ESPN, Bonnie D. Ford, 16 Maart 2013
Veteran Christian Vande Velde is one of three Garmin-Sharp riders who will start this week's Tour of Catalunya in Spain, their first race since serving doping suspensions that were reduced in exchange for cooperation with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's case against Lance Armstrong. Vande Velde, 36, of Lemont, Ill., signed with the U.S. Postal Service team before the 1998 season and rode in support of Armstrong at the Tour de France in 1999 and 2001. He subsequently competed for two European-based teams before joining the Garmin organization in 2008, and finished fourth at that year's Tour.
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Velochrono, Jerome Christiaens, 14 Februari 2012
Ce mardi a débuté le Tour d’Oman et Christian Vande Velde, cinquième de l’édition de l’an passé, a décidé de revenir pour démarrer sa saison 2012. Le coureur de Garmin-Barracuda, qui espère revenir à son meilleur niveau ces prochains mois, fait le point avec Velochrono. Il évoque sans détours la malchance qui l’a souvent touché, parle de son expérience, et clame haut et fort que la prochaine sensation du cyclisme américain fait partie de son équipe.
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velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 8 Augustus 2011
Christian Vande Velde didn’t have the Tour de France that he was hoping for. After an injury-free run into the Tour for the first time in three years, Vande Velde crashed three times in the first stage and barely rode out of the first half of the Tour after a string of other painful spills.
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velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 16 Februari 2010
Christian Vande Velde is holding nothing back this season as he sets his sights on the ultimate prize of the Tour de France. Back in full health, the 33-year-old will be the top GC rider at Garmin-Transitions following the recent departure of the 2009 Tour’s fourth-place finisher, Bradley Wiggins.
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velocitynation.com, 22 Oktober 2009
Christian Vande Velde to be powered by pomegranate juice. POM Wonderful, the largest U.S. grower of Wonderful variety pomegranates and maker of 100% pomegranate juice, recently announced its sponsorship of Team Garmin-Slipstream.
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velonews.com, Neal Rogers, 22 Augustus 2009
American Christian Vande Velde, last year's race champion and eighth-place finisher at this years’ Tour de France and four-time U.S. National Champion in the time trial David Zabriskie, will look to defend the race title for Garmin-Slipstream at this year’s Tour of Missouri, scheduled for September 7 - 13.
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velocitynation.com, 15 Juli 2009
Christian Vande Velde gives his take on the Tour after stage 11 today, which saw Tyler Farrar finish second again to Mark Cavendish.
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gara.net, Joseba Iturria, 7 Juli 2009
La caída y el abandono del Giro le han impedido llegar al comienzo del Tour con la forma ideal, pero espera alcanzarla con el paso de los días y luchar por el podio.
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cyclingnews.com, Daniel Benson, 11 Juni 2009
Garmin-Slipstream's Christian Vande Velde sustained one of the worst crashes of his career at this year's Giro d'Italia and effectively threw his Tour de France challenge into severe jeopardy. Just a few weeks on from the crash Vande Velde talks about the Tour and his recovery.
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velocitynation.com, 2 Juni 2009
Garmin's American rider Christian Vande Velde is recovering at his apartment in Girona after being forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia after breaking two ribs and hurting his lower back in a bad crash 10km from the finish in the third stage.
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nyvelocity.com, 8 Mei 2009
On Saturday, the Giro d’Italia will start with a 20.5km Team Time Trial in Lido di Venezia. Last year, the race started with a Team Time Trial and Illinois native Christian Vande Velde became the first American rider to wear the Maglia Rosa since Andy Hampstens epic ride over the Gavia Pass in 1988.
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velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 1 Mei 2009
(part two) In Part 2 of Andrew Hood's conversation with Christian Vande Velde, the Garmin captain looks back at last year's Tour and ahead to this years.
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velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 29 April 2009
(part one) The Garmin-Slipstream captain is entering the heart of his racing season, with the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France looming as his main targets of the year.
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roadcycling.com, Dave Osborne, 3 Februari 2009
Dave Osborne talks with Christian Vande Velde about Christian's 2008 season, life on Team Garmin-Slipstream and the 2009 Tour de France.
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pezcyclingnews.com, Guy Wilson-Roberts, 24 Januari 2009
Garmin-Chipotle has a new winning message for 2009. PEZ caught up with Christian Vande Velde recently to find out more about the team's strategy, his own transformation into a Tour de France contender, and winter training in snowy Chicago.
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velocitynation.com, 13 Januari 2009
In 2006, after eight years as a pro, Christian Vande Velde won his first race in Europe at the Tour of Luxembourg. A fifth place last year in the Tour de France means that today, the American rider has gone from one of cycling's also-rans to a potential winner of the world's biggest cycle race.
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cyclingnews.com, Jason Sumner, 12 Januari 2009
In the world of pro cycling the transition from domestique to team leader is difficult and rare. For every rider that makes the jump, many others try and fail - or simply never try at all - but Garmin-Slipstream's Christian Vande Velde has emerged as a leader after years of service to others.
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velocitynation.com, 5 September 2008
Fresh off his fifth-place finish at the Tour de France, Christian Vande Velde finished seventeenth in the Beijing Olympic Games Road Race.
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velonews.com, Neal Rogers, 22 Juli 2008
On the rest day in Cuneo, Italy, a relaxed and refreshed Vande Velde discussed his rivals, the Tour’s most critical upcoming stages and how his underdog team is faring heading into the third and most difficult week of the race.
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cyclingnews.com, Gregor Brown, 15 Juli 2008
When the Tour route was announced last October not many had their eyes on Christian Vande Velde as a potential threat to the yellow jersey. Yet since the rider slugged it out with the big guns on the Pyrenean climbing stage to Hautacam, he has become a feared contender in the eyes of his rivals.
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velonews.com, Andrew Hood, 12 Juli 2008
Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) has been one of the revelations so far in the first week of the Tour de France. Through the first opening seven stages, Vande Velde has ridden with consistency and strength to slot into fourth overall at just 44 seconds out of the yellow jersey.
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ciclonet.it, Vito Bernardi, 11 Mei 2008
Eccolo l'americano in rosa. Christian Vande Velde ha gli occhi di un bambino che ha appena realizzato il suo sogno più ardito. "È il momento più eccitante della mia carriera, non potevo immaginare un finale migliore in questo primo giorno di Giro."
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csc.com, 27 Januari 2007
Team CSC’s Christian Vande Velde finally got to step onto the winner’s podium last year at the Tour of Luxembourg in his first professional victory in Europe. It was an important milestone for the 30-year-old American who’s enjoying a revival since joining Team CSC in 2005.
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csc.com, 6 Juni 2006
Team CSC’s Christian Vande Velde won the Tour of Luxembourg on Sunday, marking his first victory in Europe since he began racing on the continent in 1998.
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nyvelocity.com, 5 Januari 2006
Christian Vande Velde on cannibalism, Manolo Saiz, Paris Roubaix and 'the funniest guy he knows'
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BiciRace.com, 31 Oktober 2005
Christian Vande Velde (Team CSC) is the definition of domestique. This year he worked his legs to the bone for Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre, but in the past he was driving the pace for riders like Roberto Heras and Lance Armstrong. Team Manager at Team CSC, Bjarne Riis, values this type of rider, but also knows that Christian can play the key role.
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