Video: Highlights from stage six of Santos Tour Down Under
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Gerald Ciolek Interview: MTN Qhubeka team leader talks about change and new challenges
German rider vying to return to top condition in 2013Turn the clock back a couple of years and it appeared as if young German rider Gerald Ciolek had the world at his feet. In 2005, at just 18 years of age, he left big-name fast men Robert Forster and Erik Zabel in his jet wash to win the nation’s Elite Road Race title. One year later that sprint took him to a World U23 Road Race title. The big pro contract wasn’t long in coming. He left behind second string Wiesenhof for ‘super team’ T-Mobile, making the step up in 2007 and picking up a clutch of wins in Austria and Germany. When the scandals became too much for the German telecommunication company to bear, the squad became High Road for 2008 and then Columbia; Ciolek remained there amid the changes and collected another clutch of wins in Germany and [...]
Video highlights from stage five of Santos Tour Down Under
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Video highlights from stage four of Santos Tour Down Under
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Video highlights from stage three of Santos Tour Down Under
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Video: Champion System’s 2013 team launched in California
First Asian Pro Continental team determined to step up a level in second seasonSeeking to continue its progress along the path towards an eventual WorldTour licence and participation in the Tour de France and other races, year two of the Champion System Pro Continental team project has been launched in California. Taking place in the Home Depot Centre in Carson, the presentation saw the team introduce its new lineup to those present, with no less than five national champions amongst the 22 riders unveiled. The quintet are the road race title holders Ryan Roth (Canada), Matt Brammeier (Ireland), Chan Jae Jang (South Korea) and Gang Xu (China) plus the Japanese TT gold medallist Ryota Nishizono. They join the Americans Chad Beyer, Chris Butler and Craig Lewis, China’s Kun Jiang, Pengda Jiao and Biao Liu, Canada’s Ryan Roth, the Kiwi Clinton Avery, Chun Kai Feng (Chinese Taipei), Matthias Friedemann and Fabian [...]