Archive | December, 2012
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Aussie triathletes ready to take on the world

With the likes of Australia’s Emma Snowsill and Emma Jackson having won medals at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, a spot on the Aussie triathlon team for next year’s event has been a hot ticket. The Australian junior triathlon series held over the weekend on the Gold Coast decided the eight-strong team to compete in Sydney as part of […]

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Australia’s Winning Edge

Australia’s Winning Edge is our game plan for moving from world class to world best. Developed in partnership with Australia’s high performance network, Australia’s Winning Edge provides the high performance sports sector with clear performance targets and a framework for collaboration from 2012-2022. Australia’s high performance is about: consistent and sustainable success for Australian athletes and teams on the world […]

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Russian Cycling Federation to defend Katusha

Russian Cycling Federation has published its press-release to support Katusha Team. The text of press-release and the link are below: A press-release containing a refusal for the given until 2015 Team Katusha World Tour license registration has been published on the International Cycling Union (UCI) official web site on December 10, 2012. To this moment […]

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Leopard Trek : 2013 roster

The roster for the 2013 will be composed of fourteen riders, two more than in 2012. Seven riders will be U23. The team will be very international, with 10 nationalities represented:  Eugenio Alafaci (ITA – 09-08-1990), Jesus Ezquerra (SPA – 30-11-1990), Oliver Hofstetter (SUI – 16-01-1990), Alex Kirsch (LUX – 12-06-1992), Pit Schlechter (LUX – […]

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Lance Armstrong resisted subpoena, then wanted secrecy, documents show.

AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong resisted turning over records sought by U.S Postal Service investigators, then tried to keep the inquiry under seal and out of the public eye, according to recently released court documents. In 2011, Postal Service officials investigating Armstrong and his teams for doping wanted records from his team management groups, financial […]

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Official statement from Katusha

At present moment Katusha Team has no information regarding the reasons for the decision of the UCI to reject the request from the team for registration in first division. Team management, riders and staff are extremely surprised by the lack of justification for such a decision made by the UCI. Thus earlier the team, which possesses rider No.1 in the […]

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President John Fahey on positive samples from Athens

WADA welcomes the decision of the IOC to strip four athletes of their medals after samples taken at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens were reanalyzed earlier this year. This outcome has more than justified the IOC’s decision to reanalyze a number of samples from 2004. WADA applauds that and the decisions taken by the […]

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