Posted November 25th, 2006
There was was apparently another emotional night for Aussie cycling last night, where Cadel Evans won the Sir Hubert Opperman award for the Australian cyclist of the year.
Cadel Evans won his first Australian cyclist of the year award as spinal injury victim Renee Junga featured among the category winners.
Junga attended the awards function in Melbourne […]
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Posted November 24th, 2006
Australian Blogs, a site indexing service has posted on the state of the Oz Blogosphere with a fun little tool that calculates the “noisiest” blogs in the country. Strangely, Spinopsys is sitting at 80.
On the cycling front, I found Treadly at 270 and Pedaller at 400, which means that the other leading cycling related […]
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Posted November 23rd, 2006
Phil Bates of Commonwealth Bank Cycling fame has organised a new cycling event for Sydney on December 17th in Cronulla, it’ll be sun, surf, sand and bicycles.
A COTERIE of Australia’s world-class road and track cyclists is leading the push to rid the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla of its sullied reputation on the anniversary of […]
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Posted November 22nd, 2006
A little story on the doping front here in Australia - former national team cyclist Andrew Wyper was convicted for importing performance enhancing drugs from Indonesia.
Former national team member Andrew Wyper, 21, was yesterday convicted in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court of illegally importing performance enhancing drugs, the Australian Customs Service said.
The court was told […]
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Posted November 22nd, 2006
Jesper Skibby.
Skibby, who won a stage of the 1991 Tour de France, said in an autobiography to be published Wednesday that he started using steroids that same year when he was on the Dutch TVM team. He said he switched to the endurance-boosting substance EPO in 1993.
Skibby, the only Danish rider to have won stages […]
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Posted November 21st, 2006
Paddington, Sydney, 2006.
technorati tags: sydney, cycling, image
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Posted November 21st, 2006
Perrie Croshaw of the Open All Hours blog in the SMH has quickly posted on blogging for small business, the people who read them and why the hard working little guy behind the counter should become familiar with terms like Wordpress and RSS.
They say these readers “aren’t just another random crowd of affluent consumers. Bloggers […]
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Posted November 20th, 2006
The NSW State Govt. has released an urban transport statement for Sydney.
Given the looming March election one can’t help but think this is nothing but pre-poll atmospherics, and the cynical will be unsurprised when many of these initiatives quickly disappear down the memory hole of bureaucracy once the political victors have raised the heads of […]
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Posted November 19th, 2006
There was another wide ranging discussion on the Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable podcast covering the following topics. I’m a subscriber to the podcast through iTunes, a regular listener and recommend it highly as a cycling hour well worth listening to on your favourite device.
* Eurobike Challenges Interbike
* How Will the U.S. Elections Effect Cycling?
* French Lab […]
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Posted November 19th, 2006
Spinopsys is one year old today. Yay!
technorati tags: cycling, spinopsys, birthday
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