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So has Jack Bobridge - they are the only two though. The 14-strong Australian track team heading to London includes 12 making their Olympic debut. Only 28-year-old Meares and 22-year-old Bobridge have survived the cut from the Beijing Games. Meares, who ...  

Australian sprinter Anna Meares says she will draw on the enthusiasm of a young team in her attempt to beat GB rival Victoria Pendleton in London. Meares, 28, one of only two Olympians in Australia's track squad, is trying to win a medal at a ...  

The Australian Olympic Committee unveiled a 14-member cycling squad on Friday, with Meares and 22-year-old Jack Bobridge the only athletes with any experience at the Olympics. Meares, who became the first Australian female to win Olympic track gold in 2004 ...  

• Australian could win fourth Olympic medal• Meares won gold at Athens 2004Anna Meares, Victoria Pendleton's main rival at London 2012, has been handed the chance to make history after being named in the Australian track team for the Games.Meares, who has three Olympic medals – including a gold in the women's 500m time trial at the 2004 Games in Athens – will become the first woman from any country to win four track medals in the Olympics if...  

With the team all but selecting itself at April's world track cycling championships in Melbourne, teenager Alex Edmondson secured the only position in doubt, when he was named in the five-man endurance squad. Twelve cyclists will be making their Olympic ...  

Anna Meares says there is nothing like a Games to rock body and mind. Photo: Lee Besford A STAR player in the high times for Australian track cycling, Anna Meares was also there when the bubble burst at the Beijing Olympics. There have been plenty of ...  

Australian cyclist Anna Meares plans to create Olympic history at London with ... desire -- and that is contagious for me being the so-called old duck of the team." lNaomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first female to box for Australia at an Olympic ...  

ADELAIDE, Australia – World and Olympic champion Anna Meares is aiming to be the first female cyclist to win four Olympic track medals when she leads an inexperienced Australian squad to the London Games. The Australian Olympic Committee ...  

World and Olympic champion Anna Meares is aiming to be the first female cyclist to win four Olympic track medals when she leads an inexperienced  

May 25 (Reuters) - Sprinter Anna Meares, self-described "old duck" of Australia's track cycling team, will draw on the enthusiasm of her youthful team mates to propel her to a record-breaking medal in the sport at the London Games. The 28-year ...  

ANNA Meares, with two gold, a silver and a bronze at the World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne, showed why she is such a threat to Britain's ambition of dominating the sport in London the way it did in Beijing. The Brits won seven of the 10 ...  

AUSTRALIA has moved to the top of the world track cycling championship medal table in an ominous show of strength ahead of the London Olympics with an extraordinary display. Gold medals to Anna Meares (keirin), Cameron Meyer (points) and Michael Hepburn ...  

IT was another world record, a 10th world championships gold medal, and perhaps for cycling queen Anna Meares an Australian farewell. Meares yesterday capped a bittersweet meet that contained sprint silver and team sprint gold with yet another triumph ...  

MELBOURNE: Australian star Anna Meares has smashed the world flying 200m record on day two of the track cycling world championships. Meares clocked 10.782 seconds on Thursday at Melbourne's Hisense Arena, easily breaking the old mark of 10.793 seconds.  

Inspired by Anna Meares's keirin triumph, fellow Queenslander Michael Hepburn upstaged Adelaide's Jack Bobridge in the 4000m individual pursuit final for an Australian quinella. And South Australian Annette Edmondson was pipped for gold by Briton Laura ...  

Defending champion Anna Meares of Australia set a world record in the flying 200 metres to qualify fastest for the women's sprint on the second day of the world track cycling championships. Meares' time of 10.782 seconds at Melbourne's Hisense Arena on ...  

DISTRAUGHT after a traumatic world track championship sprint defeat to Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton, Anna Meares admitted wavering under pressure after mistakenly believing she had beaten her arch-rival. Meares appeared to have secured a famous ...  

IF ANNA Meares was harbouring any disappointment at losing her world title in last night's Team Sprint with partner Kaarle McCulloch, she blew it all out of the water this morning with a world record in the individual sprint. The 28-year-old was the last ...  

MELBOURNE: Australian cyclist Anna Meares offered little hope of a thaw in relations with Briton Victoria Pendleton ahead of the London Olympics, saying great rivals could not always be great friends. Pendleton and Meares have barely spoken ...  

