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JoE Silva
JoE Silva began working as a journalist in the 1990's writing for outlets as diverse as Salon.com, MOJO, Bicycling, Public Radio International, and REMIX. Recently he has contributed to ProCycling magazine in the UK, and produces a weekly podcast for VeloNews.com. He is also the host of WUGA's Just Off The Radar (a weekly survey of eclectic modern music...) and it's live performance companion program, Georgia Public Broadcasting's Athens 441. He and his family reside in Athens, GA. Oh...and it's OK to ask about the capital "E" in his name. He's used to it by now.
Frankie Andreu
Frankie Andreu is one of the most popular and well-respected names in American professional cycling. He retired from racing at the end of 2000 after a 12-year professional career and was the captain of the 1999 and 2000 winning Tour de France teams. During his racing career he competed in the Tour de France nine times. He was one of the team's most selfless performers and most depended on workers. In addition, he competed in three Tours of Spain and one Giro d' Italia. His racing experience not only encompassed Grand Tours but also included high placed finishes in World Cup events, World Championships, Spring Classics, as well as two Olympic Games: 1988 placing 8th in Seoul, Korea and 1996 placing fourth in Atlanta.
Mari Holden
Mari Holden is a female American cycle racer who won the World Time Trial Championships in 2000 after winning a silver medal in the Olympic Games Time Trial in Sydney, Australia that same year. She also won six U.S. National Cycling Championships, including becoming the first American woman to win three consecutive U.S. Time Trial Championships (1998–2000) and scoring a rare double by winning both the U.S. Time Trial and Road Race Championships in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia.
Rick Scott
Rick Scott opened the Los Angeles, California-based GREAT SCOTT P.R.ODUCTIONS in 1991 as a public relations, marketing and management firm. GSP designs and executes full-service publicity campaigns specifically for recording artists and entertainers to support album releases, concert tours and special events on the national, regional and local levels, including specialty markets. Scott has created successful media campaigns for record producers, independent record labels, benefits, magazines, nightclubs and a music video production company. In 2003, GSP entered the fray of sports representation with a focus on professional cycling. Scott has been writing for the AToC website since 2006. He's been an avid cyclist and bike racer for 24 years. Contact him through greatscottpr.com.
Allan Crawford, Photographer
Allan Crawford is a Senior Photographer for Road Magazine. He covers the major races in the US and has done work for several of the major cycling teams.His interests in photography center around photographing people…doing things ranging from bike racing in California to operating fish markets on the island of Borneo.
Allan’s academic background is in Geology. “As a geologist I always had a camera in my hand, so it was natural to start doing photography professionally.” And as an avocation he raced bikes for years. So combining the photography with the cycling was something that came very naturally.
When not traveling Allan splits his time between Southern California and the Lake Tahoe area.
