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THANK YOU TO ALL MY PROUD SPONSORS How can we Go Green at home, on the bike, or at the office?? We are all part of the problem, AND the solution!! Click on the Go Green to find out how WEBCOR Womens' Professional bike team GOES GREEN www.webcorcycling.com	Beijing or Bust!!! What is it like in Beijing?? Click here for a short documentary of Gina and team Canada in Beijing this past December Why I am increasing my USANA Fish Oil Supplementation and my RED SQUARE Flax Seed cereal for the air quality in Beijing...read more 2008 Gina Grain Beijing Olympic Games T-shirts now available to order!!! email ginagrain@hotmail.com to order one. mens/womens S-XL. Front.............................................Back *GeArInG UP fOR BEiJiNG...* GRAIN WINS 2008 US OPEN TRACK OMNIUM CHAMPIONSHIPS... Valley Preferred Cycling Center Trexlertown, PA June 27, 2008 GRAIN IS NOMINATED AS 2007 BEST FEMALE CYCLIST IN THE WORLD ON CYCLINGNEWS.COM RESULT????? READERS VOTED GINA 6TH She bested UCI #1 ranked Italian Vera Carrara, sprinter Shuang Gao, and Cuban Lisandra Guerra and Pan-Am champion, Colombian Maria Luisa Calle. Click on the Beijing 2008 logo to follow Gina's journey to Olympic Qualification 2007 CANADIAN NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPION ... Bronze for Grain at the 2007 PanAmerican Road Championships Click on the link below for Gina's stories and updates from the 2006 Commonwealth Games...	PROUDLY SPONSORED BY ANTOSZ ORTHODONTICS Off ThE FrOnT: Aug. 4th, 2008- Montreux, Switzerland- Canadian National Olympic Team starts the first week of their final Olympic Prep camp with a B-A-N-G...read more!!! Ville de Montreux celbrates Switzerland Holiday!! Grain is the 2008 Tour de Gastown Champion July 16th, 2008- Grain wins the historic downtown Tour de Gastown for the 3rd time and proves to hometown crowd that she is ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.. Grain celebrates her win(photo courtesy of Greg Descantes) July 17th, 2008- Photo finish in the 2008 Giro di Burnaby leaves Grain with a taste of revenge in the lead up to the Olympic Games. By a tire width Grain lost to Kelly Benjamin of Cheerwine to come 2nd in her backyard bike race. photo courtesy of Greg Descantes Grain winning the bunch sprint of what was left of the field 15 riders out of 84 after a greulling hot and hilly 110km road circit race in Bend, Oregon (photo courtesy of Jonathon Devitch) July 17th is Giro di Burnaby!! Grab your picnic baskets, bells, whistles and get ready for action!! click here for details... WANT ONE?? 2008 Gina Grain Beijing Olympic Games T-shirts now available to order!!! email ginagrain@hotmail.com to order one. mens/womens S-XL. FRONT BACK! Grain qualifies Canada and herself for the 2008 Olympics Games!!!! April 17th, 2008- read article... www.pedalmag.co March 20th, 2008- Webcors 1st 2008 Olympian... I am very happy to announce that Gina Grain has officially secured herself a spot in the Olympic Points Race on the track in Bejing. She is Webcor's first Olympian of 2008! Track cycling has become a winter sport in recent years, and while most road racers were enjoying their off season this winter, Gina was on a global UCI points chase on the velodromes of the world that took her to Australia, Europe, China and North America. She had the dual task of both qualifying Canada as a country in the Points Race, and also qualifying herself. The final selection race was the track World Championships in Manchester where she raced only days before Redlands. With the immediate pressure of her own selection over, Gina can now focus on helping her Webcor teammates qualify for the Olympic Road Race in the upcoming races we will do in Europe. March 14th, 2008- Grain returns home from Holland to recover after a heavy schedule comes to and end. After Gina qualified Canada for the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the track, she headed directly to her road bike to assist her team in the victory of the 2008 Redlands Classic. From there, her and 4 other Canadians headed overseas (again for Grain) to Holland where they tackled the cobblestones and wind of the spring classic Ronde Van Drenthe World Cup. After battling a cold all week and recovering through racing and an overseas flight, Gina was fit to race the World Cup. Unfortunately for Grain, the cobblestones got the best of her and along with over 75 of 140 starters she didn't finish the race with the lead group. With high hopes of finishing well for Canada, Grain had to just rack it up in the book of experience and carry on. March 5-8, 2008- Webcor sweeps podium at teams' debut to this seasons' north american racing. An unprecedented number of winners jerseys' were awarded to Alex Wrubleski of Webcor after her and her team defended and inched each second to be victorious in the overall General Classification, Sprinters' jersey, Climbers' jersey and Womens' prestige sprinters, climbers and overall jersey. Pretty good start to the season?? Alex, there is no other jersey to wear!! You have won all of them!!! Congratulations TEAM WEBCOR!!!! March 29/08 10:15am EDT - Track Worlds: Grain and Bell to Olympics? Posted by Editoress on 3/29/08.www.canadiancyclist.com ________________________________ Unofficially Gina Grain has earned herself a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with her results from today's Women's Points race. Official announcement of the qualifying countries by the world cycling federation will not go out until april 14th...so stay tuned!!! _________________________________ World Championships Update...Manchester, England- 7 days to go!!!! Gina has been in Manchester since Tuesday getting over jet lag and spinning out the legs. Gina had a bit of a setback upon her arrival. After a spin session on the rollers and an easy yoga session, the next day brought pain to the ribs and back that made the day untrainable. Though, thanks to speedy recovery, and a smart recovery day, she was able to have her first hard motopace training session today. Fighting through some bearable pain, her coach was happy with her form and confident for the world championships. For Grain it will be a matter of putting everything together on race day. WATCH the 2008 UCI Track World Championships on T.V. here (click this link) World Championships Points Race: March 29th, 2008 UP NEXT: Grain heads to Manchester, England for a short training camp before the final Olympic qualifying event: The UCI Track Cycling World Championships, March 27-30th. 2007/08 Canadian National Road Champion Gina Grain starts the 2008 season with her new road team: WEBCOR BUILDERS.....the.