Wouter Poels
C-Cycling, 30 Juin 2011
Interview - Wout Poels
Wout Poels has impressed me massively this season so far. Saturday the young Vacansoleil climber starts his first Tour de France and I think it will be a good idea for all of you to keep a close eye on him when the peloton hits the mountains!
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John Lee Augustyn
pezcyclingnews.com, 29 Juin 2011
'I ended up flying!'
A crash in 2007 has come back to haunt John Lee Augustyn and has forced him out of the first half of the season. The South African broke the head of his femur when he fell during a rainy time trial stage in the 2007 Tour of Portugal.
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Richie Porte
saxobanksungard.com, 29 Juin 2011
Looking Forward To A Challenging Tour de France
This Saturday, the Tour de France is coming and for Saxo Bank-SunGard Aussie, Richie Porte it is going to be a very special race. Here are some of his thoughts prior to making his debut in the French stage race over three weeks.
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Chris Horner
bicycling.com, 28 Juin 2011
Pushing 40 and Getting Faster
This week Chris Horner of Team RadioShack heads to Europe to make final preparations before the start of the 2011 Tour de France. We caught up with Horner last week to talk about his long career, and why he'll have his best chance ever at stepping onto the podium in Paris.
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Levi Leipheimer
bicycling.com, 28 Juin 2011
'We’ll See Soon Enough Who Is Strongest on RadioShack'
At 37, Levi Leipheimer is not the youngest American hopeful in the upcoming Tour de France but he's one of the most consistent. After his victory last week in the Tour of Switzerland, the RadioShack rider again demonstrated that he will be a player in the world’s biggest bicycle race.
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Brent Bookwalter
velonews.com, 28 Juin 2011
Tour bound and talking pressure
Brent Bookwalter will start his second Tour de France, his third grand tour overall, on Saturday. A stage winner at the Tour of Utah and a multiple-time collegiate national champion, Bookwalter broke out in Europe with a second-place in the Giro d’Italia prologue last year.
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Chris Froome
velonation.com, 26 Juin 2011
One eye on the Vuelta
Chris Froome has racked up steady results all season, including fourteenth overall in the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and fifteenth in the Tour de Romandie. However, these performances were not enough to earn him a spot on Team Sky’s final roster for the Tour de France.
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Dan Fleeman
pezcyclingnews.com, 25 Juin 2011
"The harder the race, the more it suits me"
Team Raleigh’s British hill climb champion, Dan Fleeman received an unexpected call up for the tough six day Canadian stage race the Tour de Beauce - won by Realcyclist.com’s Spanish star Francisco Mancebo - here’s what Mr. Fleeman had to say about it.
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Erinne Willock
pedalmag.com, 25 Juin 2011
"I really would like to be a National Champion before I retire"
We caught up with Erinne Willock (Team Tibco/To The Top) after her ninth-place time trial effort in the 21.67 km race at 2011 Canadian Road Nationals in Belfountain, Ontario. She reflected on her race and shared her thoughts on Friday's main event, the Elite Women's 103km road race.
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Katie Colclough
Telegraph Sport, 25 Juin 2011
"It's not just about winning, I want to enjoy winning"
London 2012 track cycling hopeful Katie Colclough, the HTC-Highroad rider, will compete at the British National Road Race Championships on Sunday. Katie talks about her fear of not enjoying success, training in the rain and proper nights out.
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Ian Stannard
Telegraph Sport, 25 Juin 2011
"absolutely ******"
Ian Stannard, 24, is in his fourth year as a professional rider and has been with Team Sky since their formation following 12-month spells with the Landbouwkrediet and ISD teams.
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Ryder Hesjedal
velonews.com, 23 Juin 2011
‘Fitter and fresher’
Ryder Hesjedal will start his fourth Tour de France under very different circumstances than last year when the Garmin-Cervélo rider rode from strength to strength throughout the three weeks to arrive in Paris with the best Canadian result since Steve Bauer was fourth in 1988.
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George Atkins
velonation.com, 22 Juin 2011
Back on the Bike
George Atkins is the reigning British points champion and finished second to Cameron Meyer in the 2010 Commonwealth Games points race. That should have been the start of the next phase of his career. Instead, it was almost the end. We caught up with him in order to hear his story.
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Valentin Iglinskiy
proteam-astana.com, 21 Juin 2011
“I’m totally dedicated to cycling”
Valentin Iglinskiy is seen as the main hope of Kazakhstani cycling sprint and he steadily meet the expectations. In his first season he brings the team to victory at Tour of Hainan, in the beginning of the next year he also gain a victory on the stage at Tour of Turkey.
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Alex Dowsett
Telegraph Sport, 20 Juin 2011
"I threw up at the top"
We recently caught up with Team Sky's Alex Dowsett for a Gatrorade track cycling masterclass at the Manchester Velodrome. Since then he has won the London Nocturne criterium and finished sixth at the Ster ZLM Tour.
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Fumiyuki Beppu
Cyclesportmag, 20 Juin 2011
Japan’s rising son
Japan is full of bicycles and kerin racing is huge, but Fumiyuki Beppu is one of only four Japanese road riders competing at the top level.
Chigaseki is a seaside town located on a broad sweep of sandy beaches about 50 kilometres down Japan’s east coast from Tokyo. The Tokaido Main Line, one of t
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