Jan 09
Many of you athletes are either taking a break or are going to be taking a break from your training in the very near future. The season has just about ended with most of the calendar ending in October. Should athletes even take a break from training? Should the athlete perform other types of activity to stay in shape during the break? Or should the athlete just keep up with the training, keeping the program going through to the new season? Continue Reading »
Jul 24
Cadel Evans became the first Australian winner of the Tour de France after overcoming his overnight deficit to Andy Schleck in the penultimate stage time trial Saturday. BMC leader Evans started the 42.5 km race against the clock with a 57sec deficit to Schleck in the overall standings but easily erased that on his way to second place behind stage winner Tony Martin of Germany. Continue Reading »
Tags: Tour de France
Jul 08
Saturday night’s Super Rugby final is set to break Australia’s 104 year old provincial attendance record after all general sale seats were soled out within 45 minutes on Wednesday.
That means Queensland Reds and the Crusaders will lock horns at a sold out Suncorp Stadium for the second time this year. Suncorp Stadium’s capacity is 52,000, but up to 4000 stadium members and pre-sold seat holders failed to attend the round 15 encounter. Continue Reading »
Tags: Crusaders, Reds, Rugby, Super Rugby
Apr 02
Sri Lanka and India will meet in the final of the ICC World Cup 2011 on Saturday is the first time two Asian nations meet in a cricket World Cup final and it will see a straight contest between the world’s best batsman and best bowler of all time – Sachin Tendulkar (18,093 ODI runs) versus Muttiah Muralitharan (534 ODI wickets). And also, in all probability, it will be the last World Cup for both. Continue Reading »
Tags: Cricket