Europeans to bring experience to youthful GreenEdge women's team

Shara Gillow taking victory at the Oceania Road Championships.

Shara Gillow taking victory at the Oceania Road Championships. (Image credit: www.jxpphotography.com.au)

While much of the focus of GreenEdge's bid to enter the professional peloton in 2012 has surrounded the creation of the men's ProTour team, the Australian outfit has also been hard at work shaping a women's elite squad to take on the likes of Garmin-Cervelo and hopefully, HTC-Highroad. Plans for a women's elite team were announced at the GreenEdge launch in Adelaide in January and Cycling Australia board member, former professional Tracey Gaudry says that it's a move that will add "the final piece" to the nation's cycling puzzle.

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As a sports journalist and producer since 1997, Jane has covered Olympic and Commonwealth Games, rugby league, motorsport, cricket, surfing, triathlon, rugby union, and golf for print, radio, television and online. However her enduring passion has been cycling.

 

Jane is a former Australian Editor of Cyclingnews from 2011 to 2013 and continues to freelance within the cycling industry.