Английская Википедия:Bob Roll
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:BLP sources Шаблон:Infobox cyclist Bob "Bobke" Roll (born July 7, 1960) is an American former professional cyclist, author, and television sports commentator. He was a member of the Шаблон:UCI team code until 1990 and competed for the Шаблон:UCI team code in 1991. In 1992 Roll moved to Greg LeMond's Z team and added mountain biking to his racing accomplishments. Roll continued racing mountain bikes professionally through 1998. Roll is known in the cycling world, and to his global cable television fans, as "Bobke".
He has written Bobke: A Ride on the Wild Side of Cycling, Bobke II, and two Tour de France Companion volumes. ("Bobke" is Southern Dutch for "Bobby".) He has also had many columns published in VeloNews. He is credited with suggesting that Joe Parkin, professional cyclist and author, move to Europe and wrote the foreword for Joe's first book.[1]
Cycling career
Roll started cycling in 1981 in his home region of Northern California. He spent two years in the States racing before heading to Belgium to race. After a furthur two years he became a professional cyclist for Шаблон:UCI team code, his first race was the 1985 Giro d'Italia.[2] During the 1988 Giro d'Italia Roll's job as a domestique pushed him to the limit, causing him to pass out at the finish and his heart to stop beating.[3]
In 1998 a young Lance Armstrong, continuing to recover from testicular cancer remediation, had recently dropped out of the Paris–Nice cycling race. Armstrong's training coach, Chris Carmichael, invited Roll to journey to Boone, North Carolina, to talk with Lance and do training rides with the young Armstrong for several days.[4][5] Armstrong was extremely discouraged by his recent European cycling results, and Carmichael believed Armstrong had lost his career focus and was on the verge of fully retiring from professional cycling. Almost out of desperation, Carmichael talked Armstrong into doing one last series of intensive training rides, with Roll as his riding partner.
According to Roll, "I am sure Lance had probably never met a bike racer like me...a person who could still find some joy and happiness in such weather misery. We had eight hours a day, for eight straight days, of continuous riding in the pouring rain - rain in Biblical proportions! I think Lance would've turned things around even without our talks and rides in the Appalachia[n]s, but it turned out to be a pivotal career event for him (and Roll had made a new cycling friend)." A refocused and encouraged Armstrong went on to a successful fourth-place finish in the Vuelta a España, and within a year and a half he had won his first yellow jersey overall victory in the Tour de France road race. Armstrong has since had his yellow jersey wins nullified due to doping. (Roll's tale of the ride is in Bobke II;[6] Armstrong's is in It's Not About the Bike.[7])
Post cycling
Roll continues to enjoy riding road and mountain bicycles for recreation, and is a member of the veteran cable television broadcasting team (along with Phil Liggett, MBE and the late Paul Sherwen) who serve as road cycling expert-commentators for the NBC Sports Network cable network's coverage of the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Giro d'Italia, Paris–Roubaix, Tour of California, and other international cycling road races.[8]
Roll has appeared in a series of Road ID Tour de France television commercials as himself, riding a bus along with "Tour Mania" (a costumed-disguised rowdy faux rock group played by well-known professional cyclists, such as George Hincapie).
Major results
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- 1985
- 10th Overall Coors Classic
- 1st Stage 9
- 1986
- 1st Stage 3 Rocky Mountains Classic
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta de Baja California
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1987
- 1st Affoltern am Albis Criterium
- 6th Eschborn–Frankfurt
- 7th Overall Milk Race
- 8th Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1988
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Romandie
- 1990
- 1st Stage 2 Tucson Bicycle Classic
- 1992
- 5th Overall Tour of the Adirondacks
- 1997
- 1st San Francisco Hill Climb
- 1998
- 1st San Francisco Hill Climb
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Шаблон:Cjersey Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Шаблон:Cjersey Giro d'Italia | 78 | — | — | 61 | 114 | — |
| Шаблон:Cjersey Tour de France | — | 63 | DNF | — | — | 132 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Bibliography
References
External links
- Шаблон:Sports links
- Bob Roll's website
- Bob Roll's book
- A weblog/tribute to Bob with comments on current events in cycling
- Bob in his 7-Eleven uniform
- 2007 Pezcyclingnews interview of Bob Roll by Matt Wood
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- ↑ Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, Chapter 5, (Шаблон:ISBN), Putnam 2000.
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