Evelyn Stevens

VeloNews catches up with the 33-year-old who is now a retired pro cyclist to talk about her career and what may lie ahead.

Evelyn Stevens, who holds the women's world hour record, will retire from professional cycling at the end of 2016.

It's all going according to plan for Evelyn Stevens, who has nabbed three stage wins in the Giro Rosa with Rio around the corner

Stevens has won two straight stages at the Italian race, and it's the third consecutive U.S. victory at the event.

Boels – Dolmans is back in charge at the Giro Rosa. Evelyn Stevens wins stage 6, and Megan Guarnier retakes the overall lead.

Too much talent is a good problem to have, right? It's an embarrassment of riches for American Olympic selectors right now.

Two years after a crash at nationals nearly ended his career, Taylor Phinney will compete for the stars and stripes this weekend.

Evelyn Stevens and Megan Guarnier stack the podium in the women's Fleche Wallonne, and a large contingent of Americans race Liège.

The Rabo – Liv rider breaks away from American Evelyn Stevens on the final climb of the Mur de Huy to claim the victory.

Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne ends on the famed Mur de Huy, and the puncheurs of the peloton will be there fighting for a win.

Evelyn Stevens owns a new hour record, but beyond that, she has a key stepping stone toward success at the Rio Olympics.

In this week's Americans abroad, we take a look at Evelyn Stevens' hour-record ride, Shelley Olds' top-5 finishes in Belgium, and more.

Casey Gibson was on-hand to document Evelyn Stevens' hour record ride

Evelyn Stevens rode 47.980km under the dome in Colorado Springs to topple Bridie O’Donnell’s world record by over a kilometer

The first weekend of classics racing offers a mini Ronde at Omloop, an hour record attempt, and a sprinter's delight at Kuurne.

Evelyn Stevens trains with Davis Phinney and Neal Henderson for her hour record attempt in the 7-11 Velodrome in Colorado Springs.

Evelyn Stevens is confident ahead of hour record — she's aiming to beat the current record, as well as the all-time best distance.

Here's the first installation of VeloNews's weekly wrap-up of American racers and their results in the European pro peloton.

American Evelyn Stevens will aim to break the world hour record on the track in Colorado Springs at the end of February.

Great Britain's Lizzie Armitstead won the women's world road championship Saturday in Richmond; American Megan Guarnier finished third

America's top women time trialists hoped that Richmond would help settle the Olympic selection process. Instead, it made things murky.

The American women's contingent has a great shot at medalling in the world's TT, but they're also racing for spots on the Olympic team.

Richmond police recover Evelyn Stevens' bike, stolen Thursday from a downtown hotel

The cycling world will turn its attention to Richmond, Virginia starting this weekend at the UCI Road World Championships.

The biggest women's stage race of the season kicks off Friday and should offer ample climbing and an exciting penultimate-stage time trial

Elizabeth Armitstead's victory in Sunday's Philadelphia International Cycling Classic pushed her to the top of the World Cup rankings

After winning Strade Bianche in March, Guarnier's second national title also brings a spot at Richmond worlds in September

Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens deliver an impressive one-two punch to set up Guarnier to win her second national championship title

Stevens rides to victory on short, fast course in Santa Clarita ahead of Lauren Stephens and 2012 Olympic TT champ Kristin Armstrong

Stevens talks about how living in Nice, France has improved her training, why she loves Flèche, and her objectives for the coming season

Flèche Wallonne organizers added a new climb near the finish of Wednesday's race, but the race could still be decided on the Mur de Huy

In the absence of five-time winner Vos, all eyes will be on world champ Ferrand-Prévot who faces challenges from several big names

Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens fit in nicely with their new squad, whose goal is win the world TTT title this year

Women's cycling struggles to compete in a male-dominated marketplace. But that may be changing

American Evelyn Stevens talks off-season, a new team, and next year after a successful 2014

After winning medals in the TTT and the ITT, Evelyn Stevens hopes to complete the worlds sweep with a top-three in the road race

Germany earns its second TT gold medal on the shoulders of Lisa Brennauer, who overcame rainy conditions to win

Specialized announced Monday that it will be bolstering its partnership with the Boels-Dolmans women's team in the upcoming year

Defending champs Specialized-Lululemon should see stiff competition from the deepest field ever for the women's team time trial

Evelyn Stevens looks ahead to worlds following her victory at the Boels Rental Ladies tour.

