Facing retirement can be a frightening prospect for a professional cyclist — but not for BMC rider Dan Schmatz. The 33-year-old St. Louis native turned Coloradan is approaching the end of his six-year road-racing career. But for Schmatz, it’s just a new beginning. The coming months will bring him and his wife, Myriam, their firstborn child, as well as a new role — managing an amateur team for 2008.
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Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair
Dan and Myriam Schmatz
Schmatz will switch from racing to mentoring in his new role as manager of the THF Realty amateur team
Mmmmm Tasty!
2007 Colorado State Cross Championships
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Team High Road is implementing a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program. The program will be managed by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), a company that provides monitoring and testing programs to prevent and detect doping. “Last year we made a strong commitment to fight against doping,” said Bob Stapleton of High Road Sports. “It is the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs.” Each of the team’s riders will give a minimum of 26 random blood and urine samples per year, allowing ACE to build profiles of each individual that
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When the director of the Vuelta a España, Victor Cordero, unveiled the route of next year’s race at a ceremony in Madrid on Wednesday, he said in a fiery speech: “We must stop the unending suspicions and conflicts. We share the same ideas as our colleagues at the Giro and Tour de France. Next year, there will not be more than 20 teams at the start. And they will have to respond to our impeccable ethical criteria. Only riders holding biological passports will be invited. And we will count on the sporting quality of the prospective teams.” Cordero, claiming the 2008 Vuelta will be less hard
A frigid start to the Agordo-Lienz stage, Giro d'Italia 2007
Dear Bob,Here’s a question for ya. I was wondering what the law is as far as in a group ride while crossing a street if the light changes to yellow then red with cyclists still in the street crossing: What is the law as far as a whole group crossing? Are the riders required to stop or does the whole group continue until the group is through the crossing. I live in Arizona and in the Scottsdale area north of Phoenix the lights are so fast you just cannot get even a small group through a light. I was just curious as to what you could find to enlighten me. Thanks and you have a great column,
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USA Cycling named Nick Adams as director of sponsorship and business development on Tuesday. Adams comes to USA Cycling from AG Edwards and Sons, Inc., a national financial consulting firm. He has also worked as director of athletics at the University of Illinois at Springfield and at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado — where he owns and operates the Grand Valley BMX Track — and served as associate director of athletics at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. At USA Cycling, Adams will lead the national governing body’s sponsorship-sales efforts. He will be responsible
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After going into the Sydney round of the track World Cup with high hopes, a chest infection has forced Magnus Backstedt to withdraw from the second round in Beijing. "I was flying right up until the morning of the pursuit. When I woke up I just didn't feel 100 percent,” he said. “During my ride as soon as my heart rate hit anything close to my max I started coughing, which at full speed in a pursuit is not ideal. I was disappointed with my ride, but then I jumped straight up and rode the points race qualification and my legs just had nothing!" The big Swede spent the majority of the
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