 Baden Cooke
cyclingnews.com,
12 May 2006
Finding top gear again
It's been quite some time between drinks for Unibet.com rider Baden Cooke. After the highs of the 2003 Tour de France, the Australian has found wins hard to come by, something he's aiming to rectify.
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 Bradley McGee
cyclingnews.com,
10 May 2006
Pieces of the puzzle
Brad McGee's performance in stage one of this year's Giro came as a surprise to the Australian, and signalled his emergence from a pretty long trough in form.
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 Paolo Savoldelli
amdprocycling.com,
10 May 2006
"I want to try to do that."
"Il Falco" rode a tactically superior race last year and this time around has a very strong team to support him in defence of his title.
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 Koen de Kort
astanawurth.com,
10 May 2006
“THE GIRO IS THE BEST THREE-WEEK RACE IN WHICH TO MAKE ONES DEBUT”
Koen de Kort, winner of the París-Roubaix spoirs in 2004, is fulfilling another of his dreams in this 2006 Giro, his debut in a three-week tour.
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 Marcos Serrano
astanawurth.com,
9 May 2006
“I CAN’T BE COMPARED TO MARINO LEJARRETA, THAT WAS ANOTHER WORLD”
In his fourteenth year as a professional, Marcos Serrano hopes to ride in the three big ones this year, the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta.
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Bart Brentjens
cyclingnews.com,
8 May 2006
Keeping that winning feeling
Now a spry 37 years of age, Dutchman Bart Brentjens started making an impact in mountain biking more than a decade ago when he won the 1995 world championships, following it up by winning the first Olympic mountain bike gold medal in Atlanta in 1996.
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 Robbie McEwen
cyclingnews.com,
8 May 2006
Where he wants to be
After an injury setback sidelined him throughout March and April, Davitamon-Lotto's Robbie McEwen bounced back with a win at the Tour de Romandie and now the Giro, proving that he's well and truly back where he wants to be - on top of the podium.
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 Michele Scarponi
astanawurth.com,
6 May 2006
“THE PENULTIMATE STAGE IS EQUIVALENT TO THE WHOLE GIRO”
Michele Scarponi confronts his second Giro d'Italia at the head of Liberty Seguros-Würth with the aim to obtain what escaped from him last year due to a disease.
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 Unai Osa
astanawurth.com,
6 May 2006
“I WANT TO BE BESIDE SCARPONI AND FIGHT FOR A STAGE VICTORY”
Unai Osa will take part in his fourth Giro d’ Italia this Saturday, although, as he says, “in one, the Giro of 2000, I only lasted one day, because I broke my scaphoid in the first stage and had to go home”.
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 Giampaolo Caruso
astanawurth.com,
6 May 2006
“IF PANTANI WERE HERE, THEY COULD JUST GIVE HIM THE MAGLIA ROSA BEFORE THE START”
Giampaolo Caruso takes part in his second Giro d’ Italia full of ambition. He says it will be the toughest Giro in recent years, but he is prepared for the challenge.
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 Judith Arndt
t-mobile-team.com,
5 May 2006
"We improved a lot"
After placing second and fourth at the past World Cup rounds, Judith Arndt pulverized her rivals to win three stages and the overall title at the Gracia Orlova tour in Czech Republic. At Sunday’s World Cup race in Spain on Sunday, the 29-year-old is a contender for the win.
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 Alessandro Ballan
BiciRace.com,
5 May 2006
Signor Spring
Maybe you first noticed Alessandro Ballan (26) when he rocketed out of the Sanremo peloton on the Poggio, or maybe it was when he won the Trofeo Laigueglia on Valentine's Day. Either way he was making his name known this spring with stunning form.
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Bradley McGee
eurosport.co.uk,
4 May 2006
"I'm a little bit flat"
As Australia's Bradley McGee prepares for Saturday's prologue in Seraing, the FDJeux rider does not expect to wear pink again on the Giro as he did in 2004.
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 Jose Rujano
cyclingnews.com,
4 May 2006
The Rujano show
Hailing from Venezuela, Jose Rujano was the greatest revelation of last year’s Giro d’Italia. Selle Italia’s diminuitive climbing sensation was third overall in the 2005 Giro, securing both the mountain and most aggressive rider jerseys by the time the race finished in Milan. Declared the greatest S
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 Bobby Julich
cyclingnews.com,
4 May 2006
A maglia rosa for two
Bobby Julich makes his Giro debut this weekend, finally riding the Tour of Italy after a long career in the peloton. He and the rest of the CSC team are fully behind Ivan Basso, but the American rider has one personal ambition he'd also like to achieve.
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Clayton Barrows
pezcyclingnews.com/,
2 May 2006
The Man from Laramie
In 1955 Columbia Pictures made the movie ‘The Man from Laramie’, starring James Stewart. In 2006 there’s another man from Laramie out there, his name is Clayton Barrows but he aint totin’ Navy Colts, his weapon of choice is a Dart carbon compact.
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