Sue Haywood
cyclingnews.com,
24 November 2007
Tales from a first La Ruta
Sue Haywood (Trek / VW) came home with a win after competing in her first La Ruta de los Conquistadores. She conquered long climbs, hike-a-bikes and three-time women's winner Louise Kobin over four days and 360km in Costa Rica's legendary mountain bike stage race.
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 Tina Pic
trainingpeaks.com,
21 November 2007
"Rain isn’t my specialty"
After winning four straight titles from 2002 to 2005, Tina Pic regained the national champion's jersey in the USA Cycling Professional Criterium Championships at Downers Grove, Illinois, this August.
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 Nicole Cooke
bikeradar.com,
21 November 2007
Part 2: No more heroes
Why doesn't Nicole Cooke like watching men's racing? And can she change the face of women's cycling, as Billie Jean King did in tennis? Find out in the second part of our interview with Britain's top cyclist.
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 Siobhan Dervan
pezcyclingnews.com,
21 November 2007
"My Dutch is crap..."
Three-time Irish Women’s Road Champion and first Irish woman to ever finish the Worlds, Siobhan Dervan talks about beating men, racing for the sport not money, and just why she showed up at races in PEZ socks!
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Geneviève Jeanson
canadiancyclist.com,
16 November 2007
"There will always be drugs in sport"
Geneviève Jeanson, after a positive test two years ago in Altoona, has been relatively quiet in the cycling scene since her suspension by USA Cycling. Now the 26-year-old is re-invigorated with new energy for helping fight the doping situation in cycling.
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Nicole Cooke
bikeradar.com,
15 November 2007
Part 1: Olympic dreams
Nicole Cooke has already proven that she is one of the world's top female cyclists, but after a disappointing end to her good season, the 24 year-old from Wales is back in training for 2008. She's aiming at gold at next year's Olympics while heading a new British Cycling-backed professional team.
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 Katherine Bates
nsw.cycling.org.au,
15 November 2007
"Eyes only for Beijing"
Katherine Bates has been riding in Europe for a few seasons and moved from Equipe Nürnberger to T-Mobile with Oenone Wood. Brian Crawford caught up with points race world champion while she was at Dunc Gray Velodrome finishing her preparations for the Track World Cup.
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 Emma Silversides
Yorkpress.co.uk,
10 November 2007
Emma’s silver streak to gold
Maths teacher Emma Silversides has discovered a formula which she hopes will usher in a new cycle of success. The Cawood-born speedster will hurtle into 2008 armed with a professional contract with Belgium-based women's cycling team Lotto Belisol.
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 Katharine Carroll
NBCOlympics.com,
9 November 2007
From soccer to cycling
Within a year of starting her cycling career, former Vanderbilt University soccer star Katharine Carroll had signed a professional contract. The 26-year-old from Sausalito, California won the first National Racing Calendar (NRC) event of her career in April at Athens, Georgia.
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 Amber Neben
nbcsports.com,
9 November 2007
"You have to put the workouts in"
Amber Neben started riding seriously in 1999, several years after stress fractures forced her to hang up her running shoes at Nebraska. By 2001, she was competing in the cycling world championships on the road.
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 Alison Powers
nbcsports.com,
9 November 2007
"I was hooked"
Alison Powers found success quickly on the bike. She quit skiing in 2004, was mountain biking in 2005, and by 2006 she'd signed with Rio Grande Sports Garage in Boulder, Colo. In 2007, she competed in her first world cup, the women's Giro d'Italia, and at the world championships in Stuttgart.
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Shannon Hutchison
triplecrankset.com,
6 November 2007
"As a team rider you do what the director says, whether you agree with it or not"
Shannon Hutchison-Krupat has ridden for a number of teams throughout her career, [mostly in the Atlanta area], and had a stint with Colavita Olive Oil, during which she was ranked the #1 Criterium racer in the country.
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 Compton Katie
Cyclocross Magazine,
2 November 2007
Katie Compton interview
Katie Compton is the reigning national cyclocross champion, as well as the silver medalist at the 2007 UCI World Cyclocross Championships. When Katie won her first national championship in 2004, she surprised her competitors and the media, but she wasn’t a stranger to competing at the top level. The
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 Hanka Kupfernagel
cyclingnews.com,
1 November 2007
The icing of the cake
33 year-old Hanka Kupfernagel stunned the road racing world when she took the gold medal in the time trial in Stuttgart. More noted for her skills in cyclo-cross, Kupfernagel is an extraordinarily versatile rider who has had success on the road, track and mountain bike as well.
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Dotsie Bausch
FixedGearFever,
31 October 2007
"Suffering, suffering and more suffering"
Screaming onto the track scene, riding her way into the talent pool, winning not one but two national championship jerseys in a week, you have to wonder "Who is Dotsie Bausch?"
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Alison Sydor
velonews.com,
27 October 2007
"It's fun to do something new"
One of North America's all-time greatest cyclists popped up unexpectedly on this year's U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross start list. Canadian Alison Sydor, a three-time mountain bike world champion and road world bronze medalist, got on a 'cross bike for the first time in her career.
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