The love songs on Middle Cyclone are also unconventional: The opening track, "This Tornado Loves You, " imagines what it would be like to have an affair with a funnel cloud.

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The 24-year-old, nicknamed The Colne Cyclone, won gold in the men's team pursuit track cycling at London 2012.

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