NYT article on Svein Tuft

by guidemd on Feb 7, 2009 4:45 PM EST

Just published online (thanks to the tip on Twitter from JV/Team Slipstream) - all the stuff most of us have heard before about his unorthodox route to the ProTour but now for a wider audience ... they also talked to his mother, interesting quote:

"But I want everybody to know that, no, Svein was not an orphan. He was raised by two loving parents. He had his own room, a trampoline, a motor scooter. But he was just looking for something else.”

Tuft has a lot to live up to this year, with the comments JV's been making about him on Twitter lately, "a guy I really think is going to be something big in 2009" today and "I am completely impressed by the attitude, drive, focus, and professionalism of Svein Tuft" from late January...

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well, unlike connecticut yankee bubble boy

You don’t have to worry if the classics will be too hard for Svein.

(Pointless fan boy note: I’ve bought old team clothing from Tuft off ebay . . .)

by R Mc on Feb 7, 2009 5:42 PM EST reply actions

i think Svein rocks

i haven’t met him, only seen him race, but anyone i know who knows him has only good things to say. and the way he comports himself in the public eye is awesome, especially for a guy who has resisted the trappings of the pro world. he was a shoo-in for my VDS squad this year.

by nicknorco on Feb 7, 2009 6:30 PM EST reply actions

Svein totally rocks. :-)

It was great seeing him at the TOM last year. At the finish of the TT he was up on stage chatting away while we watched the other riders come through. Even if someone wouldn’t have ever heard of him before, after hearing him and watching him race, I’d think anyone there that day was instantly a fan. He seems to be a very real and down to earth person and regardless of what he does on a bike, he’s got an amazing and fulfilling future ahead of him. I could see him racing a few years and then disappearing into the Mountains living a life that completes him.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Feb 7, 2009 8:41 PM EST reply actions

"He was raised by two loving parents."

Of course, they were both wolves.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Feb 8, 2009 11:30 AM EST reply actions

Dayum

Slipstream has amazing PR people. This story was on the front page of the sports section above the fold, in the print NYT. (Yes, the Gav shack takes the Times on paper.) Nice work from the media peeps.

by Jen See on Feb 8, 2009 11:34 AM EST reply actions