THE simmering rivalry between Olympic champions Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton has flared before next week's world track titles in Melbourne, with Pendleton accusing Meares of "pushing the rules". Questioned about a mid-race incident in Bordeaux ...  

Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. AUSTRALIAN pair Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch improve their own world record by clocking 32.828sec for the two-lap event. CYCLING star Anna Meares capped an outstanding Melbourne World Cup round by dominating ...  

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THE simmering rivalry between Olympic champions Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton has flared before next week's world track titles in Melbourne, with Pendleton accusing Meares of "pushing the rules". Questioned about a mid-race incident in Bordeaux ...  

Pendleton will now meet Simona Krupeckaite in the final later after the Lithuanian, who took silver behind Meares last year, disposed of Ukrainian Lyubov Shulika 2-0 in their semi. Pendleton, a five-time world champion, came close to missing out ...  

Then in the gruelling 160-lap points race, Western Australia’s Cameron Meyer proved himself the ironman of the night. From the 16 sprints contained in the 40km race, Meyer won four from the field of 20 riders. He ended up beating Britain’s Ben Swift ...  

Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland and Matthew Glaetzer then upstaged fastest qualifier France to win by one thousandth of a second - 43.266secs to 43.267. Australia was promoted to the gold medal contest after Great Britain and Germany, who had faster ...  

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AUSTRALIA'S 3000m team pursuiters obliterated the world record - and held it for less than 20 minutes before it was snatched back by arch-rivals Great Britain. Annette Edmondson, Melissa Hoskins and Josie Tomic had no sooner taken residence in the cycling ...  

"I think it's fair to say all sportspeople push the limits, myself included," Meares said. "I like to push the limits in training. I like to push my own limits and challenge myself and see what I am capable of doing. "As a sprinter, we push the limits in ...  

• Olympic champion regains world title in Melbourne• Epic semi-final win over Anna Meares is the highlightSporting rivalries occasionally move beyond the realms of hype into the domain of the sublime and surreal. This was the territory explored in the penultimate episode of the Victoria Pendleton versus Anna Meares saga, which ended with the Briton taking her sixth world title, regaining the crown she surrendered to the Australian in Holland...  

Wednesday 5th April 2012 Day 2! And here we hit one of the biggest rivalries of the event - Anna Meares (Aus) v Vicky Pendleton (GBr) in the women's sprint. These two have been racing each other for years (with a brief time out when Anna Meares broke her back) - and it's a bit like clockwork - every time they approach a competition, the press wants to know everything about how they're feeling about it. Pendleton will seem like she's playing...  

Australian Anna Meares has not thought past the London Olympics and whether she will commit herself to another four years of competition in the lead-up to Rio 2016. The 28-year-old surmised her performance at this month’s track world championships as ...  

MELBOURNE: Olympic champions Victoria Pendleton and Anna Meares are primed to open another chapter in their bitter rivalry at this week’s track cycling world championships in Melbourne, where riders will also jostle for their London Games tickets.  

Rockhampton cycling star Anna Meares has her sights firmly on the London Olympics after a world-record breaking performance at the world championships in Melbourne. On the final night of racing on Sunday, Meares set the track alight with a golden ride in ...  

Meares sets a world pace in the 500 time trial. Photo: Reuters ANNA Meares broke the world record in the 500-metre time trial, claimed a record 10 career world titles and left the championships flying high despite her disappointment in the individual sprint.  

Anna Meares of Australia kicked off the defence of her sprint crown at the world track cycling championships by setting a world record of 10.782sec for the 200 metre flying start.Meares's time, set during qualifying for the first round of the women's sprint tournament on Thursday, beat the previous mark of 10.793 set by Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite in Moscow in May 2010.The Australian was the only rider from the 24 qualifiers to dip under...  

Australian track cycling star Anna Meares has successfully defended her keirin crown at the world championships. A day after losing an epic sprint semi-final to arch-rival Victoria Pendleton, Meares was clinical as she dominated the keirin competition.  

Anna Meares fought back from her bitter disappointment in the sprint to lead an Australian gold rush at the world track cycling championships. Meares dominated the keirin for her first gold medal at these titles. Cameron Meyer showed again why ...  

