Canadian Women's Team Pursuit vs. Tyler Farrar

Burnaby Velodrome

 Dec. 27-30, 2012

This is actually happening.

Don't miss it.

These Women are Awesome.

Now this is a right proper podium.
Photo: Richard Wooles

Congratulations to Laura Brown, Steph Roorda and Gillian Carleton on their gold medal ride in the Team Pursuit yesterday at Track Nationals!

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/

From Gillian

"Just got some very special Olympic mail! To everyone that was involved in this project - THANK YOU so much! I feel so lucky to have such an amazing support network and i will do my best to make you all proud."

Photos: Laura Brown

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

Canadian Cyclist Holdin' it Down for Team Canada

Gillian Carleton leads the pursuit squad (CanadianCyclist.com)

Canadian Cyclist has done a great job keeping us up-to-date with all the latest news about our favourite Olympic track cyclists in London.

They caught up the team earlier today at The Pringle. Read the story here: http://www.canadiancyclist.com/dailynews.php?id=24674

And while we're poaching news from our far-more-organized friends back East, you can find an updated race schedule and a couple more photos of Tara Whitten and Monique Sullivan looking particularly badass on their Looks here.

For those of you in Victoria, BC this week, we will be watching the Women's Team Pursuit qualifiers live at Broad Street Cycles (1419 Broad Street, across from CTV) on Friday morning.


Racing starts around 8:45am. 
You should be there by 8:30am


If you are concerned about being late for work, Renny will be available to speak with your boss.

Pedal Mag Interview - Gillian Carleton

April 05, 2012 (Melbourne, Australia) – Pedal caught up with Gillian Carleton track side following the Canadian Women’s Team Pursuit squad’s bronze medal ride the Track World Championships in Melbourne where Tara Whitten, Jasmin Glaesser and Carleton captured Canada’s first team pursuit Worlds medal. It was a double medal day for Canada as Glaesser took the silver in the women’s Points race… full results and more on the Team Pursuit HERE

via Leanne Cole at pedalmag.com

2012 Track Worlds - Interview with Tara & Gillian

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.