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Gerrans, Porte to recon Rio Olympics road race course next month
Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) has speculated on his Rio Olympic objectives ahead of a trip to South America with compatriot Richie Port...

Heinrich Haussler to lead IAM at Flanders and Roubaix
Heinrich Haussler will reprise the role of protected leader at the Spring Classics after a stint as road captain at IAM. The 32-year-old ...

Delayed season start working wonders for Michael Matthews
For the past two seasons Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge) has skipped the Australian summer of cycling, preferring to stay in Europe an...

Boasson Hagen back on track with Classics ambitions ahead
The last nine months have been something of a resurgence for Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data). After his career seemed to stagnate i...

Richie Porte's journey towards winning the Tour de France
Richie Porte won’t outright say he can win the Tour de France but he is sure of his own mental resolve should it come down to a dog fight...

Zak Dempster on Sam Bennett's sprint train: 'You can’t click your fingers and make a lead-out work'
DOHA, Qatar (CT) – Irishman Sam Bennett is making inroads against the best sprinters as his Bora-Argon 18 team looks to emulate a world r...

Cavendish on Qatar World Championships: 'I think you’ll be surprised how exciting it will be'
DOHA, Qatar (CT) – Mark Cavendish has weighed in on the course for the 2016 UCI Road World Championships; a course he is set to vie for a...

Once fierce rivals, Farrar and Cavendish now mates at Dimension Data
After years of battling Mark Cavendish in high-speed, high-stakes sprints, American Tyler Farrar will ride in support of his new teammate...

Giant-Alpecin road captain Koen de Kort reacts to team’s horror collision
The seven-man Giant-Alpecin team competing at the Santos Tour Down Under awoke in Adelaide to the horrific news of a collision at a team ...

Canadian rookie Michael Woods makes WorldTour debut with Cannondale
Michael Woods considers himself a rookie pro at the Tour Down Under despite his general classification ambitions at the race and his 29 y...

Do the Australian Road Nationals really need to move from Ballarat?
It’s an annual debate that has started to bore some road cycling professionals and continues to drive others to despair: "should the Aust...

Cameron Meyer hits the ground running with Dimension Data
Cameron Meyer has returned to basics in an effort to re-establish and realise his potential as a general classification contender with ne...