A British athlete in a mountain bike event during the 2023 Cycling World Championship. Photo credit: SWPix. By Anders Lorenzen Anyone who tuned in to the world championship in cycling currently underway in Glasgow was greeted with one of the world’s largest culprits of the climate crisis. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell, the fossil fuel giant, was shamefully appointed as […]
climate change By Anders Lorenzen In our obituary of the tragic passing of the professional cyclist Gino Mäder, we pointed out he was a passionate and dedicated environmentalist seeking to raise awareness about environmental destruction and climate change through his sport. The Basque cyclist Pello Bilbao who rode with Mäder on the Bahrain Victorius cycling team is honouring his former […]
Gino Mäder. Photo credit: Nicola, Wikimedia Commons, CC-by-sa 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen When the charismatic and much-loved road-racing cyclist Gino Mäder tragically passed away earlier this month after a horrible crash on the descent during a dangerous stage in the stage race Tour de Suisse in his homeland of Switzerland much of the post-debate will […]