{"id":149199,"date":"2025-06-01T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149199\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T10:20:09","slug":"raceway-to-be-renamed-to-honour-sir-mark-cavendish-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149199\/","title":{"rendered":"Raceway to be renamed to honour Sir Mark Cavendish this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdxnd5dree3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mural<\/a> featuring the names of hundreds of pupils as well as a new podium, finish lines and signage, which would also be unveiled at the launch event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspired by a quote from the cyclist reflecting on his experience before childhood races  &#8220;I dreamt of being like my heroes&#8221;, the line is featured in the artwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Mark said the raceway was where he &#8220;fell in love with cycling&#8221; and the was &#8220;deeply moved by the thought and detail that has gone into every element&#8221; of the mural.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project has seen children nominate their own heroes, design banners and submit questions for the event, with a select few chosen to interview him about his life and career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The  cycling legend took part in a similar event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cewlg20d2rxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last summer<\/a> when he participated in a lap of honour on the first time he returned to the island after breaking the record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daphne Caine, Education, Sport and Culture Minister said the cyclist was a &#8220;fantastic role model&#8221; adding that &#8220;young people are truly at the heart of this&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project includes a mural featuring the names of hundreds of pupils as well as a new podium,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}