This day 25 years
ago the RTE TV cameras were in Carrick-on-Suir to mark the end of the 18-year
career of Sean Kelly.
The traditional
Christmas hamper race of that year attracted over 1,100 riders from home and
abroad to join Kelly on his last outing.
Then aged 38
years, Kelly had won races right up to the end of his career; his victory in
Milan-Sanremo in 1992 was one of five victories that season, most of which were
taken after his 36th birthday.
It was fitting
that he won his last race in Carrick; beating Micheál Fitzgerald and Declan
Lonergan to the finish line.
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Tour de France winners Stephen Roche, Bernard Hinault,
Eddy Merckx and Laurent Fignon all came to Ireland to ride the race.
The 45-mile event took the cyclists over the
Carrick-Kilsheelan-Glenbower circuit with only the last 10 miles of it raced,
though the pace ramped up long before that point.
Click on the link in the Tweet embedded below ad you can watch the RTE report by journalist Cathy Halloran.
Kelly's last big win: Milan Sanremo 1992
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