#1 ranked team in north America. Grain, joining her other teammates of whom also have many national and world class medals kicks off the season with her team winning the first round of the womens road world cup and a 9th place for Grain in Geelong, Australia. GRAIN UP AGAINST A TOUGH BATTLE. Following the second to last stage in the Tour of New Zealand, Grain was taken out in a field sprint with 800m to go and crashed, with the entire 100women peloton behind her. With a broken helmet, a shattered bike frame and a bruised and broken body, Gina rolled across the line on a spare bike and spare helmet to finish the race. Returning to California to begin the healing process, she was taken care of by her team WEBCOR and returned to Canada to heal. After a week of recovery and treatments the show must go on, and she is now on her way to Manchester to overcome the pain and train for the World Championships. World Cup #3- L.A., California Dec. 18-20th Grain goes into the 3rd round of the UCI World Cup Series ranked #6 in the world for the points race and 3rd in the Scratch Race on uci points. The Bay Crit Series- Melbourne, Australia are touted at The Fastest Criterium series in the world. Gina joined the Volvo composite team as a worker for local rider Belinda Goss to win the overall series. After 5 consecutive days of 1hr blazing fast criteriums in the blistering hot heat of southern australia's summer the team came 1 point shy of winning the overall title. Tasmanian Winter Track Carnivals- Christmas came in a different form this year for Grain, as she flew to Tasmania from Melbourne on Christmas day to attend the Tasmanian winter track carnivals. From Dec 26-Dec. 30th Grain took to the outdoor track to continue her strength/power build up to the next world cup. World Cup #2- Beijing, China- Grain gets Canada a 4th place finish in the scratch race!! Points Race: Grain 2nd in qualifier, got crashed in final...ending up 16th in World Cup #1- Sydney, Australia- Grain 9th (Scratch Race) in record number of World Class competitors. Day2- Women's Points Race Qualifyers: The points race qualifyers proved to be equally if not more heated than the scratch race qualifyers. For Grain, although she gave everything she had to be within the top 8 in the qualfyers, Grain plus 37 more riders were sitting in the stands watching the finals. It once again proved to be a technical and aggressive race with decisions on the fly being the crucial component to whether you scored points in the 4 sprints in the qualifyer. The thrill of victory and the tears of defeat. The tears of defeat are hard to take when so much is at stake. It was only until Grains' coach tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to the current world points race champion who was in tears after the event. Not to mention other world cup medallists and previous world champions who did not make it into the finals. This was a good reminder that every race cannot be perfect, and, at this level, you have to be close to perfect, with strokes of luck to score. The important thing is to keep the chin high and move on to the next event. For Grain, she gave everything she had. Now is time to reflect, learn, and move on. Day1- Women's Scratch Race: For the first time in world cup history 3 heats were required in order to skim the field down to 23 riders (250m velodrome maximum). Over 55 world class women held onto the rail over the 3 heats, including multi-World Champions, Olympians and World Cup/World Championships Medallists. In order to make it through to the finals, you had to be top 8 in the qualifiers...10 of each heat didn't make it through to the finals. For Gina's heat it was a tactical and technical battle where nerves were high as it was the first heat. She qualified in 6th position, moving her onto the finals 2hrs later. Gina was one of only two North Americans to make it through to the finals. Women's Scratch Race Final: The fastest 23women took to the line for the final of the evening. Blazing speeds matched the numerous attacks throughout the 10km. 40 laps equals about 15min of racing. Grain bridged up to a Nederlands, toting a girl from Hong Kong and one other. They were away for a few laps before being brought back by the eventual scratch race winners teammate. For Grain not having any teammates in the field, she fought her way through the attacks and the final sprint ended up in 9th position. http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2007/worldcup0708/sydney07/ NEW!!! The road to Olympic Qualification. The time has come. After 10 years of Olympic planning and training, Gina is entering the final 'crux' of Olympic Qualification. Through injuries, blood, sweat and tears, she wants to share as much of the journey as she can with all her supporters, friends, family and sponsors. If you enjoyed her diary entries during the Commonwealth Games...keep reading as the Olympic Qualification months count down....first entry: Blood, 'Resorts' and Duck attacks...read more Gina is ready for the upcoming World Cup season. The city skyline of Melbourne, Australia in the background. Nov 21st, 2007- Gina Grain is chosen as Cycling BC Female Road/Track/CX Cyclist of the Year. Nominations were received from the Cycling community, and were voted on by the Cycling BC Board and Staff selecting her as the most deserving candidate. November 16th, 2007- Grain approaches her final preparation phase for the first 2 Olympic Qualifying World Cup events. Gina is currently in Melbourne, Australia training with her Canadian National World Cup teammates at the DISC indoor velodrome. She is enjoying her final phases of preparation in sun and ideal training conditions. Between intense track training sessions and weekday racing, the almost summer conditions in Melbourne make the road miles go by alot quicker!!! Having the jetlag and jet legs out of the system by coming down under early, the quick trip from Melbourne to Sydney for the first world cup will make for an easy trip. Here is her upcoming race schedule: Nov. 30-Dec. 2nd- World Cup #1-Sydney, Australia Dec 3rd- Travel to Beijing Dec 7-9- World Cup #2- Beijing, China Dec 10th- Return to Melbourne Australia GLOBAL TV presents a 5 part series on DRUGS IN SPORT. Gina talks on Wednesday on "How to reach peak performance without the use of drugs". See GLOBAL NEWS- Wednesday Oct 10th at 6pm. Oct. 4th, 2007- Performance pool of athletes pre-selected to World Cup I and World Cup II read more... GINA GRAIN CAPTURES