Every so often, extraordinary talents come along, and Eileen Sheridan was indisputably one of these. For a decade from the mid-1940s, she won nearly every road-cycling event then open to women, including bagging all 21 of the Road Records Association’s. Five of these remain untouched. Sheridan, dubbed the ‘Mighty Atom’ due to her diminutive 4’11” height, took women’s cycling records to another level during her brief career, forcing many to revise what
