Dan Fleeman
veloresults.co.uk, 9 January 2010
About his Biological Passport
Dan Fleeman texted me the other day to tell me that he'll be getting a bit of an airing on the Bike Pure site, due to his decision to continue with UCI Biological Passport level blood testing with Raleigh - at his own expense.
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Serge Pauwels
pezcyclingnews.com, 8 January 2010
'I'm on the Costa Blanca'
Rather than risk being house bound by the ice, snow and winds of Northern Europe, the 26 year-old from Edegem in the Flemish province of Antwerp, has followed the birds south to do his training for what will be the biggest season of his life.
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Martijn Maaskant
podiumcafe.com, 7 January 2010
Talking cobbles and 2010
In two seasons at Team Garmin-Transitions Martijn Maaskant has shown that his early promise on the cobbles was no fluke: he took 12th in his first professional run of the Tour of Flanders and fourth in Paris-Roubaix, followed by another fourth last season in De Ronde.
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Bradley Wiggins
veloresults.co.uk, 6 January 2010
Leader at the Launch
The alarm clocked stirred me from my slumber at the ungodly hour of 5am. Why would I be getting up on a freezing Monday morning at yon time? Bradley Wiggins no less, and the Sky team launch at the Milltower Bank !
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Zach McDonald
cxmagazine.com, 6 January 2010
The Euro Experience
Back for its seventh year, Geoff Proctor’s EuroCrossCamp returned to Izegem, Belgium with eighteen riders to compete against the world’s best. As the camp winds down, I spoke with one of the camp veteran’s, Zach McDonald.
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Rebecca Romero
eurosport.yahoo.com, 6 January 2010
"I'm a coffee addict, and spend too much money in coffee shops"
Eurosport-Yahoo! caught up with rowing and cycling Olympic medallist Rebecca Romero and eventually found out who she would invite for dinner.
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Rebecca Romero
eurosport.yahoo.com, 5 January 2010
"I'm a coffee addict"
Eurosport-Yahoo! caught up with rowing and cycling Olympic medallist Rebecca Romero and eventually found out who she would invite for dinner.
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Rahsaan Bahati
pezcyclingnews.com, 5 January 2010
Sprinting For Change
Compton, Los Angeles: ‘about 21.5% of families and 23.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.6% of those under age 18’ - that’s what the demographics say. Not the likeliest of places for a top pro athlete to hail from, you might think?
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Joe Papp
veloresults.co.uk, 4 January 2010
Still Atoning for His Doping
On May 7, 2006, at the UCI Tour of Turkey, Joe Papp was found positive for metabolites of testosterone. Joe is now an outspoken, no holds barred opponent of the use of illegal performance enhancing methods and substances in sport.
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Burke Swindlehurst
podiuminsight.com, 3 January 2010
Rewriting the script
After eleven years of racing on professional teams, Burke Swindlehurst has decided to shake things up and follow his dream to combine his love of both the road and dirt as a professional racer. In order to do, the 36-year has rewritten the traditional sponsorship script and is going solo.
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Marco Pinotti
VeloNation Press, 2 January 2010
Target: Giro and Worlds
2009 was a year to remember for Marco Pinotti who, at 33 years of age, had the most consistent season of his career. He took a series of strong results, culminating in a fine fifth place in the world time trial championship in Mendrisio
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Tara Whitten
canadiancyclist.com, 31 December 2009
Not just a ‘trackie’
With a silver medal at the world championships, a national road time trial title win followed by a 8th place at the Road World Championships, and just this month gold and silver medals at the latest round of the World Cup, Canada’s Tara Whitten is clearly on a roll!
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Jeremy Powers
pezcyclingnews.com, 31 December 2009
Christmas Cross!
Christmas Eve in Belgium, you're an American cyclo-cross rider, far from home; what do you do? Watch 'It's a Wonderful Life;' or maybe break training and have a Duvel or play your favourite Dead Boys CD to remind you of home? Nah! Get the pork chops on, bake some cookies and talk to Pez
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Tom Zirbel
velonews.competitor.com, 29 December 2009
Waiting is the hardest part
Tom Zirbel announced Sunday that he had tested positive for DHEA following the USA Cycling Professional Individual Time Trial Championships in August. The 2009 National Racing Calendar champion proclaimed his innocence and asked that his “B” sample be tested.
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Rinaldo Nocentini
cyclingweekly.co.uk, 28 December 2009
Rinaldo Nocentini interview: An Italian in yellow
Andy Warhol suggested that one day, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, but at the Tour de France Rinaldo Nocentini stretched his moment out to eight days.
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Luis León Sánchez
Prensa Luis León Sánchez, 23 December 2009
“It is on the road that one takes steps up the ladder”
A few days before starting his seventh season as a professional rider, the fourth with Team Caisse d’Epargne, Luis León Sánchez analyzes the races he won in 2009 and makes plans for 2010.
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