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26-07-2010 Commonwealth calendar 26.01/08/2010 Today I'm starting with a new initiative.
At the beginning of the week I will be publishing a calendar of cycling races in the English-speaking countries.
I'm doing this to prove that cycling is very popular in the English-speaking world, contrary to what many people may think !!
Here's our first week :
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24-05-2010 Michael Rogers wins Tour of California 2010
Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) won the 2010 Amgen Tour of California on Sunday after withstanding relentless attacks from his rivals in the final miles of the hilly concluding circuit race.
Rogers’ win ended a three-year streak at the California tour for Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack), who wound up third overall, behind Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions).
Zabriskie’s teammate Ryder Hesjedal won the stage, outsprinting a small group including George Hincapie (BMC) and Chris Horner (RadioShack).
“They made me sweat until the end,” Rogers said.
23-05-2010 Martin wins seventh stage in Tour of California Tony Martin won the seventh stage of the Tour of California on Saturday, but Australian Michael Rogers extended his overall lead by finishing second in the 33.6km time-trial on the streets of Los Angeles.
Rogers finished 22 seconds behind his German Columbia teammate, and stretched his narrow lead in the overall standings over American David Zabriskie.
Zabriskie, who started the day four seconds back overall, lost more ground with only the 134.4km final stage in the western Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks remaining on Sunday.
He finished third on Saturday to fall nine seconds off Rogers' lead.
21-05-2010 Peter Sagan wins Stage 5 Tour California
Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won stage 5 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California in a spectacular sprint among the GC hopefuls after a six-man breakaway disintegrated and was retrieved on the finishing circuits in Bakersfield.
It was race leader David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) who led out the sprint after three punishing trips up the short, steep climb of China Grade, but he started too soon — Sagan was on his wheel, as was Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia).
And the outcome was a double loss for Zabriskie.
21-05-2010 Francesco Chicchi Wins Stage 4 of 2010 Tour of California Stage 4, one of the longest stages of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, took the cyclists from San Jose to Modesto on a beautiful ride through the open land of California.
19-05-2010 Stage 3: A Thrilling Finish by Dave Zabriskie Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) scored a dramatic stage win ahead of Levi Leipheimer and Mick Rogers on Tuesday’s third stage of the Amgen Tour of California, the 113.3-mile leg from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.
17-05-2010 Mark Cavendish wins Stage 1 of Tour of California SACRAMENTO — The fifth annual Amgen Tour of California began Sunday on a picturesque day in the Gold Country before a muscle-pumping finish by the world's best sprinter and a five-rider pileup in the shadow of the state Capitol encapsulated the drama and terror of road racing.
The spectacle unfolded a half-mile from the end of a 104.2-mile stage from Nevada City to Sacramento, won by England's Mark Cavendish in 4 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds.
13-04-2010 Tour of the Battenkill victors set themselves apart CAMBRIDGE -- When she posed for her winner's photo on the steps of the Rice Mansion Inn, Anna Barensfeld decided to spray her soda bottle toward those assembled before giving runner-up Silke Wunderwald a good dousing.
The two had shared so much during the Tour of the Battenkill women's pro/category 1 bicycle race Saturday, it seemed only fitting.
Barensfeld, 27, of Brookline, Mass., edged Wunderwald after a furious sprint.
13-04-2010 New Zealand's NPS 4 : Gordon McCauley wins Kaimai Cycles 1000 The Subway – Avanti Pro Cycling Team filled the top three spots as it dominated Saturday’s 160 kilometre Kaimai Cycles 1000 road race in the Waikato region
Team leader and National time trial champion Gordon McCauley crossed ahead of his Subway - Avanti teammate Eric Drower to win the men's title and take the lead in the RaboPlus National Point Series lead from another Subway Avanti rider, Matt Gorter.
Gorter won the chasing bunch sprint to take third, eight minutes behind the leading pair for what was a successful day for Subway – Avanti.
Increasing the lead of McCauley and Gorter in the National Point Series was the focus of the team and Team Manager Greg Hume said it was a job well done on Saturday.
12-04-2010 USA's National Road Calendar 2 : Dana Point : Brad White and Jonathan Cantwell win The time trial
Brad White (UnitedHealthcare) stomped up the Cove Road grade Saturday morning to open the Dana Point Grand Prix weekend with a time trial win.
White finished the 2.25-mile TT in a time of 4:56.81, six and nine seconds better than teammates Andrew Pinfold and Morgan Schmitt, respectively.
Ruth Clemence (Specialized Designs for Women) beat out Dotsie Bausch (Incycle/SC Velo) in the women’s contest with a time of 5:51.71.
