Betfair LifeCycle Challenge

The 2009 Betfair Lifecycle Challenge was filmed and interviewed a number of times while in Turkey – here you can see Alan being interviewed with the help of the team’s interpreter, Soner Gurelli, while the team were in Hatay in southern Turkey.
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You are all cordially invited to the 2009 Betfair Lifecycle Challenge Welcome Back party, to be held this coming Saturday (29th August) at the Escape Club, Corinthia San Gorg & Marina Resort, St Julian’s.
Further details and pricing are in the image below. Come along and welcome back our intrepid cyclists and backup team! [...]

The 2009 Betfair Lifecycle Challenge, which was the 11th annual Lifecycle Challenge, finished yesterday afternoon at 18:00 Turkish time as the cyclists rode into Damascus.
The Lifecycle committee described this year’s challenge as one of the toughest, but one of the best yet.
We would like to thank the Maltese public for all the generous donations they [...]

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The last day of the 2009 Betfair Lifecycle Challenge has finally arrived, and today the cyclists are riding the final 155km from Homs southwards to Damscus, over relatively flat terrain and on good roads. The weather is clear and sunny with temperatures up to 38 degrees celsius and low humidity.
Cyclists and backup team members [...]

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As the Betfair Lifecycle Challenge nears its end, the cyclists are in high spirits as they make their penultimate ride from Aleppo southwards to Homs, drawing ever nearer to their destination of Damascus.
Apart from the 3 cyclists who dropped out early in the challenge, and who therefore don’t qualify to finish, almost every rider is [...]