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By Bruce Hildenbrand

Being a team player is what it’s all about when riding for a pro squad, and Ryder Hesjedal is the perfect example of this. Crucial to Bradley Wiggins’s great result in the 2009 Tour, Hesjedal explains his key role in Garmin’s success, not forgetting his own big victories

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Bradley Wiggins came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France, but he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Superb and very visible support was given to him by two of the most experienced and talented domestiques in the peloton — Christian Vande Velde, who was Wiggins’s last man in the mountains, and David Millar, who led Wiggins out into two of the Tour’s most crucial climbs at Verbier and Mont Ventoux. But the most valuable contribution of all might have ...

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By Dan Dakin - Published March 1, 2010

Ryder Hesjedal looked back at David Garcia one last time. Garcia was spent. With a barely noticeable smile on his face, Hesjedal turned his head, pulled his hands off his bars and threw them into the air. The 28-year-old pumped his fists a couple of times and rode across the line of the queen stage of the 2009 Vuelta a Espana a winner. Short of a certain race in July, victories in cycling don't come much bigger than this.

Hesjedal is not an emotional fellow. It's just not how he rolls. Those fist pumps and the ear to ear smile on his face when he stood atop the podium that day in September are about as excited as you'll see the Victoria, B.C. native.

Unusually relaxed and even-keeled, Hesjedal coasts through the emotional ups and downs of ...

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