Tag Archive for ‘Robbie McEwen’
Pegasus Sports to Register as Professional Continental Team for 2011
Brisbane, Australia – The Australian Pegasus Sports professional cycling team has missed out on a ProTeam licence and will register as a UCI Professional Continental team for 2011. Pegasus Sports is expanding on its highly successful UCI Continental program which garnered 84 wins in Asia and the United States in 2010. Pegasus Sports’ highest-profile signings [...]
Farrar Wins Scheldeprijs
With Gent-Wevelgem moving from its customary location, sandwiched between the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix, and to the week prior to the Ronde, Scheldeprijs has become the new mid-week Classic. Much like the man, George Hincapie, whom he was tabbed to succeed, Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) would be the first American to win the mid-week Classic; [...]
A Giant Down Under, Greipel Triples – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 4
The parcours for Thursday’s Stage 4 of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under were as close to ideal for the sprinters as they come. And when the occasion arose, the fastmen did not disappoint. Andre Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) remained the peloton’s unsolvable puzzle as he would take the bunch sprint ahead of Australians Robbie McEwen [...]
Second Verse, Same As The First – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 2
HTC-Columbia’s Greipel Doubles Up The names have changed, but the outcome remained the same. For the second day in row, a break of three would make the race, but Andre Greipel and HTC-Columbia would once again swoop in for the victory. David Kemp (UniSA Australia) and Omega Pharma-Lotto teammates, Mickael Delage and Olivier Kaisen would [...]
Clear Sky, Henderson and Sutton Deliver One-Two in 2010 Season Opener
The journey from drawing board to podium was a short one for Dave Brailsford and Team Sky as Greg Henderson (formerly of Team HTC-Columbia) and Chris Sutton finished one-two in today’s 51km Cancer Council Helpline Classic in Adelaide. Contested over a 1.7km closed circuit, the race not only provided a small preview of the 6th [...]
On Cue
After the prologue yesterday, John Trevorrow (Cyclingnews) sat down with Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto) and elicited the following reaction. “It all went pretty much to plan,” explained the 11-time Tour stage winner. “I got [out] early and did about five laps on the course and got comfortable with it. I then rode and kept it at [...]
McEwen: Fugetaboutit!
Stage 12′s Colle dell’Agnello If you were wondering when Australia’s Robbie McEwen, winner of Stage 2, would drop out of the Giro d’Italia, the answer is: Stage 12. Thursday’s 12th stage from Scalenghe to Briancon in France is the first mountain stage of the 2007 Giro. The 163-km stage includes the Colle dell’Agnello, the highest [...]
Low-Hanging Fruit
I realize that most sprinters aren’t climbers, but it still bugs me when sprinters pick off early stages of a Grand Tour, then drop out of the event. That’s what they get paid for by their teams, but can’t they carry a water bottle or two up a mountain?Robbie McEwen won the second stage of [...]
Rollin’ Robbie, Giro Still Not Grand Enough
No Worries, Mate! Photo: AFP Robbie McEwen has captured his third stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia, winning Stage 6 into Forli. With his main rival, Alessandro Petacchi on the shelf, McEwen would have “an easy go of it,” if he decided he really wanted the Giro points jersey. But in a post stage interview [...]
Standard Obnoxious Sprinters Photo
I don’t like sprinters. Robbie McEwen turns me off more than Alessandro Petacchi did (but I like him now for riding through a broken kneecap the other day in the Giro). And why is Paolo Bettini always second? (Photo by Graham Watson) Related Posts:McEwen: Fugetaboutit!Low-Hanging FruitRollin’ Robbie, Giro Still Not Grand EnoughThe Harbringer of DoomMillar [...]
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