Following another blistering start to the season, Irish U23 international Sean McKenna has opened up a 21-point lead at the head of the National Road Series standings (Photo: Darragh McManamon - Dublin Wheelers)
McKenna leads National Road Series
The Aquablue man won two of the three races that have already taken place, Rás Luimní and the Des Hanlon Memorial.
He didn’t ride the Wallace Caldwell Memorial the day before the Hanlon but he doesn’t have to.
Rules stipulate that a rider can ride in three of the four provinces for his total score to count.
The total score of each rider is his cumulative score from five races across three provinces.
Trailing McKenna are Sean Lacey (Aquablue) and Michael O’Loughlin (Team WIGGINS) on 105 and 104 points, respectively.
Recently crowned Kerry Group Rás Mumhan winner Christopher McGinchey is the only other rider to have broken 100 points.
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He was sixth in Limerick and second in the Wallace Caldwell.
Reigning champion Bryan McCrystal (ASEA-Wheelworx) is yet to score.
Next Sunday sees the Davis Cup take place in Mayo while the following weekend in Meath, the Stamullen GP is the big one.
See the most up to date table here.
Women’s one-day race stumps up €100,000 prize-fund
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In a landmark moment for women’s cycling, the organisers of the Prudential RideLondon 2016 race have put aside a prize-fund of €100,000.
It’s the most amount of money ever offered for a women’s one-day race, which takes place in the capital on Saturday July 30th.
It is the same sum of money offered as the men’s Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic which takes place the following day.
The individual winners get €25,000 and the winning team is awarded €10,000.
There will be sprint classifications offering a further €12,600 in prize money.
Mads Pedersen looks like the next Danish superstar
The Danes love their cycling but the demise of Matti Breschel has been signposted for some time, given he is now 35 years old.
But they have another superstar in the pipeline in the form of 20-year-old Mads Pedersen.
Last Saturday’s winner of the U23 edition of Gent-Wevelgem was sent straight to De Panne by his Stolting Service Group team and got stuck in from the word go.
And amazingly, he finished eighth overall, just 1’19” down on winner Lieuwe Westra of Astana.
The young man was 4th on the opening stage and stayed there until he slipped down the standing following the conclusion of today’s time-trial which saw him concede 49 seconds to winner Maciej Bodnar of Tinkoff.
He had some consolation by winning the youth classification, however.
He’s a former winner of the junior version of Paris-Roubaix as well as winning the Trofeo Karlsberg in 2012 and ’13, respectively.
Ireland’s Eddie Dunbar finished second in the same race a year later (in 2014) but was awarded the win after Kristjan Kumar of Slovenia tested positive for a banned substance.
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