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Wall Streeter becomes women's cycling champ
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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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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e39cbcb-32a4-4f3d-9479-1e948e3520d4/CDE188FC-A537-4E65-B85F-39900FA211F7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334741597350028.html" style="font-size: 11px;">online.wsj.com</a></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 class="articleHeadlineBox headlineType-newswire"><UL class="cMetadata metadataType-articleStamp"> <LI class="articleSection first"><A href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-sports-scores.html">SPORTS</A></LI> <LI class="dateStamp"><SMALL>AUGUST 6, 2009, 11:16 P.M. ET</SMALL></LI> </UL> <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"> <DIV class="insettipUnit insetZoomTarget" id="articleThumbnail_1"><DIV class="insetZoomTargetBox"><DIV class="insettipBox"><DIV class="insettip"><P><A>View Full Image</A></P></DIV></DIV><A><IMG hspace="0" height="174" width="262" vspace="0" border="0" alt="sports_foto" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-EF092_sports_D_20090806224712.jpg" /></A></DIV> <CITE>Mark Johnson</CITE> <P class="targetCaption">Evelyn Stevens</p> </DIV><DIV class="insetFullBracket" id="articleImage_1"><DIV class="insetFullBox"><DIV class="insetButton"><A class="insetClose"><IMG hspace="0" height="19" width="19" vspace="0" border="0" alt="sports_foto" src="http://s.wsj.net/img/BTN_insetClose.gif" /></A></DIV><IMG hspace="0" height="369" width="553" vspace="0" border="0" alt="sports_foto" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-EF092_sports_G_20090806224712.jpg" /></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><P>“She’s the most complete rider I’ve ever come across,” says her coach</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://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/online.wsj.com/img/22F113CB-72BF-4BB3-88D5-C0514F89F031" alt="CYCLE2" /></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">Connie Carpenter, an Olympic gold medalist in cycling in 1984, calls her ascent “remarkable,” but adds she still has work to do. “The difficult part will be to go from being good to being great,”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDE188FC-A537-4E65-B85F-39900FA211F7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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