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| Full name | Michael Rogers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dodger, Mick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1979-12-20)20 December 1979 (age 45) Barham, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2000 | Mapei–Quick-Step(stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001–2002 | Mapei–Quick-Step | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Quick-Step–Davitamon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 | T-Mobile Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Saxo–Tinkoff[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Rogers (born 20 December 1979) is an Australian retired professionalroad bicycle racer who competed professionally between 1999 and 2016, for theMapei–Quick-Step,Quick-Step–Innergetic,Team HTC–Columbia,Team Sky andTinkoff teams. He is a three-timeWorld Time Trial Champion, winning consecutively in2003 (afterDavid Millar was stripped for doping),2004 and2005, and won Grand Tour stages at theTour de France and theGiro d'Italia.
In April 2016, Rogers announced viaTwitter, that he was being forced to retire from professional cycling due to a congenital heart defect condition which had been worsening.[3]
Rogers was part of theAustralian Institute of Sport, which led him to move to Europe at age 16 as an amateur. He started as atrack racer under coachCharlie Walsh.
At the2002 Tour Down Under, Rogers' team-prepared bicycle was damaged in a collision with a motorcycle, forcing him to come to a halt by the roadside. The collision was not captured by television cameras.[4] There were no team cars nearby and Rogers appeared visibly frustrated with the turn of events. Fortunately, spectator Adam Pyke, an amateur cyclist, offered his ownColnago bicycle as a replacement and Rogers was able to continue, needing only a minor saddle height adjustment en route from a mechanic alongside in a car. He went on to finish second on the stage, took the race lead, and ultimately went on to win the race overall. The entire episode, including swapping bicycles, was captured by the television cameras while Rogers, Pyke and the borrowed bicycle were reunited at the end of the stage by the Australian broadcasterSeven in a televised interview.[5]
Rogers won the world time-trial championship in2003,2004 and2005. He came second in 2003, but became champion after the winner,David Millar, was disqualified fordoping. Rogers received hisrainbow jersey andgold medal on the day of the 2004 championship, thereby receiving two gold medals on the same day.
In the2003 Tour de France, Rogers helpedRichard Virenque win his sixthmountains classification. He was the last rider left to help in Virenque's day-long escape and stage win.
Rogers finished fourth in theroad time trial at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. In May 2011 US cyclistTyler Hamilton returned his gold medal for this event after admitting to doping during his cycling career, and in August 2012 theInternational Olympic Committee formally stripped Hamilton of his victory, resulting in Rogers being awarded the bronze medal.[6] In September 2015, he received the Olympic medal in a ceremony at the IOC headquarters inLausanne, Switzerland.[7]
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Rogers joinedT-Mobile Team for the 2006 season, and finished 9th overall in theTour de France. In an interview during the 2006 season, Rogers disclosed that he had received training advice by Italian doctorMichele Ferrari for several months during 2006.[8]
On 15 July 2007, Rogers withdrew on the 8th stage of the2007 Tour de France after breaking acollarbone in a crash descending theCormet de Roselend. He continued until the doctor arrived from attending fellow AustralianStuart O'Grady, who ended up stretchered to hospital. It was after this that Rogers contractedinfectious mononucleosis (glandular fever), which caused a dip in his racing form for some time. By late 2009 he had returned to form and began to have significant racing success, withTeam Columbia–High Road, the successor to T-Mobile.
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In 2010, as leader of his team, he won theVuelta a Andalucía, and then theTour of California (the first non-American to do so). After a disappointingTour de France (37th overall), Rogers announced he would concentrate in future on shorter races (e.g. one week in length) as he was no longer suited to the longer tours.
In October 2010 it was announced that he would leave Team HTC–Columbia and join British basedTeam Sky for the 2011 racing season. However he suffered a relapse of his mononucleosis early in the season and was unable to defend his2010 Tour of California title. Rogers returned to fitness towards the end of the season.