MELBOURNE - Anna Meares went back to where it all started and came up with some familiar results - a gold medal and world record. Eight years since she won her first world title in the 500-metre time trial on the same Hisense Arena track and 18 months ...  

Defending champion Anna Meares of Australia set a world record in the flying 200 meters to qualify fastest for the women's sprint on the second day of the world track cycling championships.  

Australia's Anna Meares has broken the world record for the 500m time trial on her way to winning her second title at the track cycling world championships in Melbourne. Meares flew around the two laps at Melbourne Park on Sunday night in 33.010 seconds to ...  

Anna Meares went back to where it all started and came up with some familiar results - a gold medal and world record. Eight years since she won her first world title in the 500 metres time trial and 18 months since she last rode the event, Meares stepped ...  

SITTING alone in an ice bath on Friday night after she'd lost the world title she wanted most, Anna Meares went over, and over, what had gone wrong. Numbing her body didn't dull her disappointment. British sprint queen Victoria Pendleton had seized Meares ...  

Anna Meares believes she found a new level on her way to setting up a much-anticipated women’s sprint semi-final with arch-rival Victoria Pendleton. Indeed, the defending champion reached a level no female cyclist has ever been when she broke ...  

MELBOURNE, April 6 (Reuters) - Victoria Pendleton eliminated arch-rival Anna Meares in extraordinary circumstances to book her place in the sprint gold medal decider at the world championships in Melbourne on Friday. Defending world champion Meares ...  

Anna Meares went back to where it all started and came up with some familiar results - a gold medal and world record. Eight years since she won her first world title in the 500m time trial on the same Hisense Arena track and 18 months since she last rode ...  

MELBOURNE, April 6 (Reuters) - Australia’s Anna Meares thrashed bitter rival Victoria Pendleton in the women’s sprint to book a place in the gold medal decider at the world championships on Friday. Reigning world champion Meares wrapped up the best-of ...  

Anna Meares of Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the ... champion Victoria Pendleton of Britain, Meares bounced back in style 24 hours later to dominate the women's keirin. Meares also won the 500m title in 2007 and 2010.  

Australian rider Anna Meares has smashed the world flying 200 metres record on day two of the track cycling world championships in Melbourne. Meares clocked 10.782 seconds at Hisense Arena,...  

Great Britain landed another important pre-Olympic blow at the world track cycling championships as Anna Meares lost an epic sprint semi ... second gold medal of the championships when Glenn O'Shea won the omnium, a new Olympic event.  

Hepburn qualified fastest earlier in the day and beat Bobridge by more than half a second. New Zealand's Westley Gough spoiled the home riders' hopes of an all-Australian podium by beating Rohan Dennis for the bronze. Anna Meares of Australia won a hard ...  

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Britain’s Victoria Pendleton scraped through early qualifying Saturday to join rival and defending champion Anna Meares of Australia in the second round of the women’s keirin on day four of the world track cycling championships.  

MELBOURNE, April 6 (Reuters) - Victoria Pendleton's sixth sprint title was a fairytale end to a glorious decade of world championships but her victory left humbled arch-rival Anna Meares burning to send the Briton into retirement without the Olympic gold medal.  

Victoria Pendleton's sixth sprint title was a fairytale end to a glorious decade of world championships but her victory left humbled arch-rival Anna Meares burning to send the Briton into retirement without the Olympic gold medal. The pair's stunning semi ...  

Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton rebounded from a crash to qualify for the women's sprint final at the world track cycling championships after a tense 2-1 semi-final victory over Australia's Anna Meares. Pendleton will now meet Simona Krupeckaite in the ...  

MELBOURNE: Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton qualified for the women's sprint final at the world track cycling championships on Friday after a tense 2-1 semi-final victory over Australia's Anna Meares.  

MELBOURNE, April 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the 500 metres time trial title at the track cycling world championships in Melbourne on Sunday. Meares stormed around the Hisense Arena to post a time of 33.010 seconds and ...  

Eurosport.com AUMeares wins time trial with world recordEurosport.com AUAustralia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the 500 metres time trial title at the track cycling world championships in Melbourne on Sunday. Meares stormed around the Hisense Arena to post a time of 33.010 seconds and eclipse the previous mark of ...Gold and record for cyclist MearesABC Onlineall 223 news articles »  

Australia's Anna Meares threw down the gauntlet to her rivals by setting a world record in the first round of qualifying for the women's sprint at the track world championships in Melbourne on Thursday. The reigning world champion's time of 10.782 seconds ...  