30-03-2010 Fly V Delivers Redlands to Day For the second weekend in a row, the Fly V Australia team defended the yellow jersey of Ben Day against all to win the overall at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, the traditional NRC opener.
The tough 94.1 miles (151.4 km) Sunset Road Race came down to a sprint finish as a select group of 44 riders zipped around the short finishing circuit, rubbing elbows for position.
29-03-2010 Clarke Sprints to Win Redlands Crit Watching the Redlands Criterium brought a sense of deja vu with last Sunday’s Incycle/Cannondale Old Town Grand Prix, the closing stage of the San Dimas Stage Race.
29-03-2010 Britain's Premier Calendar 1 : Simon Richardson wins Tour of the Reservoir A cold, dry, sunny but very windy day greeted the 96 riders who rolled out from the village of Blanchland at the start of the Tour of the Reservoir, the opening round of the 2010 Premier Calendar series.
And it was the weather which was to dominate the day: the 87 miles race, sponsored by Northumbrian Water, gave the riders little chance to escape the winds as they tackled six laps of the roads around the huge Derwent Water reservoir.
An big turnout of the country's top teams promise an excellent race, though the big talking point at the start was the enforced absence of race radios, a new rule making its national level debut at the race.
29-03-2010 New Zealand's National Points Series 3 : Forrest Graperide : Josh Atkins wins Christchurch teenager Josh Atkins surprised to take out the sprint to win the third round of the RaboPlus national road in Marlborough today.
Atkins out-sprinted a leading bunch of nine riders to claim the victory in The Forrest Graperide today, clocking 2hr 22 for the 101km race.
The event went from the Forrest Estate Winery in Renwick on the outskirts of Blenheim, north to Picton, Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds and return.
A group of nine riders went clear in the men’s race including Atkins, top track rider Jason Allen and national time trial champion Gordon McCauley.
Atkins, a member of the New Zealand team to last year’s junior world championships and a former secondary school champion, scored the best win of his young career.
The Benchmark Homes rider held out Allen and McCauley who jumped second overall in the series, only five points behind his fellow Subway Avanti team-mate Matthew Gorter, with Allen moving to sixth.
In fourth place was Chris Jenner, the former European professional, who is now living in Noumea.
Nelson’s Karen Fulton, fifth at the New Zealand road championships, proved too strong to win the women’s race from Tracy Clark (Pegasus) and kiwi-based Danish adventure racer, Sia Svends.
28-03-2010 Will Routley wins stage 2 of the Redlands Classic Nonstop action on a grueling 17-mile circuit through the streets of Beaumont kicked off the Stage One of the 26th Annual Redlands Bicycle Classic.
02-03-2010 Roberts and Rohregger lead German ProTour team in Spain Led by Luke Roberts and Thomas Rohregger, Team Milram will start for the first time in the Vuelta a Murcia (March 3-7 / UCI 2.1). Over the approximately 645 kilometers across southeastern Spain, the duo will count on the support of German riders Roger Kluge, Dominik Roels, Dominik Nerz and Björn Schröder, as well as Rohregger's fellow Austrian, Peter Wrolich.
„Right after the Mallorca Challenge, I was unfortunately thrown back by an inner ear infection,“ said climber Thomas Rohregger before flying to the Iberian peninsula. „But I have been able to train well again and look forward to this challenging race.“ Ralf Grabsch, who is serving as Directeur Sportif in Spain, also looked confidently to the German ProTour team's race debut: „We don't want to put Thomas under any extra pressure after his illness.
26-02-2010 HTC-Columbia Kicks Off Belgian Classics Season Team HTC-Columbia starts its Belgian Classics season this weekend with a double dose of racing action, first tackling Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday February 27th, then Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday February 28th.
"There's some windy, wet weather forecast, so it's going to be a tough two days," commented HTC-Columbia's sports director Allan Peiper. "The courses are pretty much the same, but the roads are in a poor state because of the freezing weather we've had all winter, and that'll make it even harder. Bernie [Bernhard Eisel] has had a good block of racing, from the Tour Down Under through to Qatar and Oman, so he's very ready for this weekend.
24-02-2010 New Zealand NPS 2 : Bevin, Cheatley winners in Perry Foundation REV Classic Taupo teenager Patrick Bevin upset his more fancied rivals to take out the Perry Foundation REV Classic race in Hamilton today.
The New Zealand under-19 cyclist of the year managed to edge the defending champion and race record-holder Gordon McCauley in a sprint finish of the 120km Classic, which doubled as the second round of the RaboPlus Nationals Point Series.
Beijing Olympian Cath Cheatley controlled the sprint finish over series champion Serena Sheridan to claim the women’s honours.
More than 60 elite riders entered the Classic among more than a 1000 participants in the Perry Foundation REV Cycle Festival, which included six different events from 18km to the 120km Classic.
