Valentina Scandolara
cyclingfx.nl, 18 Diciembre 2008
"I am a normal girl!"
Perhaps, but the talented 18 year old who was born in Soave and lives in Tregnago, a small village near Verona, has already won several Italian titles, 2 European Junior Road titles and a World Junior bronze achieved in Aguascalientes, Mexico, last year behind Eleonora Patuzzo and Cherise Taylor.
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Katie Compton
velocitynation.com, 18 Diciembre 2008
Straight Outta Compton
In women’s cyclocross in the United States, there is Katie Compton - and then there is everyone else. On December 14, the 30-year-old won her fifth straight national championship, riding away from the field in Kansas City. But Compton’s main goals are still to come in Europe.
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Valentina Scandolara
Daily Peloton, 17 Diciembre 2008
Interview: Valentina Scandolara
Interview with Italian Valentina Scandolara (Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan) the very talented rider and multiple European and Italian Champion.
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Brooke Miller
cyclingfx.nl, 6 Diciembre 2008
"The harder, the better!"
Current US national criterium and road race champion Brooke Miller graduated with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in spring 2007 and began racing full time in 2008, although she does work as a software developer in her spare time.
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Joanna Rowsell
sportsister.com, 5 Diciembre 2008
"it’s all about experience"
Jo Rowsell won a gold and a bronze medal at the cycling World Cup Classic in Manchester last month. She was part of the record breaking women’s squad which became the first team to win every World Cup women’s track event in a single race meeting.
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Brooke Miller
Daily Peloton, 5 Diciembre 2008
Interview: Brooke Miller
Interview with American Champion Brooke Miller (Team TIBCO).
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Lea Davison
cyclingnews.com, 4 Diciembre 2008
A breakthrough season
After six years racing as a professional mountain biker 25-year-old Lea Davison (Trek / VW) is starting to see results, winning both the short track and super D races at the Sea Otter Classic in April and a top twenty finish at the World Championships cross country race in Italy in June.
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Lesya Kalitovska
sportclub-isd.com, 27 Noviembre 2008
"The prayer helped me to win the medal"
Sports Club ISD representative Lesya Kalitovskaya, who won the bronze medal in the women's pursuit at the Olympic Games in Beijing, gave an interview about her performance in China and the present situation in her sports career.
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Nicole Cooke
The Independent, 25 Noviembre 2008
'I wear the rainbow jersey next year. It will be fantastic'
As the debate hots up concerning the rightful destination of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, cycling fans might reasonably wonder what Nicole Cooke has done, or more accurately hasn't done, to be a 125-1 no-hoper in the betting.
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Lizzie Armitstead
sportsister.com, 19 Noviembre 2008
"I didn’t think it would be three golds!"
Lizzie Armitstead stole the show at the World Cup Classic in Manchester, winning three golds for Great Britain. She was part of the record breaking women’s squad which became the first team to win every World Cup women’s track event in a single race meeting.
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Vicki Whitelaw
cyclingfx.nl, 13 Noviembre 2008
"a baptism of fire"
In her first European season Canberra's Vicki Whitelaw, racing with Australian team AIS, won a stage in the Giro d'Italia Femminile and the Tour de L'Aude and gave Australia's best performance in the elite women's time trial at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Varese.
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Vicki Whitelaw
Daily Peloton, 12 Noviembre 2008
Interview: Vicki Whitelaw
Interview with Australian Vicki Whitelaw. She won a stage in the Giro Donne and the Tour de L'Aude this year.
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Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
cyclingfx.nl, 2 Noviembre 2008
Going hiking with the dog
Ina-Yoko is a rider with a huge amount of experience and a fiery personality. In the last few years she has won multiple World Cup races and over the years she has won 11 stages of Tour de l'Aude, 6 stages of the women's Tour de France and stage wins in all other major tours around the world.
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Judith Arndt
womenscycling.net, 1 Noviembre 2008
"It's like playing chess"
Judith Arndt has had a very successful 2008 but a major disappointment was her performance at the Olympics, where she found herself chasing the decisive break instead of being in it.
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Ina Teutenberg
Daily Peloton, 1 Noviembre 2008
Interview: Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (Team Columbia Women)
Interview with German Ina-Yoko Teutenberg of the Columbia Women's team. Teutenberg is one of the most successful riders of the 2008 season with over 20 victories.
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Nicole Cooke
cyclingweekly.co.uk, 30 Octubre 2008
Cooke fulfils her destiny
Winning the Olympic title would have been enough to grant her superstar status. But following that up with the first ever double, by taking her first senior women's World Championship road race title in Varese, Italy, a month later, confirmed it. Nicole Cooke is truly a phenomenon.
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