WORLD RECORD
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Connie, Uncategorized | No Comments »June 9th kicked off the Trials week for the Track team & offered T a good chance to get some track time in. But first, a detour to Giro where he picked up his custom aero helmet. He'd been ...
Tour du Pays de Vaud Victory!
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »Taylor won the Individual time trial at the Pays du Vaud - a race in the region around Lausanne Switzerland. He called this morning after the first stage of the day, while resting for the second stage. He'd previewed the ...
Beijing: Coming with the Fury!
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Connie, Taylor | No Comments »It's official - Taylor has qualified a spot for Beijing by finishing the track season (culminated april 1) with a 3rd place overall in the world rankings...! Taylor was invited to the USOC media summit with about 100 top Olympic ...
Davis’ surgery - overview
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Connie, Davis | No Comments »Overview: The surgical odyssey began April 3rd at Stanford Hospital when Davis literally got screwed by his neuro-surgeon (thanks Jaimie Henderson!) - 5 bolts screwed into his skull that is. These are called Fiducials and they are markers for the 3-d ...
Ten points - one-zero
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »So when the points from Nationals (last October) finally went up last week for the UCI World rankings, T was given ten points. I thought it was a typo. 10, instead of 100. Even USAC President Jim Ochowicz wrote me ...
Olympic qualification details
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »In recent years several Olympic sports have reduced the numbers of athletes competing and require a world ranking in order to participate. Some sports like swimming and track and field still have US Olympic trials whereby the top 2 ...
Denmark! It was not a fairy tale ending.
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »Copenhagen. Not exactly a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. The Final World Cup is history. Most of you know by now that min-Phin had a bad race by min-Phin standards, finishing tenth in the final event. A virus from early February ...
LA World Cup - January 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »We flew to LA Wednesday to catch up with Taylor who is already there. He chose to sleep in Wednesday (a special training technique peculiar to teenagers) and skip the morning track session. He'll have a hard ride Thursday and ...
Beijing World Cup - December 2007
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »Lucky Beijing. Our flight from Sydney should have been simple. Nothing is simple however with 5500 miles (10,000 km) to cover. We were late leaving due to an equipment change and the fact that our flight was carrying 40 pieces of ...
World cup Sydney - Opening session, November 2007
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Connie | No Comments »All the buzz is in the infield as the Track World Cups get under way Friday morning. The track is outside Sydney, further than the Olympic Park complex - in a quiet zone known as Bass Hill. It's familiar but oh ...