David Millar looking a bit rugged after his epic day 3 at the Giro.
Tired from the long transfers and sore from all the crashes, the peloton took its time today on the flat, 187 km stage to Catanzaro Lungomare.
The average speed for the first four hours of the race was only 36 kph as […]

The 187 km stage 4 will be another one for the sprinters. It kicks off with a 1100 meter climb, Colle d’Arena, before a long descent and rolling run in to Catanzaro-Lungomare.
Stage 4 is scheduled to start at 12:35 and finish between 17:02-17:31.

Velonews.com reports on stage 2 of the 2008 Giro d’Italia and Christian Vande Velde’s day in pink. “We’ll ride to honor and defend the jersey, but today’s stage isn’t a typical road stage to open a grand tour, so we’ll have to see what happens,” said Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, third overall. “There are a lot […]

For me there’s a particular point in our medical team’s management of a serious injury situation when I feel the most relief. That’s when the involved rider gets on a plane and heads home. Early this morning our Team Physiologist Allen Lim took Dave Z to a small nearby airport and got him headed […]

The Times Colonist interviews Ryder Hesjedal on the possibility that he will be the first Canadian cyclist in more than ten years to compete in the Tour de France.
“Victoria’s Ryder Hesjedal is the kind of athlete whose persona in competition conflicts sharply with his demeanour away from it. Soft-spoken and introspective when he […]

PezCycling News reports on Slipstream/Chipotle H3O’s win in the opening team time trial in the 2008 Giro d’Italia.
From the report “Never have I seen a team so absolutely thrilled with their performance as I did today on the streets of Palermo. The genuine emotion gushed from all members of the team as they rode […]

DailyPeloton.com profiles Slipstream/Chipotle H3O and its Grand Tour veterans. From the article: “The nine riders of Slipstream are among the top teams expected to have a rider in the Maglia Rosa tomorrow when dust clears after the stage 1 team time trial.”

Somebody has lied to me. This race is madness! Not the chilled out pasta party I was told it was.
The day we are having today is unbelievable. It has been chaos! They had to delay the start because we got caught up in mad Sicilian traffic. Then my wheels were not right, so I changed […]