 Marcus Burghardt
cyclingnews.com,
6 November 2007
"Only thing that counts is the team's success"
At T-Mobile team's presentation on Mallorca last January, Marcus Burghardt was cautiously optimistic about the coming season. The 24 year-old German was right on target: his healed knee and matured self-confidence catapulted him onto the podium at two spring races.
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 Svein Tuft
pezcyclingnews.com,
6 November 2007
"I don’t plan my year around results"
Canadians tend to keep a low profile in the world of elite level pro cycling… that is if you can find ‘em… But when a rider wins a season long UCI tour – like Svein Tuft just did… people take notice.
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 Patrik Sinkewitz
Der Spiegel,
5 November 2007
'Your Main Concern Is Not to Get Caught'
His positive test results for doping during the Tour de France plunged German cycling into its biggest crisis yet. Patrik Sinkewitz talks publicly for the first time about his career, his experience with performance enhancing drugs, and the doping performed by his team doctors.
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 Levi Leipheimer
velonews.com,
5 November 2007
‘My best season ever'
Levi Leipheimer's trophy collection improved dramatically in 2007 with some quality wins that included his first-ever Tour de France stage victory, the Tour podium with third, the overall at the Tour of California and the U.S. national pro title.
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 Craig Lewis
t-mobile-team.com,
4 November 2007
Excited with what's ahead
T-Mobile Team newcomer Craig Lewis is widely tipped in American cycling circles as the 'next big thing'. US U23 Road Race Champion in 2006, the 22 year old South Carolina native has already impressed this Fall with top 10 finishes at the Tour of Ireland and the Tour de l'Avenir.
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 Romain Feillu
cyclingnews.com,
3 November 2007
A lengthy road to success
It's been a while since France produced a successful neo-professional like Romain Feillu. Although he's only a member of a Professional Continental team, the young sprinter from Agritubel has a lot of cards to play.
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 Gerald Ciolek
cyclingnews.com,
2 November 2007
I am not a sprinter
Gerald Ciolek sprinted to win the German National Road Championship in 2005 at the age of 18, then again to win the U23 World Championship a year later and claimed seven race stages this season - all in sprints.
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 Compton Katie
Cyclocross Magazine,
2 November 2007
Katie Compton interview
Katie Compton is the reigning national cyclocross champion, as well as the silver medalist at the 2007 UCI World Cyclocross Championships. When Katie won her first national championship in 2004, she surprised her competitors and the media, but she wasn’t a stranger to competing at the top level. The
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 Hanka Kupfernagel
cyclingnews.com,
1 November 2007
The icing of the cake
33 year-old Hanka Kupfernagel stunned the road racing world when she took the gold medal in the time trial in Stuttgart. More noted for her skills in cyclo-cross, Kupfernagel is an extraordinarily versatile rider who has had success on the road, track and mountain bike as well.
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Darko Ficko
canadiancyclist.com,
31 October 2007
"I'm coming back with an anger. Watch out!"
Darko Ficko is a former national champion and national team rider - and, still to this day, an occasional medalist on the national scene. Recently, the 41-year-old rider had an accident in The Tour of Tobago, which has left him with a broken femur head that leaves his cycling career in mysteryland.
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Dotsie Bausch
FixedGearFever,
31 October 2007
"Suffering, suffering and more suffering"
Screaming onto the track scene, riding her way into the talent pool, winning not one but two national championship jerseys in a week, you have to wonder "Who is Dotsie Bausch?"
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 Steve Cummings
thepaceline.com,
31 October 2007
Off to Barloworld
British pro Stephen Cummings will join fellow GB team pursuiter Geraint Thomas, at the Barloworld team in 2008. Cummings will again look to ride the Tour of Italy next year, before returning to the British team to prepare for the team pursuit at the Olympics in August.
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 Karl Menzies
cyclingnews.com,
29 October 2007
A motivating, roller coaster season
Tassie rider Karl Menzies came to America four years ago while racing with an ad-hoc Aussie team at Superweek, with the team selling all its equipment after the series before heading back to Australia.
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 David Zabriskie
dailypeloton.com,
28 October 2007
"It is kind of a risk on my part"
28-year-old Dave Zabriskie has moved to the Slipstream/Chipotle Professional Cycling Team for the comig season and is only months away from fulfilling his dream by competing at the 2008 Beijing Games in China next summer.
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 Steven Van Vooren
cyclingnews.com,
28 October 2007
Following the right footsteps
On Sunday September 16 Steven Van Vooren became the second member of the Cycle Center team to win the Circuit du Port after Finnish star, Jussi Veikkanen rode away with the win before turning professional for French ProTour outfit, La Francais des Jeux five years ago.
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Alison Sydor
velonews.com,
27 October 2007
"It's fun to do something new"
One of North America's all-time greatest cyclists popped up unexpectedly on this year's U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross start list. Canadian Alison Sydor, a three-time mountain bike world champion and road world bronze medalist, got on a 'cross bike for the first time in her career.
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