Sabine Spitz
cyclingnews.com, 11 Oktober 2007
Part 1 - The best is yet to come
Sabine Spitz had a great 2007 season, winning two European Champion titles and a silver medal at the World Championships in Scotland. But how did she get where she is today?
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Marta Bastianelli
radsport-aktiv.de, 29 September 2007
I had a moment of fright
From the start, the strong Italian team dominated the women's road race in the Road World Championships. Marta Bastianelli repaired a loose chain during her breakaway and still held off a chasing pack to win in Stuttgart.
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Christine Thorburn
dailypeloton.com, 28 September 2007
"More challenging than it looked"
Webcor riders Christine Thorburn and Katheryn Curi were relaxing in their hotel located in the southern part of Stuttgart. After a short training ride on the Championship course they talked briefly about the time trial on Wednesday and Saturday's road race.
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Katheryn Curi
dailypeloton.com, 28 September 2007
"We have a plan"
Webcor riders Christine Thorburn and Katheryn Curi were relaxing in their hotel located in the southern part of Stuttgart. After a short training ride on the Championship course they talked briefly about the time trial on Wednesday and Saturday's road race.
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Emma Pooley
cyclingnews.com, 26 September 2007
Moving on up
Great Britain's Emma Pooley is a fresh, new and successful presence in women's cycling. In only her first professional year, Pooley claimed third at the Grand Boucle Feminine, sixth at the Albstadt Frauen Etappenrennen and fifth in the Thüringen Rundfahrt.
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Chantal Beltman
t-mobile-team.com, 26 September 2007
"I expect a hard and interesting race"
Chantal Beltman came within two seconds of the overall win at the Giro della Toscana in a dramatic finale on Sunday. The 30-year-old Dutch rider reflects on her first season in magenta and looks ahead to the Worlds road race in Stuttgart on Saturday.
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Hanka Kupfernagel
radsport-aktiv.de, 26 September 2007
The wait was torture
She wasn‘t ashamed to cry during the award ceremony, but just a moment later she was beaming with joy again: Even in the after-race press conference Hanka Kupfernagel still can‘t believe that she is the fastest woman on earth in racing against time.
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Amanda Spratt
cyclingresults.net, 19 September 2007
Penrith’s Pocket Rocket on her way up!
A Junior World Championship, multiple Australian championships and countless other major race victories are just some of the results on the growing Palmarès of Amanda Spratt. The pocket rocket from Springwood in NSW is another of Australia’s up and coming female riders.
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Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
t-mobile-team.com, 14 September 2007
"I'd like to win in Nuremberg"
With eleven wins in UCI races, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg has already made her mark on this season. The first was in February in Australia, the last just two weeks ago in France. In the final World Cup race in Nuremberg, the top sprinter from T-Mobile would like to make it a dozen.
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Tanja Slater
Lancashire Evening Post, 8 September 2007
'I can do this'
Composed, compact and menacing, Tanja Slater kicked clear of the pack in the Grande Boucle, the women's Tour de France.
In the foothills of the sun-drenched Pyrenees, she took charge and pedalled for home.
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Amy Hunt
britishcycling.org, 1 September 2007
"Second best to Nicole Cooke"
From the casual observer's perspective, Amy Hunt 'exploded' onto the Cross-Country Mountain Bike scene at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she racked up an impressive 4th spot.
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Mara Abbott
velonews.com, 29 Augustus 2007
The Chosen One
Imagine one morning you woke up to find you had been transformed into one of the best cyclists in the world. Obviously, Mara Abbott's transformation from novice to national champ' didn't happen overnight (it took two years), but the 21-year-old admits it sometimes feels that way.
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Brooke Miller
Chicago Bike Racing, 10 Augustus 2007
"Take a pull you frickin' pansies!"
For some strange reason -- the weather? the terrain? the crazy drivers? -- Chicago isn't home to a huge number of international-caliber riders. One exception of late has been Brooke Miller...
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Mara Abbott
cyclingnews.com, 25 Juli 2007
Gracing The Podium
Known for her contagious smile from ear-to-ear, Webcor-Builder's 21 year-old Mara Abbott has accumulated some impressive results in her first year as a pro, winning the US Elite Women's Road Race championship as well as the U23 time trial championship.
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Ann Samplonius
pedalmag.com, 16 Juli 2007
"I would not have been happy if I’d ended up with the silver"
Canadian ITT champion Ann Samplonius today brought Canada it’s second gold medal in as many day at the 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At 39, Samplonius is a veteran rider, and 2007 is turning out to be one of the best seasons of her career.
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Alison Sydor
velonews.com, 14 Juli 2007
"Sometimes the road doesn't always take you the way you think it will go"
Alison Sydor has spent the past two decades making her mark as the most-accomplished Canadian mountain-bike racer ever. But in 2007 Sydor, owner of 13 world championship medals, has gone missing from the starting line of the World Cup.
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