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Rugby Legends to Ride The London-Paris 2010
London, UK. 1 March 2010
England and New Zealand rugby legends, Will Carling and Zinzan Brooke will be riding The London-Paris 2010. Carling, who won 72 caps for England and was captain from 1988-96, will cycle in the event from June 24th – 27th. Under his leadership, England won three Grand Slams and reached the 1991 World Cup final.
The HotChillee Summer of Cycling at BikeRadar Live
London, UK. 23 February 2010
Five new cycling races are to be staged at the legendary Brands Hatch racing circuit this summer by HotChillee, the global marketing and events company.
Rebecca Romero Ready For London-Paris 2010
London, UK. 22 January 2010
Olympic and former world cycling champion, Rebecca Romero, has confirmed that she’s targeting the World Time Trial Championships and says the Commonwealth Games are also in her sights.
Exclusive Places for London-Paris 2010
London, UK. 6 January 2010
The Geoff Thomas Foundation has 25 exclusive places available for London-Paris 2010. The L2P sold out in a record 20 hours in November but organisers, HotChillee, have committed the places to help in Geoff’s fight to find a cure for leukaemia.
Mavic Backs London-Paris 2010
London, UK. 16 December 2009
The legendary yellow support cars of the French wheel makers, Mavic are joining London-Paris 2010. As in the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix, Mavic’s technicians will provide neutral assistance and mechanical support to the L2P riders on the road to Paris.
Romero Speaks About Her Switch to Road Racing on BBC
London, UK. 11 December 2009
L2P rider and double Olympian Rebecca Romero has been speaking about her switch to road racing following changes to the Olympic track programme for London 2012.
Click here to see the video on BBC Sport >
L2P Fundraising Champions - THANK YOU!
London, UK. 3 December 2009
London-Paris 2009 has raised more than £100,000 for its partners and other charities. We’re now proud to announce the names of our fundraising champions for 2009. This year’s prestigious purple fundraising jersey goes to Alistair Mytton, who raised £3,750 and who is rewarded with two VIP box tickets to a Premiership football match, donated by adidas, and free entry to L2P 2010.
London
-Paris 2010 Sold Out
London, UK. 2 December 2009
The London-Paris 2010 has sold out in a record 20 hours – signalling a new explosion of interest in high quality cycle events. Riders from the UK, China, the United States, Australia, Hong Kong and Europe besieged the L2P website when registration opened on Monday (Nov 30th).
Romero to Ride London-Paris 2010
London, UK. 26 November 2009
Olympic and former world cycling champion, Rebecca Romero, is to ride London-Paris 2010. Romero, who won gold in the 3km individual pursuit at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the 3km individual pursuit world title in the same year, will line up with riders for the start of London-Paris 2010 on June 24th.
Cracknell Cracks Land's End-John O'Groats Record
London, UK. 19 October 2009
Double Olympic champion, James Cracknell, and Team HotChillee have set a stunning new record for cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Cracknell and a team of three elite riders rode the 842 miles in relay in 34 hours, 54minutes and 04 seconds (34:54:04). Their average speed was a staggering 24.10mph.
Cracknell Ready For HotChillee End to End
London, UK. 15 October 2009
Double Olympic champion, James Cracknell, and Team HotChillee are heading to Cornwall for the start of their attempt to set a world record for cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats this weekend. Cracknell and a team of three elite riders will take part in the HotChillee End To End Challenge starting at 05.00 on Saturday, October 17th.
Cracknell To Attempt Land's End to John O'Groats Record
London, UK. 08 October 2009
Double Olympic champion, James Cracknell, will attempt to set a world record for cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats this month. Cracknell and a team of three elite riders will take part in the HotChillee End To End Challenge starting on Saturday, October 17th.
Dates Announced for London-Paris Cycle Tour 2010
London, UK. 30 September 2009
The London-Paris 2010 (L2P) will run from Thursday, June 24th to Sunday, June 27th. HotChillee, the global marketing and events company which stages the pro-am style cycle ride, has announced the 2010 dates as early as possible because of unprecedented interest in next year’s event.
