Off the back of overall victory at the recent Perth Criterium series in his home state of Western Australia, Anthony Giacoppo says that his form and confidence levels are at an all-time high ahead of his Genesys Wealth Advisers team’s first foray to Asia for 2012 at the Tour de Taiwan.
Just two months in, Giacoppo’s season has been one of superlatives, and while the 25-year-old is realistic ahead of the high level of competition in Taiwan for the ...
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Luke Durbridge has had a successful trip to Singapore for the OCBC classic.
Luke rode with Robbie McEwen and Fumi Beppu as the 3 representatives of GreenEdge pro cycling team.
Luke and Fumi attacked hard for the first half of the race to set up Robbie in a race winning break of 6 riders
Robbie then out-sprinted the break to claim the win!
Luke now travels to the high mountains in the Sierra Nevadas in Spain for an altitude camp. Luke will meet up ...
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MEDIA RELEASE
Anthony Giacoppo wrapped up the overall Smokefree Perth Criterium Series in Fremantle tonight.
He bridged up to breakaway rider Eddy Holland’s with Luke Davison in close attendance. The three then rode hard to ensure that they remained clear. Anthony finished second on the stage to Luke Davison to secure the overall series win.
Anthony will now prepare for the upcoming tour of Taiwan.
Any media enquiries can be made through Lion Sports Management
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BLOG – Day 1
Saturday I woke up not feeling 100% as I had been sick all week so the nerves had set in early.
The team had a charity ride to do Saturday morning through the Perth hills with the Meningitis centre it was quite an easy 50k ride which involved chatting with various people this all ended up with a coffee in mundaring.
The rest of the day was spent getting the bikes ready for the 1st race of the ...
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Follow this link for daily updates of Travis Meyer’s Tour of the Med diary – some interesting insights into the heart of the peleton
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Reigning world madison champions Leigh Howard and Cameron Meyer (Axel Lange) have claimed their first six-day event, storming home on the final evening of the 101st edition of the Berlin 6. It was only their second attempt at the historic event and join only a handful of Australians to have won in Berlin.
In front of a 12000-strong crowd, the Australian pairing went into the final night in fifth place, down a lap, 22 points from leaders Belgians Iljo Keisse ...
World under 23 Champion in the Time Trial, Luke Durbridge (GreenEdge) added the open Australian TT title to his palmares today in Learmonth, beating defending national champion and teammate Cameron Meyer by seven seconds. Three-time world time trial champion Michael Rogers (Sky) won the bronze medal.
Durbridge motored his way around the tough 38.2 kilometre course in a time of 46:20.44, at an average speed of 49.47 km/h.
“I train all the time with Cam and we were sort of trash ...
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Anthony Giacoppo has started his 2012 season with a bang by winning the National Criterium Championships in Ballarat. Anthony (AJ ) sprinted to the line to better Mark Renshaw and Steele Vanhoff to secure his first national title. AJ is now on the hunt for a spot in the UNISA team for the Tour Down Under and will be looking for a good performance in Sundays Road Race. His recent run of form secured him 3rd overall in the Bay ...
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Anthony Giacoppo proves plaudits right with classy win over Luke Durbridge in stage 3 of the Jayco Bay Crits in Portarlington. Both athletes are manged by Lions Sports Management and we are delighted with the start to the season. Good work guys and there’s more to come so watch this space. Thanks to Cyclingnews.com for image
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Two-time reigning madison world champions Leigh Howard and Cameron Meyer made a triumphant return to the track finishing a lap clear of the field for a resounding victory in the 2012 Cycling Australia Madison National Championships at Melbourne’s DISC Velodrome.
“Since Leigh and I have donned the rainbow jersey, we haven’t lost a Madison winning two world titles and two World Cups,” said Meyer, who claimed his third consecutive Australian Madison crown after pairing with Jack Bobridge to win in 2010 ...
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