Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial The men's road time trial, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 1 August over a course in southwest London and Surrey. Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain won the gold medal. Each nation in the top 15 of the 2011 UCI World Tour, top 7 of the UCI Europe Tour, top 4 of the UCI America Tour, top 2 of the UCI Asia Tour and leaders of the UCI Oceania and Africa Tours qualified to have one rider in the race.
Tour of Britain a police motorcyclist being killed in a collision with a motorist near Worcester. After a five-year hiatus, the Tour of Britain returned in 2004. It began as a five-stage race before increasing to an eight-stage race in 2008. Like the preceding PruTour, it is a professional men's race, attracting UCI World Tour teams, although it has also attracted semi-professional teams and the amateur Great Britain national team. From 2014, the race has been rated 2.HC by the UCI and forms part of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2004 Tour of Britain was the first edition of the latest version of