Jens Voigt
Cyclingnews.com, 17 November 2005
Defending the riders' rights
German Jens Voigt (Team CSC) likes it on the attack - be it in races or within his new job as rider representative in the UCI ProTour council. As he told Cyclingnews' Hedwig Kröner in between a training ride and taking care of his son's tenth birthday back home in Berlin, the father of four is happy
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Carlos Barredo
CyclingFx, 16 November 2005
I' m satisfied with this year.
The 2006 season will be very good for my team. I believe that we have a very compensated set, with young guns and riders who are already consecrated. These young guns have already one more year of experience to race all over the world. All of them can give us many joy and satisfaction in 2006 I thin
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Levi Leipheimer
Cyclingnews.com, 16 November 2005
One of the main contenders
After a stellar year that included an overall win in the Tour of Germany, third overall at the Dauphine Libere and sixth overall at the Tour de France, Gerolsteiner's American team leader Levi Leipheimer can quite easily say it's been his best season ever. Relaxing at his home in Santa Rosa, CA, Lei
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Heinrich Haussler
Cyclingnews.com, 15 November 2005
A beautiful year
Australian-born Heinrich Haussler emigrated to Germany seven years ago to try and make it as professional cyclist. Susan Westemeyer caught up with the youngest member of the Gerolsteiner team after completing an excellent season as a neo-pro
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Scott Sunderland
Cyclingnews.com, 10 November 2005
The transition, director vs. rider, and highlights
During the course of 2005, Scott Sunderland has transformed himself from an experienced professional cyclist to a hard working directeur sportif with one of the top teams in the world: Team CSC. The always approachable Australian discussed his first season with Cyclingnews' Chief Online Editor Jeff
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Hayden Roulston
Cyclingnews.com, 9 November 2005
A big base for a big 2006
Hayden Roulston is one of two New Zealanders playing their trade on Pro Tour teams, the Discovery Channel rider having switched from Cofidis in late 2004. This year Roulston suffered injury setbacks that hampered his efforts to shine in the spring classics, and recently suffering a little embarrassm
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Paul Griffin
Cyclingnews.com, 3 November 2005
Going full-time in the Far East
One of the UCI's aims is to make cycling a more global sport, and the new Continental Tours are one way to help this happen. Cyclingnews' Shane Stokes spoke to Irish rider Paul Griffin, who has had a chance to experience the Asia Tour first-hand this year while competing as part of the Giant Asia te
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David McKenzie
Cyclingnews.com, 2 November 2005
Dream a little dream
Perennial hard man and one of Australian cycling's real characters, David McKenzie has decided to call an end to his professional cycling career. Tough times with the Linda McCartney team and he and his wife's attempt at a subscription-based cycling team, iTeamnova.com, have been well documented, bu
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Christian Vande Velde
BiciRace.com, 31 October 2005
A Review of 2005: Hold the Clams
Christian Vande Velde (Team CSC) is the definition of domestique. This year he worked his legs to the bone for Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre, but in the past he was driving the pace for riders like Roberto Heras and Lance Armstrong. Team Manager at Team CSC, Bjarne Riis, values this type of rider, bu
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Magnus Backstedt
Cyclingnews.com, 25 October 2005
Derny ambition: Magnus' hour
Later this week, Magnus Backstedt will tear around the Newport track in the slipstream of a Derny motorbike, attempting to set a new world record for the paced hour. He spoke to Cyclingnews' Shane Stokes in recent days about his preparations for the record attempt, withdrawing from the Tour and resp
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Ivan Basso
BiciRace.com, 21 October 2005
King of Denmark on Tour and 2006
Ivan Basso (Team CSC) has had a complete 2005 season, racing end to end. The Italian (27) started his season with the Milano-Torino, then he worked towards the Giro d'Italia, followed by the Tour de France. It was a rare Giro-Tour double by a 'favorite' that is not often seen in modern cycling. His
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Marcus Burghardt
Cyclingnews.com, 20 October 2005
Boys just wanna have fun
How does a neo-pro survive his first year at T-Mobile in team full of super-stars? Susan Westemeyer asks 22 year-old Marcus Burghardt.
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Nicolas Roche
Cyclingnews.com, 16 October 2005
Back in green and happy with year one
The 2005 peloton includes quite a few riders with famous family names. Axel Merckx, Frank Vandenbroucke, Kevin Van Impe and Hervé Duclos-Lassalle are some of those, and so too Nicolas Roche, son of the Irishman who in 1987 won the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and World road race championships in on
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David Zabriskie
Cyclingnews.com, 15 October 2005
How bizarre
A bizarre chain of events put an end to what was a dream run for Dave Zabriskie. Cyclingnews' Anthony Tan talks to the man himself in an effort to make sense of it.
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Saul Raisin
VeloNews, 5 October 2005
"This year things are going a lot better."
At the ripe age of 22, Saul Raisin is putting the finishing touches of his first season in the elite ranks inside the European peloton.
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Gord Fraser
Cyclingnews.com, 4 October 2005
Be like Gord
Former Canadian road champion Gord Fraser has racked up countless sprint victories over his career. Now, as he approaches the final chapters of his racing days, he is beginning to look ahead to what is beyond the elbows and head-butts of the field sprints in North America.
This November, Fraser i
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