British Cycling honours its greats; Tour de Pakistan freezes out Indians

By John MacLeary Published: 6:00PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

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British Cycling, the sport"s inhabitant ruling physique in the UK, distinguished the 50th anniversary with a celebration cooking in Manchester on Saturday dusk where 50 riders, volunteers and stalwarts over the years, were inducted in to the British Cycling Hall of Fame.

Criteria for the Hall of Fame meant stream riders such as Sir Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton were left out of the last list. But prior Olympic bullion award winners, Chris Boardman and Jason Queally were included.

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Meanwhile, Robert Millar, the 1985 Tour de France aristocrat of the mountains, was honoured, as was Barry Hoban and the late Tom Simpson.

Other names celebrated enclosed Craig MacLean, Paul Manning, Beryl Burton, Hugh Porter, Graeme Obree, Sean Yates and Phil Liggett, the former Daily cycling correspondent.

The finish British Cycling Hall of Fame.

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Alberto Contador won the five-stage Volta ao Algarve after the Spaniard accomplished thirteen seconds at the back of associate citizen Luis Leon Sánchez in the 17.2km time-trial.

The Astana supplement won his initial competition of the new season, violence Sánchez by 30secs in the altogether ubiquitous classification.

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Chris Froome and Michael Barry of Team Sky cumulative top-15 finishes at the two-day Tour du Haut Var, that resolved in Provence on Sunday.

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Indian riders have been wanting from the 15th book of the Tour de Pakistan in foster of a group from Afghanistan.

Organisers of the 11-stage, 1,655-kilometre, competition from Peshawar to Karachi pronounced they motionless not to entice a group from riders from beside India after Pakistans cricketers were left out at the Indian Premier League auction progressing this month when nothing of the players were handed contracts.

Idrees Khawaja, the Pakistan Cyclist Federation secretary, said: "We motionless not to send an call in to India as a criticism for IPL movement that was really humiliating."

Khawaja combined that a group from Afghanistan would take their place in the 78-man peloton to one side riders from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Nepal.

"Afghanistan is promulgation a nine-member commission with 6 cyclists and they will be star attraction," he said.

The Tour de Pakistan is staged from Mar 1-13.

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Jos Juan Haedo of Argentina has won India"s initial veteran cycling race, the Tour de Mumbai, after the Saxo Bank supplement kick Germany"s Dirk Mueller to the finishing line on the last path of the 100km march to explain the $50,000 initial prize.

The race, organized in piece to inspire cycling in cricket-obsessed India, enclosed a series of Indian cyclists aswell as tellurian stars such as Baden Cooke and associate Australian Stuart O"Grady.