cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
West Australia’s Adam Semple will bid farewell to the Australian Institute of Sport program for the bulk of 2010 as he joins an Italian amateur team. Semple, who turns 20 today, will join Brisot Cardin Bibanese, the squad on which compatriot Simon Gerrans made his European debut. “The Australian team has hooked me up because it was my time to move on from the Australian Institute of Sport....
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Most Disappointing voting is the post below. Quite an assortment of riders here. We got cobbles , we got sprints, we got Grand Tour GC's, we got all-rounders. We got guys on French teams. Who do you like? Poll Which rider improved the most this year? Kenny Van Hummel Julian El Fares Rein Taaramae Vincenzo Nibali Simon Gerrans Bradley Wiggins Tyler Farrar Matty Goss Andre Greipel Francesco Gavazzi Edvald...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Cycling Australia has unveiled eight riders nominated by the public for its 2009 People’s Choice Cyclist of the Year award. Nominations include Australia’s first International Cycling Union (UCI) World Road Champion Cadel Evans and Grand Tour stage winner Simon Gerrans. The national body is now inviting Australian cycling fans to select their winner of the eight nominations . The winner...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
So after f'ing this up in the VDS thread (I blame Will because... well... just because) I decided to redo it using Chris' actual final spreadsheet this time, rather than the actual non-official spreadsheet that I pulled out of my ass. So, following the rules as I remember them (must have one 25 point rider, no more than two 20 point riders, 25 riders total with a total cost of no more than 150 points),...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
TEAM BEER LAO!!! Congratulations to our winner, pictured below: Could that be the Mekhong in the background? Or the Sacramento? Either way, this picture is a tasty tribute to SlowK, winner of the wool jersey. Hope that despite the team name you live someplace cold enough to enjoy wool. Presumably SlowK will be raising one of the above to Philippe Gilbert, though I think the pick that clinched it was...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The final monument of the 2009 cycling season, the Giro di Lombardia, runs this Saturday in the beautiful Lombardy region in northern Italy. A star-studded field is ready to attack the hilly parcours , and the list of potential winners is long. Although Lampre's Damiano Cunego will be the strong favorite heading into the race as he searches for his fourth Lombardia title, there are a host of other...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Australia's team director at the World Championships, Neil Stephens, has denied a report that has appeared on several websites claiming that the members of the Australian team voted by eight votes to one to support Simon Gerrans rather than Cadel Evans in last Sunday's road race. According to a story in Het Nieuwsblad and picked up by websites in Denmark and Italy, the only vote that Evans got was...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Australia's Simon Gerrans has expressed his satisfaction with Cadel Evans' victory at the road race World Championship on Sunday in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Gerrans said the win would help to make up for disappointments throughout his compatriot's season. "It's huge, it is a massive result for him and a consolation for his disappointing Tour de France," Gerrans told Cyclingnews . Evans had...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Mark O'Brien closed the Under-23 World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland on Saturday as the best placed Australian. The 22-year-old was ready to offer advice to the nation's Elite men, who include Cadel Evans and Simon Gerrans. "Use little gears and conserve energy," he told Cyclingnews of the best way to approach the 13.3-kilometre circuit. "Save as much as you can, because once...
ABC (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Simon Gerrans rates Australia's cycling road race team among the country's strongest to contest a world championships in years.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The License Commission of the International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced that Team Sky has been awarded a four-year ProTour licence, while French outfit AG2R La Mondiale has had its license extended until the end of the 2012 season. The decision was made on Tuesday but released Friday. Team Sky had already shown that it will be a major force in cycling when it announced its first sixteen riders,...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Cycling Australia has announced its final selection for this month’s International Cycling Union (UCI) World Road Championships in Switzerland. Michael Rogers (Columbia-HTC) will not contest the individual time trial race, instead riding the road event with Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) and Simon Gerrans (Cervelo Test Team). After recovering from a stomach bug which saw him withdraw from the Vuelta...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
• World No3 was top target for British team • Team announce 10 further signings, with more to come One of the brightest stars of world cycling today became the latest rider to be signed by Team Sky, the British squad being launched next year. Edvald Boasson Hagen, a 22-year-old Norwegian, has risen this year to No3 in the world, behind Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck, and his capture is...
PezCycling News.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Message by Edmond Hood It was the second rest day when we caught up with Garmin’s Ryder Hesjedal; the day after his team mate Tyler Farrar’s long-time-coming first Grand Tour stage win - and two days after Ryder’s own excellent second place to Simon Gerrans (Australia & Cervelo) on stage ten to Murcia. The tall man from Victoria in British Columbia, Canada was on the massage table...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
• Recruits include former under-23 world champion • Principal says 'it is very exciting' to put team together Team Sky, the British cycling team formed with the aim of winning the Tour de France with a clean British rider within five years, have revealed 10 more signings. Yesterday's announcement of six British riders has been followed with the names of some of the international riders Team...
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