I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

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• Lizzie Armitstead:

  I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

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  I'm old-fashioned.

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  I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing

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  I love being world champion.

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