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Tour Of Britain
MURPHY CRASHES OUT
Lady luck finally run out on local cyclist Conor Murphy on stage 4 when on a mountain decent hitting speeds of 60 kms an hour in the lashing rain, a major pile up occured. Unfortunately Conor got caught up in it and hit the ground with an unmerciful wallop as you would at that speed .After the tangled bikes were all separated Conor needed Hospital treatment on a very badly cut elbow.He also sustained some minor grazes all over. The doctors had to stitch up his elbow and send him on his way. Thankfully he had no major breaks or anything like that unlike another cyclist in the same crash who suffered a broken collarbone. Hard luck Conor.Better luck next year and keep the flag flying for Monaghan and Irish cycling.,
Conor Murphy Emyvale Co Monaghan is taking part in this years Tour Of Britan representing Ireland in this grueling event. The 2010 Tour of Britain will once again take place over eight days, beginning in Rochdale on Saturday 11th September and finishing at the heart of London on Saturday 18th September.
You can tune in each evening, with a repeat the following day on ITV4, to see the battle for the Yellow Jersey presented by Bikeability.
Transmission times for each stage below.
Stage Four, Minehead to Teignmouth
Tuesday 14th September, 19:00 – 20:00
Wednesday 15th September, 13:00 – 14:00
Stage Five, Tavistock to Glastonbury
Wednesday 15th September, 19:00 – 20:00
Thursday 16th September, 13:00 – 20:00
Stage Six, King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth
Thursday 16th September, 22:30 – 23:30
Friday 17th September, 12:55 – 13:55
Stage Seven, Bury St Edmunds to Colchester
Friday 17th September, 19:00 – 20:00
Saturday 18th September, 11:00 – 12:00
Stage Eight, The TfL London Stage
Saturday 18th September, 19:00 – 20:00
Sunday 19th September, 10:25 – 11:25
All the ITV4 shows will also be available on the ITV Player. For more details visit www.itv.com/tourofbritain
The Irish representation will be expanded by a six man Cycling Ireland team, as well as one in the Sigma Sport squad. Martyn Irvine, Adam Armstrong, Stephen Barrett, Conor Murphy, Sean Downey and Thomas Martin took the ferry yesterday morning prior to tomorrow’s start in Rochdale. We wish Conor a successful and safe Tour.
Conor Muphy of Clara, Emyvale, is taking part in the gruelling 8 stage Tour of Britain . Conor riding for the Irish National squad after finishing fourth in Irish Cycling rankings this year after a string of top 5 placings and 12 wins under his belt. This year also he helped his team win the team event in the FBD RAS and got word only 2 weeks ago that he will be riding this 1200km (720mile) event.
Racing against some of the top cyclists in the world, Conor and his 5 team mates are the only amateur team in the event and for any of the 6 to finish would be a great achievement in itself.
Going to press the race so far has gone as follows: Saturday was 130 km from Rochdale to Blackpool and an average speed of 42 km an hour was recorded. There was alot of activity at the front all day and finished in a bunch sprint with Conor and all his team mates finishing safely in the bunch.
Stage 2s 160 km stage Stoke on trent to Stoke on trent {it could only happen in cycling } things again started off briskly in the wet. Half way through the race disaster struck when Conors back derailer (Gear Changer] broke and he had to get a bike replacement from the Irish team car. Having to wait for 30 till 40 seconds on it Conor had to chase for 15 kms until he got back in touch with the peleton which was averaging 38 km an hour at the time. Again all of the Irish team finished in the main group.
The third stage from Newtown to Swansea in Wales was 149 km long. Again lady luck was not on Conor’s side as only 40 minutes in to the race he punctured. With the neutral service car close at hand he got a quick change and got back in the peleton shortly afterwards. With the biggest mountain in the race approaching again Conor punctured. They say these things happen in threes. Another quick change meant he had only to chase for 5 kms and rejoined the peleton at the foot of the Black Mountain. Conor admits himself if he had not got back in the peleton by the Mountain it would have been a long lonely ride to the finish in the pouring rain and strong head winds