Sports AM: Countdown to major cycling event marked by lighting up Borders attractionCountdown to major cycling event marked by lighting up Borders attraction - Can Scotland make it a hat trick of Calcutta Cup wins for first time in 50-years?
ORGANISERS of a major cycling event which arrives in the Borders later this year have lit up a local tourist attraction to celebrate an exciting milestone.
Last year’s Calcutta Cup match saw the Scots run out 20-17 winners in Edinburgh, the first time they had beaten England two years in a row since 1983-84.
The 33-year-old Glasgow lock has won 69 caps but has been on the periphery of the national team for much of Gregor Townsend’s five-and-a-half-year reign.
RUGBY legends are coming together to cycle more than 500 miles in just 48 hours in support the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, in the first year of the Doddie Cup without the Borders legend.
The announcement comes before the championship’s opening round next week, when those players selected will travel to face England at the Twickenham Stoop, London on Friday February 3, kick-off 7pm – live on BBC iPlayer.
Redpath – whose father Bryan who played for Melrose won 60 caps for Scotland between 1993 and 2003 – signalled his recent upturn in fortunes when he scored his first international try in the team’s last outing against Argentina in November.
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