Rogers began the 2012 season with third place in theAustralian National Time Trial Championships,[9] and led Team Sky at theTour Down Under, where he finished 4th in the general classification. In March, Rogers finished third at theCritérium International; he placed second toBMC Racing Team'sCadel Evans in the individual time trial aroundPorto-Vecchio,[10] and finished eighth on the final stage, the summit finish of theCol de L'Ospedale [fr].[11] After finishing fifth in April'sTour de Romandie, Rogers won May'sBayern Rundfahrt stage race in Germany, winning Stage 2 and the time trial Stage 4 in the process, his first victories whilst riding for Team Sky.[12] Rogers then rode theCritérium du Dauphiné, helping leaderBradley Wiggins win the race, whilst finishing second overall himself after a strong ride in the time trial. Rogers was selected in the Team Sky squad for theTour de France, as one of Wiggins' key domestiques. He suffered a crash towards the end of Stage 1, but was able to make it back to the peloton. Rogers played a key team role in the rest of the race, setting the tempo on mountains and notably bringing back a long range attack by Cadel Evans on Stage 11, as Sky ultimately achieved a 1–2 finish in the GC with Wiggins andChris Froome.
Rogers left Sky to joinSaxo–Tinkoff in 2012[2] following a new Sky policy requiring all riders to sign to confirm they have no history of doping[13] although he denied leaving for that reason.
In May, Rogers was the runner-up toTejay van Garderen in theTour of California.[14] In July Rogers rode theTour de France in support ofAlberto Contador and finished in 16th place. In October he won theJapan Cup one-day race. In December it was announced that he had tested positive forclenbuterol at the latter race, and was suspended from cycling pending further investigation.[15] On 23 April 2014 theUnion Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced he would be cleared of any wrongdoing, no further action would be taken and that Rogers would be free to race again. The UCI accepted that there was a significant probability that theclenbuterol came from contaminated meat consumed while Rogers was competing in China, where the drug is often consumed by animals in slaughterhouses to exhibit better performance in farm sporting events.[16]
He returned to racing just in time to ride the2014 Giro d'Italia. Throughout much of the race, he rode in support ofRafał Majka. He won his first Grand Tour individual stage on the eleventh stage and also won the penultimate stage summit finish at theMonte Zoncolan. On 22 July 2014, Rogers won his first Tour de France stage, winning stage 16 of therace. The longest stage of the race, a 237.5-kilometre (147.6-mile) route fromCarcassonne toBagnères-de-Luchon, Rogers attackedCyril Gautier at the bottom of the descent of thePort de Balès with 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) remaining to win in solo fashion.[17]
After his active cycling career Rogers had been working asNTT Pro Cycling's technical partner manager, and, prior to that, he had been the founder and CEO of virtual-world training platform VirtuGO, which closed down in November 2019. Since November 2020 Rogers is employed by the UCI as its "innovation manager".[18]
Time trial, National Junior Championships
Time trial,UCI World Junior Championships Time trial,UCI World Under-23 Championships
Time trial,UCI World Under-23 Championships
OverallTour Down Under OverallTour de Beauce
Time trial,Commonwealth Games
Time trial,UCI World Championships OverallDeutschland Tour
OverallRoute du Sud OverallTour of Belgium
Young rider classificationTime trial,UCI World Championships
Time trial,Olympic GamesTime trial,UCI World ChampionshipsTime trial OverallTour of California
OverallVuelta a Andalucía OverallBayern Rundfahrt| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | 18 | 33 |
 Tour de France | 42 | 22 | 41 | 9 | DNF | — | 101 | 36 | — | 23 | 16 | 26 | 36 |
 / Vuelta a España | Did not contest during his career | ||||||||||||
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||||||
| Race | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Paris–Nice | — | 8 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | — |
 / Tirreno–Adriatico | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | DNF | — | — |
 Volta a Catalunya | — | — | 4 | — | 2 | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | 80 | 8 | — | DNF | — | 8 | 73 | 111 | 21 | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 3 | — | 5 | — | — | — |
 Critérium du Dauphiné | — | 41 | — | — | — | 11 | — | — | — | 2 | 6 | — | — |
| Tour de Suisse | — | — | 2 | 64 | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Team pursuit Points race
Scratch,Commonwealth Games Individual pursuit,National Championships
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| Preceded by | World Time Trial Champion 2003–2005 | Succeeded by |
