ESPN Cycling: Family man Vande Velde targeting Tour podium
ESPN Cycling features an interview with Christian Vande Velde who talks about kicking off his European season this weekend with Paris-Nice. “I feel ok, maybe a little bit better than last year at the same period,” he added before leaving for France, where he will take part in the March 8-15 Paris-Nice stage race, not [...]
Denverpost.com: Vande Velde emerges as rider to fear in '09
Reporting from the Amgen Tour of California opening press conference, the Denverpost.com tags Christian Vande Velde (right) as the rider to look out for this year. “In a star-packed Tour of California featuring two Tour de France champions, eight Olympic medalists, 11 world champions and 17 Tour stage winners, Leipheimer was asked who may be [...]
CycleTo: Vande Velde's best and worst days
CycleTo talked to Christian Vande Velde during the Silver City training camp about his best and worst days on the bike.
Roadcycling.com: Christian Vande Velde interview
The latest issue of Roadcycling.com talks to Christian about his 2008 season, life on Garmin-Slipstream and his goals for the 2009 Tour de France. “Yeah I’ve had a pretty diverse career, that’s for sure. I’ve spent a lot of time being a team pursuiter. A lot of people forget about that. I had a lot [...]
Finding the Silver Lining
It’s that time of the year again. Training camps, new bikes, new clothes and, if you ride for Garmin-Slipstream and are American, it means Silver City. Silver City has everything you would ever want: Bowling Alley, Movie Theatre, the biggest mine you have every seen, altitude, gelato, mexican food, internet…ummm, and of course a Walmart. [...]
PezCycling News: Christian gets PEZ'd
PezCycling News talks to Christian Vande Velde about his transformation in to a Tour de France contender, the team’s goals for 2009 and surviving a snowy Chicago winter. “There’s a lot of guys who are going to step up and starting winning,” Christian said. “Tyler Farrar for sure will do that; Dave Zabriskie, who didn’t [...]
Cyclingnews Poll: Vande Velde Most Improved
The results of the Cyclingnews 2008 reader poll are in and Christian Vande Velde took the Most Improved Rider category by a HUGE margin over second place Carlos Sastre. Christian took more than half the total votes as he clearly demonstrated this past year that “…he had the potential to not only hang with the [...]
MBRA: Christian and his maglia rosa visit Michigan
The Michigan Bicycle Racing Association had the great pleasure of hosting Christian Vande Velde and his coveted Giro d’Italia maglia rosa late last week for a special holiday gathering. For some shots of Christian and the popular pink jersey, check out this short MBRA report.
La Times: Top Armstrong? Christian knows how hard it is
Philip Hersh of the Los Angeles Times talks to Christian Vande Velde about his 2008 season and the fact that he successfully rode both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, something Lance Armstrong hopes to do in 2009. From the article: It’s a risky business, especially if the goal is to win both [...]
CyclingNews: Getting fit with Christian
CyclingNews follows Christian Vande Velde through the fitting process as he sets up his time trial bike with new 3T bars and stems. From the article: It turns out that the aero bar swap will be anything but a mere plug-and-play operation. Vande Velde’s new 3T Brezza setup uses a level base bar while his [...]
Christian first Cayman Pirate winner!
Christian Vande Velde won the first ever Pirates Week Invitational in the Cayman Islands this weekend after winning the circuit race on Sunday. The first two stages of the inaugural event had to be cancelled due to Hurricane Paloma. See the full report and photo on Caymannetnews.com.
CayCompass: Vande Velde to race in Cayman Invitational
The Caymanian Compass reports on Christian Vande Velde’s participation in the Cayman Islands Pirates Week Invitational that starts today. The four-stage race runs through November 10 and includes an opening time trial, criterium, circuit race and final 75-mile road stage. From the article: “I can’t wait to get down to race in Grand Cayman. It’s [...]
VeloNews: Vande Velde's Season of Revelation
Check out the latest issue of VeloNews for a feature on cover boy Christian Vande Velde and his transformation from super domestique to team leader. From the article: “Christian has always been someone who has the correct physiological and hematological parameters to win races clean,” Vaughters said. “Racing becoming cleaner is only going to benefit [...]
Avid Argyle October: Christian wins races (and hearts) in Missouri
Erin Jameson from Belleville, Illinois writes about her tour of Missouri: Really, in retrospect, it had been a good day for a race so it was a good thing that the Tour of Missouri was in town. It had been a pretty interesting race, what with the switches from the country to the urban and [...]
Christian Vande Velde Rocks!
Creator of the Christian Vande Velde Fan Club, Connecticut super fan Maggie Tarbox has produced this special video tribute to her favorite hero:
Avid Argyle August: Tour of California Groupies
Becky Neal writes from California: Every year my husband and I count the days until the Tour of California comes around again. We have seen multiple stages in years past, but this year we followed the whole race. We got to meet many of the Slipstream – Chipotle riders as they were always very friendly. [...]
Capital Crit wraps up the domestic season
The Capital Criterium was one of those races we all home sticks around. To wrap up the domestic season with a downtown criterium in the nation’s capital, the building itself in the background of the home stretch, is a great way to call it a year. A first year race that was run so well [...]
CyclingNews: Vande Velde, Team Garmin-Chipotle Best in US!
CyclingNews reports on Christian Vande Velde’s rise to the top of the USA Cycling 2008 Pro Tour standings with his win of the overall title at the Tour of Missouri on Sunday. He finished the season with 272 points ahead of Levi Leipheimer, who has 244 points. Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O handily won the overall teams [...]
Christian Vande Velde Victorious in Missouri!
Today’s final circuit race in downtown St. Louis – shortened from 70 to 50 miles – was more like a long, albeit careful, parade for Team Garmin-Chipotle. Riding conservatively, the team focused on Christian Vande Velde’s safe passage as race leader. Once that mission was accomplished, the Argyle Armada lined up to put Tyler Farrar [...]
How to Win a Time Trial
Watch how Christian Vande Velde won the stage 3 Branson individual time trial at the 2008 Tour of Missouri and moved in to the overall race lead.
Missouri stage 2: Farrar 4th in sprint and overall; Garmin-Chipotle leads team GC
Tyler Farrar, Tom Danielson, Danny Pate and Blake Caldwell lead the Argyle Armada during stage 2 of the Tour of Missouri. As the peloton rolled to the start line today, it was obvious that most of us were wishing for a few more hours of sleep. With a two-hour transfer from Kansas City to the [...]
Tour of Missouri stage 2: Clinton>Springfield with Christian Vande Velde
Location: Clinton & Springfield, Missouri, United States Overview:Team Garmin-Chipotle H3O dominated the 2008 Tour of Missouri. Christian Vande Velde took over the leader’s jersey by winning the stage 3 individual time trial, and never looked back. With the support of the well-tuned Argyle Armada, he finished the seven-day stage race the overall champion. While teammate [...]
WGN's Spike O'Dell interviews Christian Vande Velde
WGN Radio in Chicago interviews Christian Vande Velde on his Olympic experience in Beijing, life in Girona, Spain and the Schleck brothers.
Christian's China Q&A
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 [...]
