thomas and Richie Porte his minders and wingmen at SKY as to the lead rider with his superhuman strength. It’s a sad reflection on our sport that questions are asked as to whether this was [...]

July 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Le Tour de France

Every National Rust sporting review inevitably begins with a call from John Pargiter for betting advice. The big four – Alberto Contador, Chris Froome , Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana – have dominated cycling to such an extent that one of them has won every major event save one [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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