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Shane Stokes

Shane Stokes

Cycling Correspondent

Shane Stokes is a cycling correspondent with The Irish Times.

UCI president Pat McQuaid: Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA Wire.
Rejection by Cycling Ireland a blow for Pat McQuaid

Clubs vote 91-74 not to back his nomination as candidate for president of UCI

International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid faces a crucial vote.
Pat McQuaid faces crucial Cycling Ireland vote as clubs decide whether federation should nominate him for re- election as UCI president

McQuaid effectively sought to sidestep process

Dan Martin remains in seventh overall in Tour de Suisse. Photograph: Getty
Irish riders hold position after fourth stage in Tour de Suisse

Dan Martin and Nicolas Roche both finish on same time as stage winner

Previously the leader of the Ag2r La Mondiale squad, Nicolas Roche will likely be a super-domestique for double Tour de France winner and team leader Alberto Contador in this year’s event. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images
Nicolas Roche completes preparations for Tour de Suisse

Event is rider’s main race before the Tour de France

Martyn Irvine celebrates his gold medal performance in Belarus last February. Photograph: Getty Images
Martyn Irvine on his bike ahead of schedule after leg injury

If all goes to plan he will return to competition in three months

Marcin Bialoblocki, of Britain UK Youth Pro Cycling, celebrates winning the An Post Rás after stage eight from Naas to Skerries yesterday. Photograph: Sportsfile
Marcin Bialoblocki hold on to wins Rás after stage from Naas to Skerries

Pole edges race purely by higher accumulated stage placings

The peleton crosses the bridge in Kealkill, Co Cork, during stage 5 of the An Post Rás from Glengarriff to Mitchelstown. Photograph: Sportsfile
Irishman Connor McConvey agonisingly close to taking Rás yellow jersey

Marcin Bialoblocki retains lead despite finishing 12th in Mitchelstown

Kirill Pozdnyakov winning the fourth stage of the An Post Rás from Listowel to Glengarriff.
Bialoblocki ‘very happy to still be in yellow’ after tough mountain stages in An Post Rás

Russian Kirill Pozdnyakov takes fourth stage after gruelling day

Eventual stage winner Sam Bennett of An Post Chain Reaction lies behind team-mate Shane Archbold as they enter Adare, Co Limerick, during stage three of the An Post Rás yesterday. Photograph: Inpho
Sam Bennett delivers stage win in An Post Rás

An Post rider blasts home for victory as leader Hawkins crashes out of race while Bialoblocki grabs yellow jersey

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