A Superb Start

If perfection is a 10/10, and the attainment of perfection is impossible, then GreenEdge have had a 9/10 first month of racing.  They have won both the road and TT Australian jerseys for the year, and have won the overall on their first ProTour race.  Simon Gerrans is top of the UCI World Rankings, and [...]

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Doin’ The Math

What a great stage today!  And we in Australia were finally allowed to actually watch it.  Yes, Channel 9 decided that reruns of Big Bang Theory and Two And A Half Men were more interesting through the week, but with a big midday slot to fill on the weekend, they have generously decided to show [...]

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Start The Show

The Big Gorilla didn’t pack his climbing legs for this year’s TDU.  Translation: Andre Greipel couldn’t stay with the peloton as it went up the very tough Mengler’s Hill at warp speed. Oscar Freire, however, did, and he led a good-sized bunch over the line in Tanunda today.  It was a very good result for [...]

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Return To Normal Proceedings

After the W Clarke bolt from the blue of yesterday, there was no way that Stage 3 of the TDU was going to be anything but a bunch sprint, and all of the key teams worked together to guarantee this today, with Andre Greipel from Lotto again the winner.  The big man can sprint!  Will [...]

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Win For The Little Guys

Will Clarke.  Wow!  A full day up the road with only one bloke helping out, and only for a short period of time. Chapeau!  A great win.  Whilst giving full credit to Clarke, this result was more due to errors in the peloton than his own ride (brilliant as it was). One can only guess as [...]

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Same As It Ever Was

And so they’re off!  Once again Andre Greipel has won a stage at the TDU, once again there is a bit of controversy about sprinters not holding their line, and once again the accused sprinter has taken the classic “WHAT! ME???” stance.  The season is underway. Yesterday’s stage was typically nervous for a season opener, [...]

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Rolling!

Alrighty! We’ve had the little teaser of a crit race around a park on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD, which Andre Greipel emphatically dominated, we’ve had head knocks and called cops for GreenEDGE riders.  It’s sad to see GreenEDGE already having to deal with negative press, but that seems to be the Australian way: tall [...]

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Starting NOW!!

The pro cycling season kicks off today.  Finally!  It feels longer and longer between the end of the previous season and the start of the next.  But thankfully the wait is over and we are away. The Tour Down Under is one of the easiest races of the year for a pro cycling staff member… [...]

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Green EDGE-pectations

Oh yes.  How about THAT for a play on words!! 2012 is here and I’ve managed to get a blog post going in the first week of the year.  Two New Years resolutions in one: get a blog post a fortnight out there, and at least make it past January 10th prior to failing at [...]

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