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Spitz unlikely to return to Olympics in Rio

By On August 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Sabine Spitz (Germany) has won a medal in all of the last three Olympics, one of each colour view thumbnail gallery German completes her medal collection with silver in London Sabine Spitz has been a force within the women’s cross country mountain bike circuit since her first Olympic participation in Sydney during the 2000 Games. [...]

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Thomas doesn’t want the Olympics Games to end

By On August 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Prologue winner Geraint Thomas (Sky) dons the leader’s jersey at the Tour de Romandie. view thumbnail gallery Returning to London for Closing Ceremony It may have been a little more than a week since the men’s Great Britain squad claimed the gold medal in the team pursuit but for Geraint Thomas, he’s yet to truly [...]

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London Olympics: Kulhavy claims last gold medal for cycling

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Results   The Czech Repulic’s Jarolslav Kulhavy claimed the last gold medal for cycling at the 2012 Olympics after outsprinting Switzerland’s Nino Schurter at the end of a breathtaking mountain bike race at Hadleigh Farm, Essex. After road cycling, track, BMX and the women’s mountain biking yesterday, the men’s mountain bike race today, on the [...]

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London Olympics: Thank you London, goodbye, here we come Rio!

By On August 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Two absolutely incredible weeks and an exceptional showcase for cycling: as the Olympic flag begins its long journey to Rio de Janeiro in 2016, it is safe to say that the competitions of the four cycling disciplines largely surpassed the most optimistic previsions. It started with the sumptuous, unforgettable opening event which attracted more than [...]

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A taste of the Olympics: History, reconversion and goodbye…

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Colombian Olympic history With her gold-medal performance in the women’s BMX, Mariana Pajón made history for her country, becoming only the second female gold medalist from Colombia. María Isabel Urrutia won the nation’s first gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics – in weightlifting (75kg). Living up to it Before the Olympics, Julie Bresset [...]

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Two-time defending Olympic champion Julien Absalon aiming for threepeat

By On August 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Germany’s silver medalist Sabine Spitz (1) competes in the Mountain Bike Cycling women’s race, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at Hadleigh Farm, in Essex, England. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) Julie Bresset (4), of France, competes in the Mountain Bike Cycling women’s race, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at [...]

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Olympics-Cycling-Bresset blitzes to mountain bike gold

By On August 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Julien Pretot HADLEIGH, England | Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:22am EDT HADLEIGH, England Aug 11 (Reuters) – Julie Bresset led from the start to earn France their first cycling gold medal at the London Olympics with an impressive solo victory in the women’s mountain bike event on Saturday. The 2011 World Cup winner, 23, [...]

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London 2012 Olympics: engineers should be given free rein to produce more …

By On August 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Of course, this principle is not new — efficient engineering is the pursuit of more, for less. The engineers at Dyson do it every day, modelling airflow throughout our machines and determining the most efficient geometries and materials for our parts. Whether it is developing hand dryers or world beating bikes, for me, at least, [...]

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A Taste of the Olympics: Triumph of the champions, Rio 2016, and noise of motorbikes…

By On August 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Heroes forever Chris Hoy wanted to get back to a normal life and go shopping? It’s not working out that way for the moment… on Wednesday the Brit with the most medals in the history of the Games was cheered by tens of thousands of fans on a stage set up in Hyde Park. “I [...]

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London Olympics: Favourites through to men’s BMX semi-finals

By On August 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Results The final day of BMX racing at the London Olympics tomorrow promises to be full of suspense and excitement: in the men’s quarter-finals this afternoon, all the main favourites qualified for the semi-finals. After the seeding runs yesterday, the men’s BMX specialists set off eight at a time at the Olympic Park this afternoon [...]

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