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Rais Teams with World Bike Relief, HTFU, and SRAM to Raise Funds for US Nationals
If you are a fan of women’s cycling, as we are, here is yet another opportunity to actually support it. We have featured Amber Rais our site several times in the past, and for good reason. I could begin to list her superlatives, but its better that you read about her background and her current [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Graz’s American Speed Kueen – Part III
An American in Graz The second largest city in Austria, Graz sits in the southeastern portion of the country and along the Mur River. In 2003, the city was named as the European Capital of Culture, an annual European Union designation highlighting a city’s cultural life and cultural development, and its Old Town area is [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Graz’s American Speed Kueen – Part II
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions… Decisions are never easy, or so, that is what we have been told. The anxious moments leading up to finalizing our choice are often just predilections of instantaneously grading our decisions as being good or bad before they are even made. Although the consequences or outcomes of our decisions can be viewed [...]
TRIPLE Exclusive: Graz’s American Speed Kueen – Part I
With the “shrinking globe,” an American woman plying her trade in Europe is not as much of a cultural oddity as it may have been in the past. But an American woman racing her bicycle on the European circuit full-time, well that is another story. American women racing in Europe is not a wholly new [...]
Wild Finishes – 2010 Ladies Tour of Qatar Stage 3
Cue Michael Buffer. “The winner, and still…” The Tour of Qatar has always been known as a sprinter’s race because of its flat parcours. And over the course of the three day Ladies’ version, the sprinters did indeed have their day. Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan’s top sprinter, Rasa Leleivyte, would surprise on Stage 1, while the [...]
2010 Ladies Tour of Qatar – Preview
In a region where covered arms, legs, and head are the norm for a woman’s attire, the relatively liberal Gulf emirate of Qatar is once again set to host some of the premier riders of the women’s professional peloton for the 2010 Ladies Tour of Qatar. Organized by the Amaury Sports Organization, which also operates [...]
Getting Started in Cycling: What Every Woman Should Know
By Amber Rais Sport is about human performance, not female or male performance, so in a lot of ways, cycling allows us to ignore our gender differences, sometimes to the point where we women are actually mistaken for men when dressed in our spandex, helmets and sunglasses. For all of our similarities, though, men and [...]
The Power of Now
Downers Grove, IL – In the ultra competitive world of business software, TIBCO sets themselves apart by giving their customers “what they want, how they want it, when they want it.” In many respects, Team TIBCO, the women’s professional cycling team sponsored by the California based software company provides their fans with the same sort [...]
Rais Romps, Bergman Best Field In Chicago
Professional cycling finally made its way onto the streets of downtown Chicago with the inaugural Chicago Criterium held this past Sunday July 27th. In the Women’s Pro 1/2/3 race, Team TIBCO took charge as Amber Rais, who unveiled a new victory salute, soloed to victory while teammate Brooke Miller took third. The precocious West Allis [...]
Easily Forgotten?
I am as guilty as the next when it comes to the month of July, my attention becomes focused laser-like on the country of France for three weeks. Easily forgotten is the incredible racing that goes on within our shores during that same time span. The greatest criticism I have heard for not following the [...]
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