Bevin (Team Bici Vida), McCauley (Subway Avanti) and Tour of Wellington winner Michael Torckler (New Plymouth) broke clear of the peloton in the later stages of the race that travelled from Hamilton to Cambridge, over French Pass to Karapiro, passing near Matamata, Kiwitahi and back to Hamilton.
Torckler was dropped in the final few kilometres with Bevin able to hold off the more experienced McCauley, the national time trial champion in 3:14.37.
Bevin will head to the United States next month to ride professionally for Rubicon Orbea Team with his Bica Vida teammates Roman van Uden and Mike Northey, who was fifth today.
Cheatley pushed clear midway through the women’s race with Sheridan (Hawkes Bay), the first round winner in Taranaki, managing to hold on.
20-02-2010 Hitec Products UCK have landed in New Zealand and Belgium Thijs Rondhuis have arrived with the team in Greytown, New Zealand, for training to the only UCI race in Oceania, 'Womens Tour of New Zealand' (UCI 2.2) that start 24.February, with 6 stages in five days.
19-02-2010 HTC-Columbia Set for Tour of Andalusia HTC-Columbia's is sending a strong squad to the five-day Tour of Andalusia, targeting sprints and the General Classification. The race, which runs from February 21st to February 25th, will serve as the start to Mark Cavendish's 2010 season.
"He's ready to go and keen to race" HTC-Columbia's sports director Brian Holm says. "In Andalusia we'll be supporting Mark 100 percent for whatever sprints come up, and then we've got Mick [Michael Rogers] and Maxime [Monfort] for the [stage four] time-trial and the overall. Together with the mountain-top finish on the first day, that time-trial will probably decide the race. However it's a very tough Tour of Andalusia this year, with a lot of climbing for so early in the season, and a break could go at any time."
Holm says former World Time Trial Champion Rogers has built up strong form for the early season races. "He's been training hard and is feeling confident, and I think Maxime's on top of his game right now, too. Our only concern was with Kosta [Konstantsin Siutsou] because he's had a knee injury, but he's got over that and is ready to go. All in all, we've got a good line-up here."
HTC-Columbia for the Tour of Andalusia: Michael Albasini (Swi); Mark Cavendish (GB); Tony Martin (Ger); Maxime Monfort (Bel); Michael Rogers (Aus); Hayden Roulston (NZ); Konstantsin Siutsou (Byl).
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18-02-2010 Milram starts in Vuelta a Andalucia Lead by Linus Gerdemann, Team Milram will be at the start of the Vuelta a Andalucia (February 21 – 25 / UCI 2.1) as of this coming Sunday. The German ProTour team will take on the five stages with seven Germans. Markus Fothen, Johannes Fröhlinger, Christian Knees, Matthias Ruß, Paul Voß and Fabian Wegmann will support their captain Gerdemann on the approximately 676 kilometers across southern Spain.
„In the last few days I have been held back a little by a cold, unfortunately,“ Linus Gerdemann explained.
17-02-2010 First-Year Pro Howard Wins in Oman HTC-Columbia's new professional Leigh Howard has taken an impressive bunch sprint victory in stage four of the Tour of Oman. The 20-year-old Australian was the fastest in a group of about 40 riders ahead of Daniele Bennati of Italy and Tom Boonen of Belgium.
"I'd only ridden one previous race with the pros, the Tour of Ireland last year, so to come here and beat some of the top guys in the peloton is an amazing feeling," Howard said after the win. "I'd been working for Bernie [HTC-Columbia teammate Bernhard Eisel] all week, but today with about 30 kilometres to go after the split had happened, I told him I was feeling really strong. He took me to about 500 metres to go to the finish and I went for it. I think it being a smaller group of riders like at today's finish was an advantage for me because I'm not so used to the big bunch sprints.
15-02-2010 Tour of Oman, here is Daniele Bennati Daniele Bennati won the 2nd stage of Tour of Oman, Nizawa-Samail of 148 kilometres, overcoming Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) and Boasson Hagen (Team Sky).
10-02-2010 HTC-Columbia To Tackle New Middle East Race - the Tour of Oman HTC-Columbia will be heading for one of the newest races on the international calendar this weekend, when the squad lines up for the first ever Tour of Oman in the Middle East.
Running from February 14th - 19th and coming straight after the nearby Tour of Qatar, where HTC-Columbia is also racing, Oman consists of five road stages and a final 18 kilometre individual time-trial.
"The time-trial being on the last stage will shape events a lot.
01-02-2010 Torckler wins Wellington Classic New Plymouth 22 year old Michael Torckler has won the Wellington Cycle Classic today after weather caused the cancellation of the final stage.