MELBOURNE, April 5 (Reuters) - Australia’s Anna Meares threw down the gauntlet to her rivals by setting a world record in the women’s individual sprint to top qualifying at the track world championships in Melbourne on Thursday. The reigning world ...  

MELBOURNE, April 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the 500 metres time trial title at the track cycling world championships in Melbourne on Sunday. Meares stormed around the Hisense Arena to post a time of 33.010 ...  

Brisbane TimesMeares breaks flying 200 cycling recordFOXSports.comDefending champion Anna Meares of Australia set a world record in the flying 200 meters to qualify fastest for the women's sprint on the second day of the world track cycling championships. Meares' time of 10.782 seconds at Melbourne's Hisense Arena on ...Meares, pursuiters star at cycling titlesSydney Morning Heraldall 145 news articles »  

WATCHING up close and personal as Australia's cycling sprint queen Anna Meares burns up the boards has fired up Matthew Glaetzer before he hits centre stage in Melbourne on Wednesday. Paradise-based sprint sensation Glaetzer said Meares had given him ...  

Australia's Anna Meares threw down the gauntlet to her rivals ... Meares recorded her scorching time with another four rounds to play out before the gold medal decider on Friday. The 28-year-old is bidding for her ninth world title.  

MELBOURNE, April 2 (Reuters) - Olympic champions Victoria Pendleton and Anna Meares are primed to open another chapter in their bitter rivalry at this week's track cycling world championships in Melbourne, where riders will also jostle for their ...  

MELBOURNE - The intense rivalry between track cycling greats Anna Meares and Britain's Victoria Pendleton has flared again a week out from the world championships in Melbourne. Pendleton, the reigning Olympic spring champion and an eight-time world ...  

ANNA Meares says she is in no hurry to have a beer or mend bridges with her British track rival Victoria Pendleton heading into the world championships in Melbourne next week. Meares has also vowed not to change her racing style after the world and Olympic ...  

Australia's Anna Meares set a world record in the women's individual sprint to top qualifying at the track world championships in Melbourne on Thursday. The reigning world champion's time of 10.782 seconds eclipsed the 10.793 mark set by Simona Krupeckaite ...  

March 29 (Reuters) - Australian cyclist Anna Meares offered little hope of a thaw in relations with Briton Victoria Pendleton ahead of the London Olympics, saying great rivals could not always be great friends. Pendleton and Meares have barely ...  

Anna Meares breaks the world record in the 500m time trial on her way to winning her second title at the track cycling world championships.  

ON THE decidedly hot topic of her rivalry with British sprint queen Victoria Pendleton, Anna Meares did not exactly fan the fire. But she made no attempt to douse it either. Rivalry, Australia's leading track sprinter said while preparing to meet Pendleton ...  

British cyclist Victoria Pendleton says she harbours no animosity towards rival Anna Meares, even if the Australian does not feel the same. Pendleton and Meares are the top two female track sprinters in the world and are preparing to go head-to-head at the ...  

Australians Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch are through to the second round of the women's keirin on day four of the world track cycling championships. Meares won the opening heat and McCulloch was runner-up in the next race behind Clara Sanchez of France ...  

AM I the only one who doesn't want Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton to kiss and make up before the London Olympics? Theirs is turning into one of the great rivalries in Olympic sport and personally, I don't want anything to temper the ferocity they bring ...  

Golden smile: Australian track cyclist Anna Meares jokes at training ahead of the UCI world track championships. Photo: Ken Irwin A HANDFUL of athletes on the planet have the opportunity, let alone the capability, of winning three gold medals at the London ...  

MELBOURNE, March 27 (Reuters) - Olympic track cycling champion Victoria Pendleton added fuel to the fire of her great rivalry with Anna Meares on Tuesday by branding her a rider who “pushes the rules”, but said she bore the Australian no ill will ...  

The intense rivalry between track cycling greats Anna Meares and Britain's Victoria Pendleton has flared again a week out from the world championships in Melbourne. Pendleton, the reigning Olympic champion in the sprint and an eight-time world champion in ...  

Sprint champ Anna Meares has continued the Australian success at the world track championships in Melbourne ... which is right around a PB (personal best) mark for me. Anything in the eight (10.8) would have been perfect." Meares won the world sprint ...  

