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Stretching for the line in a replay of last week, Lang and Grenfell had the jump on the main bunch and although Grenfell pipped Lang on the line for first, Richard took home the Jersey as overall points leader for the series.

This result comes on the heels of Round 5 which saw Lang second to Sky Team's CJ Sutton with Grenfell in third.

Oldfield holds off the competition in Falls Creek

2011-02-14T10:42:02+00:00

Madeleine Oldfield took out the Falls Creek long course triathlon over the weekend to be crowned, not only First Place Elite Female but Victorian Long Course Champion!

A fast bike transition saw her out on the bike in top speed and she soon overcame early leader Liz Blachford. Joined by Michelle Wu they stayed together till the transition where Madeleine smoked it to get out on the run in first place. She held of Michelle and Nicole Ward, both experienced racers, to reach the finish line in first place.

Ecstatic with her win she is looking forward to taking this good form with her to the USA for the coming season.

SMP sees the finale of the Giro D’Italia Cyclocross

2011-01-26T08:38:24+00:00

THE SMP SADDLES HAS CROWNED THE CHAMPIONS IN ROSE OF GIRO D’ITALIA

During the last weeks which close 2010 and open 2011, the winter cycling season sees always the SMP Saddles as protagonists, present during the greatest Italian races and with important and so much expected moments.

As a matter of fact, after six stages, the curtain dropped over Giro d’Italia, the challenge wanted by technical director both of the National and of Italian cycle federation supported by the Paduan trademark of Franco and Maurizio Schiavon brothers.

After the trials run at Paterno (Potenza) November 14th, Modena December 8th, Lucca November 21, Faè di Oderzo (Treviso) in the international seat on December 12, Borgosesia (Vercelli) December 12th, the grand final took place at Scorzè, in province of Venice, December 30th.

Those races were valid also for one one the latest appointments of 31st Triveneto Trophy.…

Team Sky takes out the final stage of the TDU

2011-01-26T08:14:33+00:00

In a repeat of the finale at last year's Santos Tour Down Under, Team Sky has finished the last stage with two of its riders in first and second place, with Ben Swift saluting the crowd as victor and Greg Henderson behind him.

Sky's train, including Simon Gerrans, Michael Rogers, Mathew Hayman and Geraint Thomas, went to work in the closing kilometres of today's 90km criterium around the north of Adelaide's CBD and delivered both Swift and Henderson into pole position for the sprint.

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Lang takes 2nd at Aussie Crit Champs

2011-01-11T01:00:07+00:00

Tasmanian Ben Grenda stormed to victory in the U23 national criterium championship in Ballarat this evening. The 20-year-old Genesys Wealth Advisers rider proved too fast for Richard Lang (Jayco AIS) and Tom Palmer (Drapac Porsche). "I'm really happy," Grenda said after the race. "This is the biggest win in my career. I have always wanted to win a national jersey and it feels good." The pace was brutal early and halfway during the race Luke Durbridge (Jayco AIS) launched a solo attack and held that advantage for 14 laps. Riders tried to bridge across, but the silver medalist at the U23 time trial world championships last year was too strong, holding an advantage of approximately 14 seconds over the peloton. With three laps to go, the peloton started to reel in the West Australian and Tom Palmer burst out of the peloton to get across to Luke in the final two laps. The duo were caught…Continue Reading

Marianna Longa on the podium in the Tour de Ski

2011-01-10T23:20:43+00:00

Polish star Justyna Kowalczyk defended the Tour de Ski victory and was the first on the top of the Alpe Cermis today.

Therese Johaug from Norway showed an excellent performance, and attacked from the fifth place and overtook both Follis and Longa and captured second place. Third came home Marianna Longa of Italy.

“It was a very hard race today, the climbing is really really though. I am so tired right now. Therese Johaug was really strong yesterday, and she was even more dangerous for me today. I am really satisfied with winning third place today, and I am happy with my race."

Cameron Brown wins race2 of the Contact NZ Tri series

2011-01-04T08:44:31+00:00

Well I started the year off in winning form taking out race 2 of the Contact Energy New Zealand Triathlon series.

The race takes place in Whangamata, a beautiful beach resort on the east coast of New Zealand. Lucky I only had to bike 2mins down the road to the race start as my wife's parents live here.

