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@WillMelling
I was in the car with my brother, sister-in-law and their two sons, who were about 10 and 12 at the time. We went for a day out to the Wirral and I'd told them that Chris Boardman was born, and still lived, there. On the way home, in the car, I saw a cyclist coming towards us. I looked again. And yelled "It's fucking Chris Boardman!". Profound silence. My sister-in-law is quite straight laced.
A few years later I nodded to him when he jogged past on the sea front at Hoylake.
Many years before that I stopped to say hello to Stephen Roche on Tottenham Court rd.
Then a couple of weeks ago I woke up next to both Phil and Paul in a small hotel in Knightsbridge. Still not sure what happened the night before or why Phil was dressed as a pirate.