Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships

Wollongong’s Scott Law has claimed his first major Australian road title, the under 23 Australian Criterium Championship, the opening event of the Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships at Ballarat.

Law, national omnium and scratch race champion prevailed over Jayco-AIS representative Jay McCarthy and defending champion, Tasmania’s Ben Grenda. Jayco-HoneyShotz rider Mitchell Lovelock-Fay took out the Sprint Championship.

With Law’s focus being on the track in the lead up to the national titles at the end of the month, the 19-year-old was hoping the speed work would pay off.

“The title has been one of my big objectives especially with my track background and the speed work and I’ve been training quite hard for it,” said Law. “I definitely had high hopes but never thought I’d be up there holding the green and gold.”

Grenda said he was “happy to get a medal” in back-to-back championships but it was far from smooth sailing.

“I was making a good fly in to the last corner and I ended up crashing into the back of Jay [McCarthy] and someone else so I did the divebomb up the gutter and that moved me into about fourth wheel but I’d lost all my speed so I was just trying to hang on up the straight,” he explained to Cyclingnews. “I thought I was going to be on my backside for a minute but I stayed up so it wasn’t too bad.”

A daring escape from Aaron Donnelly was caught on the final bend heading up the finishing uphill straight resulting in a bunch sprint to the finish in the 30 lap, 33 kilometre event. The Jayco-AIS rider had been active from the opening laps, along with Lovelock-Fay who was ultra-attentive during the sprint primes.

Lovelock-Fay said he was shocked at the result, considering he has been struggling with injury in the lead up to the championships.
“I wasn’t feeling anywhere near this good back in Canberra so I’m pretty happy with where my form is with the road race and time trial coming up,” he told Cyclingnews.

The pair made a move with 10 laps remaining which hovered around the 10 second mark before Donnelly made the move down the back straight with five laps remaining. With one circuit left to race, Donnelly’s seven second lead was swallowed up at the bottom of the course.

Law, who will ride for the An Post – Sean Kelly team in Europe in 2012 following a frustrating season with V Australia, admitted he had thought that Donnelly wouldn’t be reeled in.

“We had a couple of strong guys pulling some hard turns up there from there and I knew the AIS guys weren’t going to do anything so I just sort of waited and waited and tried to figure out what was going to happen but I was pretty lucky in the end that he got caught in the last two corners,” he explained.

FULL RESULTS

1 Scott Law (NSW) 0:45:55
2 Jay McCarthy (Qld)
3 Ben Grenda (Tas)
4 Benjamin Hill (NSW)
5 Jackson Law (NSW)
6 Aaron Donnelly (NSW)
7 Damien Howson (SA)
8 Jordan Kerby (Qld)
9 Brenton Jones (Vic)
10 Mitchell Codner (NSW)

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Doctors prepare for possible disaster | The Australian

A SUMMER of global disasters has emergency doctors preparing to cope with possible emergencies when hospitals are already at capacity.

Bruce Bartley, an emergency physician from the Emergency Department at Geelong Hospital, is one of a team of six who have devised a ready reckoner to help new doctors cope with a sudden influx without having to work it all out themselves.

Dr Bartley says the Christchurch earthquake, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Pakistan’s floods, Queensland’s floods and cyclone, and Victorian fires and floods have made doctors aware they may have to deal with disaster closer to home.

He has had plenty of experience, for example when a balcony collapsed at a 21st birthday party in Geelong.

“We had a sudden influx of 25 casualties, and that was in our smaller department,” Dr Bartley said.

He moved to triage and grouped patients with minor factors into one area where they could be seen by a junior doctor and an orthopedic surgeon, and decided who could be moved and who should go where.

Normal practice is for patients to see a registration clerk or nurse first and eventually a doctor, who assesses them individually.

But when a department is overwhelmed doctors will have to learn to make other choices and some privacy, and cups of tea, may have to be sacrificed, he said.

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Jayco Bay Cycling Race 2011 Australia

Matthew Goss wins the overall this year. Jut look at his awesome body, oh my gosh, his muscles are so perfectly defined. Matt Goss is definitely not a skinny cyclist, but what a great body he has. Beautiful.

General Classification – FINAL after Stage Four

1.Matthew Goss (E3/Pure Tasmania)33
2.Michael Matthews (Urban)31
3. Bernie Sulzberger (E3/Pure Tasmania)25
4.Allan Davis (Bikebug.com)24
5.Chris Sutton (Team Sky)21
6.Greg Henderson (Team Sky) 16
7.Leigh Howard (Jayco VIS)14
8. Wesley Sulzberger (E3/Pure Tasmania)13
9.Simon Gerrans (Team Sky)10
10.Baden Cooke (Lowe Farms/Boomaroo Nurseries) 9

Anderson SC Cyclists Ride of Silence

By Rick Spruill
Posted May 4, 2010 at 7:40 p.m.

