Christian Vande Velde (born May 22, 1976 in Lemont, Illinois, USA) is an American professional road racing cyclist of Belgian descent who currently rides for Garmin-Sharp. The son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee John Vande Velde, Christian became professional in 1998 for US Postal.
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 4 June 2004 and 31 April 2006.
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