Originally Posted by
ninjaman
Jesus man...just looking at the Columbia team roster, you get a real picture of just how stacked they are, especially with good time trialists:
Bert Grabsch
Marco Pinotti
Michael Rogers
Tony Martin
Kim Kirchen
George Hincapie
Edvald Boassen Hagen
Thomas Lovkvist
Adam Hansen(not usually spoken of in TT circles, but won the Australian TT champs in '08)
Most of these guys could place a top-10 in any time trial they enter. Wow.
Check out Garmin. They've got 3 (IIRC) national champion TTists as well cas a few road champs, a bunch of U23 champs, a world champion (maybe two, I can't remember), Olympians, World Championship riders, and a few GC riders wherever they go.
Both of their collective talent pools are very deep.
And Vicky Pendleton is an internation superstar. By no means under-rated, but not over-rated either. Ask for one name on the female track circuit and Vicky Pendleton is it.