Category: Cycling

Phil Keoghan

After 14 years of hosting “The Amazing Race” on CBS, you would think that Phil Keoghan has had enough adventure. The show, where teams travel around the world completing tasks with the winners getting $1 million, has sent him around the world multiple times in 27 seasons. But there is always another story to tell. In 2009, the New Zealand–born Keoghan and a friend cycled across the United States and made a film about it as a fundraiser for multiple sclerosis research. Now he is telling the story of the 1928 Tour de France and the first English-speaking team to ride. To do it, he retraced the route on a vintage bicycle, a journey of more than 3,000 miles that will be captured in the…

Phil Liggett

Phil Liggett didn’t set out to be the most respected broadcaster in cycling. He began his career as a rider and eventually was asked to become the organizer of Britain’s famed Milk Race. Meanwhile, he developed his journalism chops on London’s Fleet Street and was eventually asked to try his hand at broadcasting. And that’s where he’s made his mark, teaming for years with Paul Sherwen and becoming the “Voice of Cycling.” His excitement and phrasing while covering races—he refers, for example, to leading riders as “dancing on the pedals”—are his trademarks. He has covered 42 Tours de France and, in the United States, he leads NBC’s coverage of the Amgen Tour of California and the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado. In this interview with SportsTravel’s Jason Gewirtz…

Doug Ulman

The story of Lance Armstrong has many chapters, from his triumph over cancer to his fall from grace after admitting he took performance-enhancing drugs when he won seven Tour de France titles, of which he has since been stripped. Further complicating matters was the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which had been built into one of the largest fundraising organizations aimed at fighting cancer. Armstrong eventually resigned as chairman and removed himself from the board of what was renamed the Livestrong Foundation. Despite losses in fundraising, the Austin,Texas–based organization has chartered a path forward with longtime President and CEO Doug Ulman…