JAMES MCLAUGHLIN is revelling in the ‘best win of his career’, after a brilliant sprint success at the fifth and final stage of the Essor Breton in Brittany.

A FINE seventh-placed finish in the Tour du Jura could have been even better if the luck had been with James McLaughlin.

AFTER his win at the Rance Emeraude one-day race, James McLaughlin made a fine start to the week-long Tour de Normandie before fading.

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN said he ‘felt exceptional’ in clinching a brilliant win in the famous Rance Emeraude race in France.

TOBYN HORTON will be aiming to emulate his Island Games criterium successes at the inaugural IAG Guernsey Grand Prix on the town front late next summer.

TOBYN HORTON believes he has ‘taken a step in the right direction’ after becoming a Team UK Youth rider for the 2013 season.

FORMER national hill climb champion Ann Bowditch finished overall third on her return to the annual event after a five-year gap.

ANN BOWDITCH conquered a hill somewhat steeper than our own Le Val des Terres in winning the women’s section of the Rossendale Road Club Hill Climb in Burnley.

‘YOU can trust our guys totally,’ was the word coming out of the Guernsey Velo Club yesterday as the Lance Armstrong drugs story moved across the world quicker than EPO-boosted blood passes through a cheat’s veins.

A SPORTING Tobyn Horton made the most of a rare mountain bike outing as he helped Guernsey’s men to dominate the senior inter-insular in Jersey last weekend.

THE local cycling season finished in style as a number of Guernsey riders produced impressive performances at the Duo Normand in France.

PAUL JACKSON stunned the field in an eight-hour cycling time trial at Brands Hatch, winning the event by a considerable margin and beating the course record in the process.