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Henderson wins on day two of Jayco Bay Classic
Special Broadcasting Service
In the end, Henderson produced the skill and strength that took him to a stage victory in the 2009 Tour of Spain, to snatch the win from Sutton. ...
Greg Henderson won stage two of the Jayco Bay Classic CriteriumThe Australian

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2010 preview: Telegraph writers' predictions
Telegraph.co.uk
James Cracknell - Bradley Wiggins in the mountains at the Tour de France. Brendan Gallagher - Mark Cavendish winning Milan-San Remo. The stuff of legends. ...


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Sport 2010: looking ahead to 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
Elsewhere the launch of Team Sky and the quest to produce a British winner of the Tour de France within five years excites me most. ...

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Spanish website Biciclismo is reporting that Ben Swift has definitely signed for Team Sky – and claims to have photographic proof with what it says is a picture of Swift in a Team Sky shirt.

Spanish website posts pic of British rider in new kit... we're waiting till tomorrow's official launch though

2009 in Review – Top Ten Performances – Namibia Sport


2009 in Review – Top Ten Performances
Namibia Sport
Namibian mountainbike riders Marc Bassingthwaighte and Heletje van Staden excelled to be crowned African champions at the African Continental Mountain Bike ...


Can Tour de Georgia bike race be saved?
Macon Telegraph
Experts say the Georgia race is widely considered a warm-up event for the annual Tour de France, the World Series of cycling.

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A cycling photographer who sought out remnants of the old Iron Curtain, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has produced a book about his trip.

Paul Kaye, a translator who works in Brussels, is fascinated by Cold War history and decided to ride the 2,237 miles which marked the border between the West and the Eastern Bloc, from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic.

On the way, he took photographs of disused border posts, memorials to those who tried to escape, crumbling watch towers and bits of the Berlin Wall.

Translator followed divide between east and west

Southland's Storm Uru in Halberg Awards finals
The Southland Times
Along with Tonks, Tim Carswell, a familiar figure at the ILT Velodrome in his role as the New Zealand track cycling head coach, All Whites gaffer Ricki ...


50 years on: Italy remembers Fausto Coppi
road.cc
Naturally, the 2010 Giro d'Italia will be paying its own homage to Coppi to mark the anniversary, including a stage finish in Novi Ligure. ...

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A craze for fitting bicycles with engines up to 80cc is sweeping the otherwise genteel island of Malta.

The island's authorities allow bikes to be fitted with engines of 50cc or less, provided the riders are over 16 and have passed the driving theory test.

But the easy availability of conversion kits online - plus dealers who seemed to be unpeturbed at requests to retro-fit ordinary cycles with motorbike engines - has seen a significant increase in power-assisted riders tearing up the island.

Retro-fitted engines craze worries authorities