THE 2007 CANADIAN NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPION TITLE!! July 10th, 2007- Grain wins first Canadian road race title Gina Grain of Vancouver won the women's elite road race on Tuesday at the Tim Hortons Road Nationals held at St-George de Beauce. It was a first career road title for the track specialist. Grain won the 127 kilometre race in three hours and 42 minutes and 24 seconds. Marni Hambleton was three seconds back for the silver and Moriah MacGregor third, nine seconds behind the winner. ...your new 2007 Canadian National Road Champion!!! HAPPY CANADA DAY VANCOUVER! July 1st, 2007- Gina celebrates with the rest of Vancouver to win the 4th Annual Yaletown Grandprix. With huge crowds and festivities all around, the technical course of downtown Yaletown bid well for the seasoned criterium racer. With no other teammates in the race, Gina had her legs and hands full when the decisive break went in the race containing 3 Team Giant riders, 2 Symmetrics riders and herself. After covering endless attacks that were launched by the other teams, Grain tested the course, the riders and her sprint in a few primes to gain confidence in knowing what it took to win the bike race. And that she did- single-handedly blasting through the last corner to take the win. photo courtesy of GregDescantes: July 1st, 2007- Truly Canadian! Spirits were high as Canadians walked, ran, and pushed themselves and others through the downtown streets of beautiful Vancouver yesterday to raise money for Canada's Athletes. As one of HBC's sponsored athletes, Gina went out to support the runners and handout finishing medals. Bravo to all finishers of the 1km, 3km, and 10km events!!!!! CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS! July 1st is coming! What are YOU doing this Canada Day morning? Come out for a walk or run to support Canadian Olympians...visit website to find out more info June 23rd: Track- Fastest Man on Wheels, Trexlertown, PA- The final race of the mid road season track block stopped off in the town of trexlertown- the host of the best track racing in north america. 5 nations represented the womens field, where Gina rode 2 strategic races to come away with victories in both the Points and Scratch race. June 19th: Track- Giro d'Italia delle Pista- The 2nd leg of the giro d'italia delle pista was hotly contested by the defending jersey leader Vera Carrera (2xworld champion). Her 5 Italian teammates controlled the race as she picked up points with the rest of the field fighting through her team on the track. Gina was happy with her 4th place finish as she fought a hard consistent race picking up points throughout the race. June 13-18th: Track- Giorni delle Rose, Italy- Gina started her 2 week track block with a 3-day race in Fiorenzuala, Italy. Competing against a world class field including 2x World Points Race Champion and the rest of her Italian teammates, Austria, Czeck Rep., Spain, Denmark, Gina came away after the 3 day race with 2x 2nd place, 1x 4th and 2nd overall in the Points race, gaining valuable UCI points to qualify Canada for the Olympics. June 10th, 2007- ExpressCopy.com delivers Gina Grain to the line in the biggest, richest women's race in North American to place 3rd in the sprint finish amongst a world class field. June 1st, 2007- GLOBAL-Quebec- Morning Show with Richard Dagenais featuring the Montreal World Cup Road Race June 2nd then onto the Tour de Montreal June 4th-7th. GLOBAL TV- Gina explaining the team work involved in a road race May 28th, 2007- What is it like in Venezuala?? Here is a short video to give you an idea of what the trip was like: click here!! video May 27th- Bronze for Grain at Pan Am Championships Road Race With 2x 6th place finishes on the track, a wicked cold, heat and stomach problems, Gina finished off the 2007 Pan Am Championships with a bronze medal for Canada. May 14th, 2007- This is what our 3 day training camp looks like in preparation for the Pan American Championships... monday- 9am -12 track / HOME / 3-5 TRACK/5-6pm road ride tuesday- 9-12 TRACK / home / 1-4 track/ 4-6pm road ride wednesday- 9-12 track/ food at track / 2-4 track. Pack / fly. May 13, 2007- Canadian National Pan Ams trials (Burnaby, BC)- from the hills of Silver City, New Mexico, straight to the banking of the track in Burnaby, Canada's fastest track athletes compete for the first Olympic Qualifying event in Venezuala...more April 24th-May6, 2007- Gina travels to Silver City, New Mexico for a one week high altitude training camp to prepare for the 5day stage race "tour of gila", where she will meet up with her road team expresscopy.com to work for the climbers and to gain some solid road strength leading into the Pan American Championships. For more on expresscopy.com please visit Gina's road team website at www.teamexpresscopy.com April 17th, 2007- AHHHHHH CHEW!!! "old wives tale" held true??? Don't go out in the rain or you might get sick: TRUE OR FALSE!!!?? read more!! April 16th, 2007- Road legs rip ready and raring to go after track world championships only to get a cancellation due to weather...in california!!! more... April 1, 2007 (Palma, Mallorca, Spain)- Canada's Gina Grain 9th in Points Race at 2007 Track Worlds provided by the CCA...more *2007 TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS* are here!! The track world championships is the final event for the UCI world cup track cycling season. The season consists of 4 world cups and the finale world championships. Gina competed in 3 out of 4 of the world cups and through this she qualified canada, and herself, for a position at the world championships. After travelling all over the world for the past 4 months to attend the world cups (Sydney, Australia, Moscow, Russia, LosAngeles, California) she now finds herself ready for a stellar performance leading Canada into the 2007 Track World Championships. Wish her luck and all the best this coming weekend!!! Please visit the following website for pre competition photos and story:http://www.canadiancyclist.com/races07/Track_Worlds/partone/index.htm Links to follow the world championships: http://www.roadie.ca/viewtopic.php?t=569 www.uci.ch www.canadiancyclist.com Budget falls short of summer athletes’ expectations March 21, 2007, OTTAWA - AthletesCAN, the association of Canada’s national team athletes, and Canada’s summer athletes, are discouraged by the federal government’s lackluster budget announcement on Monday...read more Did you receive it??