Glorious Finish for London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour
London, UK. 29 June 2009
Glorious sunshine and a Parisian heatwave greeted the 300 London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour riders at the finish under the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. The sunshine was a reward for the riders who battled their way through flash floods, thunder and lightning over the 540km, three day ride, staged by global sports event company HotChillee.
Bon Voyage From Carla Bruni
London, UK. 23 June 2009
The London-Paris Cycle Tour 09 has received a message from Madame Carla Sarkozy, the wife of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. A letter received from the Elysee Palace said: “She wishes you every success with this great sporting event.”
Stars Line Up For London Paris Cycle Tour 09
London, UK. 17 June 2009
Former Tour de France winner Stephen Roche heads the line-up for this year’s London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour, which starts on Thursday, June 25th. Roche, an ex-world champion and Giro d’Italia winner, is joined by a host of riders from cycling, sport and show business.
Winning Devils
London, UK. 01 June 2009
Sigma Sport riders, Jerone Walters and Wouter Sybrandy, took the top places in The Devil Takes the Hindmost race on the Donington Park track at BikeRadar Live on Sunday (May 31st). Canadian tri-athlete, Luke Dragstra, of Planet X, was third.
Hot Devils
London, UK. 28 May 2009
The women of the HotChillee Challenge Team will be competing in this Sunday’s “Devil Takes The Hindmost” at BikeRadar Live at Donington Park in the East Midlands.
Olympic Rower Gets on Her Bike
London, UK. 18 May 2009
Double Olympic rowing medallist Elise Laverick is to ride next month’s London-Paris Cycle Tour. Like her Great Britain team-mate, Olympic and World Champion Rebecca Romero, Laverick is making the switch from rowing to cycling.
When Cycling Met Football
London, UK. 08 May 2009
England manager Fabio Capello presented a £40,000 cheque to the Geoff Thomas Foundation at last night’s launch of the London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour, held at the Football Association’s headquarters in Soho Square, London. News story and photos now online.
HotChillee Classroom
London, UK. 01 May 2009
Cyclists who rode last year’s London-Paris Cycle Tour have paid for a new classroom at a school in South Africa. Riders raised £20,894 for Christel House, a youth education charity, in Cape Town, and children have named the new classroom “HotChillee” after the company which stages the London-Paris Cycle Tour.
Special Bikes
London, UK. 27 April 2009
The London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour Ride Captains have taken delivery of their brand new Specialized bikes. Specialized are the official bicycle sponsors of this year’s event and have also supplied bikes to the London-Paris 09 lead partner, The Geoff Thomas Foundation.
Roche to Take on HotChillee's Devil
London, UK. 09 April 2009
Cycling legend and Tour de France winner, Stephen Roche is returning to competitive cycling in Britain next month and cyclists across the UK are being invited to race with him.
Roche, who won the Tour, the World Championship and the Giro d’Italia in 1987, will compete in The Devil Takes the Hindmost race at Donington Park on Sunday, May 31st.
Here Come the Girls!
London, UK. 02 April 2009
More women than ever before are taking up cycling and female entries to this year’s London-Paris 09 Cycle Tour are at their highest level in the event’s six year history. Following the success of Olympians like Nicole Cooke, Rebecca Romero and Victoria Pendleton, British Cycling is reporting a boom in women participating in the sport. Female membership of British Cycling has risen by 25 per cent in the past year. Women’s cycling is the fastest growing category within the sport and 44 per cent of women members now hold a competitive racing licence.
The heat is on for HotChillee 
London, UK. 11 March 2009
The HotChillee Challenge Team survived the scorching wind and a South African heatwave in last weekend’s Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town.
The women’s team, the first women’s international visiting team to compete in the event, are celebrating two top ten finishes in the elite group, with Tanja Slater and Nikki Harris finishing 9th and 10th respectively. Penny Krohn posted her 25th win in a row in the event, finishing 1st in her age category. In the men’s event, HotChillee’s Jerone Walters, a London-based Australian, finished 2nd in the men’s invitational group. More...
HotChillee Women Head for Africa 
London, UK. 18 February 2009
A British women’s cycling team is to compete for the first time in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town, South Africa.
