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| A gruelling sport

By ANDY FRASER Brent spent three months in
Belgium on the road racing

Running through the ‘cult.
mud with a bicycle on Cyclo-Cross is a
your back might not be specialized form of bike

. racing that is usually set up
everyone's idea of fun, to include gravel and mud

_ but 19 year old Brent stretches, obstacles such as

,Mudry of West Van- logs and streams, steép

couver thinks it’s qa Uphill stretches and includes

great sport areas where the biker must
. carry his bike and run.

Cyclo-Cross is the name of The “sport” is relatively
the sport, and it's a special new to North America but is
winter designed bike racing big in Europe. both at the
bitof endurance only for the amateur and professional
truly fit. levels.

Mudry, a _ Hillside Mudry, who has been
graduate, recently returned racing for six years and is at
from competing in the the national level of com-
national cyclo-cross  petence is hoping to stick
championships held in - with the bike riding for a few
Marmora, Ontario. But the more years and to compete
young West Van biker atthe international level.
doesn’t restrict himself to the The tough. winter sport
gruciling cross country caine about for bikers who
racing in the fall. normally would be out of

During the summer he luck with competitions for
competed in road racing

events. This past summer, CONTINUED ON PAGE B3

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