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Calgary Herald
4 days ago
- Sport
- Calgary Herald
RODEO NOTES, Day 8: Luke Mackey, 19, only bull rider to last full eight seconds
Article content A win was on the griddle for Nebraska bareback rider Garrett Shadbolt. Article content Shadbolt posted Friday's best score of 87.5 points aboard Flap Jack. Combined with the $4,500 he won 24 hours earlier, Shadbolt now tops the Pool C standings with $11,500 in winnings. Article content Right behind him is Utah's Mason Clements, who made the most of a re-ride to score 85 points atop Young Carma to up his earnings through two days of action to $8,250. Article content Orin Larsen, of Inglis, Man., also earned a score of 85 from the judges after his wild ride on Willy Jack. After taking home $5,000 — his first payday at this year's Stampede — Larsen still has work to do on Saturday to finish among the top three bareback riders who will advance to Showdown Sunday. Article content Article content Blane Cox and Tuf Cooper were fit to be tied after Friday's rodeo go-round. Article content The talented tie-down ropers both did their jobs speedily and stopped the clock at 6.8 seconds to each win $6,250. Article content Article content Their quick clockings were a 10th of a second off the best time of 6.7 that fellow Texan Ty Harris set four days earlier. Article content Marty Yates, also of Texas, finished third at 7.0 and added $4,500 to the $7,000 he won for winning Thursday's go-round. Article content With $11,500, Yates currently tops the standings followed closely by Cooper ($10,750), while Montana's Tom Crouse ($7,500) and Cox ($6,250) have the bests shots of finishing in the coveted third spot if they can add more cash to their pocketbooks on Saturday's final round of Pool C action. Article content Texas bull-dogger Holden Myers went four-flat to earn the first-place day-money of $7,000. Then came South Dakota's Jace Melvin at 4.2 for $5,500. Article content Tied in third was Oklahomans Riley Duvall and Chance Howard at 4.3 for $3,875 each. Article content Article content Heading into the third and final day of Pool C steer wrestling, Myers, Howard and Melvin hold down the top-three berths with $11,500, $10,125 and $8,750 respectively and hold a clear advantage to advance to Showdown Sunday with Duvall next at $4,875. Article content Article content After failing to win money Thursday, the Texan bronc rider thrilled the fans in GMC Stadium with a 90-point performance on Come Along to win $7,000. Article content That moved him into third in the aggregate standings behind Dawson Hay, of Wildwood, Alta., who has compiled $12,500 in earnings so far.
BBC News
10-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Man's cycling challenge with multiple sclerosis
A man with multiple sclerosis (MS) is about to undertake a feat of physical and mental Shadbolt, 53, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire is planning to ride a specially adapted road bike 8,000 km (5,000 miles) across is due to set off next month and is aiming to raise both awareness and a million dollars for research and support for the Shadbolt said: "I might fail, I don't plan to fail but the MS might just knock on the door and say, 'I'm sorry it's just not happening today'." MS is a disease where the body's own immune cells attack the brain and spinal cord, leading to symptoms like muscle stiffness and problems walking and are more than 130,000 people living with MS in the UK. Mr Shadbolt was diagnosed with MS 33 years ago but he said he is "fortunate" to still be able to ride. He will be riding a trike from the east to the west coast of Canada, starting at Halifax and finishing at said: "The thing with MS is it's chronic which means it lasts forever, it's incurable, there is no cure, and it's gradually disabling."I like to set myself challenges. I also want other people with MS to know that it's quite possible to do, hard things."He said: "The reality of MS is you can get very tired very easily. "I really need to control everything, if I'm suddenly feeling dreadful, don't be an idiot and press on, because you'll pay far more more later. "It's fatigue which many people with MS will know about, so I'll ride for six days, I'll have one day off, minimum." "We're basing everything around four months and doing 80 km a day," he Shadbolt has a YouTube channel called 'Ride Canada 4 MS' which he said "there'll be daily posts, with a bit of luck, as long as I can get mobile signal.""There'll be times, I'm sure I'll want to quit, want to throw the towel in and there'll be other times when it's going to be beautiful and the scenery will be amazing and I won't want to be anywhere else," he added. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
