Hurricane turns Surrey sportive into epic challenge


  • Cycling
  • Monday, 11 Aug 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - Exhilarating, challenging, absolutely ridiculously soaking - when the tail end of Hurricane Bertha met 21,000 amateur cyclists in the Prudential Surrey 100, a fun day out in the country was transformed into true test of man and machine.

When the riders lined up in the shadow of the velodrome in Olympic Park on Sunday, two years on from the Games that has transformed that swathe of east London, the daunting weather forecast had already made a major impact.

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