The Denver Post

Boulder's Taylor Phinney is cycling way to Tour de Force. At age 18, he has competed in the Olympics. Lance Armstrong has taken him under his wing. But, it appears the best is yet to come.

The lace sleeve and bandage covered Taylor Phinney's savaged elbow like a badge of honor. It not only held a few bits of New Mexico asphalt but also some nice memories, if a nasty fall on a bike going 35 mph can make an 18-year-old fondly reminisce. It was at Saturday's Tour of Gila criterium and Phinney was steeling himself to gun for the win. Then an opponent sidled up to him and asked a question. It wasn't a young European with fire in his legs and deceit in his heart. It was the founder and owner of Phinney's new cycling team, a veteran with a bit of knowledge about the sport of road cycling. "Dude," Lance Armstrong asked Phinney, "what do you need?" Even to Phinney, already an Olympian and the son of two Olympic medalists, that's pretty cool. You're called The Next Lance Armstrong and the real Lance Armstrong takes you under his wing in a race? That's one rose you stop to smell. "Then I eventually crashed with two laps to go and that was the end of my race," Phinney said. Phinney smiled when he recalled the story, sitting in his house in Boulder. Life is good. His parents, Connie and Davis, were off to their bike camp in Italy. Davis continues to win his fight with Parkinson's disease. And Taylor is a senior world track champion. His future on the road couldn't be brighter. (read more)

The New York Times- Juliet Macur

Taylor Phinney has so far walked off with two medals, including the gold in the individual pursuit, at the world track cycling championships this week in Pruskow, Poland.

Not bad for an 18-year-old who started racing on the track about a year and a half ago.

“It doesn’t feel like any of this has really happened, but I kind of feel like it was something that is meant to be,” Phinney said in a telephone interview from Poland.

Phinney, the son of the 1984 Olympic cycling medalists Connie Carpenter and Davis Phinney, won the four-kilometer individual pursuit Thursday, becoming the first American male world champion in track cycling in 13 years. Marty Nothstein was the last cyclist from the United States to win, in 1996.

In qualifying earlier in the day, Phinney’s time of 4 minutes 15.160 seconds broke his own American record. He had set that record last month in winning the International Cycling Union’s World Cup finale in Copenhagen.

Sweetening his trip this week, Phinney also won a silver medal in the one-kilometer time trial Friday, a race his mother said he was competing in “for fun.” (read more)

PARIS (AFP) — American cycling prodigy Taylor Phinney has entered three events at the world track championships later this month, the American cycling federation said.

The 18-year-old Phinney will ride in the individual pursuit, the one-kilometre time trial and the omnium at the March 25 to 29 world event at Pruszkow in Poland.

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Colorado Springs, Colo.- USA Cycling announced today its four-person squad for the upcoming 2009 UCI Track World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, March 25-29.

Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo.) earned an automatic nomination to contest both the men’s 4,000-meter individual pursuit and kilometer time trial. Last month, Phinney broke the U.S. (read more)

Cyclingnews.com

US National Team member Taylor Phinney shattered the American national record in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit on Friday at the UCI Track World Cup in Denmark.  Phinney, clocked a time of 4:15.223 in the qualifying round, surpassing the previous mark of 4:19.800 set by Mariano Friedick in 1996.

Entering Friday's competition, (read more)