Young Kiwi learns from Lance Armstrong

Sep 16, 2009
 

By PENNY MILES - The Dominion Post Winning bronze at the last year's Beijing Olympics has opened doors for New Zealand cyclist Sam Bewley. Lance Armstrong has offered Olympic bronze medallist Sam Bewley an entree to road cycling royalty. Ahead of next week's UCI Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where he has been named in New Zealand's under-23 team, Bewley believes he is a far better rider than when he joined Armstrong's development team last January. Bewley, 22, from Rotorua, and Feilding's Jesse Sergent, 21, were hand-picked for Armstrong's 11-man Trek-Livestrong team after their blistering ride with the New Zealand men's pursuit team in Beijing. After eight months based in Boulder, Colorado, with the team, and racing throughout the United States and Europe, Bewley has rubbed shoulders with the biggest... [read full story]                    

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