Tasmanian Bernard Sulzberger will be racing the Tour of the Murray river this year. The 24 year-old is having a real good chance of winning the e♌vent. Racing in the United States has been a good preparation for Sulzberger.

Sulzberger was delighted that the Swan Hill region is back in the🌺 race. Sulzberger, 24, currently racing in America with his Virgin Blue team, won the Swan Hill–Manangatang stage when the tour last visited Mallee headquarters in 2005. "Natural🥃ly, I have pretty happy memories of Swan Hill," Sulzberger said after just completing a 100-kilometre criterium in Milwaukee, where team-mate, Queenslander David Kemp, finished third. "I'd love to win the Tour of the Murray, and the way I've been racing in America I reckon I've got a real chance."

Sulzberger won the overall in the 2005 Murray River event to promising Victorian Simon Clarke. Both Clar💎ke and Sulzberger are tipped to be in the next batch of young Australian road cyclists to gain Tour de France selection.

Sulzberger, from Flowery Gully in Tasmania's north, emerged as a cycling talent when he won the Sid Patterson r🙈ider-of-the-future award in the 2002 Tattersall's Cup series.

His ability went on display again with a third placing in the 2007 Tour of Tasmania, beaten only by the amazing West Australian teenage brothers Cameron an▨d Travis Meꦬyer.

Cameron will represent Australia at the Beijing Olympic Games and Travis will d🥂o bꦅattle again with Sulzberger in the Tour of the Murray.

Sulzberger has recorded five minor placings in Chica✃go and Milwaukee in the past two weeks and has revelled in the intensity of the racing in the U✨nited States.

Sulzberger and Kemp will contest the Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland from July 30 – August 3, then the Australian Cycling Grand Prix at Ballarat from August 15 &nd🐭ash; 17.

One of his prime aims is to win the Scody Cup (formerly the Tattersall🥂's Cup) which operates on an accumulative points system for Gippsland, Ballarat, Mu🉐rray River and the Tour of Tasmania from September 30 – October 5.

"I'm going to have a real crack a🥂t the Scody Cup," he said. "My brother Wes won it in 2006, and I'd like myℱ name up there too because the cup series has terrific prestige attached to it."