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Sir Dave Brailsford provided a "massive boost" to upcoming Derby Revolution event

Brailsford support, including suggesting the venue and making a personal investment, a "massive boost" to the event on August 14-16, say organisers...

Sir Dave Brailsford's personal and financial backing for the upcoming Revolution Series event at Derby's new velodrome, helped make the city's first major cycling event a reality, say organisers.

Sir Dave proposed hosting the event, taking place 14-16 August, at Derby's brand new state-of-the-art velodrome, to test out the venue while helping teams score UCI points for the Track Cycling World Cup in and the Rio Olympics 2016. Brailsford also made a personal investment to bridge a funding gap for the event.

The Derby Arena opened its doors in March. This will be the first major cycling event to take place in Derby and will feature a full-strength British squad and competitors from 17 nations.

- Dame Sarah Storey opens Derby's New £28m Velodrome

Sir Dave said: “The British Cycling coaches needed an event to score some UCI qualification points ahead of the World Cup season so I proposed hosting it in Derby to make use of the excellent new facility there.”

“There was a funding gap so I wanted to step in and help create the event, which will be a crucial platform for several of our top athletes to bid for their place on the track in Rio.”

Sir Dave, who was born in Shardlow, five miles from the Arena, and now lives locally, said: “I gave my backing to the development of the velodrome in Derby and attended the launch event earlier this year so was keen to see a major cycling event hosted here to showcase this fantastic facility.”

Tickets are still available for the event, which will see crowd favourites Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish and Ed Clancy racing, as well as Olympic gold medallists Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell, and Katie Archibald who was the highest-placed Brit in the recent Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix.

Racing starts on Friday at 7pm and finishes at Sunday 4.30pm, with two sessions on Saturday. Events include the Elite Individual Pursuit, Madison, Team Pursuit, Time Trial and Scratch races.

James Pope, CEO of Face Partnership, who are organising the event said: “The Derby event is a very important milestone in British Cycling's preparations for the Olympic Games in 2016 and has been designed to provide a crucial opportunity for riders to score qualification points ahead of the UCI deadline on 15th September.”

“Getting the support from Sir Dave has been a massive boost in helping us organise an event of this scale and his backing will ensure we can stage a world class event that achieves the performance objectives for British Cycling.”

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robthehungrymonkey | 9 years ago
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Did the stage one track accreditation there a week or so ago. Brilliant facility. However, the organisation side of it and booking process (Derby council) are awful. They REALLY need to get their act together before they make a mockery of the money spent on creating a brilliant arena.

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Kadinkski | 9 years ago
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Just remembered about the Greek world cup team too - they donated all their world cup earnings to build a national football training centre.

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ianrobo | 9 years ago
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no they don't, how many ex football players at the top level do this ?

In fact look at Cricket and Matt Prior set up his own cycling team.

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Kadinkski replied to ianrobo | 9 years ago
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I'm not sure if you're joking or are just incredibly naive?

What about Craig Bellamy spending £1.5 million of his own money setting up a football academy in Sierra Leone?

Or the group of players including Leonardo and Cafu that set up Milan Fundacao

Countless top-level players putting something back into the sport by running football coaching clinics.

Theres the Dirk Kyut Foundation, the Leo Messi Foundation.

Rio Ferdinand donating his time and image to the kick racism out of football campaign.

etc. etc.

I've got no idea what your point is about Matt Prior setting up a cycling team.

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ianrobo | 9 years ago
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The good thing we do have is that the likes of DB, Wiggins and now Cav are trying to put something back into the sport, how many other sports see this ?

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Kadinkski replied to ianrobo | 9 years ago
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ianrobo wrote:

The good thing we do have is that the likes of DB, Wiggins and now Cav are trying to put something back into the sport, how many other sports see this ?

Um, literally every other sport in the world. And by 'literally', I really do mean 'literally'.

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Danger Dicko | 9 years ago
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If British sport had more Sir Dave's then we'd certainly win more.

Actually, I think most of our sports except football have one.

Top guy and the Derby velodrome should be named after him.

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Kadinkski | 9 years ago
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I used to think he was a bit of a dick but I'm just finishing David Millar's doping book and I must admit, my opinion of him has changed somewhat. He comes across as such a caring, loyal and generous person.

Having said that, the other person that comes across as really caring, loyal and generous is Lance Armstrong.

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fenix replied to Kadinkski | 9 years ago
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Really ? Lance didnt even come across that well from his own autobiography ?

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fenix replied to Kadinkski | 9 years ago
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Really ? Lance didnt even come across that well from his own autobiography ?

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