Betfair LifeCycle Challenge

Over the last two days the 2010 Betfair LifeCycle Challenge has completed its journey through the Italian lake region and crossed into Switzerland. After overnighting near Lugano after a hilly day’s riding yesterday, today was a big day in more ways than one.
This morning, the team left Lugano and continued their journey into the [...]

Yesterday was the first cycling day of the 2010 Betfair LifeCycle Challenge, with the cyclists riding just over 200km from Venice to Toscolano Maderno on the shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy.
The first cyclists arrived in Toscolano Maderno at 18:00, about 11 hours after setting off from Venice.
The route was complex, with many small [...]

On Saturday morning the LifeCycle team met at Malta International Airport to catch their outbound flight to Rome, which would be followed by a long coach ride to Venice, the start of this year’s challenge.
They were met at the airport by Malta’s Sports Minister Clyde Puli, and fellow LifeCyclist and Betfair CFO Andy Botha presented [...]

I was going to meet the President of Malta in 1999. Tony Bugeja informed me that President Guido de Marco was to visit the Renal unit and to meet the four of us who had decided to ride from Malta to England. Quite daunting to say the least but with the press turning out in [...]

In just 2 days time, the 2010 Betfair LifeCycle Challenge team will be flying to Rome and then taking a coach to Venice, on the way to the start of this year’s challenge.
The two 7.5 tonne trucks containing the bikes, equipment and supplies are already on their way, having left Malta by sea earlier this [...]