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.
1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain The 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the fifth Kangaroo tour, and took the Australia national rugby league team around the north of England, to London and Paris. The tour also featured the 11th Ashes series which comprised three Test matches and was the first to be won by Great Britain in a clean sweep. The squad's outbound journey was marred by tragedy when Sydney University centre Ray Morris contracted meningitis en-route and died in hospital. The tour match played at Stade Pershing in Paris on New Year's Day 1934 was the first