Sam Bennett

Sam Bennett may refer to:

Sam Bennett (Passions)

Samuel "Sam" Bennett Jr. is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions. Sam was played throughout the duration of the show by James Hyde.

Character's background

Sam, the eldest son of a former Harmony Police Chief, would also become a Harmony police chief. Sam has a much younger brother named Hank Bennett who is not much older than Sam's eldest son. Growing up, Sam was best friends with T.C. Russell and is still close with him to this day.

When Sam was a teenager he fell for Ivy Winthrop, the daughter of Governor Harrison Winthrop whom he met while he worked as a lifeguard. Sam went away one summer to work on one of the boats of Ivy's father so he could afford to marry Ivy. Sam's letters to Ivy were intercepted by Ivy's father, and she began to think that Sam had forgotten about her and was seeing other women while she was away. She began to date Alistair Crane's son Julian. The Winthrops had respectability, and the Cranes had money and the two patriarchs thought their children marrying was far superior to Ivy marrying a Bennett. Ivy married Julian, realizing that night that he did not love her but had been pressured into the marriage by his father. She ran off to find comfort in the arms of Sam, and they consummated their love. Soon after, Ivy gave birth to Sam's son Ethan, but she passed him off as Julian's son. She stayed with Julian because Sam had no money. Ivy and Julian would go on to have three children together: Fancy Crane, Fox Crane and Pretty Crane, but Ivy loved Ethan the most and doted on him because he was Sam's.

Sam Bennett (cyclist)

Sam Bennett (born October 16, 1990) is a Belgium-born Irish professional cyclist, who won the European Junior Points Race Championship in 2008 and has represented the Irish National team in the 2009 Tour of Ireland. He currently rides for Bora–Argon 18.

Career

Early career

Bennett was born in Wervik, Belgium, where his father Michael played professional soccer for local club Eendracht Wervik. He moved with his parents to their native Ireland at the age of four, where he spent most of his early years growing up in Carrick-on-Suir, the hometown of fellow cyclist Sean Kelly. Bennett finished the 2011 season ranked 293rd on the UCI Europe Tour with 55 ranking points. In 2012, he had several fine results including three top 10 stage results at the Tour of Britain and a third place at Ronde van Noord; the results helped Bennett to a 2012 UCI Europe Tour final rank of 267th with 57 points.

2013 season

After several positive results in late summer, he was selected to represent Ireland at the 2013 World Road Race Championships along with Dan Martin, Nicolas Roche and Matt Brammeier. Prior to the World Championships, he contested the Tour of Britain as part of the An Post–Chain Reaction team. He finished second to MTN–Qhubeka's Gerald Ciolek on the second stage into Kendal, having attacked on a 15% climb around 400 m (1,300 ft) from the finish, before being passed by Ciolek on the final straight. Bennett later won the fifth stage into Caerphilly, taking a sprint finish out of an elite group of fifteen riders. He ended the tour with a second-place finish in stage eight, losing to Mark Cavendish in London.