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Millar and Longo Wins Chrono des Nations Race
October 17th, 2010| Features, Road | No Comments
LES HERBIERS, France – Scotland’s David Millar followed on from his Commonwealth Games time-trial success on Sunday by winning the Chrono des Nations race in western France. Just four days [...]
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- Flying Scotsman Braves Heat To Take Commonwealth Time Trial Title
October 13th, 2010Written by: Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI – Scotland’s David Millar destroyed a field of elite road riders to take gold in the Commonwealth Games time trial on Wednesday – winning [...]
- Whirlwind Whitten Ice-Cool In Searing Heat
October 13th, 2010Written by: Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI – Reigning world champion Tara Whitten capped a grueling week at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday with a blistering ride in the searing heat [...]
- Australia Take Road Golds on Delhi’s Empty Streets
October 10th, 2010by Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI, Oct 10, 2010 (AFP) – A brilliant tactical display by the Australians handed their men and women gold medals in the Commonwealth Games road races [...]
- Aussies Complete Commonwealth Ganes Record Gold Haul
October 8th, 2010Written 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 [...]
- Australia Complete Commonwealth Games Glory With Scratch Gold, Silver
October 8th, 2010NEW DELHI – Cameron Meyer celebrated a third gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Friday as Australia’s formidable endurance riders took gold and silver in the men’s 25km scratch [...]
- Aussies Win 11th Gold In New Delhi
October 8th, 2010NEW 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 [...]
- New Zealander Shanks Wins Women’s Individual Pursuit
October 8th, 2010NEW DELHI – Alison Shanks of New Zealand lived up to expectations when she held off a strong field to claim the Commonwealth Games gold medal in the women’s 3000m [...]
- Meares Wins Women’s Sprint Gold Medal
October 7th, 2010NEW 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, 2010NEW 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 [...]
- Perkins Completes The Gold Medal Sweep For Australia
October 7th, 2010NEW DELHI – Australian bad boy Shane Perkins took gold in the track sprint at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday, a day after being disqualified from the keirin event. Perkins, [...]
- Australia Gold Rush Continues With Dunn
October 7th, 2010NEW 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 [...]
- Dunn of Australia Wins Women’s Points Race
October 6th, 2010NEW DELHI – Rising track star Megan Dunn lived up to her promise when she edged a thrilling finale to win the women’s 25km points race at the Commonwealth Games [...]
- Malaysia’s Ng Ends Aussie Dominance With Keirin Gold
October 6th, 2010NEW DELHI, Oct 6, 2010 (AFP) – Malaysian rider Josiah Ng ended Australia’s dominance in the Commonwealth Games velodrome on Wednesday, taking gold in the men’s keirin after his compatriot [...]
- Meares and McCulloch Takes Gold At Commonwealth Games
October 6th, 2010NEW DELHI – Australia underlined their domination of cycling at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday, comfortably taking their fifth gold in the women’s track sprint team race. The Australian team [...]
- Australia’s Bobridge Wins Men’s Individual Pursuit
October 5th, 2010NEW DELHI – Jack Bobridge made it a clean sweep for Australia on the opening day of cycling at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, winning the men’s 4000m individual pursuit [...]
- Australia’s Sunderland Wins Men’s 1000m Time-Trial
October 5th, 2010NEW DELHI – Scott Sunderland helped Australia to a triple gold medal sweep here Tuesday, setting a new Commonwealth Games record in the men’s 1000m time-trial. Sunderland, 22, recorded a [...]
- Meares Draws First Blood For Aussies In Velodrome
October 5th, 2010NEW DELHI – Australia drew first blood in track cycling here Tuesday when reigning champion Anna Meares retained her title in the women’s 500m time-trial with a new Commonwealth record. [...]
- Australia Rules The Roost On Opening Day Of Cycling
October 5th, 2010Written by: Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI – Australia swept the board on the opening day of cycling at the Commonwealth Games Tuesday, taking three gold medals and breaking three Games [...]
- English, Australians Set To Dominate in Delhi
October 4th, 2010Written by: Frankie Taggart NEW DELHI – Cycling at the Commonwealth Games will be as notable for the big names missing as much as the riders gunning for glory. A [...]
- Aussie Tour Badboy Renshaw Out Of Delhi
October 3rd, 2010NEW DELHI, Oct 3, 2010 (AFP) – Australian cyclist Mark Renshaw, who was famously thrown off the Tour de France for head-butting a rival, has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games [...]
- Henderson Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Games Over Health, Security Fears
September 25th, 2010WELLINGTON – New Zealand road cyclist Greg Henderson said Friday he was withdrawing from the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi over concerns about health and security. Henderson, a gold medalist [...]
- English, Australians Set To Dominate in Delhi
September 25th, 2010NEW DELHI – Cycling at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi will be as notable for the big names missing as much as the riders gunning for glory. A string of [...]
- Hoy To Miss Commonwealth Games For European Championships
July 16th, 2010LONDON, July 16, 2010 (AFP) – Four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games in India because he wants to concentrate on the European Championships. Hoy, [...]
- Olympic Skier Targets CGames On Two Wheels
November 22nd, 2009LONDON, Nov 26, 2009 (AFP) – Former Olympic skier Alain Baxter is targeting a possible appearance at next year’s Commonwealth Games – but on two wheels. The 35-year-old Scot, stripped [...]
- Velodrome To Be Named After History-Maker Chris Hoy
August 19th, 2008GLASGOW, Aug 19, 2008 (AFP) – Chris Hoy, who won his third gold at Beijing on Tuesday to equal a 100-year-old British Olympic record, is to have a new national [...]