Australia’s Anna Meares earlier set a world record to reclaim the women’s time trials title. Meares sprinted the 500 meters in a time of 33.010 seconds to eclipse the previous mark of 33.296 set by Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania at Pruszkow ...  

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Olympic track cycling champion Victoria Pendleton added fuel to the fire of her great rivalry with Anna Meares on Tuesday by branding her a rider who "pushes the rules", but said she bore the Australian no ill will despite ...  

Australian star Anna Meares has broken the flying 200m track cycling world record.  

Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch trust each other. They need to when they're cycling inches apart at a speed cars aren't allowed to reach on most suburban roads. I know her so well now, I know she's going to deliver me, no matter what. And she knows me so ...  

Telegraph.co.ukOlympics-Pendleton adds spice to Meares showdown in MelbourneReutersBy Ian Ransom | MELBOURNE, March 27 (Reuters) - Olympic track cycling champion Victoria Pendleton added fuel to the fire of her great rivalry with Anna Meares on Tuesday by branding her a rider who "pushes the rules", but said she bore the Australian ...Pendleton ready to take on friend turned foeBrisbane Timesall 34 news articles »  

Great Britain land a pre-Olympic blow at the world track cycling championships as Anna Meares loses an epic sprint semi-final.  

Few athletes have the opportunity, or capability, of winning three gold medals in London. Anna Meares is one.  

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -Defending champion Anna Meares of Australia set the first of three world records in qualifying on the second day of the world track cycling championships Thursday. Meares' time of 10.782 seconds in the flying 200 meters at ...  

Australian cyclist Anna Meares says there's too much on the line to become friendly with her fierce rival Victoria Pendleton.  

In London in February, the Australian men clearly beat Great Britain over the 4km, but Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish beat the Australian duo Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch in the team sprint, breaking the world record at the same time.  

Anna Meares features on Women and Wheels and we speak to Kaarle McCulloch ahead of World Championships. We have the opening round of the UCI MTB World Cup from South Africa and part two of the Perth International Track Grand Prix. To round off the show ...  

Dr Gardner has worked with Australian cycling legend Shane Kelly and 2004 Athens Olympics gold medalists Ryan Bayley and Anna Meares. He's been on a world-record attempt in Bolivia with Scottish track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy and served as a sport scientist ...  

That number of gold has risen by two from last month. Star cyclist Anna Meares (women's Keirin) is tipped to stand atop the podium in London, while world champion Lauren Mitchell is also predicted to achieve the ultimate success in the Floor Exercise in ...  

Track cyclist Anna Meares has gone from Queensland coal-mining town to gold-mining at the coming Olympics and we hear her story. TRACY BOWDEN, PRESENTER: Four years after breaking her neck in a horrific mishap in the velodrome, Australian cyclist Anna ...  

When I put this to Pendleton - just over two weeks after the cycling world watched her hit the deck at full speed but come back to beat her fiercest rival Anna Meares - she laughed it off, saying she had been assured that Cavendish had been "misrepresented ...  

Anna Meares and Stuart O'Grady are two names which automatically come to mind. Cycling hasn't had an Olympic flag bearer since Dunc Gray did the honours in 1936 so it may be time for the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to take a look at the talent on ...  

Few if any surprises are expected in the team of eight men and six women, to be led by sprint ace Anna Meares. The selection of the track team was brought forward by several weeks because it was clear after last month's world titles in Melbourne that the ...  

After dumping in-form British pair Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish out of their head-to-head qualifier, the ice-cool Germans withstood a ferocious challenge to deny Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch a fourth consecutive title. Pendleton ...  

Australia claimed only one medal, a sprint silver thanks to Anna Meares, in Beijing but are now confident of challenging in most of the 10 Olympic events. "I don't think I'm being unrealistic in saying that we're in the hunt in most of the ...  

MELBOURNE: Victoria Pendleton saw off arch-rival Anna Meares in a tense semi-final duel before sealing her sixth sprint title yesterday as Britain continued to overshadow their Australian hosts at the cycling world championships. Olympic ...  

The Australian Sprint Group include a total number of six riders including, Kaarle McCulloch, Anna Meares, Matthew Glaetzer, James Glasspool, Shane Perkins and Scott Sunderland.