Tassie’s strong performance – Tasmania Mercury


Tassie's strong performance
Tasmania Mercury
TASMANIANS Rowena Fry and Sid Taberlay have featured in the Australian Mountain Bike Series, in Shepparton. National cross-country champions Daniel ...


ABC Online

Seven-year-old cyclist raises $100k for Haiti
ABC Online
"It's always heartwarming when any child starts to respond and there's something quite special about a child in the UK reaching out to the children of Haiti ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

Chris Sutton seals fine debut for Team Sky
Telegraph.co.uk
Yet Sky were starting from scratch and they, too, can put out a stronger train come the Giro d'Italia in May when, in particular, they will happily take ...

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Cadel Evans set for strong Giro d'Italia, Tour de France campaign
Fox Sports
Cadel Evans says he still has unfinished business at the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. Evans hasn't lost the hunger to win either ...

Brailsford hits out at Sky funding ‘myth’ (Guardian Unlimited)

• One-two in ProTour event delights team principal • Brailsford keen to set record straight about budget Team Sky bookended their first week of racing with a second win in today's final stage of the Tour Down Under, Chris Sutton sprinting in ahead of Greg ­Henderson to give the British squad another one-two. The difference was that this victory came in a ProTour event, as opposed to the previous ...
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A seven-year-old boy from London who set himself the target of raising £500 to help earthquake victims in Haiti by cycling around his local park has raised more than 100 times that amount, and donations are continuing to flood in.

According to his page on the charity donation site Just Giving, Charlie Simpson aimed to complete at least seven laps – equivalent to five miles – of South Park, near his home in Fulham this weekend to raise money for Unicef, and managed to fulfil that goal yesterday.

London boy exceeds £500 target 100 times over
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A seven-year-old boy from London who set himself the target of raising £500 to help earthquake victims in Haiti by cycling around his local park has raised more than 100 times that amount, and donations are continuing to flood in.

According to his page on the charity donation site Just Giving, Charlie Simpson aimed to complete at least seven laps – equivalent to five miles – of South Park, near his home in Fulham this weekend to raise money for Unicef, and managed to fulfil that goal yesterday.

London boy exceeds £500 target 100 times over

Southlander grabs World Cup cycling gold
Stuff.co.nz
Big Southland sprinter Eddie Dawkins produced a golden finish for the New Zealand cycling team at track World Cup round in Beijing last night. ...

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Caisse d'Epargne decide not to renew sponsorship
road.cc
... and the Giro d'Italia twice during the same period, with compatriot Abraham Olano subsequently taking the overall victory in the Vuelta in 1998. ...

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Caisse d’Epargne has announced that it will not be renewing sponsorship of the ProTour team that bears its name, whose riders include Vuelta winner Alejandro Valverde and France’s Christophe Moreau, when it expires at the end of this year. Instead, it is switching its backing to the French Olympic team.

Three ProTour outfits now chasing new sponsors for 2011 and beyond