** The 1st edition Newsletter has been 'distributed'! If you did not receive it and would like to be placed on the mailing list, send gina an email and you will be put in the FAST lane!!! Gina's 2007 SCHEDULE is finalized and updated. Follow her season here at www.ginagrain.com and through the schedule link at the top and/or bottom of the screen. ??? Do you want COMFORT? The new R300 Shimano Custom Fit Road Shoe will clearly knock your socks off...see it and believe it click here!! Feb 1st-17th- TeamExpressCopy.com spring training camp in Tucson, Arizona read on for stories...here Feb 1st, 2007- TeamExpressCopy.com official team launch...here *Interview with Roadie...check it out here* After less than a day at home in Vancouver, BC, Gina was enroute to Canada’s cycling 2008 Beijing Olympic pool camp held in Victoria from January 22 to 26. The camp wound up today after select Olympic athletes went through a variety of testing by the Canadian Cycling Associations Performance Enhancement team. Read on for Gina's 3 day schedule...more Jan 19-21, 2006- World Cup #3, Los Angeles, California- This past weekend at the Home Depot center velodrome in Carson, California, Grain displayed her best performance yet at a world cup points race event. Tied for 5th place and only 3points away from standing on the podium, Gina qualified herself and the country for the 2006 World Championships....more *Dec 15-17, 2006- World Cup #2- Moscow, Russia-* Gina returns to the track this weekend competing in the Scratch and Points race in Moscow. Follow the action at www.canadiancyclist.com http://www.moscowtrackcup.ru Double Gold for Grain... *September 7-10th, 2006 Dieppe, New Brunswick-* After racing in Europe where Grain competed for Canada in 2 road world cups in Holland and France, she returned to Dieppe to capture 2 gold medals at the Tim Hortons Canadian National Track Championships, making that her 5th National title. 2006 CanadianNational Track Champion- Points and Scratch Race July 19th, 2006 Tour de Gastown, Vancouver, BC- Gina Grain shakes off infection to defend title on the cobblestones....more Winning is no fun at all!!! photos courtesy: Andrea Brewer July 14th- Giro di Burnaby, Burnaby, BC- Grain stamps first annual trophy with a backyard victory...more Photo courtesy: Carelle Dunn May 25th, 2006- Montreal, Quebec. Press Conference for the Montreal World Cup #7. Gina Grain invited to join the panel of speakers: Isabelle Hudon from the City of Montreal, Race promoter Daniel Manibal, Francine Senecal from the City of Montréal and Audrey Lemieux...more May 24th, 2006- Lachine, Quebec. Press Conference- Ville de Lachine honors Silver Medallist for the first stage of the Tour du Grande Montreal...more Up next...Coupe de Monde (World Cup) Mont Royal et le Tour du Grande Montreal, May 27th-June 1st, Montreal, Quebec. Stay tuned for updates!! Official Website: www.world-cup-cycling.org May 9th, 2006-Colavita/Cooking Lights wins on both coasts...more April 27th, 2006-On the road again, Grain begins US road race season with Colavita/Cooking Light...more Story in Pedal Magazine - Written By: Erin Carter Grain captures Silver Medal at the 2006 World Track Championships !!!!!! Gina Grain, of Vancouver, BC, won a silver medal today (April 16th) in the Women's Scratch Race at the 2006 Track World Championships in Bordeaux, France...more April 14th - Points Race -Bordeaux, France April 16th- Scratch Race -Bordeaux, France March 26th - 4th Place, Commonwealth Games Road Race March 23rd- Commonwealth Games Road Race Preparation continues...more March 17th- 4th Place,Commonwealth Games Points Race, 1point away from a podium result!!!...more March. 16th- Conversation with the Queen! full story... Last night marked the official opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia...more Up Next: Friday March 17th (australia time): Track Points Race. Stay tuned!!! 7pm CBC Friday (western canada time) To follow full results of the Sydney Track World Cup and Commonwealth Games follow these links: www.canadiancyclist.com www.pedalmag.com www.2006melbourne.com.au March 11th, 2006- Interview on Southern Cross Radio. A quick 'just outside the gates' interview, the media tryed to get the inside scoop of what it is like in the athletes village!!! Mar. 3rd, 2006- Sydney World Cup Track Points Race: 3rd in heats, 13th in final...more Feb. 28th, 2006- On ThE RoAd WiTh mE!!! Ever wonder what it is like to be an elite athlete on the road for 200 days + a year?? read on!! NeW!!!! On ThE RoAd...DiArY Feb. 26th, 2006- Geelong Road World Cup #1, Geelong Australia: 6th Place...more Feb 21-23, 2006- Women's Geelong Tour perfect training for what is to come...more Jan. 24th- FINAL SELECTION FOR THE CANADIAN CYCLING COMMONWEALTH GAMES TEAM!!!! more Jan. 11th, 2006- San Diego, California- Day #2 of the Canadian World Cup National Team preparation camp for the L.A. World Cup Track race and final selection race for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March...more Jan 1st, 2006- Colavita-Cooking Light Women's Cycling Team signs Gina Grain for the 2006 Road season...full press release December 18th, 2005- Do you want a real party that will leave you motionless and in a state of euphoria??...more December 9th, 2005- Manchester, England TrackWorld Cup #2 sees alot of wood splinters, road rash and stitches...more December 2nd, 2005- Raffle Winners' from the Fundraiser made sure to carb up...more!! November 26th, 2005- Successful Fundraiser event and autograph signing hosted by Saanich Commonwealth Place read more... *Grain cycles way to 4th in World Cup race- Canada's Grain Fourth In Scratch* by pedalmag.com November 6, 2005 (Moscow, Russia) - Canada's Gina Grain placed fourth in today's Women's Scratch Race Final, while Mandy Poitras placed 12th. In the Men's Team Sprint, Canada qualified 12th...read full story A True Sport Champion - Gina Grain prepares for the 2008 Olympics Gina Grain is a national team cyclist who currently has her sights set on the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. In the Circle of Champions, Gina describes how her involvement in cycling has helped to shape her character and her values. She also details how the True Sport values have been displayed throughout her career. Click here to read the full article. Oct 23 2005 Grain on World Cup team-Kelowna cyclist Gina Grain has been selected to Team Canada's World Cup track team. Kelowna Capital News article Click here
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Aug. 4th, 2008- Montreux, Switzerland- Canadian National Olympic Team starts the first week of their final Olympic Prep camp with a B-A-N-G...read more!!!

