There are thousands of bikes in this town. It's completely flat, making a bike the preferred mode of transport for our 45 or so team members here, not only back and forth to our team hotel but in and around the expansive venue.

Bikes are cheap to buy, and cost next to nothing to rent. More than one hotel makes them available at no cost to guests, like you might be loaned an umbrella on a rainy day at a flash hotel in London.


Dicko and Jane "Red Bull" Eagleson (USA), our intrepid media manager, biking back from the skippers' press conference this morning.