The HotChillee Challenge Team will be managed by Australian, Scott Sunderland, who as director of sport at CSC, helped mastermind Carlos Sastre’s victory in last year’s Tour de France.
The HotChillee team, who’ll ride in the event on March 8th, will be led by Great Britain’s Emma Davies, a former professional cyclist who has competed at two Olympic Games. More...
HotChillee Launches - Adventure Without Limits 
London, UK. 30 January 2009
The mastermind behind the London-Paris 09 Cycle Pro-Am, Sven Thiele, has launched HotChillee, a new global sports events company.
Building on the success of British Cycling and the growing interest in the sport, HotChillee will initially concentrate on staging and marketing high quality cycling events. The company will also develop a series of high-octane, adventurous events, featuring international sporting heroes. More...
Scott Sunderland To Ride London-Paris 09 
London, UK. 20 January 2009
One of the world’s leading road racing managers is to ride this year’s London-Paris Cycling Pro-Am. Scott Sunderland, who helped mastermind Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France triumph last year, will be back in the saddle for the event in June. More...
Specialized Team up with London-Paris
London, UK. 22 December 2008
Specialized, the premium bicycle brand from the USA, has signed a deal to be the official bike sponsors for London-Paris ’09.
Specialized, based in California, will become the main jersey sponsor for eight team captains and supply them with helmets, race shoes, gloves and eyewear. Specialized riders will be equipped with Tarmac Expert or Roubaix Expert bicycles. More...
Cycling hat trick for City Lawyer
London, UK. 15 December 2008
London-Paris 08 rider Anthony Burnett-Scott has won the event’s prestigious purple jersey which is awarded for the biggest fund-raising effort, for the third year running. Burnett-Scott, a partner at international law firm Ashurst, raised over £15,000 (fifteen thousand pounds) for the event’s three nominated charities. He will have the honour of wearing his jersey as he leads cyclists into Paris at the end of next summer’s London-Paris CycleTour alongside other jersey winners in the event. More...
Cycling is the new golf.
London, UK. 3 December 2008
It’s not just the kids who will be getting bicycles left under the Christmas tree by Santa Claus this year - bikes are the new ‘must have’ toy for the big boys too. Cycling is fast becoming the new boom sport for businessmen, as corporate bosses forsake their traditional playground of the golf course in favour of getting out on their bikes. Britain’s success at the Beijing Olympics, which included gold medal performances by Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins, has also added to the popularity of the sport. But it’s in the business world where cycling is having the biggest impact. More...
Roche Back on the Road
London, UK. 12 November 2008
Cycling legend and Tour de France winner Stephen Roche has signed up to ride London-Paris ’09. London-Paris (25-28 June, 2009) is Britain’s premier Pro-Am cycle event – a professionally organised ride for amateur cyclists and is the closest the amateur rider can get to competing in the Tour. Roche will be joined by former British road race champion, Brian Smith, and ex-England footballer, Geoff Thomas. The Geoff Thomas Foundation, which aims to fund blood cancer research, has been named as the lead fundraising partner for London-Paris ’09. More...
L2P ’08 Riders to run NYC Marathon with Geoff Thomas
London, UK. 26 October 2008
A number of L2P 08 riders will be attempting the New York marathon in support of the Geoff Thomas Foundation. The 2008 riders include cancer survivor and ex England footballer Geoff Thomas, TdF, Giro and World Champion winner Stephen Roche, double British Road Race Champion Brian Smith, television commentator Anthony Mccrossan, SiS Founder Pete Slater, GB triathelete and stage winner of the women’s TdF, Tanja Slater and Chairman and founder of the L2P, Sven Thiele. Eurosport’s David Harmon sadly had to withdraw due to injury. More...
London-Paris Cycle Tour announces dates for 2009 Tour.
London, UK. 9 October 2008
The London-Paris Cycle Tour has today announced the dates for the 2009 Tour which will take place from 25-28 June 2009. The event will open for registration in mid November and next year is expected to be another major step forward with some new event features. The highlight last year were the rolling road closures all the way into the centre of Paris, finishing at the Eiffel Tower. More...
