Cycling
Cycling is very popular in Guernsey with Velo Club races throughout the year, including an annual inter insular event.
Guernsey cyclists compete in Island Games and the Commonwealth Games
Gold medal winners at the Island Games include:
- Mens Criterion - Tobyn Horton
- Mens Individual Town Centre Criterium - Tobyn Horton
- Mens Cross Country - Rob Smart
- Mens MTB Criterium - Rob Smart
- Womens Criterion - Ann Bowditch
- Womens Individual Mountain Bike Criterium - Meggie Bichard
- Womens Individual Mountain Bike Cross Country - Meggie Bichard
Team event gold medals at the Island Games include:
- Men's Team Mountain Bike Cross Country 2011
- Women's Team Town Centre Criterium 2011
see http://www.guernseyvelo.org.gg/
For more relaxed cycling, there are regular charity cycling events, such as "Rock To Rocque" and the States of Guernsey promote cycle routes through the country parishes.
Read more about this topic: Sport In Guernsey
Famous quotes containing the word cycling:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)