Tune into the first installment of life in the Zwift Triathlon Academy. Over the coming months we will be vlogging what we get up too and showing the highs and lows as each of us tries to qualify for Kona.
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Melton athlete Bex Rimmington selected for four-strong global triathlon team Published: 08:30 Thursday 26 April 2018 Bex Rimmington was our sports personality of the year in 2011 Prolific Melton sportswoman Bex Rimmington has landed one of just four places in an ambitious global triathlon team. Bex was the only British athlete selected among thousands of […]
Bex Rimmington selected for Specialized Zwift Academy Triathlon Team April 24, 2018 John Levison In February (HERE), Zwift launched their 2018 Specialized Zwift Academy Triathlon Team project, searching for four athletes to join “The World’s Best Supported Amateur Tri Team”. Not surprisingly, 1000’s of applications soon followed, but there could only be four athletes selected. The winners are […]
Crash ends Czech tour for Melton rider Bex Rimmington Thursday 13 July 2017 Melton professional cycle racer Bex Rimmington has vowed to return before the season’s out after a high-speed crash left her with a broken wrist. The 34-year-old was brought down while descending at 31mph during the second stage of the Tour de Feminin […]
FREAK INJURY RUINS PARALYMPIC HOPES Published on Thursday 24 May 2012 08:25 THE same injury which put David Beckham out of the last World Cup has ended Bex Rimmington’s hopes of competing at London this summer. With cruel irony, the foot injury ruled the Melton cyclist out of this weekend’s Paracycling World Cup in Rome […]
A photographic celebration of Leicestershire’s sporting heroes has gone on display at the Highcross shopping centre. The Back Page Exhibition, which was launched yesterday, features 24 images taken by the Mercury’s photographers. Among the sports stars admiring their pictures at the launch were boxer Rendall Munroe, Ismail Saleh, of Leicester’s CKI School of Martial Arts, […]
The Back Page exhibition features some of the city and county’s most high profile sporting characters as photographed by Leicester Mercury photographers. The exhibition includes Leicester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, snooker star Mark Selby and boxer Rendall Munroe. The exhibition is live at Highcross from Sunday 3 April until Friday 6 May. You can find […]
Its been a fair while since I sat down and wrote a blog on my latest whereabouts and what I’ve been up too – sitting still has definitely not been the case! At the beginning of August I took the opportunity to get some pre-season cross training, in the south-west of France in Soustons. As […]