I would like to thank The Argus for publishing Cycling news and results each week.

Very few papers cover either cycling or other so-called minority sports.

Did you know a Welsh junior cyclist won three world championships this year?

The first was in mountain biking, the next in road time trialling and the third in road racing.

How many other British sports have a triple world champion in 2001?

She is Nicole Cooke, aged 18, who hails from Cardiff. She was not even mentioned on the BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year programme.

Michael Schumacher did get a mention but he finished second in the German sports personality awards.

The German number one is Erik Zabel, a professional racing cyclist, who was not mentioned by the BBC either. More Germans go to watch him than Schumacher.

The first sporting event to take place in Afghanistan after the Taliban were expelled from Kabul was a cycle race, with 20 riders taking part over a distance of 40 kilometres.

Thanks once again for reporting cycling news.

It will not be long before Great Britain has a winner of the Tour de France, which The Argus covered very well when it visited Brighton in 1994.

-Frank Blake, President, Brighton Mitre Cycling Club