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Australian updates! National Road Championships 2012, transfer news & more!
The road season is well under way in Australia - they started with the Jayco Bay Classic and National Crit Champs and moved on to the National Road Championships. Below the jump there'll be results of the Road Race & the ITT and more - including a bit about some of the riders, some fun transfer...
Australian Crit Week! Jayco Bay Classics & National Crit Champs 2012
I've always been impressed by cyclocrossers turning out on New Year's Day to race, but of course Aussies also love to HTFU, so on 1st January, they start a week of fast and furious crit racing. Yes, in the beautiful sunshine of the general Melbourne area, by sparkling blue oceans, the first road...
Shadowing a soigneur - Life among the Australians in Thüringen Rundfahrt
Earlier in the week I told you about how I spent the morning of Thüringen Rundfahrt Stage 2 with Nico, the Jayco AIS Australian National Team mechanic – and that afternoon I continued my Australian theme by shadowing Liane Wild, one of the two team soigneurs, and saw what happens once...
Life among the Australians at Thüringen Rundfahrt – a morning with the mechanic!
Back in July, I had a fantastic trip out to one of the big stage races of the women's calendar, the Thüringen Rundfahrt. Although I was out at the race with the Horizon Fitness-Prendas Ciclismo team, one of the lovely things their DS Stef Wyman did was introduce me to other teams, so I could...
Thüringen Rundfahrt Stage 2: Johansson Victorious!
Stage 2 was hilly, through beautiful farmland and pine forests. I spent a lovely day with the Jayco AIS Australian National Team, hanging out with their mechanic and soigneur as they went about their business. When I'm back, I'll tell you more about it, but my photos and brief race report are...
The Rock teases a Survivor Series confrontation with John Cena
Ten days ago, in a situation that may not have been entirely spontaneous, John Cena responded to a handful of heckling fans who were chanting for The Rock at the end of a house show in Perth, Australia, by dissing Rock for not appearing on the overseas tour after saying that he would never leave...
Colorado Rapids to play in the Pan Pacific Championship-esque Hawaii Invitational
The Pan-Pacific Championship - a relatively new football tournament that has featured teams from North America, Japan, Australia, China and Korea - is coming back to the footballing world in 2012 after a few years break, and it will feature the defending MLS Champions the Colorado Rapids as their...
An interview with Rachel Neylan: "the harder you work, the luckier you get"
"It’s been an absolute whirlwind three years", says Rachel Neylan, about her life since she took up cycling. The 29-year old Australian is on a mission – not just to represent her country at the Olympics, a goal she’s dreamt of since childhood, but to use the opportunities she...
MMA Live Previews UFC 127: Penn vs. Fitch
MMA Live previews this weekend's UFC 127 card from Australia. UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar checks in with his thoughts on the main event between Jon Fitch and B.J. Penn.
Head Kick Legend Exclusive: John Wayne Parr vs. Mike Zambidis III
On January 18th, Brent Ducharme broke the news on this site that John Wayne Parr would retire at the end of 2011. With the story being posted, Mr. Parr also registered for the site. I reached out to him to see if he'd be open to providing us with an exclusive interview. He said yes and Brent sent...
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