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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Ride London will return 'bigger and better' vows cycling tsar after 2025 event unexpectedly axed

London’s flagship annual cycling festival will return “bigger and better” in 2026 despite being forced to take a hiatus next year, the mayor’s walking and cycling commissioner has pledged.

Ride London, the main sporting legacy event from the 2012 Olympics, will not take place next May, causing widespread dismay among thousands of cyclists who had already signed up for the 100-mile event.

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