Persaud powers to second win of season

Robin Persaud edges Alonzo Greaves to take yesterday’s second annual Banks DIH Limited sponsored Powerade 50-mile road race. (Orlando Charles photo)

Last year’s most successful cyclist, Robin Persaud, powered to his second win of the season by outsprinting this year’s most outstanding cyclist, Alonzo Greaves to claim the second annual Powerade 50-mile road race at West Demerara yesterday.

Persaud, 38, winner of 15 races last year, stopped the clock at one hour, 56 minutes and eight seconds,

Persaud led fellow national cyclist, the in-form Greaves, winner of seven races this season and a resurgent Albert Philander