Sheffield Speedway: Lasse comes home to gain older brother’s help

LLasse Bjerre: has to overcome a painful knee condition. Picture by Andy Garner

Nigel Pearson

Published:10:28Tuesday 05 June 2018

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Lasse Bjerre is combining old-fashioned sibling rivalry with pedal power in a bid to boost his Sheffield form.

The 24-year-old charger enlists the help of brother and former Grand Prix star Kenneth Bjerre when both are back in their native Denmark in an attempt to keep at bay the pain of long-term knee ligament damage.

The Tigers number four endured months of misdiagnosis during last season and had been set to undergo surgery on the problem over the winter.

He opted to delay to ensure he would be back in the saddle from the start of 2018 with a fitness programme designed to pushtrails in the race against GOP Gov. Larry Hogan, but Chappelle tried to boost the Democratic nominee at a University of Maryland event earlier this month.

Trump and Obama, meanwhile, are both going on a spree of campaign appearances across the country.

The sitting president will be in Missouri Thursday evening, where Republican Josh Hawley is facing Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in one of the season’s tightest Senate contests.

Trump later heads to West Virginia and Indiana, while Obama heads to Georgia and Florida, where he’ll boost Sen. Bill Nelson and Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, who is running for governor.

On Sunday, the former president will be in Gary, Indiana, for Sen. Joe Donnelly, who is among the most endangered Senate Democrats, and in his hometown of Chicago for J.B. Pritzker, who