A STUNNED MARK Downey was celebrating on Saturday night after he won gold in the men’s points race at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup event in Apeldoorn.
“I can’t believe it,” he told Cycling Ireland after beating France’s Morgan Kneisky and Kazakhstan’s Sultanmurat Miraliyev to win his maiden World Cup gold.
“To be 20-years-old and winning a World Cup is out of this world!
Banbridge’s Downey came into his first World Cup points race with a live chance having won silver at the European U23 Championships earlier this year.
An accomplished ride saw him finish four points clear of Kneisky in second.
“I keep looking at the medal and wondering if it is made of chocolate!” he added.
In the women’s keirin, Rio Olympian Shannon McCurley finished ninth overall having just missed out on qualification for the A Final.
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This is where football is at now, manager gets ten games and if the results are not good enough, the sack. Clubs want immediate gratification and have no interest in a long term plan. Sad stuff…..Hope Pulis got a nice parting handshake.
How In the name of God could you turn a club around in 45 days that’s absolutely crazy.
Sheffield Wednesday are a terrible club, I hope they get relegated to league one.
@James: whys that James ? Give us your insight to the club?
Hopefully this will result in a Boro win this evening. Dreadful decision by a ridiculous club who were once one of the originals. Pulis has always been a decent bloke
@Rory O’Connor: 3 points in the bag. Not bad for a ridiculous club.
Horrible anti football tactics. Hopefully that’s the last we’ve seen of his pukey tactics