Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Louise Pendleton, MBE (born 24 September 1980) is a British former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines.
Pendleton represented Great Britain and England in international competition, winning nine world titles including a record six in the individual sprint competition. Pendleton is the reigning World champion for the sprint, and a former Olympic, European and Commonwealth champion. In 2012 she won the gold medal in the keirin at the 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as silver in the sprint.
In the 2009 New Year Honours Pendleton was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Read more about Victoria Pendleton: Early Life, Outside Cycling, Personal Life, Palmarès
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“The men who are grandfathers should be the fathers. Grandpas get to do it right with their grandchildren.”
—Anonymous Grandparent. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 2 (1992)