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Looking forward to the Tour de France and Olympics

Hi! I am looking forward to blogging regularly up to and during the 2012 Olympics. I will be filling you in from my races in the build-up to the Olympics and obviously how I’m feeling etc. Feel free to...

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From parks and pavements to the Tour de France

So here we go, the Tour de France 2011. The biggest bike race in the world is about to kick off. I will be lining up with one of my best mates, Ben Swift, which will be weird to say the least! We grew...

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Now hoping for a stage win myself

What a great day yesterday was. To finally get that stage win was amazing! As I have already said, it was a great team effort and Eddie finished it off perfectly. On Wednesday, we weren’t quite...

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Staying alert, and the question of 2012 Tour and Olympics

Well what a day yesterday was! It’s one thing climbing those mountains in the Tour anyway, but at the front going up the Tourmalet was just amazing. The buzz from the crowd was unbelievable. There was...

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Deals on wheels and another stage win

Wednesday was a great day for the team with Edvald Boasson Hagen winning his second stage of this year's Tour. We wanted to get in the breakaways as it was highly likely the break would stay away to...

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A quick rest and then back on the bike

So the biggest bike race in the world is now over. It's a strange feeling to be back in my apartment in Italy with my girlfriend Sara and not in a room with Eddie [Sky team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen]!...

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The thrill of team leading in the Tour of Britain

Here we are the final month of the season, it has flown by, but if I think back to January and the Tour Down Under it seems like a lifetime ago. So much has happened since! September is also the final...

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Cav's arrival is great news for Team Sky

So it's official. Mark Cavendish is coming to Team Sky! And I'm really happy with the news. Most of us on the team, the Brits anyway, knew Cav wanted to come and it was just a matter of his...

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Getting my track legs back in the Olympic Velodrome

Going to the Olympic Velodrome is weird. I feel like we should get on a plane and fly off somewhere to get to the Games. A track is a track, and as a team pursuit rider I'm on the track a lot. But the...

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Leaving Team Sky behind to start Olympic training

Being a part of Bradley Wiggins's Paris-Nice win last week was amazing and as much a victory for me as for him. Paris-Nice is a massive race and it has history. To go there as part of a British team,...

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World champions - bring on the Olympics

My world champion's rainbow jersey is hanging up alongside Ed Clancy's above the beds in our Melbourne hotel room. We are the team pursuit world champions and world record-holders again. We never...

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Another tour, another injury - that's cycling

As we approach the business end of the road cycling season, it's a case of another tour, another injury for us at Team Sky.   We are all raring to go for the Giro d'Italia, which starts in Denmark on...

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Confident Wiggins has support to win Tour de France

There were no surprises in the nine-man squad named by Team Sky for the Tour de France. Team leader Bradley Wiggins is in the form of his life and he will have fellow Brit Chris Froome helping him in...

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Preparing for the Tour's 'grim' mountain climbs

I am often asked how cyclists deal with riding in the mountains. So as the Tour de France heads towards the Alps, here goes. To be honest, mountain climbs can be grim, especially if, like me, you are...

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Wiggins Tour win shows team unity

Bradley Wiggins has done something unbelievable by winning the Tour de France, but I know he will be the first to recognise that he would not have been able to achieve his victory without a terrific...

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