Ronnie O’Sullivan:
🏆 7-time World Champion
🏆 8-time UK Champion
🏆 8-time Masters Champion
🏆 41 Ranking Titles
⭐️ 1,320 Century Breaks
⭐️ 17 Maximum Breaks
⭐️ Highest Break: 153
⏳ Fastest Maximum Break in 5’08’’, unbeaten for 29 years
🐐 The Greatest of All Time
Did enjoy watching the snooker last night, two greats of the game going at it . Enjoy the ITV coverage but not sold on the shirts players are wearing. One hundred and eighty vibes
Ronnie O’Sullivan:
🏆 7-time World Champion
🏆 8-time UK Champion
🏆 8-time Masters Champion
🏆 41 Ranking Titles
⭐️ 1,300 Century Breaks
⭐️ 17 Maximum Breaks
⏳ Fastest Maximum Break in 5’08’’ , unbeaten for 28 years
🐐 The Greatest of All Time
#ILoveSnooker@ronnieo147
Ronnie O’Sullivan 6️⃣-3️⃣ Chris Wakelin
Unbelievable performance from the Rocket as he books his place in tomorrow's final with century break of 134.
Two 147's in one night probably won't be topped, one that won't be forgotten for a long time.
Peter Kennaugh -who has been doing sterling work throughout ITV’s final year of free-to-air Tour de France coverage - also holds the lap record on the Isle of Man TT circuit, albeit on a human-powered bicycle rather than a motorbike. This famed route, better known in cycling circles as the Mountain Circuit, is celebrated for its role in the Manx International road race.
Originally established for motorcycle competition in 1911, the 37.5-mile course weaves through twisting bends and challenging climbs, cresting at Snaefell, the island’s highest point at 621 metres. While the TT’s reputation was forged by roaring engines, cyclists have long been drawn to its formidable terrain.
In 1925 the Viking Wheelers introduced a cycling time trial on the same circuit, but it wasn’t until 1936 that Curwen Clague - an influential advocate for the sport on the island - persuaded the National Cyclists’ Union to permit a mass-start road race. The inaugural Manx International covered one lap of the Mountain Circuit. Though the race saw early mishaps - a lorry and a motorcycle incident disrupting the field near the start, and multiple crashes at Sulby and Keppel Gate - Charles Holland, later one of Britain’s first Tour de France pioneers, led 48 survivors home.
The event flourished thereafter, extending to two laps in 1937 and three (113 miles) by 1950, becoming the centrepiece of a week-long festival that included the Mountain Time Trial. Legends such as Eddy Merckx (13th, 1963), Lucien Van Impe (5th, 1967) and Laurent Fignon (12th, 1980) have all contested the course. In the time-trial discipline, Chris Boardman’s 1993 one-lap record of 1 hour 23 minutes 54 seconds stood until the island’s own Peter Kennaugh - then riding for Team Sky - trimmed six seconds off it in 2015.
🚴♂️@petekennaugh
🖊️@ChrisSidwells
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