Timm Peddie

Timm Peddie (born on April 8, 1970) is a retired professional track and road bicycle racer and business entrepreneur from the United States. He won the collegiate national track championships (1991) and the U.S. Olympic Trials (1992) where he beat Lance Armstrong for the overall title, becoming the automatic birth for the Olympic Games Road Race, in Barcelona, Spain. He competed from 1991 through 1996.

Cycling career

Peddie began his career in 1993, as a professional cyclist with the team TCBY. He won a dozen top domestic races, including two medals at the national championships. He is known for being an outsider to the U.S. National Team process. He was selected by his peers to the U.S. Olympic Committee, where he served for four years (1996-2000). He ignited the debate on externalizing drug testing from the USOC, leading to the creation of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).