Team Sky rule British championship as Peter Kennaugh pips Ben SwiftI was his punchbag, Swift says of Kennaugh in Abergavenny Laura Trott delighted after winning womens titleAs expected, Team Sky dominated the British national road race championship with Peter Kennaugh winning a tight sprint from Ben Swift to keep the title on the Isle Of Man after Mark Cavendish took gold last year in Glasgow. The Sky pair sprinted up Frogmore Street side by side after 180km having eluded the increasingly exhausted remnants of a 10-man escape party who had gone clear as the race climbed out of Chepstow with just over 50km covered.The move included four members of Sky Swift and Kennaugh plus Luke Rowe and Josh Edmondson along with Simon Yates, who came in alone for the bronze medal, and his twin brother Adam. Rowe and Edmondson had opened hostilities on the finish circuit here once it was clear that the medals would be fought out between the Sky quartet and the Yates brothers, who race for the Australian team Orica. With two laps remaining Swift and Kennaugh, former partners on the Great Britain academy, made their escape. ... ...read moreBy William Fotheringham in Abergavenny I was his punchbag, Swift says of Kennaugh in Abergavenny Laura Trott delighted after winning womens titleAs expected, Team Sky dominated the British national road race championship with Peter Kennaugh winning a tight sprint from Ben Swift to keep the title on the Isle Of Man after Mark Cavendish took gold last year in Glasgow. The Sky pair sprinted up Frogmore Street side by side after 180km having eluded the increasingly exhausted remnants of a 10-man escape party who had gone clear as the race climbed out of Chepstow with just over 50km covered.The move included four members of Sky Swift and Kennaugh plus Luke Rowe and Josh Edmondson along with Simon Yates, who came in alone for the bronze medal, and his twin brother Adam. Rowe and Edmondson had opened hostilities on the finish circuit here once it was clear that the medals would be fought out between the Sky quartet and the Yates brothers, who race for the Australian team Orica. With two laps remaining Swift and Kennaugh, former partners on the Great Britain academy, made their escape. ... ...read more Source: The Guardian ift.tt/1gB4pon
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:51:03 +0000
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