Thor Hushovd is a professional road bicycle racer belonging to Norway and riding for the BMC Racing Team. He has won the national road race championship three times, one in the current year (2013) itself and the two others were in the years 2004 and 2010. Thor Hushovd was the first Norwegian who led the Tour de France. He was also the first Scandinavian who has bagged the most number of wins in the Grand Tours. Thor Hushovd, with all the victories and successes up his sleeves, is rightly described as the greatest Norwegian Cyclist of all time.

Although the overall performance of the BMC Racing Team in the year 2013 has not been as per the expectations of their fans, given their talent and budget, the team bagged 30 wins altogether from a dozen of various riders. Five of those thirty were World Tour wins. Hushovd scored a stage win, in Europe at The Tour du Haut Var. In the tour of Poland he won two stages. Thor also won Norway’s Arctic Race as well as two stages.

Hushovd is one of the leading riders, among others, whom his team (BMC Racing Team) wants to focus on and hone to bring out the optimum of their strengths. The BMC Racing Team has quite a lot of expectation from Thor Hushovd in The Classics to be held in 2014.

Thor Hushovd, sometimes referred to as the Norse God, suffered from certain health problems for quite some time. But, in the latter half of this year (2013), he was again seen very near to his best form, with quite a number of wins in the Tour de Pologne, The Arctic Race and Tour of Beijing. “Thor is back to where he was. He is really strong again when he showed that in Poland. A good preparation and start to the season and he could be on fire for the Classics”, said Allan Peiper, Performance Director of the BMC Racing Team.

When Thor Hushovd found his way to the final ropes of the Tour of Poland in the third stage, this race proved to be the life changer for him. When he was in between the two of his greatest competitors, he knew that this was the time to do or die situation for him.

At the split of a second decision, he made on which took him to the final ropes of this tour. When he was in the second place, he took the split second decision to overtake from the left, which was the least anticipated from him. This took him to victory and the team work was great leading to the winning ropes. (more…)

BMC Racing’s Thor Hushovd continued his winning runs with a sprint win in the 2nd stage of Arctic Tour of Norway in 2013 that started and ended in Svolvær. The Norwegian winner was brought into the ending straight by his mates at the finish of the 156.5 kilo-meter stage, set up to the line with two hundred meters to go, and ended over a length clear of 2nd spot Tom Van Asbroeck with Marco Haller in 3rd.

Time bonuses on the line suggest that Thor Hushovd took the lead of race to which he is the ambassador. Thor told that he was really very determined to win that day. It means a lot to him to be a winner at a race which he has supported a lot from the beginning. This is the best bike race he has ever taken part in.

The Norwegian champion further added t that he missed out that day because of the positioning but he felt strong that day. The final sprint was quite a chaos but he got a really excellent lead out by Blythe.

When Thor got out of his wheel and started his sprint with two hundred meters to go, he got the feeling that he would be unbeatable. Noone managed to pass him. This was really fantastic for him. People’s support in north of Norway is more than he anticipated. Today, the path showed how magnificent the place is. It could not be a better outcome for him. He expects to be able to hold the leader’s jersey till the very end.