Sports Poets Society

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=46895 By Leo Woodland Bergen-op-Zoom, Putte, Antwerp, Temse, Buggenhout, Lebbeke, Aalst New year's day, south on the semi-main road that runs the 25km or so to Belgium. Not a sparkling ride normally but Holland was sleeping in, the streets a wreckage of burned-out fireworks, food wrappers and beer cans from the night before. About halfway to Putte, which straddles the border, I reached Hogerheide. The main road skirts it but the bike route runs through the middle, and I didn't mind that. I fancied a coffee and there was a chance that if I picked the right café and the right company, I could get to talking about the Eagle of Hogerheide. You may not have heard of him. Few people now recall him, which is perhaps as well because it's a sad story of a life ruined at the moment of its glory. Hogerheide in the 1960s was the home of an everyday racing cyclist called Harm Ottenbros. On Sunday, August 10...

http://capovelo.com/harm-ottenbros/ 30 JUN 2015 by Gianni Pericolo   A belated happy birthday to Harm Ottenbros, who was born on June 27, 1943.  The Dutch rider is best known for winning the gold medal and rainbow jersey at the 1969 world cycling championship road race in Zolder, Belgium.  The relatively unknown Ottenbros, managed to edge out Julien Stevens of Belgium by a few centimetres to claim the victory. In addition, Ottenbros accumulated a handful of stage victories in the Tour de Suisse, Tour de Belgium and the Tour de Luxembourg.  However, after winning the World Championship, the world of cycling turned on Ottenbros. Some say they felt, that the unknown rider had no right to cycling’s biggest prize , imposing guilt on Ottenbros for denying the championship to Eddy Merckx . In fact, the only rider to congratulate him was Franco Bitossi, who rode up alongside him in the Tour of Flanders and said he admired what he’d done. The ges...

https://www.tuttobiciweb.it/article/2017/08/04/103738/europei-il-ritorno-di-carube-lencioni-meccanico-nazionale-stefano-arosio-tuttobiciweb#&gid=1&pid=2 di Stefano Arosio Tuttobiciweb - 4 agosto 2017 Ritrovarsi 11 anni dopo può essere come tradire un ricordo e trovarsi faccia a faccia con uno sconosciuto. Ma, in fondo, per Roberto Lencioni e il ciclismo non si è mai trattato di un addio. E i cambiamenti si colgono, ma sono dettagli di un volto che resta familiare.  Lencioni e il ciclismo si sono dati appuntamento a Herning, in Danimarca, per gli Europei . Nel più improbabile dei luoghi che sarebbero stati affini a un meccanico cresciuto in una della quarantina delle frazioni di Capannori. Perché lui non è di Lucca, ma neanche del Comune che gli dà la residenza. «Sono di Segromigno in Monte». E di più «Della corte Carube». Uno spazio costruito da suo nonno, Carube a sua volta, come del resto il padre prima di lui.  Un soprannome che oggi vive nel...