Andrew Talansky
velonews, 8 Février 2013
Raising the bar: Talansky racing to win en route to Tour
LEON, Spain (VN) — Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) debuts his 2013 season this week with a very different attitude.
Going into his third pro season, the 24-year-old has raised the bar in his personal ambitions. No longer content simply to race at the elite level, he wants to win.
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Nick Nuyens
Pez Cyclingnews, 8 Février 2013
Nick Nuyens Gets PEZ’d!
It’s not very often you get the chance to talk to a Paris-Roubaix and a Tour of Flanders winner in the same afternoon, but at the Garmin-Sharp press day I had that pleasure. After a chat with 2011 Roubaix winner; Johan Vansummeren, it was the turn of the same years Flanders winner; Nick Nuyens to ge
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Lise Hafsö Nostvold
peloton cafe, 8 Février 2013
Rider Profile – Lise Nøstvold of Team Hitec Products
Meet Team Hitec Products in house Doctor, Lise Nøstvold.
It’s always good to know a doctor. Fortunately, Hitec Products has an in-house one in Lise Nøstvold.
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Elisa Longo Borghini
peloton cafe, 8 Février 2013
Rider Profile – Elisa Longo-Borghini of Team Hitec Products
Meet Team Hitec Products returning Italian team member, Elisa Longo-Borghini:
Elisa didn’t want to get left behind when her brother started cycling so she jumped on the bike too and it’s a trend that hasn’t let up. Her brother now rides f…or Liquigas Cannondale and Elisa is ranked 13th in the wor
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Lowe Trent
Cycling Tips, 8 Février 2013
Life after cycling
Trent Lowe has probably been long forgotten in the pro cycling world. However, whenever I hear of more fall-out and see the inconsistency with the way riders and staff are treated, I can't help think of Trent Lowe who may have received the worst end of the stick. Last week Trent's name was briefly b
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Tyler Hamilton
cyclingnews, 7 Février 2013
Exclusive interview: Tyler Hamilton
It's 2000, a month before the Sydney Olympics and Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton have come to a stop in the centre of Sospel. The US Postal pair are halfway through a five hour sortie through the foothills around Nice and Sospel, and its sleepy seclusion offers a brief respite from the heat of t
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Peterson Thomas
Velonation, 7 Février 2013
American rider believes he’ll have bigger opportunities with Argos Shimano
Argos-Shimano strengthened their squad with quite a few reinforcements this year, and one of those is the former Garmin-Sharp rider Tom Peterson. It’s been a big change after so long with his old team, but he’s feeling good about the move. “I started my career with Garmin six years ago, coming from
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Elia Viviani
cyclingnews, 7 Février 2013
Viviani happy to focus on the road in 2013
After spending over two years switching between disciplines as he worked towards competing on the road and track at the London Olympics, Elia Viviani (Cannondale) can finally devote his attentions fully to matters on the road in 2013.
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Alessandro Ballan
velouk.net, 6 Février 2013
TALKINGHOP: FORMER WORLD CHAMP ALESSANDRO BALLAN
Paul writes … In my opinion the real racing doesn’t start until Het Nieuwsblad (Het Volk for the old’ins out there) in a few weeks time. This event and the one that follows the next day, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, are becoming a good warm up for the Tour of Flanders.
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Tyler Farrar
velonews, 6 Février 2013
Farrar Q&A: On head injuries, winning again and Armstrong
ADELAIDE, Australia (VN) — Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) wants to forget 2012 and return to the sweet spot he enjoyed during a three-year run that established him as one of the most consistent sprinters in the bunch.
The 28-year-old endured a frustrating 2012 season marked by narrow misses, crashes
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Jay McCarthy
cyclingnews, 6 Février 2013
Class of 2013: 10 Questions with Jay McCarthy
Cyclingnews will be introducing some of the fresh faces in the WorldTour peloton for 2013 in a series of articles. Here, we caught up with 20-year-old Jay McCarthy at the Tour Down Under. The Australian picked up some impressive results in 2012, including six wins - including the prologue of the To
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Dowsett Alex
velouk.net, 3 Février 2013
TALKINGSHOP: ALEX DOWSETT THE MOVISTAR IN 2013
This weekend Alex starts his 2013 season in the colours of the Spanish outfit Movistar, probably the oldest team in cycling’s WorldTour. After two years riding for Team Sky, Britain’s biggest and most successful bike racing team, the move to Movistar will be a huge change for the 24 year old but one
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Jelle Vanendert
Velonation, 3 Février 2013
Amstel Gold 2012 runner-up Vanendert beginning important season today
Last year’s Amstel Gold Race runner-up Jelle Vanendert is about to begin his build-up to what he intends to be a victorious Classics campaign, with the Lotto Belisol rider set to make his season debut in the Challenge Mallorca. The Spanish series comprises four one day races and starts today with th
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Sacha Modolo
cyclingnews, 2 Février 2013
Quality racing crucial ahead of Milan-San Remo for Modolo
Nothing alters the psyche of a sprinter quite like an early victory and Sacha Modolo (Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox) arrives at the Tour of Qatar on something of a high after beating no less a figure than Mark Cavendish on the second stage of the Tour de San Luis in Argentina last month.
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Heinrich Haussler
cyclingnews, 2 Février 2013
Haussler in Qatar ahead of Classics
A new team, a new jersey but for Heinrich Haussler the focus remains on the Spring Cassics as he uses the Tour of Qatar to build his form. The 28-year-old switched from Garmin-Sharp to the Swiss IAM Cycling team in the off season and arrived in Qatar with what he believes is the best off-season trai
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Andrea Guardini
cyclingnews, 2 Février 2013
Guardini looks to get off the mark in Qatar
It’s often a case of all or nothing in sprinting, but few riders take that maxim to quite the same extremes as Andrea Guardini (Astana). Take his Giro d’Italia debut last year: for two and half weeks, the Italian youngster was marked absent from the bunch sprints, but when an opportunity finally pre
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