He has been shot at, headbutted at high speed and his injuryography would read like a double-album of smash hits - but that hasn't stopped Julian Dean from having a blast these past 17 years.

It won't be a stylish honeymoon, but Kat and Steve Turner hope to be sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two - for 38,000 kilometres.

This will forever be remembered as the year in which a sporting legend was brought down. American Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France winner, was crushed by an inquiry into doping.

A cyclist who was almost killed when she and her husband were hit by a vehicle on a rural Taupo road says she no longer has any anger towards the driver.

Stephen Swart told an unpopular truth for the good it might do. It has taken years: 15 since he first told a journalist, eight since he became the first teammate of Lance Armstrong to go on the record about a plague of doping in their sport.

While there were many tears during the celebration of Patrick Avery's life, there were also plenty of laughs.

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A young cyclist who died suddenly last night is being described as one of New Zealand's most talented and gifted riders.