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Friday, September 15, 2006

BAJANS READY TO RUMBLE AT TOBAGO CLASSIC

BARBADIAN CYCLISTS will be hoping to number among the top riders at the end of the first two stages of the 2006 Tobago International Cycling Classic today.
The Barbados team will be led by John Turton, fresh off a victory in the last Barbados Cycling Union six-lap criterium. Jason Perryman, who was second, is the other senior rider. Greg Downie will be defending his masters' title, while junior winner Jason Wilson leads the young brigade of Quincy Jones, Ross Callender, Shane Weekes, and juvenile Darren Matthews.
Barbadians Adrian Sealy, Sedwin Jones and Dwayne Bellamy will also be competing.
The five-stage race gets underway at 6:30 a.m. and riders will compete in Division One and Two which rides off one hour later. The first stage is a 20-km individual time trial which starts at the corner of Hope & Belmont Roads in Bacolet, then proceeds along the Claude Noel Highway and Milford Road to finish at the Colours Restaurant and Bar at Crown Point.
This stage of the race is described as "mainly flat with two minor inclines, approximately one kilometre each".
Stage 2 gets underway at 1:30 and 1:35 p.m. at the Colours Restaurant. The Division One riders will do a ten-lap circuit about 125km, while Division Two riders will compete in a five-lap circuit race over 65km, described as fast and flat with minor rolling inclines.

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