cyclesportnews.com,
26 Maart 2007
Everyone likes to be leader!
Alberto Contador returns to competition tomorrow in the Vuelta a Castilla Leon. After his victory in Paris-Nice, the Discovery Channel rider expects to show his full recovery after the effort on the French roads, where he also took over the leadership of the UCI ProTour.

nyvelocity.com,
26 Maart 2007
"I'm a freak, dude, a total freak!"
On his first ever visit to New York, Saul Raisin never stops talking. Still only 24, he is now a man on a mission to stage the biggest comeback American cycling has seen. “Dude, if I can race the American Pro Championships this year, I will surprise everyone."

velodrome.org.uk,
26 Maart 2007
On top of the world
Chris Hoy will attempt to add the kilometre world record to his world and Olympic titles in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, 3,640m above sea level, on 12 May. It will be the 30-year-old's last run over the distance, as the "kilo" has been scrapped from the 2008 Olympics.

dailypeloton.com,
26 Maart 2007
"Putting on the show"
'Cuban Missile' Ivan Dominguez was presented with the green jersey of Sprint leader after Friday’s stage of the 23rd Redlands Bicycle Classic to Oak Glen. However, the next day brought a bitter awakening with a controversial call by the race jury.

cyclingheroes.info,
26 Maart 2007
"Hope is priceless"
American rider Saul Raisin (Credit Agricole) who was in a coma after a crash at the Circuit de la Sarthe last april will return to the peloton.

THE BEAUTY OF CYCLING,
25 Maart 2007
"The best times are when you least expect to get a result and you do"
Nikki Harris is a twenty year old English girl who competes on the road, in the field and on the track. A real all-rounder one could say, but what does she think on this. Nikki starts racing this year for the Global Racing Team, her opinion about the team and more …

cyclingnews.com,
25 Maart 2007
A Ready Rosenbarger
On a flight to his first race of the season in Fresno, the Colorado-based rider Jacob Rosenbarger of the BMC Pro Cycling Team was happy to be escaping the clutches of a tough Front Range winter for some California sunshine.

velonews.com,
25 Maart 2007
"I am in the middle"
Stefan Schumacher is one of Germany's brightest hopes for the future. The burly Gerolsteiner is an all-rounder who can sprint as well as climb, as he revealed in his grand tour debut in last year's Giro d'Italia with two stage wins.

cyclingpost.com,
25 Maart 2007
"It is not much fun watching from the sofa"
The T-Mobile rider gives a first-hand account of riding Paris-Nice, the pleasures and pains of climbing and the difficulty of abandoning a race.

britishcycling.org.uk,
24 Maart 2007
"The Olympics is a different thing"
A former double world champion, Rob Hayles is not only one of the senior members of the team but also one of the most successful with two medals at the last Olympics in the Team Pursuit and Madison and World titles in the same events in 2005 at the Los Angeles World Track Championships.

britishcycling.org.uk,
24 Maart 2007
"We’re all in it for the Olympics"
Paul Manning started out in the Team Pursuit at the 1999 Track World Championships where he was fifth man and since then, has been in the line-up on the track at successive World Championships, but he acknowledges that selection for the team is now no longer assured.

britishcycling.org.uk,
24 Maart 2007
"I’m cruising at 130 revs.”
The Cardiff rider who races for pro team Barloworld, already has a World Championship Silver medal in his collection from 2006 but he knows it will not be easy this year to get that much sought after place in the foursome for the Team Pursuit.

cyclingnews.com,
24 Maart 2007
Conquistador
Discovery Channel's Alberto Contador is on his way to becoming the new star of Spanish cycling after his overall victory in Paris-Nice. The 24 year-old made a daring solo escape on the final stage to wrest the overall win from Gerolsteiner's Davide Rebellin. After uncertainties with the now defunct

thepaceline.com,
23 Maart 2007
"Private is private"
First year professional Gianni Meersman is a new addition to the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team and looks to be a rider for the future based on his past results as a Junior cyclist.

t-mobile-team.com,
23 Maart 2007
"The intensive work is starting to pay off"
Third place at the Milano-Torino semi-classic, second overall at ProTour stage race Tirreno-Adriatico - while a crowning win has eluded him, T-Mobile pro Kim Kirchen is on something of a roll at the moment. Payoff: On Saturday the Luxembourg champion steps up to the role of captaining the T-Mobile t

team-milram.com,
23 Maart 2007
San Remo is the most beautiful race for me
After Erik Zabel broke up Tirreno – Adriatico as a precaution due to a sore throat, he is now preparing for Milan – Sanremo next Saturday with Christian Knees in Piacenza. For him, it is the most beautiful race in the world. Ten years ago he won the „classicissima“ for the first time, and it’s been