Arnie Baker is a bicycle

Bicycle

A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

 coach, racer, and writer

Writer

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He has coached road and mountain bike racers to several Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

, more than 120 U.S. National Championships and 40 U.S. records. He is the National Cycling Coach for Team in Training

Team in Training

Team in Training, also known by the acronym TNT, is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's endurance sports training program. The program provides training for a half marathon, marathon, triathlon, century bike ride, or a cross-country ski marathon...

, a program of more than 800 coaches and 30,000 participants that raises more than $80 million yearly for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society , founded in 1949, is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS's mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of...

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Baker has a Category 1 U.S. Cycling Federation racing license. He has held eight U.S. 40-K time trial

Time trial

In many racing sports an athlete will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. In cycling, for example, a time trial  can be a single track cycling event, or an individual or team time trial on the road, and either or both of the latter may form components of...

 records, has won six national championships, and has won more than 200 races.

Baker has authored or co-authored 16 books and more than 1,000 articles on bicycling and bicycling-related subjects.

He obtained his M.D. and master’s degree in surgery from McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

, Montreal

Montreal

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 in 1978. He is a board-certified family physician, living in San Diego, California

San Diego, California

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. He has served on the fitness board of several publications including Bicycling Magazine. He has also been a medical consultant to USA Cycling

USA Cycling

USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, BMX and collegiate racing...

 and the International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

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The Floyd Landis doping case

Arnie Baker was involved in the defense of Floyd Landis

Floyd Landis

Floyd Landis is an American retired cyclist who after initially being awarded victory in the 2006 Tour de France was stripped of his title for a doping offense. He was an all-around rider, with special skills in climbing and time-trialing, and is also known to be a very fast descender.Landis...

 who had failed a drug test while leading the Tour de France

Tour de France

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. He was given a 12 month suspended sentence

Suspended sentence

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by a French court for his use of documents obtained by hacking in this defence. The court itself has said that no evidence linked him to the hacking. He has consistently denied having had any role in the hacking or in having knowingly received illegally obtained documents. He denounced the French case against him as "deeply flawed."

Books

• Altitude, Climbing, Endurance (ACE) Training for Cyclists
• Bicycling Medicine
• Bike Fit
• Medicina del Ciclismo
• The Essential Cyclist
• Essentials of Training and Racing
• High-Intensity-Training (HIT) for Cyclists
• Nutrition for Sports
• Psychling Psychology (Mind Training for Cyclists)
• Running Injuries: Prevention & Treatment
• Skills Training for Cyclists
• Smart Coaching
• Smart Cycling
• Strategy & Tactics for Cyclists
• Road Cycling: International Olympic Committee Handbook of Cycling, co-author, medical chapter
• Principles & Practice of Primary Care Sports Medicine, co-author, cycling chapter
• 6 Steps to Winning Time Trials, co-author, chapter

External links

• Arnie Baker's website