The 2 lap 1.5km swim had some great waves to body surf on, I came out 90seconds down on former World aquathon world Champion Brent Foster and tried to quickly make inroads into his and under 23 athlete Edward Rawles lead. I caught Foster at the 5km mark but did'nt catch Rawles until 30km into the 40km ride, from then on I tried to establish a lead onto the run and came of the bike with a 45sec lead.

The three lap run was half on the road and half on the beach, most of that was on hard packed sand but the last 300m of each lap had some soft sand running so the calfs got a…

Gozzini wins in Wanganui

2010-12-28T10:40:59+00:00

The massive Wanganui crowd weren’t disappointed with Davide ‘Speedy’ Gozzini’s two 450 Supermoto wins for TM.

Gozzini was pushed hard by fellow Italian Andrea Occhini and Kiwi Jayden Carrick in each race yet wrapped up his second Suzuki Tri-Series championship in as many years. Toby Summers was second in the series with Carrick third.

Kate Bevilaqua WA Ironman Champion!

2010-12-19T22:26:36+00:00

Kate Bevilaqua proved her strength of mind and spirit with her gutsy win in the WA Ironman.

The 32-year-old from Perth stumbled down the finish chute clutching crowd barriers for support, before collapsing unconscious on the finish line after nine hours, 19 minutes on the race course.

Bevilaqua scored her first Ironman win, beating race favourite Rebekah Keat by less than three minutes after a back-and-forth tussle throughout the run.

She had to overcome an eight-minute deficit after the swim, but a strong bike leg put her 100 metres in front of Keat at the second transition.

The pair ran within sight of each other for most of the marathon, but Bevilaqua eventually pulled away and was able to maintain the lead, despite running out of energy in the final kilometres.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it; I had no feeling from the waist down,” she said.

“The thought of the finish line (kept…

Italian Davide Gozzini Australian Supermoto Champion

2010-12-14T23:09:52+00:00

Italy's Davide Gozzini and UK rider Christian Iddon stamped their authourity over the field on the weekend at the 2010 Australian Screening Australian Supermoto Championships at the Collie Motorplex in the South-West of Western Australia with Gozzini taking the spoils for the second time in a row.

Patchy rain played havoc with the riders on day one with numerous tyre changes required during the day. Two of the races were red flagged due to rain squalls, but in the end it was the two International riders who finished the three races in the top two spots.

Gozzini won all three races in a faultless display. Third rider overall for the round was Eastern States rider Rowan Tegart, who certainly made his presence felt with a fourth and two third place on the day.

Although Gozzini won all the races, he hard pushed by Iddon who did everything in his power to get past the Italain, who only seven…

Finale seals Series win for Team Sky

2010-12-12T09:15:10+00:00

Chris Sutton sealed the NSW Grand Prix series today with a win on his home turf.

The southside local hid himself away for the majority of the race while his teammates worked hard to keep the race under control.

A succession of breaks were consistently brought back to the peleton and allowed Team Sky the opportunity to control the final lap.

A well organised lead out from teammates Gerrans, Hayman and Henderson saw Sutton well placed for the final sprint to overcome Drapac's Tom Palmer and seal the overall series victory.

Team Sky set CJ for a win

2010-12-09T10:27:54+00:00

CJ Sutton had all the right words to say for his team mates after taking out the 2nd round of the NSW cycling grand prix at Parramatta Park this evening.

Praising the strength and work ethic of his teammates Simon Gerrans and Greg Henderson as well as UK Olympic Champion Ed Clancy, CJ put today's win their hands.

Round 3 continues in Gosford tomorrow with the final rounds at Coogee on Saturday and Cronulla on Sunday.

SMP shines in the snow of Asiago!

2010-12-08T21:12:02+00:00

It was the very surreal scenery, the unique and suggestive one and in the magic context as well.

The 7^th trial of the 31^st Triveneto Trophy was wanted and organized by the consultant of the SMP Saddles Enrico Polo, and supported by the Paduan company of Franco and Maurizio Schiavon brothers.

At Asiago (Vicenza), when the ground is white with snow you will usually find that Alpine or Nordic skiing is practiced there.This time, thanks to the stage of Triveneto Trophy, the bicycles turned out to be the unusual protagonists.

Evan for specialists it wasn’t at all easy to proceed with prudence and to control the bicycles while cycling on the spectacular course of Millepini Park, which was the host to the Giro d’Italia of cyclocross two years ago, with half meter of snow and purely white snowflakes falling down during the entire day.

The winner of the day was Gabriele Mercante from Friuli who…