PREFACE
ISSUE 282 / JUNE 2021
EDWARD PICKERING EDITOR
Images: Rebecca Marshall (Bennett), David Ramos/Getty Images (Spain), Sean Hardy (Brennauer).
We’ve got Sam Bennett on the cover of the mag this month, and very happy we are about it too. Bennett’s popular for many reasons. He’s had to graft his way to the top, making incremental improvements year on year until he’s reached a position where there’s a very good case for him to be described as the best sprinter in the world. He’s also very correct as a sprinter - the elbows occasionally come out in the fight for position, but he tends to ride in a straight line to the finish. He’s popular with the press for being an accommodating interviewee - as you’ll see from Sophie Hurcom’s piece on page 32 and as you can probably tell from our cover shots and portraits.