{"id":485982,"date":"2026-03-20T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:43:10","slug":"greg-james-completes-comic-relief-cycle-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485982\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg James completes Comic Relief cycle challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC Radio 1’s Greg James has crossed the finish line of his Comic Relief tandem cycling challenge, raising more than \u00a34m for charity. <\/p>\n

The breakfast show presenter set off on his 1,000km (630-mile) journey through England, Wales and Scotland, from Weymouth, Dorset, last Friday.<\/p>\n

Along the way, the second saddle on his two-seater was filled by special guests including comedian Joe Lycett, fellow Radio 1 host Jamie Laing and, in a surprise appearance, The Prince of Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roaring crowds welcomed Greg – who said he’d “never cycle again” after an emotional, gruelling, week – as he pulled into Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, to complete his challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 1’s Greg James has crossed the finish line of his Comic Relief tandem cycling challenge, raising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}