HTC’s Lewis crashes out of Giro

Disaster struck HTC-Highroad’s Craig Lewis in Stage 19 of the Giro d’ Italia. Lewis crashed on the rain slicked roads and was taken away in an ambulance, ending his chances of completing the Giro. At the time of the crash he was moving and appeared conscious. CyclingNews.com reported that he struck a traffic sign on [...]

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Behind the Giro: Butler’s recovery after the crash

BMC’s Chris Butler first Grand Tour didn’t quite end as he would have liked. Exclusively to Carolina Cycling News, Butler gives us the scoop on his injury and how he is recuperating back home in Greenville, South Carolina. The injury happened in Wednesday’s stage 5 on a descent when the rider in front of me [...]

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BMC’s Butler Giro ends with injury

First time Grand Tour racer Chris Butler had his Giro d’ Italia come to an end Saturday when the BMC Racing Team rider was diagnosed with a hairline fracture of his right pelvic bone. Team BMC issued a press release regarding Butler’s injury. Butler crashed on Monday’s third stage, but did not learn the full [...]

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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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Chris Butler’s BMC impec

Second year professional cyclist and Greenville resident Chris Butler is in Spain preparing for the 2011 racing season. As a member of the BMC team, Butler is lucky enough to have at his disposal the new impec model bike. In the recent VeloNews Buyer’s Guide, BMC discloses that the impec is made entirely by robots, [...]

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Mark Knights charity ride in Greenville

In an amazing show of support well over 200 cyclists showed up at the Hincapie Sportswear office for the ride to support Mark Knights. For those who do not know, Knights is a mechanic at Carolina Triathlon and was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He has had to undergo surgery and is now facing chemotherapy. The [...]

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Chris Butler wraps up first pro season with BMC

Many professional cyclists ended their season with the World Championships and have returned home for a well deserved break. BMC’s Chris Butler still has a couple more European races before he can pack his bags for Greenville, South Carolina. Butler started his European campaign back in April at the Giro del Trentino. He returned home [...]

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Southeast racers: Tour of Austria

While the cycling world’s focus is on the Tour de France there is another national tour being contested– the Tour of Austria. Obviously overshadowed by the Tour de France, this eight day stage race takes the riders over some challenging terrain and gives the neo-pros and riders not selected to their respective team’s Tour squad [...]

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Amgen Tour of California: Stage 8

HTC-Columbia’s Michael Rogers withstood an onslaught of attacks at the finale of the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday to take the biggest victory in his career. With the whole race split to pieces by the tough climb up from Malibu, Rogers finished safely to retain his overall lead of the race. “It was a [...]

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Chris Butler – Stage 3

Chris Butler – BMC Racing Team Talking about strategy and Robin Williams with Neil Browne at the start of Stage 3 of the 2010 AMGEN Tour of California.

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