You Know Lance Armstrong, but do you know George Hincapie?
George Hincapie is 25 year old cycling Olympian from Greenville South Carolina. He is 6′3″ tall and weighs about 175. He is from Queens New York and currently he resides in either Greenville or Gerona, Spain. His pro team or sponsorships come from Team High Road (USA) and he even has his own Blog.
As for the Olympics, he has been there a few times, 2004 he was 24th in the men’s road race, in 2000 he was 8th in the men’s road race, in 1996 he was 76th in the men’s road race and in 1992 he was 16th in the men’s team race.
He is one of the most recognized athletes in professional cycling in the world. He is a 10 time Tour de France veteran and a four time Olympian as I’ve already mentioned. He is married to a model and podium girl from the Tour de France named Melanie. They have a daughter Julia Paris who was born in 2004. He is know as the only rider to support Lance Armstrong in all seven of his Tour de France victories as a member of the U.S. Postal and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Teams.
He is also one of four Americans to wear the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France. He is part of a state of the art performance training village near Greenville, South Carolina and named the sight, Pla d’Adet for his 2005 Tour de France stage win.


September 19th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Lance has his work cut out for him - his age, the new competitors and the possible conflicts within the Astana team. He needs a dedicated team to do his best with teammates like George who were dedicated to supporting him. I think Lance needs to recruit Hincape if he wants to win and Lance needs to consider how the comeback can change his reputation