29 Jun
Versus hosted its media call for the 2010 Tour de France today, with Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen, Tyler Farrar, Christian VandeVelde and Levi Leipheimer all on the line at one point or another. Highlights for me were Tyler saying the exposure to Dutch roads at the Giro will probably make things worse for the Tour, […]
14 Dec
Todd Yezefski has been many things. In his early days, he was a pudgy but suprisingly quick Junior track racer, who at least has a t-shirt from Junior Worlds. Once described as “Pantani on donuts,” Todd slimmed down while leading Dartmouth College to three consecutive national road titles. Since then, he’s plied his trade on […]
mad skills
Sometimes (frequently, actually) people complain that things go by too quickly in HTRWW. Sometimes it’s on purpose, usually it’s not.
This gif is probably the best representation of how hard it is to line up the audio with speculative video cut single-handedly. With some more brains on the case and better tech, I bet it’d be easier.
Oh right…#HTRWW on #TDU is posted. Happy belated Australia Day.
"Sponsorship activation" is an ugly term but this is a good example with Soudal and their new sponsorship of the Lotto-Soudal road team. A new take on "sticky bottle"
I’ve noticed the Belgian firms/squads seem particularly good at this (cf. Niels, Etixx-QuickStep). It’s like their sponsors are businesses after an audience or something, instead of bored, spandex-seeking men.
“…[I]t’s not surprising that virtually all legitimate sponsors have fled the sport. It is now financed primarily by bored wealthy men who need a reason to give their wives about why they spend so much time with young leg-shaving men in tight pants”
—Floyd Landis, who apparently spent the five years since dropping the Armstrong-nuking emails stepping up his writing ability.
“First, let me say that I have no doubts about your ability to do our race. The rest of your team is our concern”
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Former Tour of California director (and current Ironman CEO) Andrew Messick, commenting on the last time the race didn’t invite an American who’d (albeit briefly) won a Grand Tour.
Strangely enough, the snub led to the nuking of every US Grand Tour title all the way back to Greg Lemond.
“They’ve obviously done harm to the race by not bringing me.”
—Chris Horner, in Peloton Magazine, during an interview in which he referred to himself as “the biggest US rider”.
I feel like it would be pretty easy for Facebook to algorithmically cull this bullshit from the newsfeed.
But the reason you don’t see a sign on Facebook’s lawn that says “delivering quality content” is because delivering quality content isn’t Facebook’s business.
So definitely don’t share this shit. Please don’t click it. Probably don’t even move your mouse over it. Facebook only cares what people click on—the only way to improve their algorithm is to improve yours first.
Tour Down Under Stage 4 finish crash
So weird to see this from such a low angle with the pack coming forward.
Chopper shots never quite capture the motion, and my experience/GoPro video is almost always of crashing riders sliding for a split second, then slingshotting back into the bunch.
Kinda cool, minus the fact that some dudes got severely dinged up in this tumble.
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