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Thank you for visiting Nicole's personal website, we will keep you up to date with Nicole's latest News and racing schedule, there is a detailed Biography and you can find out about Nicole's results in the Palmares and we have added lots of new photos to the Gallery.

Ever since Nicole first hit the headlines as a Junior winning multiple world titles she has marked herself out as one of the sport's leading stars and achieved her childhood dream becoming Olympic Champion in 2008. Nicole's palmares also includes the World Road Race Title, Tour de France and Giro D'Italia Tour victories, the World Cup and World No.1 Ranking.

Nicole and the Bike Exchange Dream Team line up for Jayco Bay Crits

On January 1 Nicole gets her 2012 season underway in Melbourne at the 4-day Criterium Series the Jayco Bay Crits.  Nicole will race with the Bike Exchange Dream Team including defending Champion Rochelle Gilmore, former Australian Crit Champion Kirsty Broun as well as Peta Mullens and Miffy Galloway.  Nicole had a successful debut with the Dream Team at the Noosa Grand Prix and the team is aiming to continue their successes.

Kirsty Broun, Rochelle Gilmore, Miffy Galloway, Peta Mullens and Nicole ready for Action!!

Information about the Jayco Bay Crits can be found here and more information about the Team here. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Nicole wishes all her followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and successful New Year 2012!!  Nicole has been training in Perth since racing the Noosa Grand Prix in October and making the most of the ideal training conditions with great roads, good weather and such a big cycling community in the area.  Christmas Day was spent with a gentle bike ride and then time at the beach in the Australian festive spirit of making the most of the great weather and great outdoors with family and friends.

Nicole Wins Noosa Grand Prix

Nicole has got her pre-season training camp in Australia off to a great start when she teamed up with Rochelle Gilmore, Peta Mullens and Myfanwy Galloway as part of ‘The Dream Team’ and won the Noosa Grand Prix held in Queensland. This is Nicole’s first time racing again since having a break after the World Championships and the girls rode an excellent race getting Nicole and Peta in the break away and then Peta led out Nicole for the sprint finish, winning by a few bike lengths. “The chance came to race with the Dream Team for Noosa and it seemed like a great way to start my training with some good racing in a fun environment with the girls. We had a few options coming in to the race with myself and Peta looking to go in a break away and Rochelle ready for a bunch sprint if it all stayed together so we just got stuck in and made some calls out on the road as the race developed. I’m really pleased to have been able to finish off the excellent work that the girls did in setting me up for the finish, especially Peta who won this event last year and did a great lead out for me, she was really strong!”

Watch the Video Here!

While the girls were in Noosa they have been fully immersed in the Festival atmosphere taking part in a ‘Breakfast Ride with the Pros’ on Friday morning and the Celebrity Cocktail Competition on Friday night. Nicole and Rochelle also took part in the bike section of the “Legends Triathlon” on Saturday afternoon with Nicole teaming up with Olympic Silver medallist Loretta Harrop and Olympic Champion Emma Snowsill, the winning team of the 'Legends' triathlon was made up of Gold medal kayaker, Ken Wallis, 2 x World Champion Ironman Chris 'Macca' McCormack and and Superbike world champion,Troy Bayliss. Nicole is now heading to Perth now where she will be based for her time in Australia.

Nicole finished 4th at the World Road Race!!!

Bronzini (1st) and Vos (2nd) sprint it out, Nicole is in 4th hidden behind Teutenberg (3rd)

[Credit Bettini Photo]

After 140km of racing the World Road Race Championships came down to a bunch sprint, Nicole was on the wheel of Marianne Vos as the bunch came round the last corner and as the sprint was launched with 400meters to go, Giorgia Bronzini came past Vos with Ina Teutenberg following and both Vos and Nicole were momentarily boxed in. Nicole relaunched her sprint but could not quite make it in to the top 3.

VIDEO - Watch the last 8km on YouTube

The race was fairly quiet with only a few attacks and the GB team rode very well aiming for a bunch sprint.  Well Done Girls!

This is the last race of Nicole's season and she will go in to the off-season with high spirits, there is a lot of work to be done in preparation for the 2012 season and with a result like today we know that together with the GB team Nicole is oncourse for another tilt at the Olympic Road Race to be held in London next summer!

The Championships began well for Great Britain.  In the Time Trials Elinor Barker, from Cardiff, Wales, won Silver in the Junior Women's Time Trial.  Emma Pooley won bronze in the Women's Elite Time Trial and then Bradley Wiggins won Silver in the Men's Elite Time Trial. 

Lucy Garner got the 3 days of Road Racing pff tp a great start by winning the Junior Women's Road Race with a super sprint finish and the whole Junior Girls Team of Elinor, Amy and Hannah rode excellently in support of Lucy - Congratulations Girls!!  Andy Fenn and thd U-23 Men followed this up with another great race with Andy winning Bronze. 

Then on Sunday Men's Elite team set up Mark Cavandish perfectly for the finish of the Men's road race and Mark unleashed his famous sprint to become the World Champion - An excellent Championships for all of Team GB. 

There is more news of the GB Team on British Cycling Website and race information on Copenhagen World Championships Website

To look at Nicole's races so far this year, go to the Calendar which has links to the race stories and results, as well as links to each race's website.  The Gallery  has a selection of photos of this season as well as an archive from when Nicole first began racing through to now.

For all the latest team news you can keep up to date by visiting the MCipollini-Giambenini Team Website and for immediate race results please check the UCI results website and select 'Women Elite'.

Nicole wins Stage 5 of Giro D'Italia! 

The winning moment! Photo by CJ Farquharson www.womenscycling.net

Nicole rode to a magnificent solo win in the 5th Stage of the Giro D'Italia Feminile, it was an especially sweet victory for Nicole to win infront of her sponsors who are based in the Verona region and were all there at the finish to support Nicole's MCipollini-Giambenini Team. 

With 15km to go Nicole initiated a break away from which she launched the winning move.  Read the full story here.

You can see the RAI Sport television coverage of Stage 5 on YouTube here.  There is also the Giro D'Italia Blog with Nicole's experience of the race.

Nicole took Third place in the Sweden World Cup on 31 July, bringing the summer block of racing to a successful end. Read the report and see photos here.  Following a rest Nicole will begin her build up to the World Championships at the end of September.   

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Nicole's Book - Cycle For Life

Nicole wrote this book to pass on her passion for cycling to help newcomers and experienced cyclists alike to get the most of of riding. Whether you are a social rider, tourist, commuter, sportivist or racer you will find info on what bike to buy and how to set it up. There's also guidance on nutrition and training plans for both beginners and serious athletes.

It is available from book shops or you can buy it online with this direct link to amazon.