Taylor Phinney

...at the 2012 London Games. His reward was going to be Olympic gold. And now, the chance might already be gone. Phinney said Wednesday that he's "devastated" by a proposal the International Olympic Committee is expected to adopt next...

In this article: Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Lance Armstrong, International Olympic Committee, London, Pursuer, Tour de France, and Davis Phinney

Training with Armstrong and fellow Team Astana rider Levi Leipheimer had raised the bar, while current world individual pursuit champion Taylor Phinney, 19, was a highly regarded team-mate. Bewley admitted he was sitting in an...

In this article: Sam Bewley, Lance Armstrong, Jesse Sergent, Axel Merckx, Tour de France, Eddie Merckx, Levi Leipheimer, New Zealand, and Team Astana

Could Tyler Farrar manage to teach the U.S. that there's other color jerseys to cheer for than yellow? Jonathan Brand: Remember the name Taylor Phinney. He's a 19-year old from Boulder, Colorado who Armstrong tabbed for his under-23...

In this article: Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Tour de France, Levi Leipheimer, Washington, D.C., Andy Schleck, Tyler Farrar, Astana, and Fabian Cancellara

Bruyneel announced this week that he would not return to Astana next season. One likely rider addition for the new American team is Taylor Phinney, a rising star who left the Garmin team this year to race for Armstrong's newly formed...

In this article: Lance Armstrong, Tour de France, Johan Bruyneel, RadioShack, Lake Annecy, Astana Team, Garmin, U.S., Astana, and Tour of California

...recognition, being known as a gold medalist is a lot different than being known as a Tour stage winner," Phinney said. "I've shown that I'm definitely capable of getting the gold medal. After that, I'll have a long career. I definitely...

In this article: Lance Armstrong, Tour de France, Cancer, U.S., Fabian Cancellara, Beijing Olympics, The Miami Herald, and Boulder

...any of this has really happened, but I kind of feel like it was something that is meant to be," Phinney said in a telephone interview from Poland. Phinney, the son of the 1984 Olympic cycling medalists Connie Carpenter and Davis Phinney,...

In this article: Davis Phinney, World Cup, Connie Carpenter Phinney, Track cycling, Copenhagen, Poland, Stefan Nimke, Bradley Wiggins, and Marty Nothstein

...final overall standings, won by Volodymyr Dyudya of Ukraine with the same number of points. It was Phinney's first World Cup win of the season. Phinney, who's been working out with Lance Armstrong, shattered the U.S. national record in...

In this article: World Cup, Lance Armstrong, Volodymyr Dyudya, Eleonora van Dijk, Elizabeth Armistead, Victoria Pendleton, Kam-Po Wong, and Connie Carpenter-Phinney

...prodigious sprinting power (300-plus career wins, including two stages of the Tour de France). Taylor's nickname? All-twitch. But Phinney's excellence is also due to two factors beyond genetics: mindset and training. The individual...

In this article: Beijing, Tour de France, Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Davis Phinney, and Beijing Olympics

...said if anything, getting more wins adds to his confidence. "I'm definitely not at a peak right now," Phinney said. "I wasn't at a peak when I set the world record, either. There's really good things to come if we can control my training...

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...a bombshell for a tight-knit family used to spending long days cycling and Nordic skiing. "I see how much that degrades my dad," Phinney said. "I can see how that's taken its toll on him. "That's why I don't want to take what I have for...

In this article: Lance Armstrong, Davis Phinney, Tour de France, Parkinson's disease, Eddy Merckx, Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, and World Cup