Picking a La Primavera winner
A pre-race interview with Australian Matt Goss before the 2011 Milan – San Remo is still one of the most vivid of my career to date.
Cadel is Aussie cycling's Great White Shark
Euphoria for Cadel Evans and his historic win at the 2011 Tour de France has gripped the nation.
Transparency the best policy in the fight against doping
Shortly after Philippe Gilbert secured his Ardennes Classics hat-trick a friend of mine sent me a text message. “Gilbert must be on a sh*t load of drugs,” it read.
It may be two years since team HTC-Highroad celebrated six Tour de France stage victories but people will still pay to see the documented feat writes Sophie Smith

Mark Cavendish (front) and Australian Mark Renshaw celebrate after the final stage of the 2009 Tour de France. (Image: Getty)
Sophie Smith fell into cycling journalism when she was moved to the sports round in her cadet year at the end of 2008. It was a steep learning curve.
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Sophie Smith joins the SBS Cycling Central team as both a television and
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