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Thu 07 Jul 2009Chukkas away: Cork saddles up for bicycle polo
‘ON YER BIKE” – that’s the exhortation to the people of Cork this Saturday when, as the peletonin the Tour de France tackles the forbidding, balding dome of Mont Ventoux, they are being urged to take a more leisurely trip up to University College Cork to witness a bicycle-polo match, writes BARRY ROCHE
Organised as part of Cork Cycling Arts Festival, which runs until Sunday, the exhibition match is being staged by members of the Bicycle Polo Association of Ireland (BPAI), which has more than 30 members in Dublin and is hoping to start a team in Munster.
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