Victoria Pendleton

As others have no doubt already said, due to the UCI's failure to award equal prize money for men and women, VP is just using this opportunity to supplement her income, and probably doubled her annual income by doing so.

The UCI is the world governing body for cycling and don't dish out prize money so I'm not sure where you got that from Tom.

There continued discrimination against female cyclists at the Olympics is a source of shame for them and I hope that British Cycling and HM Government are successful in their attempts to achieve equality in terms of medals available for female track cyclists. VB could have equalled Chris Hoy's achievements and won 3 golds at the Beijing Games but for the fact that there was only the female sprint available to her, with no keirin or team sprint on the women's programme. It's disgraceful that the UCI continue to allow this.