Complex sentence: Michael Brian Cookson OBE is a road racing cyclist from Lancashire, and the president of British Cycling since 1997 after becoming a member of an'Emergency Committee' to rescue the organisation from insolvency in 1996.
Split into simpler sentences: Michael Brian Cookson OBE is a road racing cyclist from Lancashire. He has been president of British Cycling since 1997, after becoming a member of an emergency committee to rescue it from insolvency in 1996.