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This feature originally appeared in Cycling Weekly magazine on 11 September 2025. Subscribe now and never miss an issue. Matthew Richardson was the last person in the velodrome to realise he had ...

Oblique Seville's been through his fair share of ups and downs on his path to becoming the world's fastest man -- and we're here to check all of them out. The Jamaican sprinter didn't earn constant ...