Posts Tagged "Team Sky"

With the spring classics now in the rear vision mirror and the Giro just underway, talk is all about the Grand Tours.

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Ishia is Italy’s third most populous island, behind Sicily and Sardinia, with 62,000 inhabitants and for one day in May, the cycling world turned its attention to this gorgeous little piece of the earth.

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Bradley Wiggins and his Team Sky teammates showed they are the team to watch this year as riders donned the fancy helmets for stage two of the Giro d’Italia, a team time trial on the island of Ischia, just off the coast of Naples.

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Australian cycling star Cadel Evans was the fourth of five BMC riders who crossed the finish line in 12th and 37 seconds behind a dominant Team Sky in the second stage team time trial of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.

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Australian Richie Porte has hit back at detractors of cycling’s dominant Sky team as he prepares for a rare one-day classic start.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the dominating performance of Team Sky in two races that were happening simultaneously, Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.

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Four men and one team summed up the day’s racing for this year’s Tour of Flanders.

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Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford has hit out over insinuations that his team’s stunning successes in recent years have been built on immoral foundations.

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Richie Porte’s victory at the 2013 Paris-Nice last weekend is deserved reward for a rider who has shaped his career in his own manner, succeeding despite his constant omission from world championship teams due to Australian selectors.

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Unless something quite astonishing happens on Old Willunga Hill on Saturday, no Australian will feature in the top ten of the Tour Down Under for the first time in its 16-year history.

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The news of Lance Armstrong and US Postal team’s involvement in doping has sparked debate about what to do with the dopers.

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Sean Yates abruptly quit cycling after 30 years of involvement both as a rider and latterly as a team director when Team Sky announced he was retiring on Sunday.

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Team Sky race coach Bobby Julich was forced to resign on Thursday after admitting he took a banned substance during his riding career, the British cycling outfit confirmed.

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Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish was victorious in a sprint finish on the fourth stage of the Tour of Great Britain in Blackpool, as he claimed the overall leader’s gold jersey.

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It’s not a case of whether or not Michael Rogers will join Australia’s first World Tour cycling team. It’s a matter of when.

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Britain’s Chris Froome, second behind compatriot and Team Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France, will be bidding to upset Alberto Contador’s comeback from a two-year doping ban in the Tour of Spain which starts on Saturday.

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The 2012 Tour of France was a great bore. It was the tonic for the hardened insomniac. It hurts to say this as I am, in fact, a big fan of le Tour. We saw some 200 riders parade, not cycle around the picturesque countryside for 3500km, not in thrilling competition with each other.

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Just hours after Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France, it appears that team mate Mark Cavendish will be leaving Team Sky.

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Bradley Wiggins’ domination of the final time trial should put to rest any questions about whether he is a worthy winner of the Tour de France.

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It’s pretty safe to say that Cadel Evans is not going to win the Tour de France this year. This is hardly an opinion – it’s as close to a fact as something hypothetical can get.

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