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In case anyone actually missed Tyler Hamilton’s interview on 60 Minutes last night: Tyler Hamilton Interview, part 1: Tyler Hamilton Interview, part 2: 60 Minutes Overtime Interview with Scott Pelley: Every person (with the exception of Fernando Escartin) who has finished on the podium at the Tour de France with Lance Armstrong [...] View Larger Map In honor of both the Giro and Tour of California mountain stages today, I decided to go out and climb a couple mountains … I thought that Little Mountain to Big Mountain and back to Little Mountain sounded good. Then, in honor of the UCI’s decision to skip one of the Giro [...] The International Cycling Union (UCI) wishes to announce that disciplinary proceedings will be opened against Team RadioShack, for breaching the regulations governing riders’ clothing. The UCI regrets that an initiative for a cause as worthy as the fight against cancer was not coordinated beforehand with the Commissaires and organisers of the event. This could have [...] Greg LeMond believes a federal probe into fellow Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong should not be taken lightly, and could even bring about the downfall of the world’s most famous cyclist. “Up until now, he has achieved great things, if you consider he did it fairly, which I don’t believe,” LeMond said in an [...] Team RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel has called for a shake-up in the running of professional cycling following his team’s exclusion from the Vuelta a España. Bruyneel was angered that his team, co-owned by Lance Armstrong, did not receive one of the six wildcard places on offer from organisers Unipublic for the 22-team Spanish tour, despite [...] View Ascent activity on 15-May-10 at 12:32PM in a larger map Felt like complete shit today … think my lungs may have worked better in the 1990s when I was still a smoker … I had multiple people ask me if I was doing okay; one woman who was running even turned around and came [...] A prayer for the second and third weeks of the Giro d’Italia; for the battles in the mountains to come.
Andy Hampsten, climbing the Passo Gavia during the 1988 Giro d’Italia Let us pray: I believe in Hampsten, the Climber Almighty, the Creator of heavenly tours, and in the Landshark of steel, on [...] Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won a very messy second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, outsprinting the remnants of a peloton shattered by a series of crashes in the 210km race from Amsterdam to Utrecht in the Netherlands. The stage was tailor-made for a bunch sprint, following a relatively flat and twisting route through the [...] You know what makes me super happy about this? 6 of the top 7 riders are native English speakers, with Alexandre Vinokourov as the only interloper … and the first Italian rider is Marco Pinotti, in 10th. Yeah, it’s just the first day of the Giro, and there are still 22 days to go, but [...] According to DR, the leading Danish media conglomerate, Armstrong’s blood values at this year’s Tour de France are suspicious, and could be indicative of blood doping. Paraphrasing Google’s translation of the DR article: Evidence suggests that Lance Armstrong used blood doping during the Tour de France, says one of Denmark’s leading blood researchers, Jakob Mørkebjerg [...] |
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