Ville de Montreux celbrates Switzerland Holiday!!

Grain is the 2008 Tour de Gastown Champion

July 16th, 2008- Grain wins the historic downtown Tour de Gastown for the 3rd time and proves to hometown crowd that she is ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympics..

Grain celebrates her win(photo courtesy of Greg Descantes)

July 17th, 2008- Photo finish in the 2008 Giro di Burnaby leaves Grain with a taste of revenge in the lead up to the Olympic Games. By a tire width Grain lost to Kelly Benjamin of Cheerwine to come 2nd in her backyard bike race.

photo courtesy of Greg Descantes

Grain winning the bunch sprint of what was left of the field 15 riders out of 84 after a greulling hot and hilly 110km road circit race in Bend, Oregon (photo courtesy of Jonathon Devitch)

July 17th is Giro di Burnaby!! Grab your picnic baskets, bells, whistles and get ready for action!! click here for details...

WANT ONE?? 2008 Gina Grain Beijing Olympic Games T-shirts now available to order!!! email ginagrain@hotmail.com to order one. mens/womens S-XL.

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BACK!

Grain qualifies Canada and herself for the 2008 Olympics Games!!!!

April 17th, 2008- read article... www.pedalmag.co

March 20th, 2008- Webcors 1st 2008 Olympian...
I am very happy to announce that Gina Grain has officially secured herself a
spot in the Olympic Points Race on the track in Bejing. She is Webcor's first
Olympian of 2008!

Track cycling has become a winter sport in recent years, and while most road
racers were enjoying their off season this winter, Gina was on a global UCI
points chase on the velodromes of the world that took her to Australia, Europe,
China and North America. She had the dual task of both qualifying Canada as a
country in the Points Race, and also qualifying herself. The final selection
race was the track World Championships in Manchester where she raced only days
before Redlands.

With the immediate pressure of her own selection over, Gina can now focus on
helping her Webcor teammates qualify for the Olympic Road Race in the upcoming
races we will do in Europe.

March 14th, 2008- Grain returns home from Holland to recover after a heavy schedule comes to and end. After Gina qualified Canada for the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the track, she headed directly to her road bike to assist her team in the victory of the 2008 Redlands Classic. From there, her and 4 other Canadians headed overseas (again for Grain) to Holland where they tackled the cobblestones and wind of the spring classic Ronde Van Drenthe World Cup. After battling a cold all week and recovering through racing and an overseas flight, Gina was fit to race the World Cup. Unfortunately for Grain, the cobblestones got the best of her and along with over 75 of 140 starters she didn't finish the race with the lead group. With high hopes of finishing well for Canada, Grain had to just rack it up in the book of experience and carry on.

March 5-8, 2008- Webcor sweeps podium at teams' debut to this seasons' north american racing. An unprecedented number of winners jerseys' were awarded to Alex Wrubleski of Webcor after her and her team defended and inched each second to be victorious in the overall General Classification, Sprinters' jersey, Climbers' jersey and Womens' prestige sprinters, climbers and overall jersey. Pretty good start to the season??

Alex, there is no other jersey to wear!! You have won all of them!!! Congratulations TEAM WEBCOR!!!!

March 29/08 10:15am EDT - Track Worlds: Grain and Bell to Olympics?

Posted by Editoress on 3/29/08.www.canadiancyclist.com
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Unofficially Gina Grain has earned herself a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with her results from today's Women's Points race.

Official announcement of the qualifying countries by the world cycling federation will not go out until april 14th...so stay tuned!!!

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World Championships Update...Manchester, England- 7 days to go!!!! Gina has been in Manchester since Tuesday getting over jet lag and spinning out the legs. Gina had a bit of a setback upon her arrival. After a spin session on the rollers and an easy yoga session, the next day brought pain to the ribs and back that made the day untrainable. Though, thanks to speedy recovery, and a smart recovery day, she was able to have her first hard motopace training session today. Fighting through some bearable pain, her coach was happy with her form and confident for the world championships. For Grain it will be a matter of putting everything together on race day.

WATCH the 2008 UCI Track World Championships on T.V. here (click this link)

World Championships Points Race: March 29th, 2008

UP NEXT: Grain heads to Manchester, England for a short training camp before the final Olympic qualifying event: The UCI Track Cycling World Championships, March 27-30th.

2007/08 Canadian National Road Champion Gina Grain starts the 2008 season with her new road team: WEBCOR BUILDERS.....the.#1 ranked team in north America. Grain, joining her other teammates of whom also have many national and world class medals kicks off the season with her team winning the first round of the womens road world cup and a 9th place for Grain in Geelong, Australia.

