cyclingtime.com,
21 August 2011
"it's a special feeling"
Japanese riders have competed in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France before but none had started the Vuelta a España until Yukihiro Doi lined up on the beach of Benidorm for the inaugural team time trial of the 66th edition that Skil-Shimano successfully completed in seventh place.

velonation.com,
18 August 2011
"it will be good to sprint against the best guys"
In the space of 12 months, Marcel Kittel (Skil-Shimano & Germany) has gone from being an U23 time trial specialist to one of the sprinter’s Oscar Freire cites as a danger man in this year’s Vuelta.

velonation.com,
14 April 2011
"the fewer cobbles I ride, the better!"
For Mitch Docker, Paris-Roubaix has been a race where he has shown steady improvement, finishing an excellent 15th this year, just 47 seconds behind winner Johan Van Summeren. Docker took time out from recovering from his efforts over the pave to talk to VeloNation.