Pez Cycling News, Edmond Hood, 1 April 2021
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He lives on the course, he’s raced on it and driven the team car there – former pro rider and now UAE Team Emirates director Allan Peiper has the T-shirt and more when it comes to the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ed Hood gets the low-down from the man on the route.

Pez Cyclingnews, Edmond Hood, 27 September 2020
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The penultimate time trial stage of the 2020 Tour de France turned the race on its head. With a stunning ride, Tadej Pogačar put time into everyone to take the overall lead and the KOM, to go along with his ‘Best Young Riders’ jersey. As Tadej said at the time it was a team effort, and one of the links in the UAE Team Emirates chain was DS Allan Peiper, Ed Hood managed to ‘have a word’.

VeloNews, Andrew Hood, 14 May 2020
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Cycling’s abridged and compact racing calendar gives everyone in the peloton a much-needed finish line. That’s according to UAE-Team Emirates sport director Allan Peiper, who said riders who’ve been in lockdown for nearly two months due to coronavirus are champing at the bit to return to training and racing.

ride, Rob Arnold, 31 July 2018
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At the start of Le Tour of 2018, Allan Peiper told RIDE Media this was the three weeks he’d been waiting his whole life for. The race didn’t go as planned but he continues to live the cycling life – despite a significant personal issues.

Ride, Rob Arnold, 11 April 2014
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As he drove from the BMC team’s hotel to the roads that will be used for Paris-Roubaix this Sunday, Allan Peiper took a call from RIDE’s publisher Rob Arnold. Last Sunday, Greg Van Avermaet was the runner-up in the Ronde van Vlaanderen. We started this quick interview by asking if the Belgian leader for the cobbled Classics is up to the challenge of going on better in the ‘Hell of the North’…

Cycling Central, Alex Hinds, 14 February 2014
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BMC is rich with talent, resource and aspirations, but breeding a culture of cohesion amongst its most gifted athletes isn’t a given. Thor Hushovd and Taylor Phinney can’t both win Paris-Roubaix, Cadel Evans and Tejay van Garderen, the Tour de France. Streamlining objectives is one thing, but getting riders, particularly the most ambitious to get on board with a team’s vision requires delicate management.

Cycling Central, Alex Hinds, 13 February 2014
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He’s been a confidant to Cadel Evans while learning the ropes as a DS at Lotto, was a major influence on the ascendancy of Mark Cavendish and the seemingly invincible Highroad train, and helped guide Ryder Hesjedal to a breakthrough Grand Tour win at the 2012 Giro, but the toughest challenge of Allan Peiper’s career lies ahead in 2014 where he’ll turn his attention to righting a wayward BMC ship. A project where his acumen, fastidious attention to detail and man management will confront their biggest test.