Pro Cycling

[westozfalcon]

That was a fantastic performance by Pendleton. To overcome a crash, the Aussie home crowd factor and Meares in career-best form makes it all the more meritorious for her.

[brod]

Paris-Roubaix is simply brilliant....still a chance of a finish in the wet that will make it even more unpredictable

[pels]

Boonen is riding away to victory, what a champion

[pels]

Boonen is riding away to victory, what a champion

Boonen wins easily, awesome race to watch

[dedja]

Awesome ride from Boonen ...

[am Bays]

Awesome ride from Boonen ...

Agreed, 220 km race then a 50 km time trial. Say what you want those blokes are a different species to the average pleb on a bike.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Awesome ride from Boonen ...

Agreed, 220 km race then a 50 km time trial. Say what you want those blokes are a different species to the average pleb on a bike.

The drugs help.

Needed more crashes.

[pels]

Liege-Bastogne-Liege on SBS Sunday night from 10:30pm
The last of the spring classics 258km of steep hills

[brod]

Mark Renshaw edged out fellow Australian Matt Goss in a photo finish to win the 132km fourth stage of the Tour of Turkey in Marmaris.

The victory was a long awaited first of the season for Renshaw and Rabobank's second in the event after Theo Bos took the opener in Alanya. Italy's Daniele Colli (Type 1-Sanofi) was third.

Renshaw was unsure if he had won immediately after the finish but the photo evidence relegating Goss (GreenEDGE) into second place came as a relief.

[mickey]

[brod]

Sacha Modolo bested Australians Matthew Goss and Mark Renshaw to win the sixth stage of the Tour of Turkey yesterday.

Goss, 25, continues to lead the points classification ahead of Renshaw, who celebrated his first win of the season in Rabobank colours on Anzac Day. The GreenEDGE sprinter Goss has finished second in four of six stages at the tour, which he is using as preparation for next month’s Giro d’Italia.

[brod]

Giro D'Italia started tonight, 8.7km prologue

Bobridge had a poor First Stage

[brod]

The 21-year-old time trial specialist set a blistering time of 10:26 over a flat but technical course to beat Britain’s Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Denmark's Alex Rasmussen (Garmin-Barracuda).

Welshman Thomas finished nine seconds slower than Phinney, with Rasmussen a further four seconds in arrears.

Reigning champion Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD), the last of 198 riders down the start ramp, came home in lowly 135th place - over a minute down on stage winner Phinney, and 27 seconds slower than his GC rival Ivan Basso (Liquigas).

Brett Lancaster best placed Aussie in 7th (23sec)

Bobridge was 114th a full minute behind

[Grahaml]

The 21-year-old time trial specialist set a blistering time of 10:26 over a flat but technical course to beat Britain’s Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) and Denmark's Alex Rasmussen (Garmin-Barracuda).

Welshman Thomas finished nine seconds slower than Phinney, with Rasmussen a further four seconds in arrears.

Reigning champion Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD), the last of 198 riders down the start ramp, came home in lowly 135th place - over a minute down on stage winner Phinney, and 27 seconds slower than his GC rival Ivan Basso (Liquigas).

Brett Lancaster best placed Aussie in 7th (23sec)

Bobridge was 114th a full minute behind

Amazingly while this guy is not related to Michael Rasmussen (who I suspect we all know well enough) he was at one point sacked by his team for missing 3 doping controls exactly as Michael was only to be reinstated because the UCI took too long to notify him.

[brod]

Stage 2 Results
1 CAVENDISH, Mark (SKY PROCYCLING) 4:53:12
2 GOSS, Matthew Harley (GREENEDGE)
3 SOUPE, Geoffrey (FDJ-BIG MAT)
4 FARRAR, Tyler (GARMIN-BARRACUDA)
5 FERRARI, Roberto (ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI)
6 RENSHAW, Mark (RABOBANK)
7 HUSHOVD, Thor (BMC RACING)
8 BENNATI, Daniele (RADIOSHACK-NISSAN)
9 BONNET, William (FDJ-BIG MAT)
10 THOMAS, Geraint (SKY PROCYCLING)

[mickey]

Goss wins stage 3 for Green Edge

[dedja]

and Mark Cavendish is side swiped by Roberto Ferrari, crashes and gets bunny hopped by one rider, and run over by another, then picks himself up and carries his bike over the line with an arse cheek hanging out of his knicks.

[brod]

and Mark Cavendish is side swiped by Roberto Ferrari, crashes and gets bunny hopped by one rider, and run over by another, then picks himself up and carries his bike over the line with an arse cheek hanging out of his knicks.

Ferrari getting no love with riders calling for him to be kicked out of the race

[brod]

Garmin win team time trial.
Navardauskas is in pink, best placed Aussies are Lancaster and Goss in 11th and 12th, both thirty seconds back.
Marty Goss wears the red jersey as leader of the points classification

[brod]

Cavendish won the sprint in stage five, with Goss again coming in second