Summary
DERBY Mercury's fast-improving teenage track racer, Rosie Blount, is aiming high after scoring a remarkable fifth place in the sprint competition at the National Championships in Manchester. Still only 16, Blount was competing against the seniors at the velodrome - although the mouthwatering prospect of taking on Britain's first lady of track cycling, Victoria Pendleton, did not materialise, Pendleton choosing to give the sprints a miss. Blount's result is all the more remarkable since the championships came almost exactly a year after she broke her leg in a cyclo-cross race at Allestree Park.
She has tried most sports - including swimming, football and athletics - as well as all of the cycling disciplines but is beginning to think that the track is where her cycling future lies.See the full content of this document
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Champs
Blount had already finished eighth in the 500m time trial at the National Championships before taking on...
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