Articles by Michael Barry

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• Michael Barry’s Diary – The peloton unplugged

  • Published Oct. 4, 2009

  Sitting in the middle of the peloton, riding along at a steady tempo as a team controls the pace on the front, I hear our director in the

• Michael Barry’s diary: An ending looms, along with a

  • Published Sep. 11, 2009
  • Updated Sep. 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Laughter resounds through the camper as Mark’s joke carries from the back to the front where George, who is at the brunt of it, sits. On

• Michael Barry’s Diary – Victory is secondary

  • Published Aug. 26, 2009
  • Updated Aug. 26, 2009 at 5:29 PM EDT

  As we drove to the course, the small team camper bounced and creaked as it followed the motorcade of team cars along the small sinuous

• Michael Barry’s Diary – The time of transition

  • Published Aug. 15, 2009

  Transition. In the hotel in San Sebastian the atmosphere was different than that which I left at the Dauphiné Libéré. There had

• Michael Barry on Hincapie’s five seconds

  • Published Jul. 21, 2009
  • Updated Jul. 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM EDT

  Editor's Note: Michael Barry is a member of the Columbia-HTC team. Pedaling up the climb without a car in sight, the sun beating down,

• Michael Barry’s diary – Down to the wire

  • Published May. 31, 2009

  After racing from the north to the south to the center of the boot, we finally reached Rome and completed the last fourteen kilometers of

• Columbia-Highroad’s Michael Barry examines the

  • Published May. 29, 2009

  Naples, Italy —  At the stage start, the town’s square has been invaded by the race. The announcer belts out riders’ names,

• Lance Armstrong interviews Michael Barry

  • Published May. 28, 2009
  • Updated Nov. 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM EDT

  Lance Armstrong interviews Michael Barry at the Giro d'Italia.

• Columbia-Highroad’s Michael Barry gives an inside

  • Published May. 26, 2009
  • Updated May. 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM EDT

  Pescara, Italy — Each hundred meters of the two final kilometers of every stage is signed at the roadside. On a flat stage I take little

• Michael Barry’s diary – A matter of safety

  • Published May. 20, 2009
  • Updated May. 27, 2009 at 5:24 PM EDT

  As we near the summit of the mountain the speed increases. The peloton passes the one-kilometer to go sign, riders suddenly burst out