Michael Barry

Michael Barry (born 18 December 1975) is a Canadian author and former professional road racing cyclist. Barry raced for numerous world-class teams with the role of 'domestique'. His greatest personal successes were placing eighth in the 2008 Beijing Olympics' road race, finishing second in the Canadian National Road Race Championships in 2001 and 2012, and winning a stage of the Tour of Missouri in 2008. He announced his retirement in September 2012, stating that the 2012 Tour of Beijing would be his last race. brand. As a result, the younger Barry grew up in a cycling-intense environment, and started racing at a very young age. He has been a professional since 1998. He has spent many years on the Canadian National Team during the early years of his career. His wife is 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Dede Demet Barry. They have 2 children.

Previous to riding for UCI ProTour team Barry spent several years with the team. He also raced with the Saturn Cycling Team for a number of years before going to US Postal Service/Discovery.

Barry has raced in 5 Vuelta a Españas and 5 Giro d'Italias but in 2007 had to abandon the Giro due to health issues, which put him out most of the season. He also had to pull out of the 2002 Vuelta a España after colliding with a motorcycle on the eight stage.

In 2005 he wrote the book: Inside the Postal Bus, about his experiences at and the 2004 season whilst riding in support of Lance Armstrong.

Doping On 10 October 2012 it was announced by USADA that he would be suspended for six months for admissions of doping during his time with the US Postal Cycling Team. Later that day a statement was released confirming his acceptance of a six-month ban from 1 September 2012 ending on 1 March 2013 along with a stripping of all race results between 13 May 2003 and 31 July 2006. He confessed that the US Postal team were using performance-enhancing drugs.

Highlights Highlights include: Stage win at the 2008 Tour of Missouri Placed 9th in the men's road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Placing 4th overall in the 2003 Tour de Georgia At the 2006 Tour of Flanders, Barry went down extremely hard in a crash, suffering severe facial cuts and lacerations and also fracturing some vertebrae.

Major results

1997 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 1999 2nd First Union Invitational 4th Overall Ringerike GP 8th Overall GP de Beauce 10th Overall Tour Trans-Canada 2000 5th Overall Ringerike GP 6th Overall Redlands Classic 2001 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd BMC San Francisco GP 4th Overall Peace Race 4th Overall GP de Beauce 7th Samsung Classic 7th First Union Invitational 2002 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya 6th First Union Invitational 9th Road race, Commonwealth Games 2003 4th Overall Tour de Georgia

2003 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 2004 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 2005 6th Overall Tour of Austria 1st Points classification 1st Stage 1 2006 2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial

2007 3rd Overall Sachsen Tour 2008 5th Overall Tour of Ireland 8th Road race, Olympic Games 10th Overall Tour of Missouri 1st Stage 4 2009 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia 2012 2nd Road race, National Road Championships