For those of you who don’t know much about track cycling and about the omnium here is a bit of an insight- The omnium consists of 6 events run over 2 days. There is a flying lap, points race and elimination race on the first day and then an individual pursuit, scratch race and finally ... [READ MORE HERE]

The ISAF World Championships were held over the 3-18th of December 2011. Unique to sailing and the pre Olympic year, all disciplines compete at the same location for the World Championship title- unlike others where we are spread across the globe. In the Laser Radial Women’s class, I was coming into racing off a relatively ... [READ MORE HERE]

I travelled to the World Uni Games in China which was an amazing experience. Every venue was pristine (and brand new!) and the City of Shenzhen really put on a show for all who participated in the event. The village was crazy- 12,000 athletes and support staff is a lot of people to push in ... [READ MORE HERE]

Myron just completed riding the 8-Day An Post Ras Tour in Ireland, with the NZ track team.  He wrote the following team report. Stage 5, we didn’t really have a race plan. Stay near the front and keep out of trouble. I did exactly that… Early on a break of 10 riders went, but a ... [READ MORE HERE]

Leading up to the race I was pretty happy, training was good. Did close to 6 hours on Wednesday, 2 easier days then the race was on Saturday! Weather was mint, sunny and a bit of wind… 22-23 degrees, couldn’t ask for more at this time of the year! We woke up early on Saturday, ... [READ MORE HERE]

When I think back to before I left for Worlds two weeks ago, I was thinking about what I would be writing my blog about on this very day – The day I returned to Perth. To be honest, I was half expecting to write about how we fought off the Poms and the Kiwis, ... [READ MORE HERE]

On our way from the airport to our hotel in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, we noticed some street banners, advertising the “City Run” to be held the next day.  With some further research, we discovered that this annual 4km run attracted 10,000 runners, registration was free and it started at ... [READ MORE HERE]

The first race of my 2011 season was set to be one of firsts. First race back in 4 months, first race for the new team, with a new director, new teammates and my first race as a professional. My team Diadora Pasta Zara won stage 4, were second in stage 3, third in stage ... [READ MORE HERE]

We began racing the crits on the 2nd of January in Geelong’s Botanic Gardens.  Being pursuiters, we weren’t expecting any major results out of the short, sprint-like racing, but rather to get some quality intensity sessions, and to test our back/gluteal injuries we have both carried over the past few years. Sarah: I went into ... [READ MORE HERE]

Rocktape has without a doubt aided my latest win at the World Cup in Melbourne on December 2nd. Since winning the Teams Pursuit World Championship in March, I had been looking forward to racing the World Cup for months.  It was an honour to line up in the World Champion stripes in front of a ... [READ MORE HERE]