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Compressport Support Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team

Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team

Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling TeamCompressport have announced a partnership with Pearl Izumi Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team. The team includes multiple Paralympics gold medal winner Dame Sarah Storey and eight other female riders who are already national and European champions on the track, road and time trial, and will be led and managed by Barney Storey MBE. The team will race at many of the major UK and European races including the National Road, Time Trial and Track Championships, National Road Series, Tour Series, Ride London and the Milk Race all with an aim of getting most of the riders into teams at this year’s Commonwealth Games. The team will wear a variety of Compressport products to train and recover in and which will soon be available at compressport.uk.com with a percentage of profits going back to the team and charity.

 

Compressport’s Tim Williams said ‘We are excited to be part of the team and help raise the awareness and money for Boot Out Breast Cancer. Having worked with Sarah and Barney on the team designs, we believe we will enable the team to have the best compression on the market whilst getting the team message out loud and clear.’ Dame Sarah Storey adds: ‘I have worked with Compressport for the last two years and love their products. They are the number one compression company in the UK and I am very happy to have them as a partner of the team.’

 

For more information on the Boot Out Breast Cancer Cycling Team see bootoutbreastcancer.org.uk

 

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Sarah Storey Victorious on Return

sarah_storey_2The return to competitive cycling for Sarah Storey, who gave birth to a daughter in June, has started perfectly with victory in the 3km Pursuit at the Paracycling International Cup. The 11-time gold medallist levelled with rival Jennifer Schuble with a third distance still to run, winning in a time of 3:45.406 – although considerably off her world-record best of 3:32.170, set at the London Olympics, Storey told BBC Sport, ‘It was good to be back racing. The time isn’t so bad but I definitely need to get fitter; it hurt at the end…’

 

There was success too at the Newport event for GB’s Jody Cundy who set a record of 1:04.996 in the C4 kilometre – however the record will not be officially recognised as the Paracycling International Cup does not have the required anti-doping procedures in place to ratify the time.

 

For more on Sarah Storey and to read her revealing blog on balancing life as a new mother with that of a top level athlete click here.

 

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Cycle to Work Day

Cycle to Work Day

Cycle to Work DayTomorrow, September 12, is Cycle to Work Day, a national event, championed by multi gold medal winning Paralympic cyclist, Dame Sarah Storey, which aims to encourage everyone to take to two wheels for their commute. According to census data, 760,000 people in the UK cycle to work regularly, and one of the long-term goals of the scheme is to see that figure rise to a million by 2021. The Cycle to Work Day website – cycletoworkday.org – offers a host of ways to get involved (beyond the very obvious act of actually cycling to work), with downloads, offers of free ‘Bike Health Checks’ available from partner shops across the country and details of on-going campaigns. So, tomorrow we’ll certainly be cycling to work, will you?

 

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Knight Riders

Bradley Wiggins Knighted in New Years Honours ListCould this be the least surprising news of the year? Bradley Wiggins – Tour de France Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist, BBC Sports Personality of the Year – has been knighted in the New Year Honours list. Also knighted is Dave Brailsford who, as both Performance Director of British Cycling and head of Team Sky, was largely responsible for masterminding not only Wiggins’ TdF victory, but also the overall success of the London Olympics squad. Paralympic cyclist Sarah Storey, winner of Team GB’s first (and three subsequent) gold medals at London 2012, has been made a dame, whilst the now-retired Victoria Pendleton has been awarded a CBE and Jason Kenny, who won gold medals in both the Team and Individual Sprints, is rewarded with an OBE.

 

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BBC Battle: Wiggins, Storey and Hoy

BBC Sports Personality of the Year SPOTY 2012 Bradley Wiggins Sarah Storey Sir Chris HoyCould a Brit cyclist make it two years running for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year? Always a tough call in an Olympic year, but with Mark Cavendish having taken the award in 2011 this year’s short list includes three cyclists: Sir Chris Hoy, Sarah Storey and, bookmaker’s favourite, Bradley Wiggins. Just choosing between the three would be hard enough; Hoy (the winner in 2008) has an almost unbelievably illustrious career to recommend him, Storey has 11 Paralympic Golds – matching Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson’s record – and Wiggins became the first Brit ever to win the Tour de France and picked up his fourth Olympic Gold this year to boot.

 

Their competition comes in the form of: Nicola Adams, Ben Ainslie, Katherine Grainger, Rory McIlroy?, Andy Murray, Ellie Simmonds?, ?David Weir?, Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah. The latter two most likely to give Wiggins a run for his money on the night. The BBC SPOTY (as it is colloquially known) will be decided by vote during a live ceremony from London’s ExCeL Centre on Sunday, December 16. Further details at bbc.co.uk

 

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Storey Rules the Day

Sarah Storey today proved herself quite literally the golden girl of the Paralympics winning top spot in the Women’s C 4-5 Road Race and making it a clean sweep of four golds for four and equalling Tanni Grey-Thompson’s total of 11 Paralympic golds. In an utterly mesmerising performance at Brands Hatch, Storey won in a time of 1:40.36 with a huge margin over her nearest rivals, Poland’s Anna Harkowska who took silver and America’s Kelly Crowley with the bronze.

 

In less-good news: another miserable day for GB’s Jon-Allan Butterworth, after finishing 13th of 14 athletes in the C5 Time Trial yesterday he was a DNF in the C 4-5 Road Race, an event won by the Ukrain’s Yegor Dementyev, with China’s Xinyang Liu taking silver and Italy’s Michele Pittacolo bronze. Butterworth – who took triple silver at last week’s velodrome events – dropped in the Road Race on the fourth lap due, mostly, to fatigue with this being effectively his seventh race within a week.

 

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Three Events, Three Golds for Storey

Winning gold in today’s C5 Time Trials Sarah Storey is now just a single win (which could come in tomorrow’s Road Race) in drawing level with Tanni Grey-Thompson’s almighty total of 11 Paralympic golds. Defending her win from the Beijing Games, Storey ripped home in the TT with a time of 22:40.66 more than a minute and a half ahead of silver placed Anna Harkowska of Poland to win her third gold from three events and bag the 24th Team GB gold of the Games. America’s Kelly Crowley took the bronze podium spot, but GB’s Crystal Lane was left languishing down in ninth position.

 

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Second Gold for Sarah Storey

Sarah Storey has added a second gold to her tally in the C4-5 500m Individual Time Trial, having already taken top spot on the opening day of the Paralympics Games in the C5 Individual Pursuit. In a thrilling display the 34-year-old story recorded a time of 36.997 seconds holding America’s Jennifer Schuble off for silver and China’s Jianping Ruan in bronze. Her attention will now turn to next week’s Time Trial and Road Race in an effort to double her gold total for 2012.

 

An excellent day too for Sarah’s husband Barney Storey who helped pilot Neil Fachie to gold in the B Category 1km Time Trial, an event that saw a desperately disappointing ‘Did Not Finish’ for Anthony Kappes and his pilot Craig MacLean who suffered a double mechanical failure at their starts and were denied a third crack at the track.

 

In the Men’s Individual C4 Pursuit Jody Cundy channelled the frustration of his own ‘DNF’ from yesterday by taking the bronze; gold went to Romania’s Carol-Eduard Novak and silver to the Czech Republic’s Jiri Jezek. Whilst the Men’s C5 Pursuit saw a further medal for GB with Jon-Allan Butterworth taking silver behind Australian Michael Gallagher’s Gold.

 

With the velodrome action complete, attention next turns to the Wednesday’s Time Trials and Thursday’s Road Race.