Archive for February 14th, 2008
Yesterday in the GPO, Dublin there was a welcome relief when An Post revealed that they would be sponsoring the Sean Kelly Team which will be based in Mertchem, Belgium.
The withdrawal of the Murphy & Gunn/Newlyn Group team in the Autumn certainly sent shockwaves throughtout the cycling community. But thankfully cycling in Ireland found [...]
15 focus sports will receive €5.935 million for their high performance plans Athletes and teams will receive €2.213 million under the Carding Scheme Additional €935,000 for Irish Institute of Sport Programmes Total of €30.06 million invested in this Olympic & Paralympic cycle
The Minister for Sport Mr Seamus Brennan T.D. announced yesterday (February 13) details of [...]
BANDAR PENAWAR (14 Feb, 200 – Jose Serpa proved that he is as good in the climb as he is on flat terrain when he raced to the front of a 15-man breakaway to win Stage Six of Le Tour de Langkawi 2008 from Bandar Penawar to Rompin this evening.
The romping finish for Serpa, [...]
Is it a bird? No. A plane? No. It’s Mr Sheikh ! Our first Malaysian Astronaut visiting Stage 6 of Le Tour de Langkawi 2008 at Kuala Rompin! Lucky Marcus, manage to get a 1 to 1 shot with Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
This interview is conducted before the start of LTdL 2008:
Q: What is your current state of mind?
A: I actually feel quite intimidated. So many pros here, so many other experienced teams. I cannot say I have full confidence but i will for sure do my best.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
A: To breakup with [...]
tage 6 Bandar Penawar - Kuala Rompin, won by Jose Serpa Perez from Serramenti PVC. Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the first Malaysian astronaut was interviewed about cycling. Park Sung Baek from Team Seoul snapped Blue jersey from Sinichi Fukushima.