Southeast Pro Cycling News

As the transfer season draws to an end, 2012 season contracts for Southeast based pros are becoming public. Greenville’s George Hincapie will continue to ride for BMC in 2012 as is Athens, Georgia teammate Brent Bookwalter. However, his two other Southeast teammates are moving on: John Murphy and Chris Butler. Murphy also of Athens, Georgia [...]

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Bookwalter completes the Tour de France

Most athletes dream of competing at the highest level in their sport. For cyclists, the highest level is the Tour de France. On Sunday, Rockford High School graduate Brent Bookwalter completed that dream for a second time. “The Tour is the most demanding cycling event in the world, physically, mentally, all around,” he said. Bookwalter, [...]

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Amgen Tour of California

The Amgen Tour of California started in Lake Tahoe and after eight stages made its final arrival to enthusiastic crowds in Thousand Oaks. The overall racing was predictable – the top favorites stomped the competition in all the key stages. However instead of three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer it was the selfless [...]

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Hincapie, Bookwalter and Butler of BMC training for California

While their teammates were combating the rain in the Tour of Romandie, BMC’s George Hincapie, Brent Bookwalter and Chris Butler have been putting in the miles around Greenville. Hincapie recently returned from his European spring campaign of Milan-San Remo, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders and Pari-Roubaix. Now he is preparing for the upcoming Amgen Tour of [...]

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Hincapie to race through 2012 and Bookwalter breaks collarbone

There was some good news and bad news regarding our Southeast based riders in team BMC. CyclingNews.com is reporting that before the start of Gent-Wevelgem last year’s fourth place finisher in this Belgian classic, George Hincapie, confirmed he is racing through 2012 for BMC. “I feel really good these days. I’m going to do one [...]

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Brent Bookwalter interview from Paris-Nice

Brent Bookwalter of Athens, Georgia is part of BMC’s Paris-Nice squad. Today, stage 6, was critical in the eight-day race. The two stages preceding this 27 kilometer effort were tough – each contained seven categorized climbs. The true contenders of the race were now surfacing and the time trial was either going to cement their [...]

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Brent Bookwalter’s breakout year

Brent Bookwalter of the BMC Racing Team has had an amazing year and it hasn’t ended yet. The Athens, Georgia resident season started with a big splash at the 2010 Giro d’ Italia. When Brent Bookwalter crossed the finish line on day one of the Giro d’Italia, the BMC Racing Team rider had no idea [...]

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Brent Bookwalter inducted into Lees-McRae College Hall of Fame

Brent Bookwalter of the BMC Racing Team was inducted into the Lees-McRae College Athletic Hall of Fame Friday as part of the college’s homecoming festivities. Bookwalter graduated from Lees-McRae in 2006 after winning seven collegiate mountain biking titles for the Bobcats. As a senior, the Grand Rapids, Mich., native also won the U.S. national Under 23 time trial [...]

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Southeast riders: Brent Bookwalter checks in from Tour de France

Stage 15′s finish is one that will be debated for the ages. The yellow jersey wearer Andy Schleck attacks on the final climb of the day and has a mechanical. Alberto Contador continues the attack and passes. Schleck finally puts his chain back onto the small ring and chases like a mad man on the [...]

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Southeast riders: The Tour de France stage 10

The favorites in the 2010 Tour de France had an uneventful day. Stage 10 was a classic rolling stage with a break of riders too far down the general classification to raise the interest of the peloton. Radio Shack’s Sergio Paulinho took the two man sprint for the win. Fourteen minutes later the main group [...]

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