Wall Streeter becomes women's cycling champ


	Wall Streeter becomes women's cycling champ

masbury

8-7-2009 2:53 PM

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Stumbled onto the thing she was born to do a year ago ...

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<LI class="dateStamp"><SMALL>AUGUST 6, 2009, 11:16 P.M. ET</SMALL></LI>
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<H1>Cycling’s One-in-a-Million Story
</H1><H2 class="subhead">Overworked Wall Streeter Buys a Bike to Stay Fit, Discovers an Elite Talent</H2></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html"><P>Little more than a year ago, Evelyn Stevens was just another associate on Wall Street, working 50-hour weeks with an investment fund and trying to stay in shape by sneaking the occasional jog. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html"><P>On Sunday, the 26-year-old former college tennis player will compete in the Route de France, a six-day race that draws some of the world’s top female cyclists. And here’s the part nobody, not even Ms. Stevens, could have imagined just a few months ago: She might just win. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/online.wsj.com/img/AC97E880-5F10-4197-883A-1620F775559B" alt="sports_foto" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html"><P>She was lucky enough to stumble into the exact pursuit she was born for. </p> <DIV class="insetContent insetCol3wide embedType-image imageFormat-D"><DIV class="insetTree">
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                <CITE>Mark Johnson</CITE>
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