 Nicole Cooke
womenscycling.net,
14 August 2008
"It's a dream come true"
Britain’s Nicole Cooke realized her lifelong dream to win the Olympic road Gold medal that started when she was very young.
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Rebecca Romero
sportsister.com,
12 August 2008
"I am going in as favourite and it’s going to be a major personal battle"
Rebecca Romero won Silver in Athens as part of the GB rowing team, now four years later she is going for Gold in the track cycling individual pursuit event. At this years World Championships in Manchester she won two Golds, which bodes well for Beijing.
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 Christine Thorburn
cyclingnews.com,
11 August 2008
Doctor of speed
Christine Thorburn did her best for the United States of America squad in yesterday's Olympic Games women's road race. While it didn't work out for the North Americans, Thorburn has one more chance to get her country a medal in Wednesday's time trial before retiring at the end of the year.
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 Sharon Laws
sportsister.com,
10 August 2008
"I have to pinch myself sometimes to check it really is happening"
This time last year year Sharon Laws was living and working in Australia with no thoughts of qualifying for the GB team, let alone the Olympics. Then she came second in the Australian National Championships and her life has been a whirlwind ever since.
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 Hanka Kupfernagel
cyclingnews.com,
10 August 2008
Time on trial in gold rush
Hanka Kupfernagel is the reigning time trial World Champion. Her whole year was focused on repeating her performance at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but extended health problems have brought turmoil to her plans.
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Nicole Cooke
cyclingnews.com,
10 August 2008
Heading for the bullseye in Beijing
Nicole Cooke is one of cycling's outstanding talents, but a lack of victories in World Championships and Olympic Games leave a hole in the young Welshwoman's palmares, one that she is determined to fill.
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 Judith Arndt
cyclingnews.com,
7 August 2008
Turning silver to gold
As the silver medallist from Athens in 2004 - and after a dominant first half season - Judith Arndt of Germany and Team Columbia goes into the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games race as one of the overwhelming favourites.
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 Emma Davies Jones
pezcyclingnews.com,
6 August 2008
"It is still a very male-dominated world"
I offered to take Eurosport commentator and pro bike racer Emma Davies Jones to the finish of stage 19 on the Tour and I managed to get a few questions in during the journey…
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Shanaze Reade
cyclingweekly.co.uk,
1 August 2008
"it's as if you have landed on Mars"
Shanaze Reade was a world champion in two disciplines in 2007. In only her second ever track event she teamed up with Victoria Pendleton to win the inaugural 500-meter team sprint world title in March. Then, in July, she won the elite women's final at the BMX World Championships in Canada.
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 Emma Pooley
cyclingweekly.co.uk,
1 August 2008
"I can't just sit around, eating pie!"
Emma Pooley was spotted after her fourth place at the British National Road Race in 2005 and soon signed for Team Fat Birds UK. Pooley has had several successes on the road including first in the Rund um Schönaich in 2007 as well as the Trofeo Alfredo Binda in 2008.
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Nicole Cooke
cyclingweekly.co.uk,
1 August 2008
"It's just like at any other race really"
Nicole Cooke took up cycling at an early age and became the youngest ever woman to win the national road race the age of 16. Cooke went on to win La Flèche Wallonne and the World Cup before becoming a professional with the Ausra-Gruodis Safi squad.
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Wendy Houvenaghel
cyclingweekly.co.uk,
1 August 2008
"I always smile"
Wendy Houvenaghel, like many of the British Olympians, manages to combine track and road riding but specialises in the former. A late developer, it was not until 2005 that Wendy competed at World level, winning the track World Cup in the 3km individual pursuit.
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 Victoria Pendleton
cyclingweekly.co.uk,
1 August 2008
"Free drinks, free food, it's fantastic"
Victoria Pendleton was originally spotted as a 16 year old by the British Cycling assistant national track coach, Marshall Thomas. She is a prodigious talent on the track taking countless world titles, with the sprint being her speciality.
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Georgia Gould
cyclingnews.com,
1 August 2008
Going fast on the way to Beijing
Georgia Gould is just three weeks away from her first Olympic race. She is one of two women who will race in the stars and stripes representing the United States mountain bike team in Beijing, China.
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Victoria Pendleton
sportsister.com,
25 June 2008
"you can’t just stroll in and win a medal"
Victoria Pendleton talks to Sportsister about her preparations for Beijing, moments of self doubt and female sports role models at the launch of Girls4Gold in Manchester.
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 Karin Thürig
cyclingnews.com,
20 June 2008
Eyeing the Olympic TT
Karin Thürig of Switzerland is tuning up her form at the Grande Boucle Féminine International, where she is eyeing Friday's time trial. But the race is just the first step toward the much bigger goal of the Olympics in Beijing, where she will aim for gold in her specialty discipline.
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