Pez Cyclingnews, Edmond Hood, 19 Abril 2013
Posted by: Bitossi

A man who we mentioned in our Paris-Roubaix preview as a possible podium finisher was BMC’s 22 year-old powerhouse, Taylor Phinney. We’d expected the big man from Boulder, Colorado to improve upon last year’s 15th place, but it was not to be. PEZ spoke to Phinney upon his return to the US and once he’d had a chance to reflect upon the race which he’s won twice in the U23 ranks. But before we see what he had to say, it’s perhaps useful to remind ourselves of the rich palmares he’s accrued already in his young life. It was 2006 when his name first appeared in the record books as bronze medallist in the US Junior Cyclo-Cross Championships and silver medallist in the Junior Time Trial Championship. A year later he was Junior Time Trial Champion of the World, having relegated a certain John Degenkolb to silver and won the ‘Junior Tour de France,’ Canada’s Tour de l’Abitibi.

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