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Bordeaux
The new International from the Bordeaux region, with a liberation point some miles south east of Bordeaux itself, brings some in the UK to think they have a chance of winning an International. With the right wind of course that is exactly what it will do. This is a race point which should appeal to a larger section of UK racers and will hopefully attract many in the midland areas, and perhaps even further North, who might think this distance really brings them into contention. This is a welcome addition to the UK programme which might provide some balance to the N.F.C. pulling back from Tarbes.
While Bordeaux, more properly Villeneueve sur Lot, does provide an International race within easier reach of a greater part of the UK the competition will still be just as fierce. Many will have raced from the Bordeaux area before and will therefore know that it presents a similar, though shorter, challenge than Pau or Tarbes. The race point itself lies in ground that pigeons released in Pau or Tarbes would probably cross on the route to Britain, a flight over a relatively flat landscape or at least one that has no significant hill or mount ain range to cross.
The new International from the Bordeaux region, with a liberation point some miles south east of Bordeaux itself, brings some in the UK to think they have a chance of winning an International. With the right wind of course that is exactly what it will do. This is a race point which should appeal to a larger section of UK racers and will hopefully attract many in the midland areas, and perhaps even further North, who might think this distance really brings them into contention. This is a welcome addition to the UK programme which might provide some balance to the N.F.C. pulling back from Tarbes.
While Bordeaux, more properly Villeneueve sur Lot, does provide an International race within easier reach of a greater part of the UK the competition will still be just as fierce. Many will have raced from the Bordeaux area before and will therefore know that it presents a similar, though shorter, challenge than Pau or Tarbes. The race point itself lies in ground that pigeons released in Pau or Tarbes would probably cross on the route to Britain, a flight over a relatively flat landscape or at least one that has no significant hill or mount ain range to cross.
The liberation point was previously at the southern end of the small village of Pujols, itself just south of Villeneuve sur Lot, a name derived from Roman times meaning “village on a hill”. As you will realise Pujols is an old village and was rebuilt in the 15th Century, after having been destroyed in a war with inhabitants from Albi, on the same site and in a fashion that can still be seen to this day. While Villeneuve sur Lot was itself formed from the old town of Gajac, which had been deserted during that same war, and sits astride the River Lot which sweeps across France from The Cévennes, part of the Massif Central until it joins Le Gironde and flows through Bordeaux and out into the Bay of Biscay.
In 2011 the liberation point was moved, at the last minute, to Agen some few kilometres south and will no doubt remain at this location for 2012.
In 2011 the liberation point was moved, at the last minute, to Agen some few kilometres south and will no doubt remain at this location for 2012.
Villeneuve sur Lot astride the River Lot
