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Double Champion Power Back For FBD Insurance Rás
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| Ciaran Power |
The line-up of this year’s FBD Insurance RÁS has been further boosted by the confirmation that double winner Ciarán Power will take part in this year’s race, which starts in just over two week’s time.
After winning overall in 1998 and 2002, Power last competed in the FBD Insurance RÁS three years ago when he won stages into Ballina and Oldcastle and finished second in the points classification.
Since then he has missed the race due to commitments with his professional Navigators team, but will return this year as part of his build-up to full fitness after an operation earlier this season. In recent years Power, who was a superb 13th in the Olympic road race in Athens, had been increasingly affected by a blood flow obstruction that led to numbness and a loss of power in one of his legs. That problem has now been successfully treated and he is raring to go. More>>>
Three National Champions For FBD Rás Grant Thornton Irish Team
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| David O'Loughlin |
Irish Road Race Champion, David O’Loughlin, is to spearhead a very strong Grant Thornton Irish National Team for the FBD Insurance RÁS 8 Day international cycle race that starts from Dublin in less than three weeks time.
Cycling Ireland has confirmed O’Loughlin, a full time professional rider with the New Jersey-based Navigators team and third overall in the 2004 RÁS, is to lead a young, but experienced national team in an attempt to gain control over many professional teams already booked for the prestigious Irish tour. More>>>
Mark Lovatt Leads Experienced Doncaster Stena Line Team
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| Mark Lovatt |
Current FBD INSURANCE RÁS King of the Mountains Champion, Briton Mark Lovatt, will lead a powerful Doncaster Stena Line team in next month’s FBD Insurance RÁS, which starts from Dublin on the 21st and finishes in Skerries on Sunday 28th May. Lovatt is joined by three other seasoned campaigners, Wayne Randle, John Tanner and Gavin Evans, while up and coming young rider, Ashley Brown, has the potential to outshine his more illustrious compatriots More>>>
Polish Professional team for FBD Insurance Rás
The strength of the foreign opposition in this year’s FBD Insurance RÁS, which starts from Dublin on the 21st of next month, continues to mount with the news that the powerful Polish professional team, Legia-Bazylisek, has confirmed its participation for the big Irish 8 Day International Cycle Race. Team Legia now joins the USA, Canada, Norway and Britain as certain starters when the race takes to the roads of Ireland in a little over four weeks time. More>>>
Top Norweigian And Canadian Teams Announced for FBD Insurance Rás
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| Tamas Lengyel Sparebanken Vest Norway |
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| Andrew Randell Symmertrics Cycling Canada |
month away, two more strong, foreign, professional teams have been confirmed for the world-ranked event.
Race organiser Dermot Dignam announced this week that the Norway-Sparebanken Vest and the Canada-Team Symmetrics squads would be making the trip to Ireland for the May 21st start in Dublin. Their addition brings the number of Continental, professional, level teams to four, following the previous confirmation of USA-TIAA CREF and GB-Recycling.co.uk. More>>>
Former World Champion Leads Top US Team In FBD Insurance Rás
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| Danny Pate former world under 23 Time Trial Champion |
One week after it was confirmed that defending champion Chris Newton and his professional team, Recycling.co.uk, will return to the FBD Insurance Rás comes the news that former world under 23 Time Trial Champion, Danny Pate, will lead the powerful American professional squad, TIAA-CREF, in the big Irish international race when it gets underway from Dublin on Sunday 21st of next month. More>>>
Newton To Defend His FBD Rás Title
Last year’s FBD Insurance Rás winner Chris Newton will once again be one of the big danger men when the big 8 day international cycle race gets underway from Dublin on Sunday 21st May. Confirmation that Newton will lead the powerful British professional squad, Recycling.co.uk, in defence of his title was announced today by his team manager, John Herety.
The talented 32-year-old Briton has twice topped the podium, winning overall in 2003 and again last year. He appears to be in solid form again this season, taking gold earlier this month in the Commonwealth Games team pursuit. He will be aiming to use that track speed to winning effect on the roads of Ireland.
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Irish Sports Council Supports FBD Insurance Rás
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| Austin Mallon Irish Sports Council Stuart Gillespie Team TIAA-CREF USA Winner of the white jersey 2005 and Grace McKenna |
When the final stage of the FBD Insurance RÁS finishes in the Skerries on Sunday 28th May the rider most likely to win a professional contract in the coming months will be the rider to don the Irish Sports Council's white jersey as the most promising young rider of the race. More>>>
Cuchulainn Crystal Sponsors County Rider Award
Dundalk company Cuchulainn Crystal has signed up as one of the official sponsors of the FBD Insurance RÁS which takes place this year from Sunday 21st to Sunday 28th May. The race is one of the select group of world races eligible to award qualifying points for World Championships and Olympic Games.
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| Bill Moore Receives some Cuchulainn Crystal after winning the final stage of the 2005 FBD Insurance Rás |
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The death has taken place of one the great cyclists of yesteryear
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| Mick Christle |
It is with deep regret we learn of the death of Mick Christle, one of the great men of Irish cycling. Mick passed away on Tuesday 28th February. During the nineteen fifties and sixties Mick graced the Irish cycling scene, he was a consummate trainer, master tactician and far ahead of his time in training methods More>>>
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