George Hincapie

George Hincapie

Hincapie at the 2007 Tour of California
Personal information
Full name	George Hincapie
Nickname	Big George
Born	(1973-06-29) June 29, 1973 (age 43) Queens, New York, US
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb; 12.4 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist Super-domestique (Climbing)
Professional team(s)
1994–1996	Motorola
1997–2007	U.S. Postal Service
2008–2009	Team High Road
2010–2012	BMC Racing Team
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 Stage - TTT (2003) Stage races Tour of Missouri (2007) Three Days of De Panne (2004) Tour de Luxembourg - Points Classification (1994), (1999) One-day races and classics National Road Race Champion (1998, 2006, 2009) Gent–Wevelgem (2001) Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2005) GP Ouest-France (2005) San Francisco Grand Prix (2001) Reading Classic (1999) Philadelphia International Championship (1998) Acht van Chaam (1995)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and classics

George Hincapie (born June 29, 1973) is an American retired road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1994 and 2012.

Hincapie was a key domestique of Lance Armstrong, and was the only rider to assist Armstrong in all seven of his Tour de France victories. Hincapie was also a domestique for Alberto Contador in 2007 and for Cadel Evans in 2011, when both men won the Tour de France. He was one of only two riders in Tour de France history to have raced on nine teams that won the Tour on the course.

On October 10, 2012, Hincapie released a statement on his website acknowledging the use of performance-enhancing drugs and confirming that he had been approached by US Federal Investigators and USADA with regard to his experiences with doping. Later that day a statement was released confirming his acceptance of a six-month ban from September 1, 2012, ending on March 1, 2013, along with a stripping of all race results between May 31, 2004, and July 31, 2006.

Hincapie started a record 17 Tours. However, after his doping admission, he was retroactively disqualified from the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Tours. He completed his 17th and final Tour in 2012, which tied Joop Zoetemelk's record. He also rode at five consecutive Olympic Games between 1992 and 2008.

Hincapie was born in Queens, New York, United States. His father Ricardo, a Colombian, introduced him to cycling, and his first race training was in New York City's Central Park. He graduated from Farmingdale High School on Long Island in 1991.

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