Kelly protégé seizes yellow jersey

SOME years ago Sean Kelly discovered a young Lithuanian riding in Belgium and told Kurt Bogaerts, Manager of the An Post/Sean Kelly team, to watch out for him.

This year Bogaerts signed him and yesterday, 25-year-old Gediminas Bagdonas was resplendent in the coveted race leader’s yellow jersey at the end of the third stage of the An Post Rás in Castleisland.

“Sean (Kelly) noticed him when he was in Belgium and told me to watch out for him and I did because Sean is never wrong,” the Belgian said. “He won the stage yesterday (Monday) and he just raced for it today (Tuesday). It is nice to see an aggressive rider taking something home.