JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - HARRISON HOPES FOR A HAPPY ENDING
WALES stages the biggest cycling weekend in National Championships history - and Risca's Sam Harrison could start the ball rolling for a winning Welsh Saturday by lunchtime.
Harrison is in line to be a future Olympian and was a nominee for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2008 and will be out to beat Newport's Jon Mould, the defending champion, to the Junior National Championships title.
That victory would be sweet as it would come aftere a disaster when he had half-a-dozen of his bikes, worth thousands of pounds, stolen this month.
So, from a solid build-up towards the race, Harrison is having to re-adjust and said: "It was a big shock and it's really affected my training.
"I've borrowed a bike from my mate but it's not the same as having my own bike."
The multi-British National Track Championships gold medalist, of Cwmcarn Paragon but now with the Planet-X team, faces some stiff competition when the teenagers hit the road at 9am tomorrow.
Mould will be hoping to upstage his local rival, though, after taking the juniors crown in North Yorkshire 12 months ago.
And Isle of Man ace Tim Kennaugh, who is good friends with current men's sensation Mark Cavendish and whose brother Peter is another hot-shot, is possibly podium-bound.
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