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World Track Championships - CM
Melbourne, Australia, May 26-30, 2004
Event program and results
Tales from the track
News and gossip from day 3 of the Melbourne World Track Championships
Shane Kelly & Jens Fiedler (Germany)
Photo ©: Shane Goss
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By Karen Forman in Melbourne
- She finished a minute and 21
seconds behind the fastest qualifier, which left her in 21st (last) place
and not able to move forward to the first round.That meant Algerian rider
Cherifa Adda was still a very long way from her dream of Olympic selection,
but still the proud 40 year old could not wipe the smile off her elated face
at Melbourne's Vodafone Arena velodrome today.
- Melbourne looks to be
in with a top chance to host the World Road Cycling Championships in 2009
or 2010. UCI president Hein Verbruggen told a press conference at Vodafone
Arena tonight that he had been taken to see some possible courses during his
visit for the World Track Championships and "Victoria has an excellent pro-sport
climate".
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Elena Tchalykh knew it
would be difficult to win a gold medal in the women's individual pursuit
at the 2004 World Track Championships - because everyone was there with
an Olympic dream just like her own.The 30 year old Russian has contested
every world championships since 1990, when she won the individual pursuit
in England. While she hoped she might be in with a chance, she had been
realistic about her chances of becoming the world's best again.
- Two times Olympic sprint
champion and twice world keirin champion, Jens Fiedler, will probably
swap cycling for coaching and sport management and retire at the end of the
year.The much decorated rider from Chemnitz, south of Berlin, who won gold
in the sprints in Barcelona and Atlanta and was world keirin champion in 1998
and 1999, says he has already achieved all his dreams and it looks like the
2004 season could be his last.
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