Cycling news from the Lancashire Telegraph

Burke looking forward to Tour Series events

11:50am Thursday 9th May 2013

DOUBLE Olympic champion Steven Burke and top UK professional Ian Wilkinson are both eyeing a golden summer when cycling’s Tour Series kicks off in Scotland next week.

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Disappointing end for ace Burke

11:20am Friday 22nd February 2013

EAST Lancashire ace Steven Burke suffered disappointment in the men’s individual pursuit at the World Championships in Belarus.

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Burke can’t inspire victory

7:50am Monday 4th February 2013

Steven Burke couldn’t inspire new team Rouleur to overall victory in cycling’s revolution series.

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LIVE: Lance Armstrong talks to Oprah Winfrey

1:00am Friday 18th January 2013

Follow our live blog of the highly-anticipated interview by disgraced cyclist and former seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

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Burke impresses at Revolution meet

8:19am Tuesday 4th December 2012

COLNE cyclist Steven Burke came close to a fine individual win in the Revolution meeting at Manchester Velodrome over the weekend.

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Burke out of World Cup meet

8:20am Thursday 15th November 2012

OLYMPIC champion Steven Burke has withdrawn from this weekend’s Track Cycling World Cup meeting in Glasgow.

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My dream has come true, says Tour winner

8:01am Monday 23rd July 2012

BRADLEY Wiggins declared “dreams do come true” after becoming the first British winner of the Tour de France.

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Top cyclists take on the streets of Colne

12:10pm Wednesday 18th July 2012

ENGLAND’s top professional cyclists will return to Colne tonight for another evening of exciting bike racing in the town.

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Wiggins stays clear in Le Tour

8:04am Tuesday 17th July 2012

Pierrick Fedrigo claimed France’s fourth win of the Tour de France on stage 15 to Pau as the peloton opted for a day of respite. Following an eventful race to date, including a 14th stage marred by sabotage, a six-man escape group contested the 158.5-kilometre route from Samatan and Fedrigo beat Christian Vande Velde. Thomas Voeckler was third. The Tour resumes following today’s rest day with Wednesday’s 197km 16th stage from Pau to Bagners-de-Luchon, which is the first of two big Pyrenean days which will go a long way to deciding if Chorley’s Bradley Wiggins can become the first British winner. The peloton rode in 11 minutes 50 seconds behind, with Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) winning the dash for the line on his 30th birthday. The contenders were safely among them and the top of the rankings were unchanged. Wiggins retained the yellow jersey and a lead of 2mins 5secs over Team Sky colleague Chris Froome in second place. Five days of racing remain, but Wednesday and Thursday’s Pyrenean stages and Saturday’s time-trial are set to determine the holder of the maillot jaune come the finale.

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Age is no barrier to Ellerton in Kendal

2:00pm Thursday 12th July 2012

WITH longer evenings with us there have been two 6pm start ‘Open’ events in the past week on the fast ‘Levens’ course near Kendal.

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Ellerton showing his class on Levens

12:50pm Thursday 14th June 2012

It has been a very successful week for our local racing cyclists – and we should include Sky’s Lancashire-based Bradley Wiggins in that after he claimed his second successive Criterium Dauphine stage race success in France as part of his build up for the Tour de France which starts in two weeks time.

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Burnley star Dickinson conquers hills to lift trophy

10:20am Thursday 7th June 2012

NOT exactly as significant in our country’s history as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee of this week, but nevertheless the Festival of Britain Trophy of the Rossendale Road Club has made its own mark locally over the last 60 years.

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Holgate’s delight at first road race win

2:10pm Thursday 31st May 2012

TEENAGER Aidan Holgate of Burnley scored his first ever road race success at the weekend and what a super win it was.

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Darwen cycling star Cox proving he's a class act - again!

10:42am Thursday 17th May 2012

WHAT a season Darwen’s Ian Cox is enjoying! In April he had three wins on the run in 10 mile time trials and on Sunday he stepped up the distance to 50 miles and again came out on top.

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East Lancs aces poised for Tour Series

8:19am Thursday 10th May 2012

The televised Halfords ‘Tour Series’ of city centre circuit races starts next week and the teams of four of our East Lancashire based professional cyclists will be in action throughout the eleven event series – and all will be shown on ITV4. Olympic hopeful Steven Burke will be riding for his IG Markets-Sigma Sport squad, Ian Wilkinson for Endura Racing, Simon Wilson for the Metaltek-Scott team and Paul Oldham for Team Hope Factory Racing.

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Cox makes it a hat-trick of time trial wins

8:04am Thursday 3rd May 2012

IT was an April hat-trick for Darwen’s top racing cyclist of the moment Ian Cox, who made it three out of three in 10-mile time trials at Garstang during the month.

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Wiggins is top of the Tour

8:09am Monday 30th April 2012

Chorley’s Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de Romandie title after producing a sensational time trial to win yesterday’s 16.5km stage in Crans-Montana.

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Colne Cyclone Burke has a new highlight

11:20pm Saturday 21st April 2012

ASKED what he now regards as the highlight of his career so far, Steven Burke does not hesitate for a second.

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In-form Cox is winner at Clarion promotion

8:23am Thursday 19th April 2012

In almost a carbon copy of last weekend over the 10 mile course at Garstang Darwen’s on-form Ian Cox was again winner and again leading his North Lancashire Road Club to the team award.

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