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Other Sports of Tuesday, 17 January 2012

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Tour 2012 Justify Your Inclusion Ends

Seven
Clubs from the Greater Accra Region went through one of the toughest test in
the justify your inclusion exercise in a bid to make it to the first 10 cyclists
from all the regions to be camped ahead
of the ECOWAS TOUR which will commence next month February 13th – 20th from the
Nigerian City of Lagos.

The in and out of a stretch distance of 22.5km each covering a total
distance of 45km along the Accra- Aflao road was the wicked individual Time
Trial test the 18 cyclists had to battle in order to be candidates for the
Prestigious ECOWAS Engagement next month.
In form Young
Stars roller- Samuel Anim completed the distance in 1hr 10min. 07 secs ahead of
fellow Cowbell Tour of Ghana Yellow Jersey compatriot Henry Tetteh Djangmah of
Die Hard on 1hr 11min .00ses. Ghana’s dependable sprinter and Tour du Faso Show
boy Nuru Pardie came third in a time of 1hrs 18ses.

The most
outstanding performance in this year’s justifiers was from the Brong Ahafo
Region where Sunyani based wonder kid; Anthony Boakye completed an adult range
time of 1hr 15mins inside the same distance of 45km.

The
federation will attend to the final results from all the regions as such and
come out with the final 10 cyclists for camping of which would further be
pruned to 6 cyclists for the tour.


SIGNED
Dennis Kweku Moore
Director of communications
Ghana Cycling Federation
Tel: 0277452126/0260568135
Email-moorecycling@yahoo.com /ghcyclingass@yahoo.co.uk