Today's Number: 20,000
The amount in pounds the Liverpool rider Chris Boardman had to dig out of sponsors and his own pocket in order to mount yesterday's successful assault on the blue riband of cycling records, the world one-hour distance record, at a velodrome in Bordeaux.
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