 Alberto Contador
albertocontador.com,
17 Mayo 2011
"it's not an obsession to keep the leadership"
Alberto Contador, who on Sunday became the leader of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after winning the stage to Etna (Sicily), said on Monday that the race was "just beginning" and he was "not interested in defending the 'maglia rosa'."
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 Oscar Gatto
cyclingtime.com,
16 Mayo 2011
A dream come true
The Giro d’Italia has a long tradition of local riders from low budget teams having their day of glory by beating the favourites on one stage. It happened to Oscar Gatto and the Farnese Vini-Neri team in Tropea on Saturday. We caught up with him at the start of stage 9 in Messina.
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 Johann Tschopp
cyclingtime.com,
16 Mayo 2011
"I’ve never raced on a volcano before"
Johann Tschopp, the winner of last year’s penultimate stage of the Giro going over the famous climb of the Gavia, is having a quiet start this year. We caught up with him after Stage 8, where he stood 30th on GC.
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 Danilo di Luca
cyclingtime.com,
14 Mayo 2011
"It has a special place in my heart"
Danilo Di Luca didn’t make the hat trick at the top of the Montevergine di Mercogliano where he won a stage of the Giro d’Italia on two occasions, but the Italian who returned to racing after a positive dope test two years ago knew that he is not back at the level he previously had.
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 Andrey Zeits
proteam-astana.com,
14 Mayo 2011
«I want to try myself on the last races of the season in Italy»
Andrey Zeits is reputed to be the one of the most promising and talented young kazakh cyclists. He was born in 1986 in Pavlodar city in Kazakhstan. After he finished eighth grade of the school, have gone in for sport, and as we can see, he made a right choice.
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 Jay Thomson
cyclingtime.com,
14 Mayo 2011
"I haven’t looked back since"
Jay Thomson was on the Australian Fly-V team that looked to be set for a Pro-Tour license for this season, but that license was denied by the UCI. Having now signed for the UCI Continental Bissell Pro Cycling Team, he has been preparing for the forthcoming 2011 Tour of California.
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 Angel Vicioso
cyclingtime.com,
13 Mayo 2011
"it’s a fantastic feeling to come back to the Giro"
Angel Vicioso was disqualified from a stage win at the 2000 Giro d’Italia and had to wait for eleven years until getting the opportunity to for another victory. The Spaniard from Androni Giocattoli-C.I.P.I. finally got that victory in Rapallo at the end of Stage 3.
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 Marco Pinotti
cyclingtime.com,
12 Mayo 2011
Still happily humble
Marco Pinotti was close to getting the pink jersey back at the end of stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia. But the engineer from HTC-Highroad said at the start of the race in Piombino, that he was already delighted with what he achieved on the first day of the Italian Grand Tour.
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 Alexander Efimkin
velonews.com,
12 Mayo 2011
Efimkin talks Turkey
Team Type 1 is flying high following the dramatic overall victory at the Tour of Turkey in what’s the team’s first win of the season and the most important success in the squad’s history.
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 Adrien Niyonshuti
garyb.posterous.com,
12 Mayo 2011
"it was the first time I had gone to Europe"
Rwandan cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti won the inaugural Wooden Bike Classic in September 2006, held in the small town of Kibuye in front of 3,000 fans. By August 2009, he raced alongside Lance Armstrong in the Tour of Ireland.
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 Rachel Neylan
Podium Cafe,
12 Mayo 2011
"the harder you work, the luckier you get"
"It’s been an absolute whirlwind three years", says Rachel Neylan, about her life since she took up cycling.
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Franco Marvulli
skyscraperclassic.com,
11 Mayo 2011
"As a half-Italian I love pasta or gnocchis!!!"
Franco Marvulli is a bona fide European track pro hailing from Switzerland. As a 4-time world champion, 5-time Swiss national champion, and olympic silver medalist, we guess you could say that he’s pretty legit.
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Tjarco Cuppens
cyclingtime.com,
10 Mayo 2011
"It’s all about give and take"
Tjarco Cuppens is a Dutch rider with the UCI Continental team Fuji-CyclingTime.com, racing this season in Europe and Asia. At 35 years of age, Tjarco has been racing bikes for many years, the highlight of which was winning the Amateur World Championships in 2006.
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 Tiago Machado
cyclingtime.com,
9 Mayo 2011
"Am I the captain of this team?"
Portuguese rider Tiago Machado isn’t often mentioned among the favorites of the Giro d’Italia but he started on a high note with RadioShack’s strong performance at the inaugural team time trial. He precedes Alberto Contador by 20 seconds on general classification.
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 Michele Scarponi
cyclingtime.com,
9 Mayo 2011
"The most important thing was to start on the right foot"
Expectations are high in Italy for Vincenzo Nibali to win the Giro d’Italia but he’s not the only hope for the host country to take the pink jersey to Milan. Michele Scarponi came fourth overall last year and seems to have stepped up his level this year.
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 Richie Porte
cyclingtime.com,
7 Mayo 2011
"I’m here to work for Alberto"
It wasn’t planned for Richie Porte to ride the Giro this year. This is the race where he revealed his talent by claiming the pink jersey after the epic stage 11 to L’Aquila. He’s now starting the Giro d'Italia this year in the role of a helper for Alberto Contador.
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