Month: October 2005

Welly well well. No need for the cycling media to head out in search of breakfast this AM. We all had plenty of egg on our faces from this little press release from the kids over at Sony-Ericsson. Yes, the very same Sony-Ericsson that was supposed to be sponsoring a team (scroll down), and supposed…

Cycling has found its Mr. October: Murilo Fisher. Dude is blowing up. Worlds (ok, so not technicnally in October, but c’mon, he was riding for Brazil…) – 5th place. Last week, he won at GP Beghelli rocking Paolo Bettini mere days after Bettini’s beatdown of pretty much everyone at Zurich. Then today, at Giro del…

You know, it figures that a day after I argue that it never happens, a two-man break gets clear and wins by four seconds. Darn that Nationale Sluitingprijs (“national slutting prize?”), or, as Velogal calls it, Putte-Kapellen. Other than that, not much racing to report on (unless you fancy the “Picolo” Tour of Lombardy, the…

Good news for sprinters: the ProTour is revising (scroll down) it’s scoring system. Robbie McEwen was no doubt down there like “WTF, Mate?” when he first read that a TdF stage win was worth a mere three ProTour points, making it so that winning 9 stages of the TdF (that’d be the most anyone has…

Why do you even need the rest of the internet? I mean, yesterday, mere seconds after reading the Paris-Tours live reports I told you why Devolder wouldn’t pull through. Oh, sure, there were lots of theories floating around, but then, up comes the interview with Stijn himself, and over the radio, it’s his DS Dirk…

Perhaps the only thing louder than the creaking in Erik Zabel’s knees at the conclusion of today’s Paris-Tours was the whinging of FdJ’s Philippe Gilbert, recent winner of the season-long Coupe de France competition at Paris-Bourges. Gilbert had slipped away with Disco’s Stijn Devolder late in the race, and the duo of youngsters had a…

Gibo Simoni is an interesting case. On the one hand, he constanly whines about, well, about everything, yet on the other, he seems to excel in crappy weather. No change at today’s Giro dell’Emilia, where Il Ragno (does anyone even call him that anymore?) stepped away from the rest with a k to go. Mirko…

“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton. Google has no problem violating their own stated principles in search of profit, yet refuses to let me so much as mention the plainly obvious changes I made to this web page on 8 October 2005, because they might result in “unearned” monitary gain…

It’s not like the guy is retiring or anything, but geez, you might think so, given the rapid proliferation of stories on Erik Zabel’s deaprture (scroll down) from T-Mobile following this weekend’s Paris-Tours race. Of course, if the careers of Santiago Botero and Cadel Evans are any indication, we can expect a banner year from…