Record number of Team Entries for 2008 London-Paris Cycle Tour
London, UK. 27 May 2008
The London-Paris Cycle Tour which will roll away from Hampton Court Palace on 26th of June will boast a record line up of teams ready to take on the challenge of the 3 day, 600km run to the Eiffel Tower.
One familiar name to cycling fans the world over will be entering the event for the first time. CSC will field a strong team drawn from their corporate organisation and sporting the famous Team CSC colours. The company, which currently sponsors the world’s number 1 professional squad will for the 1st time, be extending their links with cycling into the sportive arena. Thankfully for the other teams riding the 2008 L2P, they will not be recruiting any of their star professionals such as Milan San-Remo and Eroica winner Fabian Cancellara! More...
Geoff Thomas Foundation is guest CSR Partner for 2008 L2P
London, UK. 9 May 2008.
Former Crystal Palace skipper, England soccer star and super-cycling charity fundraiser Geoff Thomas, will line up as part of an all-star team in the 2008 London-Paris Cycle Tour when the event rolls out for its 3 day, 600km route to the Eiffel Tower in June. More...
London-Paris Cycle Tour Riders to be supported Subaru.
London, UK. 28 April 2008.
Multiple World Rally Championship – winning marque Subaru, is to become official vehicle supplier to the London-Paris Cycle Tour from 2008.
Subaru, which recently launched the boxer diesel version of its famous flat-four engine, has had an association with professional cycling in the past. It provided team vehicles for Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal squad in the 1990’s and is currently supplying French Pro-Tour outfit Bouygues Telecom. More...
London-Paris Cycle Tour 2008 ushers in a new era for cyclosportives
London, UK. 15 April 2008.
The London-Paris Cycle Tour 2008 continues to lead the field in the ultra competitive world of cyclosportives with the announcement of new and significant partners that will ensure that the mass participation rides move up to a new level.
In a star-studded press conference at Stamford Bridge (shown right), home of English Premiership soccer team Chelsea, event organiser Sven Thiele unveiled an exciting double partnership with sportswear giant adidas and the governing body of cycling in the U.K. British Cycling. More...
Amateur Cycle Tour offers Professional Touch
London, UK. 10 April 2008.
For every amateur cyclist who craves being part of a professionally organised race where roads are closed and mechanical problems are resolved in seconds there is the London-Paris Cycle Tour. This year the event will reach a whole new level with increased numbers and an exciting new line of up sponsors, including sportswear giant, adidas. More...
A Galaxy of Cycling Stars to ride L2P in 2008
London, UK. 08 April 2008
Following the much talked about rides of ‘King of the Classics’ Sean Kelly and triple Tour of Flanders winner Johan Museeuw in 2007, the London-Paris Cycle Tour is set to welcome a new wave of star riders to the event for 2008.
Exactly 21 years after his legendary triple crown of Giro d’Italia, World Championship and Tour de France victories, Irish superstar Stephen Roche will once again lead the peloton into Paris, this time with the London-Paris Cycle Tour. More...
Science in Sport sign deal as official nutrition partner with London-Paris Cycle Tour.
London, UK. 07 April 2008
U.K. Sports nutrition manufacturer Science in Sport is to become the Official Nutrition Partner to the London-Paris Cycle Tour in a deal signed this week.
The company, founded by Tim Lawson and Peter Slater will provide product and nutritional advice to the L2P community in the run up to and during the 2008 event which runs from 26th – 29th June. More...
Jersey Sponsors Sign for 2008
London, UK. 05 March 2008
A new and exciting route awaits the riders in the 2008 London-Paris Cycle Tour as the ‘Professional Event for Amateurs’ will, like the Tour de France itself on occasion, visit the cobbles of northern France, before swinging south to finish at the Eiffel Tower in the heart of the French capital.
However, while new riding challenges await the participants, the 3 classification jerseys on offer for Best Climber, Best Sprinter and Overall Leader will have a familiar and very welcome feel about them as all 3 major jersey sponsors continue their support for the event for another edition. More..