![]() He has also presented a sports magazine programme for Setanta TV and was an analyst for Al Jazeera TV during 2012 London Olympics. He has written for the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail. In 1989, he raced the Giro D’Italia and Tour de France with Roche on the Fagor team and then retired from the sport to begin a new career as a journalist with The Sunday Tribune.Ī former ‘Sportswriter of the Year’ in Ireland, he was short-listed five times for ‘Sportswriter of the Year’ in Britain and is a five- time winner of ‘Sports Interviewer of the Year’ at the British Sports Journalists’ Association awards. In 1987, he finished 8 th in the Nissan Classic and joined the Irish team of Martin Earley and Sean Kelly at the World Road Race Championships in Austria won by Stephen Roche. In 1986, he turned professional with the French team, RMO and completed his first Tour de France. A year later, he won a stage of the Tour of Normandy and the Tour of Poland and finished sixth in the World Amateur Road Race Championships in Italy. ![]() In 1984, he won his second Road Race Championship and represented Ireland at the Los at the Los Angeles Olympics. In 1981, he became the youngest Irishman ever to win the Road Race Championship and should have won the 1983 Tour of Britain but for a crash on the penultimate stage. He was born in 1962, the year his father, Christy, won the National Road Race Championship and spent his boyhood dreaming of emulating his dad. Paul Kimmage’s life has been shaped by a love for cycling. ![]()
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