Pez Cyclingnews,
18 December 2014
Astana’s Tanel Kangert Gets PEZ’d!
Our second exclusive Astana rider interviewee, Tanel Kangert is starting his fifth year with the team and so he is in the perfect position to give us his thoughts on the team’s present situation. There are two sides to every story, but Tanel is one of the people caught in the crossfire.

Cyclingnews,
11 December 2014
Brajkovic putting bad luck with Astana behind him at UnitedHealthcare
The biggest victory of Janez Brajkovic's career came at the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné, where he won the overall ahead of Alberto Contador, but since then he has run up against bad luck and injuries and has not been able to capitalize on that promise. After spending three unsatisfying seasons on a f

Cyclingnews,
3 December 2014
Relieved to reach the shore at Wanty
As he sat on a beach in the Cook Islands in October, Enrico Gasparotto must have felt that his career was, well, all at sea. The Italian had left on his honeymoon midway through the month with no contract on the horizon for 2015. By the time he returned to his home in Lugano, he had braced himself f

The Guardian,
20 November 2014
Today if cyclists are doping, they will be caught.
Vincenzo Nibali turned 30 last week and, reaching that milestone during a landmark year for the Tour de France winner, it seems natural he should remember his boyhood on the last day of his holiday. Sicily is a long way from Dubai, where Nibali is on vacation with his wife and baby daughter, but the

Cyclingnews,
12 November 2014
Exclusive interview: Vincenzo Nibali - Part 2
Vincenzo Nibali was often asked about doping at the Tour de France and the questioned and the scrutiny of the ethics of his Astana team intensified when the Iglinskiy brothers tested positive for EPO in the summer and a young Kazakhstani rider who rode as a trainee with Astana in the final part of t

Cyclingnews,
11 November 2014
Exclusive interview: Vincenzo Nibali - Part 1
Vincenzo Nibali looks like any other European tourist as he spends time with his wife Rachele and baby daughter Emma in Dubai. He is one of the biggest names in professional cycling after winning the Tour de France, yet amongst the ostentatious wealth and consumerism of Dubai, he remains modest, fri

CyclingNews,
25 October 2014
I am pretty sure I am capable of much more than I have shown so far
He was ninth in the Tour de France two years ago and is a past winner of the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour de Georgia and the Tour of Slovenia. Despite that, and despite being still just 30 years of age, Janez Brajkovic finds himself hurtling towards November with still no idea if he will be racin

Pez Cyclingnews,
21 October 2014
PEZ Talk: Evan Huffman
One of the most surprising signings of the 2012/13 transfer season was the move from the US amateur team Californian Giant to mighty WorldTour outfit Astana by 22 year-old Evan Huffman from Elk Grove, California. Ed Hood caught up with him for a chat about the past and the future.

velonews,
15 August 2014
Without contract, Brajkovic yearning for return to U.S. team
BURGOS, Spain (VN) — It’s the time of the year when nerves start ratcheting up. By late August, there’s a growing anxiety within the peloton, at least for anyone without a secured contract for the upcoming season. Most deals are knotted up before the end of the Tour de France. One of those enteri

Pez Cyclingews,
7 March 2014
Borut Božiè Talks Classics!
The Classics season has started and if you are a fan of those cobbles it won’t be long before you see the name: Borut Božiè in the results. The Slovenian is Astana’s man for those early hard man’s races in Belgium and Northern France and we were lucky enough to have a chat about his big love; those

Bicycling,
17 February 2014
Vincenzo Nibali Building to a Big 2014
The defending Giro d’Italia champion sizes up the 2014 Tour de France, shares his race program, and explains why he loves the cobbled Classics but never races them.

Pez Cyclingnews,
7 January 2014
Janez Brajkoviè Gets PEZ’d!
In the middle of the Astana team’s pre season training camp our man in Spain, Alastair Hamilton was able to catch up for a good chat with Janez Brajkoviè; a rider who has won the Dauphiné, placed top 10 at the Tour de France and has a lot to talk about. From using power meters or feeling in training