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	Bjarne Riis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bjarne Lykkegård Riis (born April 3, 1964), nicknamed the Eagle from Herning (Danish: Ørnen fra Herning), was a Danish professional road bicycle racer who won the 1996 Tour de France, and is now the team owner and manager of Danish UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC.
		Bjarne Riis was first known to the Danish public, when he won the stage to Châlon-sur-Marne during the 1993 Tour de France.
		Bjarne Riis was the favourite at the 1997 Tour de France, but instead it was his young German teammate Jan Ullrich, who won the overall competition, with Bjarne Riis finishing 7th.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bjarne_Riis (977 words)

	Bjarne Riis: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bjarne Riis (born April 3, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Riis began cycling professionally in 1986, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Riis moved on to coaching; he is now the General Manager of his own cycling team, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bj/bjarne_riis.htm (788 words)

	CSC: Bjarne Riis Interview
		Riis, whose home base is now in Lucca, Italy, recently attended cycling’s World Championship Races in Hamilton, Ontario, where he took the time to sit down with csc.com for this interview.
		Bjarne Riis: Of course, there was the Tour de France, because the Tour for us is something very special with three stage victories, Tyler [Hamilton] in fourth place, Carlos [Sastre] in ninth place, and winning the team competition.
		Riis: I think one of the main difficulties is that, especially this year, we did not have the team yet as I really would like to have it.
	www.csc.com /features/2003/51.shtml (990 words)

	Elmic's Riis '98
		For Bjarne (and to some degree Ullrich too) the main problem, as I see it, lies in the fact that he/they have been on a constantly raising formcurve, since they got rid of their somewhat different problems.
		Bjarne Riis pre-started his season by crashing during training, and after a while a mild fraction in his hand was discovered, through scanning on Århus Kommunehospital.
		Bjarne Riis is back in the saddle again, and even started performing one of his specialities: Making half the stage disappear because of snow!
	home8.inet.tele.dk /elmic/ZZ/riis98.htm (814 words)

	Team CSC Manager Bjarne Riis on Racing and Management Technique
		In early June, Team CSC and team manager Bjarne Riis were in the United States racing in the CSC Invitational in Clarendon, Va., and the Wachovia Cycling Series in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
		Riis: Well, we have one in December to bring the team together—teamwork, team building and whatever—and then we have two training camps in January and February where the riders basically ride the bikes.
		Riis: One of the reasons that I’m doing this is that I’ve seen all the problems they have had with this sport for many years now, and I think all those scandals, whatever bad things we have been through in this sport, come from bad leadership.
	www.csc.com /features/2004/32.shtml (1849 words)

	Continental Drift with Andrew Hood: The Great Dane
		Riis recounts a typical exercise during the team's January training camp: "I told them in the radio, ‘Okay guys, as quickly as possible, divide into three groups and start riding as quickly as possible.' Then I look to see how fast they are breaking into the group and how fast they can start riding.
		Riis gives everything to his team, reportedly even dipping into his own savings to cover some of the team's expenses.
		Riis was beaming like a proud father when he watched Julich, points-jersey winner Jens Voigt and then the entire team standing atop the Paris-Nice podium.
	www.velonews.com /news/fea/7702.0.html (1018 words)

	CSC's Riis in search of perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Riis, a bald, bold man who is widely respected in cycling circles, was a self-made rider who seemingly had little future when he rode for an Italian team for the unprincely sum of $1,500 a month.
		Riis' unique vantage point of having stood atop the podium in 1996 and having worked selflessly as domestique to help 23-year-old sensation Jan Ullrich win the title the next year offers a wealth of expertise that Basso can tap into.
		Riis can relate to the 32-year-old Armstrong because he was the same age in 1996 when he rode ahead of the peloton down the Champs-Elysées, where he was greeted by 20,000 Danes who made the celebratory journey.
	www.palmbeachpost.com /sports/content/shared/sports/tourdefrance/2004/24bohls.html (1033 words)

	Roadcycling.com - News - 1996 Tour winner Bjarne Riis ends career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Riis won the Tour de France in 1996, relegating former Tour winner Miguel Indurain to a regular Tour participant destined for retirement.
		Riis has not been able to participate in races since June 1999, when he crashed in the Tour of Switzerland, badly injuring one of his elbows.
		Riis will be remembered for his spectacular performance in the Tour de France, but also for his other victories, including victories in one-day races.
	www.roadcycling.com /news/03032000.shtml (335 words)

	PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling
		Bjarne has studied this, and it’s all built into his philosophy on willfull suffering whereby he gives them the opportunity of creating a support system so radically foolproof, that when something does go wrong - like Zabriskie’s crash at the TT last year—the CSC train keeps on track with amazing grace.
		Bjarne doesn’t allow former buddies to bunk together constantly, so one night you’ll be with one rider who snores and speaks Russian and the next night you are with your pal from Italy, who snores and tells worse jokes than you.
		Bjarne: We are not somebody else—we have what we have and we deal with what we have and we don’t need to deal with anything else even when Tyler crashed, we didn’t have to change our ways of dealing with a problem.
	www.pezcyclingnews.com /?pg=fullstory&id=3807 (1640 words)

