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On being back: Christian Vande Velde Q&A
ESPN, Bonnie D. Ford, 16 March 2013
Posted by: Jacco
Veteran Christian Vande Velde is one of three Garmin-Sharp riders who will start this week's Tour of Catalunya in Spain, their first race since serving doping suspensions that were reduced in exchange for cooperation with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's case against Lance Armstrong. Vande Velde, 36, of Lemont, Ill., signed with the U.S. Postal Service team before the 1998 season and rode in support of Armstrong at the Tour de France in 1999 and 2001. He subsequently competed for two European-based teams before joining the Garmin organization in 2008, and finished fourth at that year's Tour.
Vande Velde : « La frustration, ça ne sert à rien »
Velochrono, Jerome Christiaens, 14 February 2012
Posted by: McK
Ce mardi a débuté le Tour d’Oman et Christian Vande Velde, cinquième de l’édition de l’an passé, a décidé de revenir pour démarrer sa saison 2012. Le coureur de Garmin-Barracuda, qui espère revenir à son meilleur niveau ces prochains mois, fait le point avec Velochrono. Il évoque sans détours la malchance qui l’a souvent touché, parle de son expérience, et clame haut et fort que la prochaine sensation du cyclisme américain fait partie de son équipe.
"That’s the Tour. That’s how it goes."
velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 8 August 2011
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde didn’t have the Tour de France that he was hoping for. After an injury-free run into the Tour for the first time in three years, Vande Velde crashed three times in the first stage and barely rode out of the first half of the Tour after a string of other painful spills.
‘I’m always a realist’
velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 16 February 2010
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde is holding nothing back this season as he sets his sights on the ultimate prize of the Tour de France. Back in full health, the 33-year-old will be the top GC rider at Garmin-Transitions following the recent departure of the 2009 Tour’s fourth-place finisher, Bradley Wiggins.
"Someone’s got to spike the bowl"
velocitynation.com, 22 October 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde to be powered by pomegranate juice. POM Wonderful, the largest U.S. grower of Wonderful variety pomegranates and maker of 100% pomegranate juice, recently announced its sponsorship of Team Garmin-Slipstream.
"Missouri is the icing on the cake"
velonews.com, Neal Rogers, 22 August 2009
Posted by: lucybears
American Christian Vande Velde, last year's race champion and eighth-place finisher at this years’ Tour de France and four-time U.S. National Champion in the time trial David Zabriskie, will look to defend the race title for Garmin-Slipstream at this year’s Tour of Missouri, scheduled for September 7 - 13.
(Tour de France 2009)
"I almost chucked my bike into the frickin' forest"
velocitynation.com, 15 July 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde gives his take on the Tour after stage 11 today, which saw Tyler Farrar finish second again to Mark Cavendish.
(Tour de France 2009)
«El último Tour me hizo encontrar la confianza en mí que no tenía»
gara.net, Joseba Iturria, 7 July 2009
Posted by: lucybears
La caída y el abandono del Giro le han impedido llegar al comienzo del Tour con la forma ideal, pero espera alcanzarla con el paso de los días y luchar por el podio.
Coming back stronger
cyclingnews.com, Daniel Benson, 11 June 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Garmin-Slipstream's Christian Vande Velde sustained one of the worst crashes of his career at this year's Giro d'Italia and effectively threw his Tour de France challenge into severe jeopardy. Just a few weeks on from the crash Vande Velde talks about the Tour and his recovery.
"It's a different animal, the Tour"
velocitynation.com, 2 June 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Garmin's American rider Christian Vande Velde is recovering at his apartment in Girona after being forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia after breaking two ribs and hurting his lower back in a bad crash 10km from the finish in the third stage.
(Giro d'Italia 2009)
"I guess I have changed a bit this year"
nyvelocity.com, 8 May 2009
Posted by: lucybears
On Saturday, the Giro d’Italia will start with a 20.5km Team Time Trial in Lido di Venezia. Last year, the race started with a Team Time Trial and Illinois native Christian Vande Velde became the first American rider to wear the Maglia Rosa since Andy Hampstens epic ride over the Gavia Pass in 1988.