GRAIN UP AGAINST A TOUGH BATTLE.

Following the second to last stage in the Tour of New Zealand, Grain was taken out in a field sprint with 800m to go and crashed, with the entire 100women peloton behind her. With a broken helmet, a shattered bike frame and a bruised and broken body, Gina rolled across the line on a spare bike and spare helmet to finish the race. Returning to California to begin the healing process, she was taken care of by her team WEBCOR and returned to Canada to heal. After a week of recovery and treatments the show must go on, and she is now on her way to Manchester to overcome the pain and train for the World Championships.

World Cup #3- L.A., California Dec. 18-20th

Grain goes into the 3rd round of the UCI World Cup Series ranked #6 in the world for the points race and 3rd in the Scratch Race on uci points.

The Bay Crit Series- Melbourne, Australia are touted at The Fastest Criterium series in the world. Gina joined the Volvo composite team as a worker for local rider Belinda Goss to win the overall series. After 5 consecutive days of 1hr blazing fast criteriums in the blistering hot heat of southern australia's summer the team came 1 point shy of winning the overall title.

Tasmanian Winter Track Carnivals- Christmas came in a different form this year for Grain, as she flew to Tasmania from Melbourne on Christmas day to attend the Tasmanian winter track carnivals. From Dec 26-Dec. 30th Grain took to the outdoor track to continue her strength/power build up to the next world cup.

World Cup #2- Beijing, China- Grain gets Canada a 4th place finish in the scratch race!!

Points Race: Grain 2nd in qualifier, got crashed in final...ending up 16th in

World Cup #1- Sydney, Australia- Grain 9th (Scratch Race) in record number of World Class competitors.

Day2- Women's Points Race Qualifyers: The points race qualifyers proved to be equally if not more heated than the scratch race qualifyers. For Grain, although she gave everything she had to be within the top 8 in the qualfyers, Grain plus 37 more riders were sitting in the stands watching the finals. It once again proved to be a technical and aggressive race with decisions on the fly being the crucial component to whether you scored points in the 4 sprints in the qualifyer. The thrill of victory and the tears of defeat. The tears of defeat are hard to take when so much is at stake. It was only until Grains' coach tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to the current world points race champion who was in tears after the event. Not to mention other world cup medallists and previous world champions who did not make it into the finals. This was a good reminder that every race cannot be perfect, and, at this level, you have to be close to perfect, with strokes of luck to score. The important thing is to keep the chin high and move on to the next event. For Grain, she gave everything she had. Now is time to reflect, learn, and move on.

Day1- Women's Scratch Race: For the first time in world cup history 3 heats were required in order to skim the field down to 23 riders (250m velodrome maximum). Over 55 world class women held onto the rail over the 3 heats, including multi-World Champions, Olympians and World Cup/World Championships Medallists. In order to make it through to the finals, you had to be top 8 in the qualifiers...10 of each heat didn't make it through to the finals. For Gina's heat it was a tactical and technical battle where nerves were high as it was the first heat. She qualified in 6th position, moving her onto the finals 2hrs later. Gina was one of only two North Americans to make it through to the finals.

Women's Scratch Race Final: The fastest 23women took to the line for the final of the evening. Blazing speeds matched the numerous attacks throughout the 10km. 40 laps equals about 15min of racing. Grain bridged up to a Nederlands, toting a girl from Hong Kong and one other. They were away for a few laps before being brought back by the eventual scratch race winners teammate. For Grain not having any teammates in the field, she fought her way through the attacks and the final sprint ended up in 9th position.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2007/worldcup0708/sydney07/

NEW!!! The road to Olympic Qualification.

The time has come. After 10 years of Olympic planning and training, Gina is entering the final 'crux' of Olympic Qualification. Through injuries, blood, sweat and tears, she wants to share as much of the journey as she can with all her supporters, friends, family and sponsors. If you enjoyed her diary entries during the Commonwealth Games...keep reading as the Olympic Qualification months count down....first entry:

Blood, 'Resorts' and Duck attacks...read more

Gina is ready for the upcoming World Cup season. The city skyline of Melbourne, Australia in the background.

Nov 21st, 2007- Gina Grain is chosen as Cycling BC Female Road/Track/CX Cyclist of the Year. Nominations were received from the Cycling community, and were voted on by the Cycling BC Board and Staff selecting her as the most deserving candidate.

November 16th, 2007- Grain approaches her final preparation phase for the first 2 Olympic Qualifying World Cup events.

Gina is currently in Melbourne, Australia training with her Canadian National World Cup teammates at the DISC indoor velodrome. She is enjoying her final phases of preparation in sun and ideal training conditions. Between intense track training sessions and weekday racing, the almost summer conditions in Melbourne make the road miles go by alot quicker!!! Having the jetlag and jet legs out of the system by coming down under early, the quick trip from Melbourne to Sydney for the first world cup will make for an easy trip. Here is her upcoming race schedule:

Nov. 30-Dec. 2nd- World Cup #1-Sydney, Australia

Dec 3rd- Travel to Beijing

Dec 7-9- World Cup #2- Beijing, China

Dec 10th- Return to Melbourne Australia

GLOBAL TV presents a 5 part series on DRUGS IN SPORT. Gina talks on Wednesday on "How to reach peak performance without the use of drugs". See GLOBAL NEWS- Wednesday Oct 10th at 6pm.

Oct. 4th, 2007- Performance pool of athletes pre-selected to World Cup I and World Cup II read more...

GINA GRAIN CAPTURES THE 2007 CANADIAN NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPION TITLE!!

July 10th, 2007- Grain wins first Canadian road race title
Gina Grain of Vancouver won the women's elite road race on Tuesday at the Tim Hortons Road Nationals held at St-George de Beauce. It was a first career road title for the track specialist. Grain won the 127 kilometre race in three hours and 42 minutes and 24 seconds. Marni Hambleton was three seconds back for the silver and Moriah MacGregor third, nine seconds behind the winner.

