The Tour is a big family with great, interesting people, which all have a story to tell. Between James Startt and Sam Abt the have covered 49 Tour de France races! Both Americans that live and have lived in Paris to cover European cycling. James Startt did his 18th Tour this year, delivering some of the best emotional photos to the world. James covers the Tour this year for Bicycling USA and Top Velo France, for more of his photo work visit www.jamesstartt.net. Sam Abt will finish his 31st and last Tour de France today. He has covered the race for newspapers like the International Herald Tribune, the most well-known English newspaper in Europe, yesterday he received the supreme non-cycling award given by the Tour de France organization.
Lars Teutenberg from Germany is a Mr. Schwalbe at the Tour. He is supporting the Team Gerolsteiner the complete Tour to help getting the tires ready. When he is not working for Schwalbe Lars also supports SRM systems with technical training for the pros or is racing and testing for SRAM, he just got the second place in the German TT Champion ships on SRAM Force.
Just outside of the press room I ran into a familiar face looks like Lenny Karwitz stopped by to bring the Tour some peace, love and happiness...
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