Stevens talks about what it's like to race 17 days in a row, how to suffer with bad legs, and why women deserve a Tour of California

Check out the Specialized S-Works Amira SL4 that Evelyn Stevens rode to victory in the Philly Cycling Classic last weekend

Stevens out-kicks Albrecht to win her second consecutive Philly Cycling Classic

Taylor Phinney is seeking history this weekend in the time trial and the road race at the U.S. championships

American Evelyn Stevens, the 2012 champion, finishes fourth at the annual race in Belgium

Evelyn Stevens will lead the women’s team in the time trial at the May 8-12 games

The American recently relocated to San Francisco in order to ‘plan ahead’ in regards to her post-cycling career

Specialized employed remote technology with Evelyn Stevens at the world championships to monitor the American's TT setup

Team USA worked hard, but Abbott had bad legs and bike troubles, and Stevens was outnumbered in the finale

RIchmond 2015 organizers talk with the U.S. elite women's team in Florence about the worlds and their paths to racing

Fifty-nine riders withdraw before Sunday's final stage, including American Evelyn Stevens

The Italian has won each of the four stages, losing only the opening prologue

Emma Johansson remains in the overall lead with four days of racing left

Dutchwoman tops Evelyn Stevens with long-range sprint ahead of the race's biggest climbing stage

Evelyn Stevens and Mara Abbott will start the Giro on Sunday as pre-race favorites, topping a long list of Americans in the top women's stage race in the world

On the provisional startlist for the women's Tour of Italy is American Evelyn Stevens of the Specialized-Lululemon squad

Evelyn Stevens is grateful for the Amgen Tour women's time trial, but wants more and Tejay van Garderen backs her

The American rider checks in from the Czech Republic, where she won the first stage of the Gracia Orlova stage race

American will not start the fourth round of the World Cup after crashing hard in March

Former and current world and national TT and cyclocross champions will compete in women's event in San Jose

A lack of sponsors forces the Exergy Tour to cancel this year's event. Organizers hope to resume the race in 2014

Evelyn Stevens is Velo's North American Woman and International Women's Climber of the Year

Young American Tayler Wiles joins Evelyn Stevens and company in Faro for the opening team camp of 2013

Neben turns from workhorse to the Americans' medal hope as Vos blows up the women's worlds road race

American buoyed with second medal of the Limburg worlds and hopes to deliver on the Cauberg this weekend

Judith Arndt registers a resounding defense of her time trial title over Evelyn Stevens

Evelyn Stevens gets a worlds boost from Specialized-lululemon's time trial win, confirms she'll return with the squad in 2013

Neben, Stevens and company ride their way to the first women's TTT title

Evelyn Stevens went into the nine-day Route de France on a back foot and left with two feet on the top step of the podium

Americans take two mountain stages to assume control

Dutch rider wins five of nine stages en route to defending Giro Donne title

Race leader Marianna Vos has won five of eight Giro Donne stages so far, the same number she won in last year’s edition.

Australian Tiffany Cromwell went on a solo ride for over 100km during stage 5 of the 2012 Giro Donne

Double-stage winner and defending champ Marianne Vos slips to second overall

Olympic hopefuls join Tour riders Vande Velde and Zabriskie, plus top 'crosser Johnson, for an Allen Lim-style tuneup

Auto qualifying national champion laments, takes motivation from missing time trial roster for London

Exergy Tour winner is the focus of an installment in the "Raise Our Flag" campaign, a fundraising effort for the U.S. Olympic Team ahead of the 2012 London Games

American pulls leader's jersey from teammate Neben with two-rider breakaway

Stevens and Neben comment on Armstong’s injury, and the fight to represent the U.S. at this year’s Olympics

Olds, Stevens locked in a race for UCI points after Olds wins World Cup round 5 in China