Bob Aldridge dies

South African cycling journalists are mourning the death of colleague, acclaimed sportswriter and historian Bob Aldridge, who passed away on Wednesday evening after suffering a severe bout of asthma.

In his career, Aldridge managed great South African sporting personalities like show jumper Annelie Wucherpfenning and world motorbike champion Cork Ballington. As a writer, his uncompleted projects included the biography of former South African running great, Zola Budd, and a fact-based historical novel spanning fifty years from World War II. Aldridge started covering cycling four years ago.