Eve McCrystal's stunned delight was clear to see and hear, even though she struggled off the bike after a huge championship race effort. This brilliant photo was captured by Caroline Kerley, who also makes a cameo appearance in the video, along with Cycling Ireland coach Martin O'Loughlin.
It is perhaps the most overdue national road crown in Irish cycling, but Eve McCrystal has done it.
She’s won silver twice and bronze three times in the TT championship race since 2013; her third bronze coming last Thursday night.
And in the road race title contest she took silver two years ago; behind Lydia Boylan.
But now finally McCrystal’s seventh elite road championship medal is the one that counts most; gold.
The Garda CC-Richies Bikes rider got clear in the breakaway in the elite women’s road race in Sligo today.
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And in the sprint to the line she demolished it; powering up the incline to win.
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As the clip below, from Orwell’s Stephen O’Shea, reveals; she was overcome just after the finish.
She had ridden so hard to win that she struggled off her bike. But her delight is clear to both see and hear towards the end of this video.
McCrystal is no stranger to golds; claiming Paralympic, World Championship and World Cup titles as sighted pilot with Katie George Dunlevy.
But the one that was missing from her palmares was an elite Irish road title, and now she’s done it.
She even forgot to turn off her Garmin, absolute proof she had lost her mind!
Race report to come.
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