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Vincent Hendricks Q&A: The man who saved Menchov’s 2009 Giro
Rabobank mechanic registered one of the all-time best bike changes to keep Denis Menchov in pink in Rome
MTB News & Notes
Jeremiah Bishop (Monavie-Cannondale) and Jamie Dinkins (Motor Mile Racing) won Virginia’s Massanutten HooHa! cross-country race on June 7. The event was the third race of the Kenda Cup East, the east coast wing of the ShoAir-Specialized U.S. Cup of mountain bike racing, and was held at Massanutten Resort. The Massanutten race was a hometown event for Bishop, who hails from nearby Harrisonburg and trains extensively on the resort’s network of trails. The hilly area sits in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.
Garmin’s Will Frischkorn reports on mid-season life in the ProTour
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Liquigas’s Sylvester Szmyd wins atop Ventoux, as Valverde takes the lead from Evans.
Sylvester Szmyd is one of those riders who do all the dirty work yet rarely get the praise. The 31-year-old Polish rider toiled for years in the shadow of Damiano Cunego at Lampre before switching over to super-domestique duty at Liquigas, where he rode superbly at this year’s Giro d’Italia to help Franco Pellizotti secure his first career podium with third overall.
Vande Velde back for the Tour de Suisse
Christian Vande Velde, who sustained major injuries after crashing out of the Giro d’Italia in May, will compete in the 2009 Tour de Suisse later this week, Garmin-Slipstream confirmed Thursday. The Swiss tour marks Vande Velde’s return to racing following his harrowing crash in stage three of the Giro, when he suffered seven fractures, including five vertebrae, one rib and his pelvis. No surgery was necessary and the American, who finished fifth in last year’s Tour de France, was back on his bike just days after final medical examinations and has kept up the pace ever since.
Wisconsin and Michael Barry rock, Kohl and Cavendish do not
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Editor, RE: coverage of the WORS series.Lance: The movie
It seems the on-again, off-again Lance Armstrong biopic is back on track. According to a flurry of movie-industry Web sites, Armstrong’s return to competition has put fresh legs into efforts by Hollywood producer and director Frank Marshall to create a full-length movie about the seven-time Tour de France champion’s life. According to a report on The Hollywood Reporter, Gary Ross, who penned and directed the Oscar-nominee film, “Seabiscuit,” has been hired to write a draft of an Armstrong script.
ProBikes: Two sharp rides from the Giro
While cycling’s grand tours represent some of the best bike racing in the world, they also offer a lot of us a first-hand look at some of the best racing bikes in the world. I spent some time at this year’s Giro d’Italia and sorting through my files, I wanted to share a look at two bikes that really caught my eye in Italy last month.
David Zabriskie’s Giro TT bike
Mistakes When Pulling Turns
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Haedo and Broun take Nature Valley criterium
Colavita’s Sebastien Haedo and Kristy Broun (Riverstone CDA) raced to victory in Stage 2 of the 2009 Nature Valley GP on Wednesday in the Downtown St. Paul Criterium. With plenty of fast action on the streets of St. Paul, the evening criteriums did not have a significant impact on the overall standings, with Bissel’s Tom Zirbel and Cervélo’s Kristen Armstrong holding the overall leads they first established in the opening time trial on Wednesday morning.