Lourdes Oyarbide, a former Comenius student, took part in the UCI ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: LIMBURG 2012, The Netherlands
Tenth place finisher in the junior time-trial!!!
Congratulations!!!!
British Elinor Barker won the gold medal in the junior time-trial
23rd at Road Race Women Juniors / Course en ligne Femmes Junior
21 SEP 2012 – 14:00
Race distance: 80,5 k
CONGRATULATIONS, LOURDES!!!!!
A member of the staff from the partner school in N Ireland was volunteering in London Olympics. Have a look at the photos! AMAZING!
I wonder if the word “peloton” is new for some of our students. I realized watching La Vuelta that “peloton” might be used by most of us to designate the collective noun for a group of cyclists, or is it bunch? pack? Das feld?
Pelotón is related to the word “pellet” and its literal meaning is little ball (early 15th century in French). It was borrowed into English through the word “platoon”.
Cycling words:
Everything you need to sound smart in your local bike shop!
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More dictionaries
Well, during the break we couldn’t follow the Olympics as much as we would have wanted, but we’ll try to summarize the results, at least
List of Basque Olympics: BASQUE TEAM
MEDALS:
Eli Pinedo, Nely Carla, Patrizia Elorza, Andrea Barno and Jorge Dueñas handball players won a bronze medal
DIPLOMAS:
Ander Elosegi, Canoe Slalom
Sugoi Uriarte, judo men’s 66kg
Pablo Carrera, shooting
Ophelie Asporde, Women’s 10km marathon swimming
Ainhoa Murua, triathlon
Julen Aginagalde, Mikel Arrizabalaga and Eduardo Gurbindo handball
Problems to show the Basque flag were solved: Restricted flags
Are you following the Tour of France?
I imagine that our British partners are happy with the results so far. They must be delighted with Bradley Wiggings. WIGGO, BRAD!!!!!
Read this very interesting article: Wigging in The Guardian
This morning the 3rd stage started in Vitoria-Gasteiz. 164 km (mountain)
The Queen Stage, which is often a hard stage, finished in Eibar, an industrial city in the Basque country. There were seven categorized climbs with the usual Alto de Ixua, Alto de San Miguel and Alto de Usartza combination before a short, twisty descent finish. Sammuel Sanchez won this stage this year again for the third time.
Have a look at the bikes and cyclists.
And the great Jens Voigt. 
He loves Basque supporters, but we also love him. A thank you letter to Basque fans for their loyal support throughout his 14-year career (April 2011) :
Voigt wrote: “My first win as a professional rider was in the Tour of the Basque Country in my first professional year back in the year 1998. I was still in the blue and white team kit from “Team Gan” and this victory changed my cycling career for the better. It was also the first time I had the good fortune to experience the passion and fairness of the Basque fans.I remember it well. It was a very cold and rainy day, and you still showed up for the finish and the podium ceremony in large numbers.And probably there and then I fell in love with the Basque Country and the people living here. Every year after that, when my team got an invitation to the race, I signed up for the Tour of the Basque Country. I just love it, even though it’s one of the hardest races you can find on the calendar in terms of the terrain and quality of the peloton. Regardless, I just love to come back. … Thank you, my beloved Basque fans!”
Follow the race PARIS-NICE
Yesterday we finished our trip to London at the Olympic Park. We saw the athletes village and the works near the stadium. We will remember it in August.
On Sunday we saw the London Olympic and Paralympic Games medals at the British museum.
Our student LOURDES OIARBIDE will take part in the Road World Championship in Copenhagen:
Friday September 23
09:30-11:55 Road race Junior Women, 70km (5 x 14km)
GOOD LUCK, Lourdes!
Coverage of the event at: EVENT ONLINE
News: SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP, TXAPELDUNA,
Students following the event at school
Did you know that Stage 7 finished in Châteauroux?
I hope our partners took nice pictures of the event
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