WGN Radio in Chicago interviews Christian Vande Velde on his Olympic experience in Beijing, life in Girona, Spain and the Schleck brothers.

Christian Vande Velde checks in from China with some answers to a few of your burning questions on the Olympic road race:
What were the conditions like - hot and massively humid? I read that they had cooling jets or something along the course.
CVV: Cooling jets? Hell no! They had some shower heads that reminded […]

Previewed as one of the hardest road races in Olympic history, today’s hot and humid 245.5 km course proved to be a race of attrition for the 143 cyclists who started the day at Yongdingmen Gate. Of the 90 riders who finished, Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O Christian Vande Velde (left) was 17th and the second […]

Chicago Tribune columnist Philip Hersh writes about his recent interview with Christian Vande Velde as one that was unlike any other he had ever had with an athlete in his almost 40 years of work as a sports writer.
From the article: “Vande Velde was very upset with a column about doping I had […]

It’s August. We are now officially out of July and the Tour is in our rearview mirror. But what an amazing month! And it wasn’t that long ago that many people thought we just might spend July at home in front of the TV instead of racing the Tour. Given that, we ripped the […]

John Wilcockson writes in his insightful “Inside the Tour” column about this year’s “cleaner” Tour and how teams with strong internal anti-doping programs all had riders in the top 15. He also profiles Christian Vande Velde and his newfound role as team leader and GC contender.
From the article: “While Tour wild-card entry Garmin-Chipotle — […]

Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O’s Tour debut was one few will forget. There was of course Christian Vande Velde’s mid-race transition from super domestique to team leader. From mountain highs to perfectly executed time trial efforts, over and over Christian proved himself a leader. His solid 4th place finish in Saturday’s high intensity 50 km individual […]

ESPN.com’s Bonnie Ford provides an in-depth profile of Christian Vande Velde and how he has converted himself from support rider to leader during the Tour de France.
From the article: “Likewise, it won’t be of any use to pore over his blood test results, laid bare for all to see in Bicycling Magazine this week […]