News: Hesjedal featured in Canadian Cycling
Ryder Hesjedal is one of Team Garmin-Transitions’ Canadians, but last year he was voted as the Canadian Cyclist of the decade. Canadian Cycling Magazine is featuring him on its cover – Ryding High: Getting to know Canada’s best cyclist.
Ryder Hesjedal looked back at David Garcia one last time. Garcia was spent. With a barely noticeable smile on his face, Hesjedal turned his head, pulled his hands off his bars and threw them into the air. The 28-year-old pumped his fists a couple of times and rode across the line of the queen stage of the 2009 Vuelta a Espana a winner. Short of a certain race in July, victories in cycling don’t come much bigger than this.
Hesjedal is not an emotional fellow. It’s just not how he rolls. Those fist pumps and the ear to ear smile on his face when he stood atop the podium that day in September are about as excited as you’ll see the Victoria, B.C. native.
Unusually relaxed and even-keeled, Hesjedal coasts through the emotional ups and downs of professional bike racing without letting much affect him.
There was the time in 2003 when he seemingly had the World Cross-Country mountain bike championship race locked up, only to have a suspiciously-fast Belgian rider, Filip Meirhaeghe, come from 55 seconds behind him to take the win.
Hesjedal had led nearly the entire race and was passed on the final lap.
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