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Mayho returns to join team heading for Carib Champs

Dominique Mayho (centre) will be among Bermuda’s team heading to the Caribbean Championships in Antigua.

Dominique Mayho, just back from a two-month training stint in France, has been included in a five-member team to represent Bermuda at the 2012 Elite Caribbean Cycling Championships in Antigua on October 20 and 21.The teenager, who was enjoying his most successful season in cycling prior to going to France where he trained and competed with UCC Vivonne for two months, joins Mark Hatherley, Geri Mewett, Darren Glasford and lone female member Nicole Mitchell in the Island team.Clifford Roberts, Wenda Roberts and Peter Dunne are also travelling as team support.The event is being billed as the “biggest cycling event ever in Antigua” by the organisers and will involve a time trial and road race during the two days of competition.The time trial is a 24-mile event for the men and 12 miles for the women while the road race will cover 84 miles for the men and 42 for the women.Mayho will no doubt be keen to put the training he has received in France to good effect.His success on local soil this season includes winning all three stages of the Butterfield Bank Grand Prix time trial, GP circuit and criterium race in April when he beat out Hatherley and Glasford in the Male A Division.The 18-year-old followed up with a first victory in the annual Sinclair Packwood Memorial Race on May 24, holding off Hatherley who finished second.Mayho is the current Junior Male Athlete of the Year.Meanwhile, this Sunday local riders will compete over the 23-mile Bacardi course for the 2012 Capital G Time Trial series, which sees the first rider starting out from Pitts Bay Road at 7.30am.The event is organised by the Crime Stoppers cycling team and registration begins at 7am.Next Sunday will see one of the biggest events on the local calendar the IBC Front Street races.That will serve as final preparation for those heading to to Antigua.