Australian Chief Commisier Russel Miller decided the wet Wellington conditions were unsafe fro racing.
30-01-2010 HTC-Columbia Women's Team Aims To Hit Ground Running In Qatar HTC-Columbia Women's Team gets it's racing season underway in the Tour of Qatar next week, and they're aiming for a strong start to 2010.
"We've got a good group there, it often gets really windy in Qatar but they all know how to ride hard in the gutter and line out the bunch," comments HTC-Columbia sports director Ronny Lauke.
"We'll be aiming for some early success just like last year.
28-01-2010 Milram not selected for Paris-Nice Team Milram will not start Paris-Nice this season, the race organizers Amaury Sport Organisation informed the German ProTour team on Thursday.
26-01-2010 Ivan Basso will start at P dell’Insubria The Italian season of Liquigas-Doimo will start at “Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria”, planned from 30th January to 2nd February.
24-01-2010 Greipel Wins His Second Tour Down Under Andre Greipel secured his second overall win of the Santos Tour Down Under on Sunday becoming one of only two riders who have won the event more than once. Greipel won the race on his first attempt in 2008, crashed out in the leaders jersey in 2009 and came back in 2010 to win again, claiming 9 stage wins in Adelaide over the three years.
Greipel's teammates controlled the fast and furious 90 minute circuit race in downtown Adelaide to ensure overall victory.
"I'm really happy to win again here and to take the ProTour lead," said Greipel.
24-01-2010 Luis Leon Sanchez Wins Stage 5 of 2010 Tour Down Under Five years after he won both the third stage and the final general classification of the Tour Down Under, Luis Leon Sanchez (Team Caisse d'Epargne) won again in Australia earlier today.
The rider from Murcia, Spain, who took the win in the fifth stage of the first ProTour event of the season (Snapper Point-Willunga, 150 kilometers) after an exciting final is now second in the overall rakings, eleven seconds behind race leader André Greipel of Team HTC-Columbia.
"I arrived in Australia with a different preparation comparing with the previous years because this winter I did not work so much in the gymnasium as I did before to avoid the muscular mass to increase too much.
23-01-2010 Cavendish Changes Season Start Mark Cavendish will change his 2010 season start and begin in Ruta del Sol on February 17 due to an ongoing dental problem that has limited his training.
"We want to take all precautions and ensure that Mark has fully recovered and is able to get in some extra base training for the long season ahead of him," says Team Manager Rolf Aldag.
22-01-2010 Third Stage Win for Greipel at Tour Down Under André Greipel took his third stage win of the Santos Tour Down Under on Friday, increasing his overall lead of the tour going into the penultimate stage of racing.
22-01-2010 Cardoso wins third stage ADELAIDE, Australia -- Portuguese national champion Manuel Cardoso won the arduous third stage of the Tour Down Under on Thursday while Lance Armstrong ended a day of sapping heat 30th on the stage and 26th overall.
Temperatures rose to 104 degrees on the 82-mile stage between Unley in suburban Adelaide and Stirling in hills east of the city.
Armstrong rode near the head of the peleton throughout the undulating stage and was credited with a time one second behind Cardoso's winning mark of 3 hours, 14 minutes, 38 seconds.
"It was hot, definitely hot," Armstrong said.
20-01-2010 Greipel takes his second consecutive victory at Tour Down Under André Greipel won his second consecutive stage of the Santos Tour Down Under on Wednesday, sprinting into the small German heritage town of Hahndorf for his seventh stage victory of the Tour out of the eleven he has raced over the last three years.
A break of three were away for the majority of the race earning a time gap of 11 minutes but eventually being reeled in by the peloton.
"It was a good day for us because we didn't need to put a lot of effort in to chase the break down during the race," explained Greipel.
20-01-2010 Greipel extends overall lead ADELAIDE, Australia -- Germany's Andre Greipel won his second consecutive stage of the Tour Down Under for his U.S.-based Team Columbia, extending his overall lead in the six-stage race.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong rode near the front of the peleton throughout Wednesday's 83-mile stage between Gawler and Hahndorf in South Australia state.
Armstrong said he felt well at the end of the stage, although rising heat made the stage a tougher test than the first leg on Tuesday.
"All in all, it was not too bad," Armstrong said.
The third stage of the race will be held Thursday
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19-01-2010 Greipel Takes First Win of 2010 Season Andre Greipel has repeated his performance of the last two years, winning the first stage and earning the 'ochre' leader's jersey of the Santos Tour Down Under. Greipel finished off the work of his teammates to win in a bunch sprint at the end of the 141km stage from Clare to Tanunda in South Australia.
"It's very nice to start the season this way," said a happy Greipel after the stage.
