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    REFLECTED GLORY

    Apr 16, 2020 5 minutes
    Photos Getty Images, PA Images, Yuzuru Sunada

    It’s a warm August evening in York and in a rented house 20 women, all dressed up for a big hen night out on the town are huddled around the TV. One of the party, however, is missing. Becky James was invited but she is about to start the keirin final at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

    In the Yorkshire living room in the middle of the group, dolled-up, dead centre and with a glass of wine in hand is her sister Rachel James. “I was the maid of honour so I organised it, it was perhaps a slight oversight that it clashed with the Olympics because Beck did know the girl getting married as well, she was invited,” she recalls a little sheepishly. “We had it all planned out; we went go-karting during the

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