	Riis in yellow, Indurain concedes race \| Outside Online
		Bjarne Riis emerged, his trademark shark's gape chomping at the thin air near the top of the climb.
		Denmark's Bjarne Riis is the man in yellow and Miguel Indurain had a fl birthday.
		The overall leader at the start of the day, Riis quickly dropped the field in the final kilometers to win the 199-kilometer (123-mile) race that was flat until the final 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), when the course climbed 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) to a ski resort high in the Pyrenees.
	outside.away.com /outside/events/tdf96/results716.html (1281 words)

	CCB International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bjarne Riis would love to award Bobby Julich with the stars and stripes for his efforts and to give him great morale for the upcoming Tour.
		The lead grows to 8 minutes, 9 minutes and as yet no team director (read this as Bjarne Riis because he is the only one with the guns to bring this time down) has issued the call to chase… he has Jimmi Madsen sitting last of 28 riders all around the circuit.
		Riis has read the names of the riders in the group and decided to hold his cards for awhile yet.
	www.ccbracing.com /feature/2004/june/philly.html (1993 words)

	.:. procycling .:.
		After a spate of crashes close to stage finishes, CSC boss Bjarne Riis wonders if it might be time for a change to the rules.
		Itâs that mark Riis suggests be moved further out, with the intention of making the GC riders leave the sprints to the experts.
		Riisâ own CSC-riders have had their share of close encounters with the tarmac, which has so far made their fastest man, Norwegian Kurt-Asle Arvesen, stay away from the bunch sprints.
	www.procycling.com /news.aspx?ID=237 (356 words)

	Active.com - CSC uses special forces training to grow strong as a team
		The team that Riis took over four years ago and now owns is one of the most respected in the peloton.
		Last year, when Tyler Hamilton crashed on the first stage and fractured his collarbone, the troops rallied round their American leader and he eventually finished in fourth place overall after winning a tough stage in the mountains.
		Bjarne Christiansen, the man with 4,000 parachute jumps who used to have to go on secret missions behind enemy lines for the Danish Special Air Service, believes that was a positive result for him.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=10889&sidebar=676&category=tdf2004_peloton (544 words)

	Vintage champion, Bjarne Riis \| Outside Online
		Cycling's greatest race is over and Bjarne Riis of Denmark, with his unrelenting attacks in the mountains and firm control of the peloton, proved he deserves the accolades that come with the Tour de France.
		Riis will be among professional cyclists competing in the Olympics for the first time in the road race July 31 and the individual time trial August 3.
		Riis is a hero," said Kim Knudsen, who flew with 50 other cycling fans on a chartered flight out of Copenhagen Sunday morning.
	outside.away.com /outside/events/tdf96/results721.html (1043 words)

	Welcome to the history of the Tour de France
		Third in 1995, Riis was clearly the best climber in the race as well as a solid time trialer.
		Although his teammate Bjarne Riis grabbed Tour glory, Germany's Jan Ullrich had his share of headlines too.
		Riis wins the Tour on his seventh try, after having finished in the top five twice (1993-1995).
	www.letour.fr /HISTO/TDF/1996/us/annee.html (316 words)

	Elmic's Riis '99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Bjarne Riis spent the entire spring, where the plans from Telekom's side had been to go for The Classics, fighting a cold (official version), and fighting off journalists, that wanted to talk doping.
		Expectations from the press and most everybody else is, that his career is over, but Bjarne Riis himself, will not give in - at least before the continuing problems with his arm, has been finally cleared.
		Last week one of the two Danish national TV-stations (DR1) brought a documentary, where they claimed to be able to "prove", that Bjarne Riis had been doped - at least - in 1995 with Gewiss-Ballan.
	home8.inet.tele.dk /elmic/ZZ/riis99.htm (434 words)

	Team CSC - Riis news
		it was a happy Bjarne Riis who could answer the questions with a smill on his libs.
		than Bjarne got a question about the Teams strenght this year and how he thinks the team will be next year.
		Bjarne Riis also got a question about Ivan Bassos big succes in the year 2004 and to that Bjarne said
	www.team-csc.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=958 (236 words)

	Cycling Revealed
		Telecom's Bjarne Riis finished second on the stage and moved 2 seconds ahead of Olano in the overall classification.
		Riis used continual surges on the 17.3 km climb to break the peloton apart.
		Dane Bjarne Riis stepped into the TdF spotlight in 1996, but the revelation of the race was Telecom teammate Jan Ullrich.
	www.cyclingrevealed.com /july05/cover2.html (1051 words)

	cykling
		I'm a great admirer of Bjarne Riis and have been it since 1993, when he became no. 5 in Tour de France.
		Who doesn't remember the fantastic race Bjarne Riis did in Amstel Gold Race in 1997.
		Bjarne Riis talking to a former team mate from the Gewiss-Ballan team under "Danmark Rundt" 1996.
	www.jettewagner.dk /uk/cykling.html (523 words)

