Flavio Zappi
cyclingweekly.co.uk, 26 January 2009
"I have more passion now than when I was a kid"
Flavio Zappi gave a continental flavour to the latest round of the Hog Hill Winter Series at Redbridge, London, on Saturday. The Italian ace, who has held the green jersey in the Giro D’Italia and finished 12th in Milan-San Remo, can now add a victory in the Hog Hill Series to his palmares.
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Leda Cox
pezcyclingnews.com, 26 January 2009
"racing in Europe is always hard"
It's two years since we last spoke to Leda Cox, she'd just signed up with Italian ladies pro team, Sacarelli and was looking forward to big things; but 2007 wasn't a great year for the girl from Saint Albans.
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Floyd Landis
velonews.com, 26 January 2009
“Absolutely. What anyone else thinks is really irrelevant.”
Three seasons after standing atop the Tour de France podium — and subsequently sitting out of competition on suspension — Floyd Landis is back in the pro peloton. The complete interview is in the latest issue of VeloNews, but here are a few highlights:
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Floyd Landis
The Spoke Word, 26 January 2009
"My pants still fit"
Floyd Landis won the Tour de France, lost that title due to a failed doping test, lost two subsequent appeals, and had his arthritically mangled right hip replaced with an artificial one. It’s a lot to overcome, emotionally and physically, but Landis is ready to return to racing.
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Zach McDonald
cxmagazine.com, 24 January 2009
The Next American Legend?
After winning the US National Title in the elite junior category, Zach McDonald headed overseas to test his mettle against the best that the world had to offer. Joe Sales caught up with the young star while he was still basking in the afterglow of his performance.
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David Zabriskie
nyvelocity.com, 24 January 2009
"You pull out the weiner"
Any interview with Garmin Slipstream's Dave Zabriskie is going to go places that many interviews do not. The following is an example of how things go when you talk to Dave Zabriskie when he has some time to kill.
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Christian Vande Velde
pezcyclingnews.com, 24 January 2009
"The hardest step is to win"
Garmin-Chipotle has a new winning message for 2009. PEZ caught up with Christian Vande Velde recently to find out more about the team's strategy, his own transformation into a Tour de France contender, and winter training in snowy Chicago.
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Floyd Landis
bicycling.com, 23 January 2009
"I couldn't be happier"
Floyd Landis's two-year suspension for synthetic testosterone use at the 2006 Tour de France ends January 30, 2009. He plans to begin his comeback at the Tour of California, with OUCH presented by Maxxis (the team formerly known as Health Net).
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Chris Froome
veloresults.co.uk, 23 January 2009
Working Hard & Getting Results
At the start of the 2008 season we hadn’t heard of the Chris Froome, but all of a sudden his name was everywhere – including le Tour. We thought we’d better have a word with the man who has to go training at 5.00 am to beat the Johannesburg traffic.
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Lance Armstrong
tourdownunder.com.au, 22 January 2009
"Johan doesn’t know this yet, but my radio was unplugged"
Lance Armstrong joined 13 riders in a 90-kilometre long break away throughout the Tour Down Under's Stage three, as the American gets back into the swing of racing. Armstrong joined a powerful break away early in the race and stayed away through to kilometre 101.
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Andy Schleck
cyclingnews.com, 22 January 2009
Gunning for greatness
The names Contador and Armstrong will be on everyone's lips come the Tour de France, but there is one rider who might just steal their thunder. Arguably the strongest rider in last year's Grande Boucle, Andy Schleck now has the experience to mount a serious challenge in cycling's biggest race.
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Nikki Harris
sportsister.com, 21 January 2009
"this is the best place to be"
Nikki Harris is one of Britain’s most talented all round female cyclists. She has competed in road, track, mountain bike and cyclo cross events and has won National Titles in every single discipline. Nikki is now in Belgium to continue her quest for international success.
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André Greipel
cyclingfever.com, 21 January 2009
"the guys did an awesome job today"
Ten past three in the afternoon. It's pretty hot, I'm perspiring from places I never thought possible. Not far from me, but still out of direct sight, the stage is decided in a group sprint. I'm going to try and get an interview with the days winner, André Greipel.
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Tom Zirbel
pezcyclingnews.com, 20 January 2009
"I'm gonna get better and better"
From the day PEZ chased Tom Zirbel at the Tour of California, we were keen to get an interview with the big man himself, so we sat down for a warm cup of coffee on a chilly 30 degree morning with Tom Zirbel to learn what makes this time trial machine tick.
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Lance Armstrong
cyclingnews.com, 17 January 2009
All I wanna do is have some fun
Lance Armstrong is back in cycling and the Texan is having a ball. In his largest press conference since arriving in Australia, Armstrong declared he's fallen in love with cycling again while fielding questions that ranged from irrelevant to simply bizarre.
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Michael Barry
pedalmag.com, 17 January 2009
"The victories kept on coming"
At the 2009 Team Columbia-Highroad's training camp and official team launch in Mallorca Michael Barry talked about feeling like a kid again, Columbia's tight-knit crew, living in Spain, and his aspirations to finally ride at the Tour de France.
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