Bookwalter Brent
Pez Cyclingnews, 3 June 2013
PEZ Talk: BMC’s Brent Bookwalter
Some say that last is the worst spot to finish a race; but there’s also a school of thought which says second place is the worst. And some would say that the worst races to finish second in are National or World Championships; the winner gets to wear the champion’s jersey for a whole year – the runn
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Clément Koretzky
Pez Cyclingnews, 30 May 2013
PEZ Talk: Bretagne Séché’s Clément Koretzky
Just 22 years old and a second year pro, young Frenchman Clément Koretzky was not afraid to mix it up with the best at this year’s Paris-Roubaix going in the early break and crossing the Arenberg forest ahead of the peloton in the company of three big Classics men in Matthew Hayman, Stuart O’Grady &
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Tanel Kangert
Pez Cyclingnwes, 28 May 2013
PEZ Talk: Astana’s Tanel Kangert
One of the revelations of this year’s Giro has been Estonian Road Race Champion, Tanel Kangert. He was the man seen most often at the side of his Capo, Giro winner, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana & Italy) when the chips were down in the high mountains.
Kangert was a successful junior in Estonia before
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Emma Pooley
Velonation.com, 23 May 2013
Emma Pooley victory salvages “chaotic” Tour de Languedoc-Rousillon
British rider wins three years after final Tour de l’Aude despite continued problems. The race was won by Emma Pooley (Bigla), after the British rider took the victory on the hilly third stage, then consolidated her overall lead with second place in the penultimate day’s time trial. Despite her vict
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Georgia Gould
Stack, 19 May 2013
Fearless Femme: Pro Mountain Biker Georgia Gould.
Georgia Gould didn't take her first mountain bike ride until she was 19 years old. Nine years later, she was careening through the cross-country mountain bike course at the Beijing Olympic Games for Team USA. Finally, last year, Gould proudly brought home a bronze medal from the London Games.
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Adam Hansen
Cyclingnews, 14 May 2013
Adam Hansen: Taking competitive edge into his own hands
According to Adam Hansen (Lotto Belisol) completing three Grand Tours in 2012 not only made him stronger, but far more efficient as a rider. It's a nice parallel when you consider that not only has the 32-year-old designed a logistics program using his computer programming background for his team to
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Georgia Gould
STACK, 14 May 2013
It’s hard to believe that Georgia Gould didn’t take her first mountain bike ride until she was 19-years-old.
Nine years later, she was careering through the cross-country mountain bike course at the Beijing Olympic Games for Team USA. Finally, last year, Gould proudly brought home a bronze medal from the London 2012 Olympics.
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Ken Hanson
Pez Cyclingnews, 12 May 2013
PEZ Talk: Ken Hanson
It’s a measure of how seriously the home teams take the Tour of California that several have made the long trip to Europe to expose themselves to the level of the World Tour outfits they’ll encounter come May. Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies rode an Iberian campaign which saw their big f
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Jussi Veikkanen
Pez Cyclingnews, 1 May 2013
PEZ Talk: Jussi Veikkanen
Jussi Veikkanen is a man who’s worn the KOM jersey at the Tour de France, ridden and finished all three GrandTours and worked as a domestique for some of the best in the game in his 9 seasons as a professional. PEZ caught up with the experienced FDJ man in France just before he headed off to start h
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Andrew Talansky
Cyclism’Actu, 27 April 2013
J'adore cette course !
Pour sa première participation au Tour de Romandie, en 2011, Andrew Talansky avait décroché la 9ème place d’une épreuve remporté par Cadel Evans. L’an passé, il avait bataillé au général pour la victoire finale mais n’avait rien pu faire contre Bradley Wiggins dans le chrono’ de Crans Montana. A la
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Christopher Horner
Pez Cyclingnews, 26 April 2013
PEZ Talk: Chris Horner
Chris Horner is one of the old hands in the Pro peloton, at 41 years old he’s seen a lot of things happen and witnessed a lot of changes. How much longer he will be plying his trade on the roads of Europe he doesn’t know, but one thing is for sure; he loves every minute of it. We were lucky enough t
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Rachel Neylan
Podium Cafe, 25 April 2013
Rachel Neylan on triumphing over adversity and the Flèche Wallonne.
While I was at the Flèche Wallonne with team Hitec Products UCK, I interviewed Rachel Neylan, just after she finished the race, where she’d ridden in support of her Hitec team-mate, Elisa Longo Borghini’s second place. I’ve interviewed Rachel before, in 2011, on her route into cycling, but in the ti
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Sarah Storey
Total Women Cycling, 25 April 2013
Dame Sarah Storey, GB’s most decorated female Paralympian
That terrible word ‘radiant’ is the greatest cliché of pregnancy, but Dame Sarah Storey really does look glowing and healthy when we sit down to chat in the very posh AldwychOne hotel.
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Sarah meets Total Women’s Cycling!
We’re here because Dame Sarah has recently signed up as an ambassador
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Elisa Longo Borghini
Podium Cafe, 23 April 2013
Flèche Wallonne post-race podium interviews - Elisa Longo Borghini and Ashleigh Moolman
Last week I went to the Flèche Wallonne with Hitec Products UCK, and I was lucky enough to be able to interview Hitec's Elisa Longo Borghini, who came second, and Lotto Belisol's Ashleigh Moolman who came third, just after the race, when they'd sprinted neck-and-neck behind winner Marianne Vos.
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Taylor Phinney
Pez Cyclingnews, 19 April 2013
PEZ Talk: Taylor Phinney
A man who we mentioned in our Paris-Roubaix preview as a possible podium finisher was BMC’s 22 year-old powerhouse, Taylor Phinney. We’d expected the big man from Boulder, Colorado to improve upon last year’s 15th place, but it was not to be. PEZ spoke to Phinney upon his return to the US and once h
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Richie Porte
Cycling Weekly, 15 April 2013
Ready for Ardennes Classics debut.
Off-contract Australian Richie Porte is hoping to continue his golden stage race run at the Tour of Romandie but will first make an Ardennes Classics debut with Sky this week.
Porte will start Wedensday's Fleche Wallone before lining-up alongside teammate and Tour de France runner-up Chris Froom
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