	Ridgecrest Blog: A Note to David Zabriskie
		Riis himself a former tour winner apparently forgot what it's like to wear yellow.
		But didn't because Riis was wearing yellow and therefore it was everyone elses job to support him.
		To Bjarne Riis, you made a tough call ordering the team to ride on withour Zabriskie.
	ridgecrest.blogspot.com /2005/07/note-to-david-zabriskie.html (433 words)

	Amstel Gold Race
		Bjarne Riis (Den) Telekom, 258 km in 6.11.19 2.
		Riis said he chose to attack just after changing a wheel with a broken spoke because he knew his rivals would not be expecting such a move.
		Erik Zabel 100 Frederic Guesdon 100 Bjarne Riis 100 8.
	www.team.malarenergi.se /probike/res97/04/amstel.html (606 words)

	Bjarne Riis' Amstel Gold World Cup Victory
		Quadrant analysis of Bjarne Riis' 1996 (1997?) victory at the Amstel Gold World Cup race.
		Threshold power (and associated cadence) were estimated from data recorded during his ~50 min solo breakaway.
		Note the large amount of time spent pedaling in quadrants III and IV (which would tend to reduce fast twitch fiber recruitment) - this is practically a requirement, given the length of the race.
	home.earthlink.net /~acoggan/misc/id3.html (73 words)

	Martin Dugard: Tuesday, July 12, 2005
		Last Tuesday Bjarne Riis of the CSC team went on record as saying Armstrong was lucky to be wearing the yellow jersey.
		Bjarne Riis, team manager of CSC, is known for his pragmatism.
		Riis is aware that other team’s known this weakness.
	blogs.active.com /dugard/2005_07_12_archive.html (2448 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Cycling \| Riis eyes time-trial win
		Bjarne Riis has backed his CSC team to win Wednesday's team time trial.
		Although Hamilton has left the team, Riis is confident his current crop of riders have the wherewithal to oust the top teams.
		But they are currently the top-placed team in the current world standings, leading Riis to predict high goals for the rest of the Tour.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/3844373.stm (264 words)

	Sounding Furious: Bjarne Riis: Ullrich sucks ass
		Bjarne Riis has said that Jan Ullrich's current level of fitness was a "absolutely catastrophic".
		The Dane, who ended the reign of Miguel Indurain at the Tour de France 1996, as his then-teammate Ullrich placed second one year prior to his own Tour de France victory, criticised the German's attitude towards his sport after seeing him in Tuscany.
		I believe in him less and less." While admitting that Ullrich remained inside the circle of favourites for this year's Tour de France, the CSC director also added that his own Ivan Basso was "way ahead" in terms of form.
	soundingfurious.blogspot.com /2006/04/bjarne-riis-ullrich-sucks-ass.html (164 words)

	Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - Uphill battle faces Bjarne Riis and Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Sports director Bjarne Riis knows this year's Tour de France will not be a cakewalk for his cycling team CSC.
		He's where he should be now, said Riis who has been mentally preparing his Italian star for weeks.
		Bjarne Riis has therefore begun to make spoken agreements with a number of riders to ensure that they stay on his team.
	www.denmark.dk /portal/page?_pageid=374,837880&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (553 words)

	Speedplay High Performance Bicycle Pedals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Sharon Worman and Richard Bryne of Speedplay with Bjarne Riis (far right) and the CSC team members who attended the training camp in Tuscany.
		Bjarne Riis explains the route for the ride.
		Bjarne Riis watches over the team during a wet, cold ride.
	www.speedplay.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.tuscany (265 words)

	Tuesday's EuroFile: Riis is happy; Valverde confident
		Team CSC boss Bjarne Riis took personal satisfaction in Bobby Julich's dramatic victory in Paris-Nice.
		Riis watched with pride as his big red machine dominated the post-race podium ceremony, with Julich collecting the yellow jersey, Jens Voigt the green and Team CSC the team classification.
		On the team's web page, Riis was more effusive: "Today we have reached a big goal and this race once again showed our abilities as a team.
	www.velonews.com /race/int/articles/7697.0.html (1112 words)

	. . . mutant blog . . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		He is always the first person to put a hand on your back after a good day, and more importantly, after a bad day, as well.
		Bjarne partners with a guy named BS Kristiansen to pull together these team-building camps in pre-season.
		I can honestly say all my team-mates are friends, which is due in large part, to these kinds of activities and Bjarne's leadership style.
	www2.uic.edu /~klu1/archive/2004_07_18_archive.html (301 words)

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