ANDERSON — About a dozen cyclists took to the road in Anderson on Tuesday as the Ride of Silence, now in its eighth year, began in North America and rolls across the globe.
The riders, who sat astride recreational bikes, racing bikes, tandem bikes and even a time-trial bike, staged in the parking lot of the Ingles grocery store at 1900 N. Main St.
At 7 p.m., the group, escorted by Anderson police bicycle officers and two Anderson police patrol cars, turned left out of the parking lot and rode southeast along Boulevard in a slow, silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while riding on public roadways.
The ride, about half a mile, ended at the Anderson University campus, where a memorial service was held in memory of those lost.
Chris Phelan, a cyclist from Dallas, Texas, organized the first Ride of Silence in 2003.
By 2009, there were more than 300 rides throughout the United States and around the world, including in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama and Spain, according to Angela Stringer, Anderson county public information officer.
Riders who participate in the free event are asked to ride no faster than 10 mph and remain silent.
Some wore black armbands in memory of someone who died in a bicycling accident; others wore red armbands in honor of someone who has been injured in a bicycling accident.
Stringer said the ride also raises awareness of the fact that bicycles have as much right to the roads as motor vehicles.
“Unfortunately, there are far too many people who have lost a loved one or friends in a tragic bike accident,” Stringer said. “Many drivers are not aware that bicycles are legally required to ride in the streets and roads, not on sidewalks. We hope this event will help motorists remember to keep our roadways safe for all traffic, including pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists. Our message is ‘Share the Road- for everyone’s safety.’
Nancy Richmond, a tri-athlete from Anderson, said she logs about 3,500 miles each year on her bike.
She said that, although she lives in Anderson, she rides the roads in and around Pendleton, where there is less traffic and there are more bicyclists on the road.
“Drivers are a little more aware of our presence in that area,” she said.

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Cycling Tour of Wellington 2010

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pictureTour of Wellington had to suspend the last stage due to real horrible weather conditions, but that didn’t stop some racers from riders choosing to suffer the dangerous roads and put on a show for the cycling local fans in a 30 minute criterium. Jack Bauer (Trust House Team) won the 30 minute criterium but didn’t count for the general classification, leaving Michael Torcker as the definitive winner of the Tour of Wellington 2010.

General Classification

1	Michael Torckler (NZl) Cardno Team	12:37:33
2	Lachlan Norris (Aus) Drapac Porsche	0:00:05
3	Jay Thompson (RSA) Fly V Australia	0:01:31
4	Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Team Solway	0:01:51
5	Michael Matthews (Aus) Jayco Skins Team	0:02:00
6	Peter McDonald (Aus) Drapac Porsche	0:02:11
7	Jeremy Yates (NZl) Team Solway	0:02:20
8	Jai Crawford (Aus) Fly V Australia	0:02:32
9	George Bennet (NZl) Cardno Team	0:02:34
10	Nathan Earle (Aus) Genesys Wealth Advisers	0:02:38

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LIVESTRONG Cancer Research Centre in Australia

Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor, suffered from metastasized [to his brain and lungs] testicular cancer and won 7 Tour de France after his battle with the disease, retired for 3 years, came back in 2009 to professional cycling and finished 3rd place in TDF.

He is now in Australia to race in the Tour Down Under with his new Radio Shack Cycling Team and still has time to participate in numerous events to raise cancer awareness. Lance Armstrong has raised more than $350 USD to fight the disease through his LIVESTRONG Foundation

Armstrong has endorsed fund raising to build the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer in Adelaide, Australia. Now there is a construction project already on the way. It is a plan to build a LIVESTRONG research wing which will be the four story of the building and it will be completed on 2011, the cost of it, $ 27 million USD

“I am standing here today because I have been cured,” Armstrong said. “But it is important to keep in mind there are other stories — names we don’t know, faces we don’t know, stories we don’t know — which didn’t have the same outcomes.

“I look forward to hearing all the good stories that come out of this center. This is the birth of hope and the birth of inspiration for so many people.”

Lance has become good friends with Premier Mike Rann, who joined the 7 time TDF winner at the ground-breaking ceremony:

“Lance Armstrong is just as committed to his passion for helping to saving the lives of cancer survivors across the world as he was when he made his come-back to professional riding at the Tour Down Under last year,” Rann said. “As a person who has so spectacularly returned to good health after surviving advanced testicular cancer, Lance is a powerful voice in raising awareness about the global cancer burden.

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Cycling Race Scody Australian Open Road 2010

Robbie McEwen
Photo credit, Shane Goss The Scody Australian Open Road Championships have began, and Aaron Kemps is the winner of the criterium. Kemps shows his sportsmanship and class thanking Bernie Sulzberger for leading him out and helping him to get the crown.

“I am very happy with this win and very thankful for Fly V, a new team for me this year, and very happy for the first race of the year and to get a win for them,” said Kemps. “It is a team for Australians and I’m proud to be in an Australian team and now I am proud to take this jersey overseas and represent Australia.
“If it came down to a bunch kick then obviously Jonathan Cantwell and Ben Kersten were the key, but they said to try and be as aggressive as possible,” he added. “My legs felt good today. Bernie Sulzberger did a great job leading me out, I can’t thank him enough since he was last year’s Australian criterium champion.”

