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Cycling news highlights- 'Not impossible' for Cadel Evans to win the Giro d'Italia 20 May 2013
- Emma Pooley wins stage and takes overall lead in Tour Languedoc Roussillon 20 May 2013
- BBC Sport - Sir Bradley Wiggins withdraws from Giro d'Italia due to illness 17 May 2013
- Wiggins' loss is Evans' gain as Giro hits Alps 17 May 2013
- After Amgen Tour win, Voigt says it will take two riders to fill his spot 17 May 2013
Tag Archives: Nicole Cooke
Episode 2: The Qatar is operational!
Farewell Sandro Carrea; Nicole Cooke retires; Wiggle Honda – new teams, great, but what about the infrastructure?; Tour of Qatar – Al-Jazeera runs women’s race live, so why is it so difficult for others?; Yet another chance to talk about Lance Armstrong; Parliamentary Inquiry – will it get Britain cycling or put it on the wrong path? Continue reading
Posted in Podcast
Tagged Al-Jazeera, Armstrong, Bradley Wiggins, Cavendish, Get Britain Cycling, Lizzie Armitstead, Mark Cavendish, Nicole Cooke, podcast, Qatar, Wiggins, Wiggle Honda
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Analysis: How Great Britain won the world championship for Mark Cavendish
What more is there to add? There have been few more impressive displays of teamwork in the history of the Worlds. Lionel Birnie wrote about Project Rainbow, Rod Ellingworth’s plan, in 2008, when pretty much everyone in the world thought … Continue reading
Victoria Pendleton and Nicole Cooke broaden their appeal
Victoria Pendleton is the face of Hovis, the breadmakers with a long association with cycling. They were the original sponsor of Freewheel which has now morphed into Skyride and their 1970s campaign featuring a baker’s boy and his bike is … Continue reading
Posted in Video, Women
Tagged advertising, Baxi Boilers, Hovis, Nicole Cooke, Quickstep, Tom Boonen, Victoria Pendleton, video, youtube
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If Team Sky is about inspiring participation, why no women?
Dave Brailsford in a BBC interview says that the Team Sky project is all about inspiring participation. But I keep on coming back to the same question I asked back at the Worlds in September: where are the women? It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Road Racing, Women
Tagged Emma Pooley, inspiration, Lizzie Armitstead, Nicole Cooke, participation, Team Sky
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Predictions for professional cycling in 2010: the good news
Like ying and yang, for every list of bad news, there is good. So here’s my predictions for good things that might happen this year. (I’ve updated this to correct a couple of errors and add a couple of links … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Professional, Road Racing
Tagged "Fumy Beppu", BMC, Cadel Evans, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Emma Pooley, Eritrea, Nicole Cooke, predictions, Team Radioshack, Team Sky
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Does sexism in cycling still exist?
Last week, during the World Championships, Sky News ran the news package below, about the Call For Sexual Equality In Sport, based on the news that the UCI is to insist on parity between men’s and women’s events at London … Continue reading
Posted in Women
Tagged "Halfords Bikehut", Emma Pooley, Lizzie Armitstead, Nicole Cooke, sexism, Team Sky
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Cycling popularity increases except in sports pages
Saturday’s The Times declares that “Inspirational Olympic heroes turn cycling into a family favourite” and celebrates a 40% increase in cycling as a result of the track team’s success. Meanwhile The Sunday Times manages to lead its Sport In Brief … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Professional, Road Racing
Tagged "Milan-San Remo", Emma Pooley, Mark Cavendish, Nicole Cooke, Tom Simpson
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A good time to be ill
If ever there’s a good weekend to come down with a heavy case of the manflu, aka the common cold, this weekend past was it. Temperatures below freezing added to sleeting snow and rain should and would have had me … Continue reading
Posted in Cyclocross, Fitness, Professional, Winter kit
Tagged "Olbas Oil", "Steve Peters", "Super Prestige", belgium, cyclocross, Mark Cavendish, Nicole Cooke, winter essentials
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Cooke-ing with gas (and gelato)
So in the time that I’ve managed to go on holiday, get a tan and put on two kilos, cycling has been getting busy with doping busts, post-Tour criteriums and most importantly, The Beijing Olympics. I caught all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Doping, Professional
Tagged Beijing, gelato, Hillingdon, holiday, Nicole Cooke, Olympics
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Here come the Belgians!
The clatter of bikes on cobbles can mean only one thing: it’s time for the Northern Classics, starting with the Tour of Flanders, this Sunday. Last year I made the pilgrimage to Flanders fields (and hills) to ride the sportif … Continue reading
Posted in Tour of Flanders
Tagged Ballan, Belgian, belgium, Nicole Cooke, report, Tour of Flanders
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