At 35 years old, Cylance Pro Cycling's Shelley Olds is likely nearing the end of her professional career. But the diminutive sprinter still packs the powerful punch the led her to the win at the inaugural la Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta last September in Spain and more recently second overall at the Santos Women's Tour in Australia.
Over the past eight years, Olds has also won stages at the Tour of the Gila, Tour of New Zealand, the Giro d'Italia Feminine, the Vuelta a Costa Rica and the Tour of Norway. She won major one-day races at Giro della Toscana, Winston-Salem Classic, Tour of Chongming Island World Cup, GP Costa Etrusca, the Pan American road race and the 2010 US national criterium championships.
Olds started her pro career with Pro Man Hit Squad in 2008 and has since ridden with Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12, Diadora-Pasta Zara, AA Drink-leontien.nl, Tibco-To the Top, Alé Cipollini, and Bigla Pro Cycling. She signed with the new US team Cylance in November.
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Olds represented the US in the road race at the 2012 Olympics in London and was one of four riders in the winning breakaway that got away from the peloton late in the race. Olds missed out on the chance to sprint for a potential medal, however, when she suffered a flat tire near the finish and lost contact with the leaders. She eventually crossed the finish line with the peloton and finished seventh.
USA Cycling has named Olds to the long list for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, but she hasn't yet made the final selection. The number of riders the US is allowed to send and the final US roster will be announced later this summer.
Cyclingnews sat down with Olds late last month at the team's training camp near Cylance headquarters in Irvine, California, where she spoke about her 2016 plans, the new team and her desire to return to the Olympics road race in Rio.
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