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Simon Van Velthooven grabbed a second medal on the final night of the UCI World Cup in Beijing.
Van Velthooven, the Commonwealth Games bronze medallist in his specialist keirin, picked up a bronze in the Kilo at the Beijing Velodrome.
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Bike Manawatu is wanting to develop a coaching structure that has the ability to assist the development of all club members, novice or masters, recreational or competitive.
In order to do this we require feedback from club members:-
1/ Who is interested in becoming a coach? At this time we are looking for AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST from interested parties.
Coaching can be extremely rewarding, and provides a fantastic opportunity to 'give back' to the sport through developing others.
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At Invercargill a year ago, Megan Blatchford-Peck startled the two women who were sharing a podium with her.
Veteran Blatchford-Peck had just come second in the national sprint race, for elite women, the best in the country.
"I joked with them," she said. "I asked them, 'How old are your mothers?"'
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Manawatu's Simon van Velthooven says his first World Cup gold medal in a keirin event has given him more confidence as he builds towards next year's Olympics in London.
The 22-year-old was a mixture of muscle and might as he triumphed on the second night of finals at the UCI World Cup in Beijing during the weekend.
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BikeNZ is taking initiatives to ensure that all cyclists have accessibility to trained and comptent coaches. Following a successful level one BMX coaching course run late last year, BikeNZ, under the direction of development manger Amy Taylor, will extend these coaching resources to both the road and track disciplines.
“I’m really excited to be launching BikeNZ’s coach education framework. Having been through the previous BikeNZ, and Australian systems, and recently working in British Cycling’s coach education team, I believe we are in the process of designing the best cycling coach education framework in the world. The success of our high performance team doesn’t happen without good coaching, and this is why we are focused on creating a framework to train coaches to be the best they can be, whether they want to coach their local school team, or an elite athlete,” said Taylor.