Robbie McEwen is working pretty hard, unstoppable, trying to build endurance so he can perfome better this year in the Tour de France, unfortunately he’s not having great results. He just finished Jayco Bay Cycling Classic on the the 5th of January on 5th place and now he just participated in the Australian criterium. He did not finish today -DNF-
Tomorrow Friday is rest day for Scody Australian racers, Saturday and Sunday are for road racing. 122 kms for Elite men and 102 kms for Elite women.

Australian Criterium final results

1 Aaron Kemps (QLD)
2 Dean Windsor (NSW)
3 William Clarke (TAS)
4 Chris Steffanoni (VIC)
5 David Pell (VIC)
6 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS)
7 Lachlan Norris (MTB)
8 David Kemp (QLD)
DNF Dylan Newell (VIC)
DNF Sam Moorhouse (NSW)
DNF Robbie Mcewen (QLD)

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Pedophile Priests Protected by Church and Police

It’s not a secret that Catholic priests from all over the world have violated innocent children through out decades, and it was only until recently that charges of sexual abuse were brought up against them, not only in the United States, but also in Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Australia and many other countries.

Not only the churches and the Vatican itself covered up the pedophilia, but now the Irish police has been exposed to have participated in the cover up.

One thing I would like to mention. Pedophilia is one of the most horrible crimes committed against humanity, not only by Catholic priests but by any other religious groups, non-religious groups, atheists, by family members, by strangers, any race, any country, the rich, the poor, the educated, the uneducated.
Unfortunately, pedophiles are involved in any sector of all societies on earth, and I always dream of the day when we could live in a world completely free of these sick perverts.

Some links of interest, related to this topic:

Thousands abused in Catholic schools
How to spot a pedophile

Lance Armstrong VS Cadel Evans

Cadel Evans leaves Team Silence-Lotto to join BMC Cycling Team and will be racing with George Hincapie against Lance Armstrong (RadioShack Cycling Team) in Adelaide, Australia next year in the Tour Down Under, which will run from the 17 to 24 of January.

This is great news and proves that the 2010 professional cycling season is going to be exhilarating. Just for starters, we will have Cadel Evans VS Lance Armstrong, then, several cycling races, then the Giro and so on. Can’t wait for 2010!

About Lance Armstrong:

Lance’s participation in the 2009 Tour Down Under brought thousands of visitors from all over the world to this important cycling event injecting about 32 million USD in this part of Australia, helping its economy in great way.

“I’m delighted to announce that Lance Armstrong will be back in Adelaide to race in next year’s Tour Down Under,” Rann said in a statement. “This will be the first time Lance’s new team will compete anywhere in the world. “I’ve been in regular contact with Lance and his management since he made his world cycling comeback in Adelaide at the 2009 Tour Down Under. He really enjoyed his time here and has told me how much he appreciated the massive support he received from the thousands of cycling fans during the race and from the communities supporting the launch of his global cancer campaign.”

About Cadel Evans

“Cadel brings a wealth of experience in the Grand Tours to the team.” BMC Racing Team co-owner Jim Ochowicz commented. Ochowicz added “As I have said earlier, our team will have multiple chances to measure ourselves against the greatest teams in the world.  We are pleased that we will have the opportunities to send out our most successful riders, now including Cadel Evans, to tackle these challenges.”

Who will win this fantastic 2010 Tour Down Under, Lance Armstrong, Cadel Evans…or someone else?

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Cycling Tour of Tasmania Australia 2009

The Underground Tour of Tasmania NE (National Event) is a cycling classic that started last Tuesday and will end on Sunday October 4th. So far, there have been 4 stages because 2 of them were raced on Tuesday.
It began with 145 riders and at the end of today’s stage there are only 128 left, many reasons for quitting, heavy rain being the main one today, but fortunately, Bernard Sulzberger (Fly V Australia Cycling Team) remains the leader and ended safely in the middle of a peloton of 40 riders.

Photo credit ©Shane Goss

The break away sensation of today’s stage were  Rohan Dennin and Nathan Hass. It’s too bad there’s no video available to share this moment with you, but you can imagine how hard they worked in the middle of heavy rain and steep climbs. They didn’t win, but kudos to you both for the great effort and the excitment!

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION after stage 4

1. Bernard Sulzberger (Fly V Australia) 1 hour 58.41 minutes,
2. Luke Durbridge (Team Jayco AIS), .06 sec,
3. Phillip Zajicek (Fly V Australia) .10 sec,
4. Ben Day (Fly V Australia) .16 sec,
5. Gene Bates (Caterpillar Underground Mining) same time,
6. Jai Crawford (Savings & Loans) .18 sec,
7. David Tanner (Jayco VIS) .21sec,
8. Rohan Dennis (Team Jayco AIS) same time,
9. Peter McDonald (Drapac Porsche) same time,
10. Kristian House (GHD) .22sec.