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‘Nothing can replace face-to-face’

Online training data played an important role in recruiting riders to the Skoda DSI Cycling Academy – set up to give talented young female riders the chance to develop their skills under the tutelage of Dame Sarah Storey.

Cycling Weekly spoke to Storey to find out how riders were chosen for the five available spaces on the academy.

“We whittled down many hundreds of applications,” said the 14-time Paralympic champion. “There are major gaps [in opportunity]

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