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Encouraging 2012 results suggest bright future aheadYoung American talent Tayler Wiles had a strong 2012 season and secured a slot with the prestigious Specialized lululemon team as a result. The 23 year old regards the move as a huge opportunity for herself, and is determined to ride as well as possible and to learn as much as she can in the year ahead. “I think I will do a great deal of learning and be a big team player,” the Salt Lake City rider told VeloNation in a video interview conducted at the recent team training camp in Portugal’s Algarve region. After placing soccer from the ages of five to eighteen, she took up the sport after going to college and has given more and more of her time to cycling. She initially rode her bike with a friend and then got increasingly involved in competition, racing with the Peanut [...]

Talented Canadian describes her rapid road and track successInterviewed at the recent Specialized Lululemon training camp, Olympic bronze medallist Gillian Carleton is about to start her first season with the team and to see how well she can adapt to professional road racing after a successful stint on the track. The 23 year old Canadian has a history as a triathlete but highlighted her talent when, after a very short period of time competing in the velodrome, was able to take a team pursuit bronze medal in London. “The Olympics were amazing,” she told VeloNation in the video interview below, which was conducted at the team camp hotel in Portugal’s Algarve. “I only started on the track I think exactly a year before the Olympics, so it was a very whirlwind year for me. I didn’t honestly think I was going to be there. “It was quite exciting to even [...]

Multiple world champion speaks She’s won world titles on the track in the past but the rainbow jersey Ellen van Dijk picked up in September may well be the most memorable of her career. It was her first such triumph on the road, it was taken with her Specialized lululemon team-mates and, best of all, it happened on home soil in Valkenburg, the Netherlands. Van Dijk was one of a squad of riders who scooped gold in the first-ever time trial championships for trade teams, beating closest rival Orica AIS by 24 seconds. The race was a major target for them and in achieving their goal, the sense of satisfaction was considerable. “2011 was a really important year, of course, with the Olympics, but also the world championships going on the Netherlands,” the blonde Dutchwoman told VeloNation in a video interview conducted at the Specialized lululemon training camp in southern [...]

Flèche Wallonne winner describes breakthrough success, and how beating Vos has affected her mentality April 18th, 2012. Evelyn Stevens and Marianne Vos are side by side with approximately 400 metres to go in the women’s Flèche Wallonne race, with a wilting Linda Villumsen (GreenEdge-AIS) and Lucinda Brand (AA Drink-Leontien.nl) beginning to lose contact. Rounding a steep bend Stevens guns it, making her move, but Vos sweeps by and opens a gap as the road begins to flatten out just before the line. The daylight between them makes it look like it’s game over but Stevens persists and continues to fight. Gradually, inch by inch, the Specialized lululemon rider stubbornly claws Vos back, draws alongside and edges past her before the line. It was a perfect pacing strategy, a masterful display of chess, and earned her the biggest result of her career. For Vos, it was one of the biggest disappointments. [...]