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More Medal Success For Irish Paracyclists
Colin Lynch and Eoghan Clifford have won time trial gold on another day of medal winning success for the Ireland squad at the UCI Paracycling Road World Cup in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland today. Double world championship winner Lynch made it back-to-back successes in world cup time trials with victory in the MC2 time trial following his…
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CX Series Continues in Ormeau Park
Ormeau Park in Belfast was the venue for Round 8 of the Ulster Cyclo-cross series with host club, Xmtb providing their expertise in creating courses to suit and challenge all age groups. Xmtb is well accustomed to putting on events at this venue, especially with their popular Spring series, and thanks have to go to…
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Snow Capped Mountains Backdrop to Final Round of CX Series
Donard Park in Newcastle was the venue for the 9th and final round of the 2017 Ulster Cyclo-cross Series. The beautiful park, lying just behind the main promenade of this seaside town, has the backdrop of the Mourne Mountains, which, at this time of the year were topped with snow. Race day morning was dry…
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Aiken in Top Form at Larne
Team Madigan promoted Round 6 of the Ulster Cyclocross Series on Sunday. Despite the fact that some of the course had been vandalised the hardworking crew at Team Madigan had everything up an running in time for the feast of racing events. There was the usual Youth racing to start with and numbers here seem…
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Champions Crowned at Ulster CX Championships at Mallusk
The Ulster Cyclo-cross Championships were held at Mallusk Playing Fields on the outskirts of Belfast. The venue had been used last year for the same event and thanks have to be expressed for Glenn Kinning, his club mates at Kinning Cycles and to the other friends from other clubs who helped out as well. The…
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Competitive Events this Weekend
This weekend sees Newry Wheelers promote their very popular three day stage race on Friday to Sunday while in Donegal Four Masters Cycling Club witll be promoting the JG Memorial Race on Saturday For those who prefer to go it alone against the clock you can line up in the Ulster 50mile Tommy Givan Championship…
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Breck Epic Report Day 1 by Ciara MacManus
Team Summit Mountain Biking at Breck Epic 2016 – Colorado The Breck Epic MTB race is a 6 day stage race centred around the town of Breckenridge, Colorado at an elevation of 2900m with each stage starting and finishing in and around the town and ranging from 55km – 70km in length and topping out…
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Island Wheelers Promote Rd 5 Ulster Cyclocross Series
Round 5 of the 2016 Ulster Cyclo-cross series took place at Windmill Park in Dungannon for the fifth year hosted by Island Wheelers with the co-operation and support of Mid Ulster District Council.As usual there was a full complement of races for young riders from Under 6 upwards. The youth courses include the usual dismount…
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More Gold in the Bank For Downey
Winning Streak Continues for Downey and English with a Gold in the Madison in LA Ireland’s Mark Downey and Felix English have rounded off the final event in the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup in La with a gold medal win in the Madison. The Madison is a new event on the Olympic calendar…
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Breck Epic Stage 3 – 66km 2200m ascent
Stage 3 was billed at the “Queen Stage” and would take us up over 3600m over French Pass and across the continental divide twice. On top of the back issues I had picked up a chest infection from the inhaled dust on Stage 1 so decided to take this much bigger day as it came…
