Sydney  - Australia's cycling fraternity was in shock Wednesday at the death of former world champion sprinter Jobie Dajka.

The body of the 27-year-old who won gold in the keirin event at the 2002 track cycling world championships in Denmark was found Tuesday at his Adelaide home.

No information on the cause of death has been released, but police said it was not believed to be suspicious.

Former road cyclist Patrick Jonker said Dajka had been getting his life back on track after being kicked off the team for the 2004 Athens Olympics after lying to a doping inquiry and serving a three-year ban for assaulting a track coach.

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Sydney  - Two of Australia's biggest motorcycle gangs could soon be banned and their members arrested for associating with one another under new laws.

New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said Wednesday that a wave of arrests in Sydney had laid the groundwork to push through legislation proposed last week after violent clashes between gangs.

Sydney - Australian-born cyclist Heinrich Haussler wants to ride in the green and gold of his homeland rather than represent his adopted country of Germany.

"I've noticed that I feel more Australian than German," the rising star of European road racing was quoted as saying Tuesday.

"In 2010, I will ride for Australia. My decision is final," Haussler told the cyclingnews website.

Haussler, 25, was born in Inverell, New South Wales, but moved to Germany at the age of 14 to take up a scholarship at a German sports school.

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Sydney  - An Australian woman who set at least 21 forest fires on Adelaide's outskirts on the hottest days of 2007 was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison.

Helen White, 45, is one of few women convicted of setting fire to forests.

In February, forest fires outside Melbourne killed 173 people, destroyed more than 1,800 houses and left 7,500 people homeless.

Unlike those fires, some of which were also caused by arson, the blazes caused by White caused little damage.