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

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.

CTV Interview with Canada WTP Squad

Photo: The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press

Canada's Cyclists Make Gold Pursuit Final

Posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:00 PM ET

Jennifer Lukas, CTVOlympics.ca Staff

LONDON, England -- Canada's women's pursuit team set a Canadian record and guaranteed itself a medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup on Thursday, finishing first in the qualifying heats.

Competing in London's Velodrome -- the venue that will host the track cycling events at the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games -- Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser finished their heat in 3:20.785 to set up a Friday evening gold-medal final versus the home crowd favourites, Great Britain.

"It’s a really exciting time for our team right now," said Whitten, who is also a podium favourite in the women's omnium, which begins Saturday. "When we had our trials in LA, we saw that all five of us are produced fast times. It makes the decision really hard for the coaches, and pushes us to be at our best every day, and makes the team a lot faster.

Canada raced early in the schedule, as the fifth of 15 heats, and the venue was almost half empty as the team began whipping around the bends just after 6 p.m. GMT. It was the fifth heat ever run on the Olympic track.

As the splits started show better-than World Record times, however, the crowd's initially lacklustre cheers started to gather intensity.

Canada went on to finish 1.22 seconds outside of the record time.

"What struck me most tonight was the crowd," said Carleton. "You can tell the people here are crazy about cycling. I could hear during the race the announcer amping the crowd with every split that showed up on the time board, which I would normally never do. 

"I just thought that was the most motivating to do. It’s very exciting to hear when you’re on pace for the World Record, but at the same time, it doesn’t register too much, because we're still focused on the execution of the plan, and what we’re supposed to do. It’s still a great morale boost."

The Road to London 2012 - Update

In less than twenty-four hours, Tara Whitten, Jasmin Glaesser and Gillian Carleton will be warming up for the Women's Team Pursuit qualifier in London! 

The Burnaby 4

Four crazy nights of professional track racing and entertainment come to Burnaby! BE THERE, BE THERE, BE THERE (this event does not take place at the Tacoma Dome).

Dec 27-29 Doors open at 5:30pm, racing 6:30-10:30pm
Dec 30 Doors open at 8:30am, racing all day until 7pm!