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• More Middle Aged Men Crashing Their Bikes More Often
  April 2nd, 2011
  

  There has been a significant rise in the number of middle-aged men critically injured in bicycle and motorcycle accidents in Australia. The Institute of Health and Welfare has looked at [...]

• Australia To Defend Pursuit Crown Against Russia
  March 23rd, 2011
  

  APELDOORN, Netherlands, March 23, 2011 – Australia will defend their team pursuit crown against Russia after setting the fastest qualifying time for the 4km event here at the world track [...]

• Aussies Name World-Beating Squad For Track Champs
  March 1st, 2011
  

  PARIS, March 1, 2011 – No less than nine defending champions will line up for Australia at the upcoming world track cycling championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Cycling Australia announced Tuesday. [...]

• Aussies Complete Commonwealth Ganes Record Gold Haul
  October 8th, 2010
  

  Written by: Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI – All-conquering Australia completed their devastating assault on the Commonwealth Games track cycling medals Friday, ending the week with a record-breaking 12 titles out [...]

• Aussies Win 11th Gold In New Delhi
  October 8th, 2010
  

  NEW DELHI – Australia kept up their devastating assault on the track cycling medals with a new Commonwealth Games record in the men’s team sprint to take their 11th gold [...]

• Meares Wins Women’s Sprint Gold Medal
  October 7th, 2010
  

  NEW DELHI – Cycling superstar Anna Meares handed Australia’s track team their third gold of the day on Thursday and ninth of the Commonwealth Games, beating Welsh sensation Becky James [...]

• Australia Takes Gold In Team Pursuit
  October 7th, 2010
  

  NEW DELHI – Australia won the battle of the track cycling superpowers with a lap to spare when they smashed their own Commonwealth record to take gold in the men’s [...]

• Australia Gold Rush Continues With Dunn
  October 7th, 2010
  

  NEW DELHI – Australia continued to cut a swathe through the competition at the Commonwealth Games Thursday with teenager Megan Dunn picking up her second gold medal in as many [...]

• Evans Leads Australia At World Road Championships
  August 24th, 2010
  

  MELBOURNE, Aug 24, 2010 (AFP) – Reigning road world champion Cadel Evans will spearhead Australia for this year’s event in Melbourne, officials said Tuesday, as veteran Robbie McEwen was left [...]

• Aussie Brotherhood Off The Menu In The Pyrenees
  July 17th, 2010
  

  REVEL, France – Australia’s rise up the world rankings has led to calls in recent years for the creation of a Wallabies-type national cycling team. Those hopes couldn’t be further [...]

• Cantwell Wonders What Could Have Been
  May 19th, 2010
  

  Modesto, USA – Fly V Australia’s Jonathan Cantwell claimed a second top 5 performance at the Amgen Tour of California. Stage 4 covered 195 kilometers over largely rolling terrain with [...]

• Australian Track Renaissance Moves Up A Gear
  March 30th, 2010
  

  by Justin Davis COPENHAGEN, March 29, 2010 (AFP) – Australian track cycling’s renaissance after their one-medal disaster of the Beijing Olympics moved a step close to completion at the end [...]

• Australia Win World Team Pursuit Gold
  March 26th, 2010
  

  COPENHAGEN, March 26, 2010 (AFP) – Australia overcame the loss of a man late in the race to win their first men’s team pursuit gold since 2006 by just two [...]

• Australian Team Named For World Cup Track Classic
  January 11th, 2010
  

  The Australian team named on Monday for the Beijing UCI Track World Cup Classic from January 22 to 24: Australia Roster – Alex Bird, Luke Durbridge, Michael Hepburn, Leigh Howard, [...]

• Australian Teams For Road World Championships
  September 5th, 2009
  

  SYDNEY, Sept 5, 2009 (AFP) – The Australian team named on Saturday for the UCI Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from September 23 to 27: Elite Men – Simon [...]

• Aussies Announce Track Head Coach To Lose Post
  September 17th, 2008
  

  PARIS, Sept 17, 2008 (AFP) – Former track cycling powerhouses Australia are on the lookout for a new head coach after announcing that French-Canadian Martin Barras will lose his post [...]

• Mother of all velodrome crashes – ouch that is going to hurt
  December 20th, 2007