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The Derbyshire Guardian and David Lloyd Raise £1000s For Charity
More than £3,000 was raised for the Rainbows hospice for children and young people at a special charity evening organised by the David Lloyd sports and leisure club in Derby and compered by the Derbyshire Guardian. British cycling coach Sir David Brailsford, the performance director of British Cycling and the general manager of Team Sky was the guest of honour at the event.The evening was hosted by David Lloyd Derby in conjunction with The Derbyshire Guardian whose sales executive Peter Masters compered the event and ran the charity auction. The evening raised more than £3,000 for Loughboroughbased Rainbows – the East Midlands’ only hospice for children and young people. Rainbows relies on donations which help
its team of dedicated and professional staff relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, and support family members so charity nights like this are vital to its fund raising efforts. Compere Peter Masters said: “I was delighted to be part of this event which was being held for such a worthwhile cause and I am thrilled that thanks to the generosity of all at the event, so much money was raised for the Rainbows hospice. “It was also a real pleasure to get to meet Sir David Brailsford, and hear him speak with such passion and knowledge about human performance, getting the most out of people and the amazing transformation of British cycling in recent years.” At the auction were six Team Sky jersies signed by the entire team including Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Dario Cataldo and Jon Tiernan-Locke and ten copies of the latest Team Sky book “The Pain and the Glory.” Sir David told how the Great Britain cycling team
has a lot of mental pressure to overcome as it prepares for the Rio Olympics in 2016. He explained that with a tally of eight gold medals from Beijing and another eight from London last year, anything less than eight from Rio could be seen as failure – at least in the view of the media. Sir David said: “We want to always be proud of what we have achieved in the past but not be burdened by it as we look forward to the future. “When people ask me how many medals we are trying to achieve I tell them that we don’t have a number tally in mind. “I tell the team members that everyone must perform to the best of their ability and if someone is giving their best possible performance that is all I or anybody else can ever ask for.” He explained that prior to the lottery funding, British cycling had only won one gold medal in 76 years of competition, but with the investment which followed the game was changed beyond recognition. For
the first time there was the money available to invest in structured training and to take a logical, scientific approach to training, fitness, personal development, goal setting and performance training. Sir David was born in Allestree, Derby, before moving to North Wales as a child and then to France as a teenager to pursue his love of cycling. He then went back to education to gain a degree in Sports Science and Sports Psychology. His career with British Cycling has taken him from joining as an advisor in 1996 to programme director and to his current position as performance director. Under Brailsford’s leadership Team GB has become the most successful track cycling team in modern history. In 2010 he also became the manager of British-based professional team, Team Sky and as team principal he oversaw both Bradley Wiggins’ and Chris Froome’s victories in the 2012 and 2013 Tour de France. During his speech to the guests at the charity evening, he told how the kcy concepts of commitment, ownership, responsibility and excellence were vital to achieving success – not only in cycling but in any area of human endeavour. A spokesman for the Derbyshire Guardian said: “Due to the success of this event we are proud to be associated with the Rainbows charity and look forward to a long working relationship with them. “We also look forward to helping them with many more fundraising events including The Santa Run on December 7 at Elvaston Castle.”