Blasts from the previous helping Lamoureux on journey to Tokyo Olympics
Island cycling fans can journey in the tire tracks of some of the earlier greats when supporting out a present-day Olympic rider.
Ten effectively-recognized cyclists have made individually-curated routes that riders can stick to by generating an on the net donation to assistance out Tokyo-bound track bike owner Jay Lamoureux, who this summer season will grow to be the newest Island rider to contend in the Olympics.
Among all those contributing their favourite Island routes are three-time environment winner and 1996 Atlanta Olympics silver-medallist mountain biker Alison Sydor, three-time Olympic mountain biker Geoff Kabush of Courtenay and Olympic street racer Erinne Willock.
The routes go over street, gravel and cyclo-cross. They range from Olympian Kurt Innes’ nostalgic retracing of his 1994 Commonwealth Game titles highway trek out from the Athletes Village at the College of Victoria to the Games velodrome at Juan de Fuca, to Kabush’s 155-kilometre Higher Victoria watershed route.
Supporters and supporters can fulfill Lamoureux on Saturday among 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Juan de Fuca Velodrome, the Commonwealth Video games-legacy facility which was saved from destruction by the Island cycling local community, and which publish-Online games has developed observe cyclists this kind of as 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Video games bronze-medallist Lamoureux, 2012 London Olympics bronze-medallist Gillian Carleton and 2015 Toronto Pan Am Online games gold-medallist Evan Carey.
Lamoureux was requested about his very own personalized favourite routes.
“I cherished the short climbs the best, up Mount Douglas and also up to the observatory,” he reported.
To accessibility the 10 routes, go to the Better Victoria Velodrome Affiliation website at gvva.bc.ca. Donations have usually been amongst $10 to $100 as extra than $1,000 has been elevated to assistance with Lamoureaux’s bills as he will have to be centered at the countrywide keep track of biking coaching centre in Milton, Ont., for significantly of the calendar year.
The 25-year-previous Oak Bay item is a member of the Canadian men’s pursuit workforce, which was No. 4 in the environment in 2019, and he will be amongst the 75 Island or Island-primarily based athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summertime.
“We are progressing nicely as a [pursuit] workforce and we’re obtaining enthusiastic about Tokyo,” he said.
© Copyright Times Colonist
