Now, didn't I say Fabio Duarte!!

Ha! Ha! Ha! There you go. And you read it here first, not in cyclingnews.com, Reuters or AFP.. I told you so here. I told you Fabio Duarte would be the one to win the UCI Under-23 World Championships road race and it happened, just as the script had it, although he might have got a little scare from the little Italian and German.
Duarte is the first ever Colombian winner of the title. Our Anuar Manan held on for one and half laps, Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi for six. Out of three years of participations, Malaysia has only had one finisher in the Under-23 World Championships - a self-funded Ng Yong Li, riding alone in 2006, finishing 122nd out of 156 finishers.
But you've gotta start thinking, and thinking how far behind we are. Duarte is 22 and has been a pro since he was 19. The closest we went was Yong Li breaking into the European scene as a 19-year old in 2005 and turning pro at 21 last year.
Sure it is far too difficult for the faint hearted, but Malaysian losers have given up long before they even got started. So, it is up to the individuals, the private ventures, the real fighters to carry on and look at how we're going to make a breakthrough.
The breakthroughs that are happening on the local front, at least as far a the administrators and 'caretakers' of the sport are concerned, was a meeting to discuss and decide which coach is to handle the national road team, held this afternoon. That, after almost nine months of the national squad having noone in charge. Phew!!
I believe these meetings and more meetings, which follow and come after other meetings, are all they are up to. Well yes, they think they've got enough political ammo in the track sprints squad's thus far successful programme.
Come on. Wake up MNCF and NSC. The world is leaving us behind!!!

UPDATE!! Full results and brief report is up on cyclingnews.com