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The low down from those in the knowAustralian cycling’s “old duck” Anna Meares plans to create Olympic history at the London Games with an age-old cliche in her head.
Cyclist Alex Edmondson can only find one word for being half of Australia’s first brother-sister combination to ride at an Olympics – crazy.
Aust Olympic track cycling team named
By AAP, 25 May 2012Australia has named its 14-strong track cycling team for the London Olympics:
Guardini wins 18th stage of Giro d’Italia
By AFP, 25 May 2012Italian Andrea Guardini won the 18th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday when the 22-year-old Farnese Vini team member held off British world champion Mark Cavendish.
New Zealand cyclist Bewley joins GreenEDGE
By AAP, 24 May 2012New Zealand cyclist Sam Bewley will join Australian road team GreenEDGE following this year’s Olympics.
Cyclist Rodriguez strengthens Italy lead
By AFP, 24 May 2012Spanish rider Joaquim Rodriguez has strengthened his position as overall leader of the Giro d’Italia after winning the 186-kilometre 17th stage.
When the route for the 2012 Tour de France was revealed at the end of October 2011, we looked at it, noted the 101.4 kilometres of time trials and the lack of big name climbs and said this is a Tour for a time triallist who can climb.
Grand Tours can often be won and lost on a single, seemingly innocuous, moment and that may have been the case in Wednesday’s stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia.
Robbie McEwen completed the final professional race of his long and accomplished career in California on Sunday, as the newest generation of Australian cyclists showed another tantalising glimpse of their future potential.
McEwen retires after California cycling
By AFP, 22 May 2012Australian cycling star Robbie McEwen has retired after finishing the Tour of California, ending a decorated 17-year professional career that yielded 12 Tour de France stage victories.
After a week of this year’s Giro d’Italia, and the Tour of California, cycling fans Australia wide are getting to work late and tired.It’s great.
Rabottini wins stage, Rodriguez leads Giro
By AFP, 21 May 2012Italian Matteo Rabottini’s bold 150 kilometres breakaway ride was rewarded with victory in the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia, the 172km run from Busto Arsizio to Lecco on Sunday.
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Your sports opinion. Write your own articleShots fired at the Giro d’Italia, finally
By vitalyg, TodayThere have been a few exciting moments at this Giro: Taylor Phinney taking the pink jersey in the prologue; blows traded by Rodriguez and Hesjadal as they juggled the pink jersey; and an-against-the-odds win by Rabottini.
Giro d’Italia Stage 19: Live updates, blog
By GreenEDGEFans, 25 May 2012Stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia gets underway later tonight, as the Grand Tour continues its relentless journey of mountains and onwards to Milan. Join us from around 9.30pm AEST as we live blog this grand stage.
Rochelle Gilmore: The Roar interview
By GreenEDGEFans, 25 May 2012Commonwealth gold medallist and Sprinting specialist for FAREN HONDA – CICLI KUOTA, Rochelle Gilmore, has kindly given-up her time to answer questions from GreenEDGEFans for the Roar.
Sam Bewley joins Orica-GreenEDGE
By GreenEDGEFans, 25 May 2012GreenEDGE continue to strengthen their team for the European summer, with New Zealander and Olympic Bronze medal holder in the 4000M Teams Pursuit Sam Bewley has joining Orica-GreenEDGE.
Giro d’Italia Stage 18: Live updates, blog
By vitalyg, 24 May 2012Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia gets underway late tonight, as the Grand Tour continues toward Milan. Join us from 9.50pm AEST as we live blog this unusual stage.
Giro d’Italia Stage 17: Live updates, blog
By vitalyg, 23 May 2012Stage 17 of theGiro dItaliagets underway tonight, as the Grand Tour continues through Italy’s mountains. Join us from 7.55pm AEST as we live blog this mountainous stage that may se yet another change on GC.
Giro d’Italia Stage 16: Live updates, blog
By vitalyg, 22 May 2012Stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia gets underway tonight, as the Grand Tour continues through Italy. Join us from 9:00pm AEST, as we live blog a stage that could have plenty of surprises after a rest day.
Memories of the great Robbie McEwen
By Sean Lee, 22 May 2012Age has finally caught up with Robbie McEwen. The colourful sprinter is over halfway through his final race and finding the going tough.
Gesink shows his Tour credentials
By dom25, 21 May 2012Robert Gesink showed us that he is up there as a contender for the Tour de France along with Cadel Evans and Bradley Wiggins.
Giro d’Italia review and predictions
By Sean Lee, 21 May 2012The 2012 Giro d’Italia is bubbling along, and unlike last year’s race where the result was a foregone conclusion well before the finish, this year’s edition is well balanced heading into the final week.
Giro d’Italia Stage 15: Live race updates, blog
By Tinea Pedis, 20 May 2012Please join us for live blogging of Stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia. Live coverage will start from 8.30pm AEST, with comments as the race progresses.
Giro d’Italia Stage 14: Live race updates, blog
By Kit Harvey, 19 May 2012Please join us for live blogging of Stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia this evening. Live coverage will begin at 7.35 AEST with comments being added to this post as the race progresses.
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zacbrygel says: Only two stages left now and the Giro is finally heating up! Looks set to be a fantastic finish! I can't wait!...
Angus says: Welcome to Sam. I hope he's able to help our GreenEDGE team reach victory....
Peter says: I can imagine her pressure, but I feel that she has the gold medal locked down for sure. We'll alll be celebrating her win soon enough....
Peter says: Bring it. I can smell the Australian gold medals already....
Peter says: Having one child make the Olympics would be enough for any parent to celebrate so I can just imagine the excitment over having both of these children in there. What an exciting story for Australian cycling....
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