Road Cycling UK,
3 December 2013
Nicolas Roche races to ride in 2014.
Ireland’s Nicolas Roche (Tinkoff-Saxo) will ride two Grand Tours next season, including the Giro d’Italia, which will roll out from Belfast on Friday May 9. Read more at http://roadcyclinguk.com/racing/nicolas-roche-to-ride-two-grand-tours-milan-san-remo-and-ardennes-classics-in-2014.html#hjCxqPakP

Velonation,
29 November 2013
I need to try to keep a good level all year, stay aggressive, take my chances.
Now 28 years of age, he’s hoping that 2014 will be the season where he translates those showings into winning performances on the international stage. He’s motivated to achieve strong results in the months ahead, both as a goal in itself and also to ensure he’s got the best contract options at the e

Velo News,
13 November 2013
Back in the high life.
Ireland has enjoyed a renaissance of late with success that rivals the glory days of Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly in the 1980s. This year alone, Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) won Liège-Bastogne-Liège and a stage at the Tour de France, while Nicolas Roche (Saxo-Tinkoff) won a stage at the Vuelta a

Velonation,
16 October 2013
Turning pro with NetApp Endura a big motivation, and so too thoughts of the Giro d’Italia in Ireland.
Confirmed yesterday as signing a two year pro contract with the NetApp Endura team, the promising young Irish rider Sam Bennett has said that he is motivated to hit good form next season, to learn from the squad and hopefully to be part of the Giro d’Italia when it begins in Ireland. NetApp End

Direc Velo,
11 October 2013
Je peux encore progresser.
Sam Bennett (An Post-ChainReaction), 23 ans, a fait parler de lui en remportant une étape, le 19 septembre dernier, sur le très relevé Tour de Grande-Bretagne (2.1). L'Irlandais, ancien stagiaire de la Française des Jeux, revient sur sa victoire et également sur sa saison pour www.directvelo.com.

Pez Cyclingnews,
28 September 2013
PEZ Talk: AN Post’s Sam Bennett
One of the revelations of the recent Tour of Britain was Sam Bennett, the 22 year-old Irishman took two second places on stages; both to former World Road Race Champions – Gerald Ciolek and Mark Cavendish – but made Stage Five his own to take a huge win for his AN Post team. Bennett has been on grea

VeloNation,
12 September 2013
Psyched Saxo Tinkoff leader pledges to give it everything until the end of the Vuelta.
Having improved from sixth to fifth on yesterday’s seventeenth stage of the Vuelta a España, Irish pro Nicolas Roche has vowed to keep battling in the race and to finish as high as possible when it ends in Madrid on Sunday.

Velonation,
4 September 2013
Right now, I know that I am in good shape. I have to stay focussed.
Having won a stage and also led the Vuelta a España for a day, Nicolas Roche is currently experiencing his best Grand Tour performance to date. The Irish rider had a quiet Tour de France, partly due to working for Alberto Contador and also because he was two kilos over his racing weight. Since t

Be Celt,
3 September 2013
Je sens que je peux en faire plus sur cette Vuelta .
A 29 ans, Nicolas Roche a pris une autre dimension sur cette Vuelta. Arrivé chez Saxo cette saison, il a épaulé son leader Alberto Contador dans le dernier Tour de France. Aujourd’hui, il montre ce qu’il peut faire en l’absence du patron : miser sur un podium lors de grands rendez-vous. L’Irlandais

Velonation,
2 September 2013
I have had a really good run of luck this year. It was about time I got dealt a shit hand.
Irish pro Dan Martin has said that he is recovering well from the concussion that ruled him out of the Vuelta a España and that he remains on course for a strong campaign at the world road race championships later this month. Martin has remained with the Garmin-Sharp team after his crash, but is

Biciciclismo,
1 September 2013
Sería muy optimista decir que voy a defenderlo hasta Madrid.
Pocas horas antes su primo Daniel Martin se retiraba de la Vuelta a España por culpa de una caída. Durante los últimos años Dan parecía tener más talento que el hijo de Stephen. Pero después de muchos años a las puertas del éxito, Nicolas Roche se está consolidando en esta Vuelta como un corredor de

Cyclisme'Actu,
26 August 2013
Comme une délivrance!
"Délivrance". C'est le premier mot auquel a pensé, Nicolas Roche, dimanche, lorsqu'il lui a été demandé de commenter sa victoire lors de la deuxième étape de La Vuelta. Son premier succès sur un grand Tour (!). Souvent placé, l'Irlandais de la Saxo-Tinkoff n'avait jamais réussi à lever les bras sur

Velonation,
25 August 2013
My ambition is to be world champion; I’m not going to stress about GC.
A stage winner in the Tour de France and a previous winner of a stage at the 2011 Vuelta a España, Dan Martin wants to achieve a similar goal in this year’s Vuelta. However the Irishman emphasises that he won't put himself under pressure as regards the overall classification.

VeloNation,
19 August 2013
Irishman ready to rumble at the USA Pro Challenge.
Winner of the Tour of the Gila and ninth overall in the subsequent Tour of California, Philip Deignan has said that he believes he could be in even better condition for this week’s USA Pro Challenge in Colorado. The UnitedHealthcare competitor is one of his team’s protected riders for the event

Velonation,
8 July 2013
Pressure is off after first Tour de France stage win, but looks certain to attack again.
Scooping victory fifty years after Shay Elliott triumphed into Roubaix, and becoming only the fifth Irishman to win a stage of the Tour de France, Dan Martin has said that he will pause and reflect on his victory before identifying his next goals for the race. “I am not really thinking about it y

VeloNation,
29 June 2013
All for Contador in the Tour de France.
He’s finished twelfth and fourteenth in the past and taken second and third on stages but, as the first stage of the Tour de France plays out on the rugged Corsican roads, Nicolas Roche has very different thoughts on his mind. Gone are ideas of personal ambition, of chasing results for himself; inst