Look!

2013 Look Bicycles catalog, p.48

What's your criterion for having "made it" as a professional cyclist? 

Thanks to Alex Hui for sending this over!

Live Race Coverage - Update

@gilliancarleton: http://t.co/N1P2Lj1I

For those of you who are unable to make it to Broad Street Cycles tomorrow morning (8:30am-ish) - and have a television set - CTV will be covering the races live. Channel 9 in Victoria.

If all else fails try these links:

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/viewers-guide/day/2012-08-03/timezone/pdt/index.html

http://www.cyclingfans.com/

http://www.CTVOlympics.ca/

PedalMag.com - CDN Women's Team Pursuit Update

Gillian Carleton © Heinz Ruckemann

Laura Robinson from Pedal Mag caught up with the Canadian Women's Team Pursuit squad in London.

Not to play favourites or anything, but here is a random excerpt from the article:

Gillian Carleton, like Glaesser is a young, talented athlete with a few more Olympics beyond London in her future. She showed early talent by winning the Canada Games as a teen-ager, but decided to pursue studies at U of Victoria in biology instead after getting “burned out” while only a teen-ager. Cycling still pulled though and it was her involvement in alleycat and fixed wheel non-sanctioned racing in the streets of Victoria that brought her back to the sport.

 “Last year a group of friends and I got involved in fixing up the Victoria velodrome. It had been closed for a long time and we got it opened,” she said of the 1994 Commonwealth Games Velodrome that was supposed to become a legacy for cycling and instead fell into disrepair when local municipalities did not maintain it. “Messenger and fixed gear community started coming out in 2011 and that’s when I started riding the track.”

Read the full article here: http://pedalmag.com/?p=168078

These Women are Faster than You

Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser.
2012 Track World Championships, Melbourne.

Monique Sullivan. Sprint boss.

AFP PHOTOS / Mark Gunter

Laura Brown and Steph Roorda (not pictured) are also faster than you.

So is Tanya.

Women's Team Pursuit Final - 2012 London UCI WC

For those of you who missed it, here is the BBC footage from Friday's Women's Team Pursuit final in London.