...your new 2007 Canadian National Road Champion!!!

HAPPY CANADA DAY VANCOUVER!

July 1st, 2007- Gina celebrates with the rest of Vancouver to win the 4th Annual Yaletown Grandprix. With huge crowds and festivities all around, the technical course of downtown Yaletown bid well for the seasoned criterium racer. With no other teammates in the race, Gina had her legs and hands full when the decisive break went in the race containing 3 Team Giant riders, 2 Symmetrics riders and herself. After covering endless attacks that were launched by the other teams, Grain tested the course, the riders and her sprint in a few primes to gain confidence in knowing what it took to win the bike race. And that she did- single-handedly blasting through the last corner to take the win.

photo courtesy of GregDescantes:

July 1st, 2007- Truly Canadian! Spirits were high as Canadians walked, ran, and pushed themselves and others through the downtown streets of beautiful Vancouver yesterday to raise money for Canada's Athletes. As one of HBC's sponsored athletes, Gina went out to support the runners and handout finishing medals. Bravo to all finishers of the 1km, 3km, and 10km events!!!!! CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS!

July 1st is coming! What are YOU doing this Canada Day morning? Come out for a walk or run to support Canadian Olympians...visit website to find out more info

June 23rd: Track- Fastest Man on Wheels, Trexlertown, PA- The final race of the mid road season track block stopped off in the town of trexlertown- the host of the best track racing in north america. 5 nations represented the womens field, where Gina rode 2 strategic races to come away with victories in both the Points and Scratch race.

June 19th: Track- Giro d'Italia delle Pista- The 2nd leg of the giro d'italia delle pista was hotly contested by the defending jersey leader Vera Carrera (2xworld champion). Her 5 Italian teammates controlled the race as she picked up points with the rest of the field fighting through her team on the track. Gina was happy with her 4th place finish as she fought a hard consistent race picking up points throughout the race.

June 13-18th: Track- Giorni delle Rose, Italy- Gina started her 2 week track block with a 3-day race in Fiorenzuala, Italy. Competing against a world class field including 2x World Points Race Champion and the rest of her Italian teammates, Austria, Czeck Rep., Spain, Denmark, Gina came away after the 3 day race with 2x 2nd place, 1x 4th and 2nd overall in the Points race, gaining valuable UCI points to qualify Canada for the Olympics.

June 10th, 2007- ExpressCopy.com delivers Gina Grain to the line in the biggest, richest women's race in North American to place 3rd in the sprint finish amongst a world class field.

June 1st, 2007- GLOBAL-Quebec- Morning Show with Richard Dagenais featuring the Montreal World Cup Road Race June 2nd then onto the Tour de Montreal June 4th-7th.

GLOBAL TV- Gina explaining the team work involved in a road race

May 28th, 2007- What is it like in Venezuala?? Here is a short video to give you an idea of what the trip was like: click here!! video

May 27th- Bronze for Grain at Pan Am Championships Road Race

With 2x 6th place finishes on the track, a wicked cold, heat and stomach problems, Gina finished off the 2007 Pan Am Championships with a bronze medal for Canada.

May 14th, 2007- This is what our 3 day training camp looks like in preparation for the Pan American Championships...

monday- 9am -12 track / HOME / 3-5 TRACK/5-6pm road ride
tuesday- 9-12 TRACK / home / 1-4 track/ 4-6pm road ride
wednesday- 9-12 track/ food at track / 2-4 track. Pack / fly.

May 13, 2007- Canadian National Pan Ams trials (Burnaby, BC)- from the hills of Silver City, New Mexico, straight to the banking of the track in Burnaby, Canada's fastest track athletes compete for the first Olympic Qualifying event in Venezuala...more

April 24th-May6, 2007- Gina travels to Silver City, New Mexico for a one week high altitude training camp to prepare for the 5day stage race "tour of gila", where she will meet up with her road team expresscopy.com to work for the climbers and to gain some solid road strength leading into the Pan American Championships. For more on expresscopy.com please visit Gina's road team website at www.teamexpresscopy.com

April 17th, 2007- AHHHHHH CHEW!!! "old wives tale" held true??? Don't go out in the rain or you might get sick: TRUE OR FALSE!!!?? read more!!

April 16th, 2007- Road legs rip ready and raring to go after track world championships only to get a cancellation due to weather...in california!!! more...

April 1, 2007 (Palma, Mallorca, Spain)- Canada's Gina Grain 9th in Points Race at 2007 Track Worlds provided by the CCA...more

2007 TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS are here!! The track world championships is the final event for the UCI world cup track cycling season. The season consists of 4 world cups and the finale world championships. Gina competed in 3 out of 4 of the world cups and through this she qualified canada, and herself, for a position at the world championships. After travelling all over the world for the past 4 months to attend the world cups (Sydney, Australia, Moscow, Russia, LosAngeles, California) she now finds herself ready for a stellar performance leading Canada into the 2007 Track World Championships. Wish her luck and all the best this coming weekend!!!

Please visit the following website for pre competition photos and story:http://www.canadiancyclist.com/races07/Track_Worlds/partone/index.htm

Links to follow the world championships:

http://www.roadie.ca/viewtopic.php?t=569

www.uci.ch

www.canadiancyclist.com

Budget falls short of summer athletes’ expectations
March 21, 2007, OTTAWA - AthletesCAN, the association of Canada’s national team athletes, and Canada’s summer athletes, are discouraged by the federal government’s lackluster budget announcement on Monday...read more

Did you receive it?? The 1st edition Newsletter has been 'distributed'! If you did not receive it and would like to be placed on the mailing list, send gina an email and you will be put in the FAST lane!!!

