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rgmerk

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Member Since:: September 2012
Based In:: Melbourne
Favourite Sporting Team:: Swans
Favourite Sports:: AFL, Cricket, Cycling, Motor,

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Cycling and the ACC report: No room for complacency

9 Feb 2013

My friend Phillip Gomes has given voice to a feeling that’s undoubtedly going round the Australian cycling community.

Did Brent Guerra admit to a doping offence on national tv?

8 Sep 2012

Samantha Lane’s tweets described Before The Game’s interview with injured Hawthorn player Brent Guerra as ‘refreshingly honest’ as the journalist admitted to being ‘intrigued’.

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Make goalkicking the goal

This article on free throw shooting in the NBA is relevant here. In short, free throw shooting percentages have not really improved over the history of the league, and while some players have managed to get sustained improvements in free throw shooting, declines are almost as common as improvements.

17 Mar 2013

Is there a superstar advantage in cycling?

I dunno whether it applies as much to climbers, but bunch sprinting is as much about self-belief - and projecting that self-belief - as it is about fast-twitch muscle fibres. You have to convince yourself, and others, that it's you and not them who deserves to slot into the prime position for the sprint, get that gap, and so on. But, as for GC riders, not so sure. When it comes down to it, the rider with the best watts per kilogram wins more often than not!

17 Mar 2013

Bold new world begins for V8 Supercars

The racing seemed like it was pretty good over the weekend; the cars look far smoother (and faster) through the corners. And, in theory, it's nice to have a couple of new brands to cheer for. But Car of the Future also represents the final step in the NASCARization of domestic racing. The cars, whatever the bodyshell implies, are all designed to behave identically in aerodynamic terms, and have engines regulated to the same power levels. While there is technical diversity between the brands in terms of engine technology, that technical diversity is regulated into insignificance. It may as well be a one-make series, and the cars, like their post-91 V8 Supercar predecessors, are in many key ways far less advanced technologically than road cars to allow driving talent to take precedence and keep costs under control. But if there's no actual technical competition, it's hard to give a toss what fiberglass panels the teams are strapping over the identical frames. I'd be just as happy if they raced Aussie Racing Cars (an amateur racing formula with a custom miniaturized chassis, a large motorcycle engine and bodies that look like caricatures of V8 supercars); it'd be a fifth the cost and just as entertaining.

3 Mar 2013

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