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"If you watched the women’s Olympic Road Race, you’ll remember Loes Gunnewijk’s relentless attacking with her Dutch team-mate Ellen van Dijk, as they exhausted the peloton before they’d even reached Box Hill and helping Marianne Vos win the gold. This is how Gunnewijk races - she’s a Classics star whose tactical skills, teamwork and ruthless attacking serve her well as ORICA-AIS’ road captain. She won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2012, and the Ronde van Drenthe World Cup in 2010, so she’s perfectly placed to tell us all about racing Drenthe on Saturday and much more!"

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Interview: Loes Gunnewijk on Drenthe, ORICA-AIS, the Olympics and much more! - Podium Cafe

Please read my interview!

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March 07, 2013
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SBS Cycling Central | Cycling News and Results | Anna Meares on a triumphant year

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January 01, 2013
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SBS Cycling Central | Cycling News and Results | Highlights of 2012

The cycling highlights of the year from the Aussie channel - so lots of Anna Meares and Rachel Neylan!

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January 01, 2013
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Olympic medalist Gillian Carleton excited about first pro year with Specialized lululemon (by VeloNationCycling)

Read the article, too

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December 30, 2012
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"“I’m going to be a lot hungrier, a lot stronger and better for Rio in 2016. I don’t think you could be 100 per cent ready for the [first] Olympics [campaign] even though our preparation for it on the Gold Coast, and then at our camp in France, was great."

— After the tears comes the joy of World Cup victory - Caroline Buchanan interview

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December 23, 2012
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Marianne Vos (Netherlands) won the Olympic road race in the rain Photos | Cyclingnews.com From the CJ Farquharson’s best photos of 2012 gallery - click through and look at them all!

Marianne Vos (Netherlands) won the Olympic road race in the rain Photos | Cyclingnews.com

From the CJ Farquharson’s best photos of 2012 gallery - click through and look at them all!

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December 21, 2012
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The final clash in a long battle Photos | Cyclingnews.com From the CJ Farquharson’s best photos of 2012 gallery - click through and look at them all!

The final clash in a long battle Photos | Cyclingnews.com

From the CJ Farquharson’s best photos of 2012 gallery - click through and look at them all!

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December 21, 2012
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This is very cute - Dutch Olympians lip-synching to Call Me Maybe - with Marianne Vos, Ellen van Dijk, Annemiek van Vleuten and Loes Gunnewijk, and LOTS of sporting stars!

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December 19, 2012
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Her father went and bought the smallest bike he could find. It was still too big, but the pint-sized Vos could manage, and she began riding at the local club. “Immediately,” she said, “I liked the speed.” On Tuesday and Thursday evenings after school, Vos trained, if that’s even possible for six-year-olds. Cycling was her first love, she would later say. At age seven, Vos was allowed to race, and she used the same bike for road and cyclocross.

A seven-year-old Marianne Vos, running through a field with the smallest bike her father could find. Looking back, it makes perfect sense.

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Velo International Cyclist, International Cyclocross Woman, International Women’s Sprinter of the Year: Marianne Vos

Very cute!

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December 17, 2012
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Ellen van Dijk on worlds triumph, Specialized lululemon, 2013 goals and Vos’ character (by VeloNationCycling)

Watch the 10-minute interview, and click through to Velonation to read all about it

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December 16, 2012
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Talkingshop: British Women’s RR Champion Sharon Laws « Features « velouk.net

I was trying to pick out a part of this interview to quote, and I just couldn’t, it’s all really, really good, and honest.  Laws on the highs and lows of 2012, not being picked for the Olympics, and her big plans for 2013 her new team, Lotto Belisol.

Do me a favour and click through this, as part of #ClickThruThurs

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December 06, 2012
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"London’s Laura Trott is one of the stars of “First”, a film about first-time Olympians by Caroline Rowland, which is now on general release."

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Laura Trott features in new Olympic film | London - ITV News

Check out the film, either by clicking though, or directly on Vimeo

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November 27, 2012
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“I think so,” she agreed. “That’s why I’ve signed with them. I think - especially because they’re local; a Swiss team; I live in Switzerland; it makes life so much easier. It’s a small team in some ways, but they’ve got a lot of… they’ve got a proper history; it’s been a major team in the past; they know about international racing; they know about dealing with prima donnas like me [laughs] and they want to step up a bit.

“So for me it’s a perfect combination; so I step down a bit, and the young team steps up a bit,” she continued. “I’ll do a combination of international races and some Swiss races, and nearby races in Germany and Italy. I think it means I can do a good race programme without being committed early on to doing World Cups that I’ll just get dropped in.

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Emma Pooley interview part 1: “A PhD all winter isn’t going to make me ride well in the spring”

As always, an Emma Pooley interview is full of fun soundbites, things to make me think, and to laugh at - I recommend this one highly - look out for part 2!

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November 12, 2012
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Cycling Central’s women & wheels - featuring Paralympian Jayme Richardson (she used to be Jayme Paris, but she recently got married!  Congratulations Jayme!)

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November 11, 2012
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Anna Meares shows off her Oppy Medal Photos | Cyclingnews.com Anna Meares won pretty much everything at the Australian Cycling Awards - click through here to see who else won things, and here for photos, both on Cyclingnews - and check out this quote from Meares: Meares revealed she has her sights on a fourth Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but will take a break before starting serious training. “I would like to continue on for another four years through to Rio and the next Olympic campaign, but you won’t see me until next year as I will be taking a nice break,” Meares explained. “And in that break, this Olympic champion is looking forward to wearing my trackies around the house, gardening, walking my dog and annoying my husband.” Yay!  Four more years of Meares!

Anna Meares shows off her Oppy Medal Photos | Cyclingnews.com

Anna Meares won pretty much everything at the Australian Cycling Awards - click through here to see who else won things, and here for photos, both on Cyclingnews - and check out this quote from Meares:

Meares revealed she has her sights on a fourth Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but will take a break before starting serious training.

“I would like to continue on for another four years through to Rio and the next Olympic campaign, but you won’t see me until next year as I will be taking a nice break,” Meares explained. “And in that break, this Olympic champion is looking forward to wearing my trackies around the house, gardening, walking my dog and annoying my husband.”

Yay!  Four more years of Meares!

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November 11, 2012
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