Gina's 2007 SCHEDULE is finalized and updated. Follow her season here at www.ginagrain.com and through the schedule link at the top and/or bottom of the screen.

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Do you want COMFORT? The new R300 Shimano Custom Fit Road Shoe will clearly knock your socks off...see it and believe it click here!!

Feb 1st-17th- TeamExpressCopy.com spring training camp in Tucson, Arizona read on for stories...here

Feb 1st, 2007- TeamExpressCopy.com official team launch...here

Interview with Roadie...check it out here

After less than a day at home in Vancouver, BC, Gina was enroute to Canada’s cycling 2008 Beijing Olympic pool camp held in Victoria from January 22 to 26. The camp wound up today after select Olympic athletes went through a variety of testing by the Canadian Cycling Associations Performance Enhancement team. Read on for Gina's 3 day schedule...more

Jan 19-21, 2006- World Cup #3, Los Angeles, California- This past weekend at the Home Depot center velodrome in Carson, California, Grain displayed her best performance yet at a world cup points race event. Tied for 5th place and only 3points away from standing on the podium, Gina qualified herself and the country for the 2006 World Championships....more

Dec 15-17, 2006- World Cup #2- Moscow, Russia- Gina returns to the track this weekend competing in the Scratch and Points race in Moscow. Follow the action at www.canadiancyclist.com http://www.moscowtrackcup.ru

Double Gold for Grain...

September 7-10th, 2006 Dieppe, New Brunswick- After racing in Europe where Grain competed for Canada in 2 road world cups in Holland and France, she returned to Dieppe to capture 2 gold medals at the Tim Hortons Canadian National Track Championships, making that her 5th National title.

2006 CanadianNational Track Champion- Points and Scratch Race

July 19th, 2006 Tour de Gastown, Vancouver, BC- Gina Grain shakes off infection to defend title on the cobblestones....more

Winning is no fun at all!!!

photos courtesy: Andrea Brewer

July 14th- Giro di Burnaby, Burnaby, BC- Grain stamps first annual trophy with a backyard victory...more

Photo courtesy: Carelle Dunn

May 25th, 2006- Montreal, Quebec. Press Conference for the Montreal World Cup #7. Gina Grain invited to join the panel of speakers: Isabelle Hudon from the City of Montreal, Race promoter Daniel Manibal, Francine Senecal from the City of Montréal and Audrey Lemieux...more

May 24th, 2006- Lachine, Quebec. Press Conference- Ville de Lachine honors Silver Medallist for the first stage of the Tour du Grande Montreal...more

Up next...Coupe de Monde (World Cup) Mont Royal et le Tour du Grande Montreal, May 27th-June 1st, Montreal, Quebec. Stay tuned for updates!! Official Website: www.world-cup-cycling.org

May 9th, 2006-Colavita/Cooking Lights wins on both coasts...more

April 27th, 2006-On the road again, Grain begins US road race season with Colavita/Cooking Light...more

Story in Pedal Magazine - Written By: Erin Carter

Grain captures Silver Medal at the 2006 World Track Championships !!!!!!

Gina Grain, of Vancouver, BC, won a silver medal today (April 16th) in the Women's Scratch Race at the 2006 Track World Championships in Bordeaux, France...more

March 17th- 4th Place,Commonwealth Games Points Race, 1point away from a podium result!!!...more

Last night marked the official opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia...more

Up Next: Friday March 17th (australia time): Track Points Race. Stay tuned!!! 7pm CBC Friday (western canada time)

To follow full results of the Sydney Track World Cup and Commonwealth Games follow these links:

March 11th, 2006- Interview on Southern Cross Radio. A quick 'just outside the gates' interview, the media tryed to get the inside scoop of what it is like in the athletes village!!!

Mar. 3rd, 2006- Sydney World Cup Track Points Race: 3rd in heats, 13th in final...more

Feb. 28th, 2006- On ThE RoAd WiTh mE!!! Ever wonder what it is like to be an elite athlete on the road for 200 days + a year?? read on!!

Feb. 26th, 2006- Geelong Road World Cup #1, Geelong Australia: 6th Place...more

Feb 21-23, 2006- Women's Geelong Tour perfect training for what is to come...more

Jan. 24th- FINAL SELECTION FOR THE CANADIAN CYCLING COMMONWEALTH GAMES TEAM!!!! more

Jan. 11th, 2006- San Diego, California- Day #2 of the Canadian World Cup National Team preparation camp for the L.A. World Cup Track race and final selection race for the 2006
Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March...more

Jan 1st, 2006- Colavita-Cooking Light Women's Cycling Team signs Gina Grain for the 2006 Road season...full press release

December 18th, 2005- Do you want a real party that will leave you motionless and in a state of euphoria??...more

December 9th, 2005- Manchester, England TrackWorld Cup #2 sees alot of wood splinters, road rash and stitches...more

December 2nd, 2005- Raffle Winners' from the Fundraiser made sure to carb up...more!!

November 26th, 2005- Successful Fundraiser event and autograph signing hosted by Saanich Commonwealth Place read more...

November 6, 2005 (Moscow, Russia) - Canada's Gina Grain placed fourth in today's Women's Scratch Race Final, while Mandy Poitras placed 12th. In the Men's Team Sprint, Canada qualified 12th...read full story

Gina Grain is a national team cyclist who currently has her sights set on the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. In the Circle of Champions, Gina describes how her involvement in cycling has helped to shape her character and her values. She also details how the True Sport values have been displayed throughout her career. Click here to read the full article.

Oct 23 2005
Grain on World Cup team-Kelowna cyclist Gina Grain has been selected to Team Canada's World Cup track team. Kelowna Capital News article Click here