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Why Ben O'Connor got clear in Worlds final for silver and Ben …
WEB12 hours ago · Ben Healy put in several attacks in the final of the World Championships in Zurich on Sunday, hoping to get clear and ride to a medal having been one of the main animators of the action for the final 70km. However, while Healy’s multiple efforts were closed down by Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands), who wasn’t letting the Irish rider out ...
Healy and Ryan both best Irish finishers at Worlds since Kelly …
WEB2 days ago · Ben Healy’s 7th and Archie Ryan’s 21st in the men’s road race at the UCI World Road Championships on Sunday were both the best placings by elite Irishmen in a Worlds since the days of Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche. Kelly was the last Irishman to win a medal at an elite Worlds – bronze in Chambéry in 1989 – and was also 5th the ...
Healy lights up Worlds but huge ride just comes up short in Zurich
WEB2 days ago · Ben Healy has put in one of the rides of his life to mount an aggressive effort to try and take Ireland’s first medal in an elite road World Championships race for 25 years. Not since Chambéry in 1989 – when Sean Kelly was 3rd behind Greg Lemond and Dmitri Konychev – has Ireland taken a medal. However, Healy has underlined his status as ...
Stephen Roche welcomes Tadej Pogačar into "triple crown club"
WEB2 days ago · Stephen Roche was on hand at the end of the men’s road race at the UCI World Road Championships in Zürich today, when Tadej Pogačar became only the third rider in history to win the Worlds, Tour de France and Giro d’Italia in one season. The last rider to take the triple crown was, of course, Dubliner Roche, during his incredible 1987 ...
Ben Healy on his Zürich Worlds ride | "I laid it all on the line"
WEB2 days ago · September 29, 2024. Ben Healy on his Zürich Worlds ride | "I laid it all on the line". Ben Healy up the road with Toms Skujiņš during the men’s road race at the UCI World Road Championships in Zürich (Photo: Zac Williams-SWpix) Ben Healy put up a long-range attack at the UCI World Road Championships in Zürich today before being caught by ...
Critically injured Swiss rider's family want Worlds to continue ...
WEB4 days ago · Muriel Furrer, the young Swiss rider airlifted to hospital after sustaining head injuries in a heavy crash in the junior women’s road race at the Worlds, remains critically ill in hospital. Her injuries have cast a shadow over the UCI World Road Championships in Zurich, but the organisers have said the teenager’s family has been consulted ...
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Harvey, Meehan fight it out after gripping stage to Kerryman's …
WEBMar 31, 2024 · Dean Harvey (Trinity Racing) and Jamie Meehan (Cycling Ulster) came up together through VC Glendale and were also team mates at Spellman Dublin Port and today they proved the strongest on Kerryman’s Table after a fantastic stage 3 at Dornan Rás Mumhan. The two Ulster riders sprang from the quality four-man move that pulled away […]
The 'big stage' strategy and bike set-up that won 2,500km TransAtlantic ...
WEBJul 22, 2021 · Having won the near 2,500km TransAtlantic Race, Peter McColgan has revealed how he set out a series of stages for himself, of up to 860km each, in a pre-planned strategy to beat his main rival, Benny Cassidy. McColgan’s main approach was based on his assumption that Cassidy would be fast …