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Article: Mountain Biking: The high flyer from Mallorca Ben Vickers meets a Spanish village heroine set to conquer Plymouth this week
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 10, 1998
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THE woman who answered the telephone in the council offices in
Sant Llorenc, a sleepy little town on the Spanish island of Mallorca,
was too concerned about getting on with her cleaning duties to answer
any queries, until she heard the name Marga Fullana, the local
heroine who won the bronze medal in the mountain bike world cup last
year. That changed everything. She began to enthuse volubly about
Fullana's latest achievements - the cleaning could obviously wait.
The signs that the whole village are behind their favourite daughter
were obvious.
The Mediterranean has become a popular place for cyclists to train
during the winter months. Many teams fly out for a quiet week's
work, and there ...