(Tour de France 2009)
To the Tour, via the Giro
velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 1 May 2009
Posted by: lucybears
(part two)
In Part 2 of Andrew Hood's conversation with Christian Vande Velde, the Garmin captain looks back at last year's Tour and ahead to this years.
(Giro d'Italia 2009)
To the Tour, via the Giro
velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 29 April 2009
Posted by: lucybears
(part one)
The Garmin-Slipstream captain is entering the heart of his racing season, with the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France looming as his main targets of the year.
"I’m a different person than I was a year ago"
roadcycling.com, Dave Osborne, 3 February 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Dave Osborne talks with Christian Vande Velde about Christian's 2008 season, life on Team Garmin-Slipstream and the 2009 Tour de France.
"The hardest step is to win"
pezcyclingnews.com, Guy Wilson-Roberts, 24 January 2009
Posted by: lucybears
Garmin-Chipotle has a new winning message for 2009. PEZ caught up with Christian Vande Velde recently to find out more about the team's strategy, his own transformation into a Tour de France contender, and winter training in snowy Chicago.
Winter training
velocitynation.com, 13 January 2009
Posted by: lucybears
In 2006, after eight years as a pro, Christian Vande Velde won his first race in Europe at the Tour of Luxembourg. A fifth place last year in the Tour de France means that today, the American rider has gone from one of cycling's also-rans to a potential winner of the world's biggest cycle race.
Finishing domestique duties
cyclingnews.com, Jason Sumner, 12 January 2009
Posted by: lucybears
In the world of pro cycling the transition from domestique to team leader is difficult and rare. For every rider that makes the jump, many others try and fail - or simply never try at all - but Garmin-Slipstream's Christian Vande Velde has emerged as a leader after years of service to others.
College without alcohol
velocitynation.com, 5 September 2008
Posted by: lucybears
Fresh off his fifth-place finish at the Tour de France, Christian Vande Velde finished seventeenth in the Beijing Olympic Games Road Race.
(Tour de France 2008)
Eeady for the ride of his life
velonews.com, Neal Rogers, 22 July 2008
Posted by: lucybears
On the rest day in Cuneo, Italy, a relaxed and refreshed Vande Velde discussed his rivals, the Tour’s most critical upcoming stages and how his underdog team is faring heading into the third and most difficult week of the race.
(Tour de France 2008)
An emerging Tour contender ?
cyclingnews.com, Gregor Brown, 15 July 2008
Posted by: lucybears
When the Tour route was announced last October not many had their eyes on Christian Vande Velde as a potential threat to the yellow jersey. Yet since the rider slugged it out with the big guns on the Pyrenean climbing stage to Hautacam, he has become a feared contender in the eyes of his rivals.
(Tour de France 2008)
‘The strongest I’ve ever felt’
velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 12 July 2008
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) has been one of the revelations so far in the first week of the Tour de France. Through the first opening seven stages, Vande Velde has ridden with consistency and strength to slot into fourth overall at just 44 seconds out of the yellow jersey.
(Giro d'Italia 2008)
"Oggi è stata una giornata bellissima"
ciclonet.it, Vito Bernardi, 11 May 2008
Posted by: lucybears
Eccolo l'americano in rosa. Christian Vande Velde ha gli occhi di un bambino che ha appena realizzato il suo sogno più ardito. "È il momento più eccitante della mia carriera, non potevo immaginare un finale migliore in questo primo giorno di Giro."
Stronger Than Ever
csc.com, 27 January 2007
Posted by: lucybears
Team CSC’s Christian Vande Velde finally got to step onto the winner’s podium last year at the Tour of Luxembourg in his first professional victory in Europe. It was an important milestone for the 30-year-old American who’s enjoying a revival since joining Team CSC in 2005.
"If anyone can do it, Ivan can"
csc.com, 6 June 2006
Posted by: lucybears
Team CSC’s Christian Vande Velde won the Tour of Luxembourg on Sunday, marking his first victory in Europe since he began racing on the continent in 1998.
"Venga, venga, venga?"
nyvelocity.com, 5 January 2006
Posted by: lucybears
Christian Vande Velde on cannibalism, Manolo Saiz, Paris Roubaix and 'the funniest guy he knows'
A Review of 2005: Hold the Clams
BiciRace.com, 31 October 2005
Posted by: lucybears
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, but also knows that Christian can play the key role.
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