Media Highlights
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Columbia Sportswear Company and High Road Sports Announce New "Team Columbia" to Debut at 2008 Tour de France
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High Road's Pinotti wins final stage of Giro
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High Road's Kim Kirchen on the cover of Velonews
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Bob Stapleton at Tour de Georgia
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Sivtsov wins epic stage of Brasstown Bald
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2008 RACE SCHEDULE UPDATE
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High Road on Versus
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Kirchen Storms The Mur for Victory in Fleche Wallone
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George Hincapie feature on Versus
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Wiggins defends his World Championship title
SLO-based team takes High Road
February 17, 2008
SLO resident Bob Stapleton hopes his new cycling team becomes a model for the sport, with a big emphasis on clean competition
By Tad Weber
Professional cycling has been rocked in the past two years by doping scandals that have sent riders packing in disgrace, stripped champions of titles and removed entire teams from competition.
The Tour de France, the world’s premier cycling race, was shocked further last week when organizers disqualified the Astana team from competing this summer because of past doping issues. That knocked out Alberto Contador, who won last year’s race, and American Levi Leipheimer, who took third.
Enter Bob Stapleton. A former telecommunications executive who now lives in San Luis Obispo and bases his Team High Road here, Stapleton seeks nothing less than to make cycling pure again.