Thomas Geraint
Ride, 21 January 2016
More isn’t always better. (1)
Geraint Thomas has achieved a lot as a cyclist already but he believes there’s a lot more yet to come. After the London Olympics, RIDE spoke to him about his accomplishments as a track cyclists and what he expects will come next.
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Jaan Kirsipuu
Rouleur, 21 January 2016
Cult hero: Jaan Kirsipuu
He couldn’t climb, never finished a Tour de France and looked like a plump rugby forward. But few riders in history have won more races than Kirsipuu. The story of Estonia’s fast-finishing trailblazer
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Richie Porte
Pez Cyclingnews, 21 January 2016
BMC’s Richie Porte Gets PEZ’d!
Richie Porte has always been the nearly man with Sky, he has a good selection of wins, but there has always been a Wiggins or a Froome higher in the team pecking order. Now the Australian is following in the footsteps of Cadel Evans to the BMC team and new horizons. Alastair Hamilton caught up with
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Fumiyuki Beppu
Scicon news, 21 January 2016
60-second interview
Fumiyuki Beppu is the most celebrated rider in Japanese history and has spent a decade riding the World Tour circuit. He is known for being one of the kindest and dedicated riders in the pro peloton. He is a strong classics rider with a strong desire to one day win a stage of the Tour De France.
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Ryder Hesjedal
Pedamag, 21 January 2016
Ryder Hesjedal at 2016 Tour Down Under
Ryder Hesjdal is liberally applying sunscreen before heading out for a training ride on the eve of the 2016 Tour Down Under. The hot South Australian summer awaits him outside.
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Daryl Impey
Ride, 19 January 2016
Ewan: “he’s pretty fast and hard to beat”
A headwind in the finishing straight served Caleb Ewan well in Lyndoch: he jumps off the wheels of his lead-out men, tucks down low, turns on the turbo and off he goes… ahead and over the line for the win. Twice in three days, the Orica-GreenEdge sprinter has won a race in the manner that’s expected
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Brian Smith
VeloVeritas, 19 January 2016
Team Dimension Data's General Manager
With the retirement of David Miller, Scotland has just one representative left in the World Tour, Sky’s Andy Fenn; but with MTN-Qhubeka morphing into ‘Team Dimension Data, riding for Qhubeka’ for 2016 and moving up to the first division of professional cycling the nation has another man at the heart
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Stetina Peter
Velo News, 19 January 2016
My life now is entirely different
A second can last forever. Peter Stetina is still living the consequences of his disastrous crash at last year’s Vuelta al Pais Vasco (Tour of the Basque Country).
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Tom Boonen
Rouleur, 19 January 2016
Portrait: Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen speaks with a broad grin and one eyebrow raised above the frame of his Tom Ford sunglasses. He is referring to Laurens de Plus, one of Etixx-QuickStep’s new signings for 2016, and, at 20 years of age, the youngest rider in the WorldTour.
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Jack Wilson
Cyclist, 19 January 2016
Jack Wilson: Q&A
The young An-Post rider had a torrid season that ended with him nearly quitting. Now he's back with some new targets and a fresh outlook.
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Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay
Cycling Central, 18 January 2016
Cycling is easy for Ethiopia's first World Tour rider
A hard path so far means cycling comes easy to 24-year-old Ethiopian rider Tsgabu Grmay.
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Dennis Rohan
Pez Cyclingnews, 18 January 2016
BMC’s Rohan Dennis Gets PEZ’d
Hour record, Tour de France stages, World and National titles, Tour Down Under and a bag full of other top wins, that is the palmarès of BMC’s Rohan Dennis and he’s still only 25. Will he be the next Grand tour GC man to come from team pursuiting? He thinks so.
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André Greipel
CyclingNews, 18 January 2016
Greipel fired up for World Championships in Qatar
As André Greipel sets out his list of goals for the coming season, there is one in particular that stands out above all others, and he talks about it with a conviction that he cannot muster for the rest of the races on his 2016 programme.
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Simon Gerrans
Ride, 16 January 2016
I didn’t think it was physically possible to do what he did
Simon Gerrans is a two-time national road race champion and three time winner of the Tour Down Under title. He knows how to find form in January and he has hopes of another good showing in the Australian round of the WorldTour… but first he’s coming to terms with what he saw Jack Bobridge do in the
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Matt Green
VeloVeritas, 16 January 2016
It's Good to be Back!
It's been a while since we last spoke to Englishman Matt Green at the tail-end of 2011, when he was off across the pond to ride in the 'States, and a lot has happened to him since then - not least of which a very serious accident which kept him out of action for most of last season.
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Phil Anderson
Pez Cyclingnews, 16 January 2016
PEZ Talk: Phil Anderson
There had been successful Australian professionals in the peloton in the 70’s; Michael Wilson, Gary Clively and Don Allan to name three – but the man who really set rolling the ball which would eventually find the back of the net with Cadel Evans’ Tour de France and World Professional Road race Cham
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