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Pro Cycling News – Sunday News Dump

Posted on 14 November 2005 by cosmo

Ugh. No news all week, and then BAM – Giro presentation, reactions and like a bajillion interesting side-stories all on the day I have to get up at 5am to go volunteer at a cyclocross race. So yeah, top story: Giro 2006 has lots of hills and a split stage (they apparently need additional approval for that.) Jens Voight: unhappy. Alessandro Petacchi: unhappy. Jens, I guess I can excuse, becuase he is forced to represent the riders union but Petacchi? What, they didn’t gift wrap enough stages for you? And you expect to win Flanders? You are sooooo out of the club. Danilo DiLuca: happy. Damiano Cunego: happy, but who’s watching the baby? Other names being bandied about as favorites for the course include Jose Rujano and Gibo Simoni, though the latter was somewhat reserved about his chances.

Anyway, so Petacchi is a maybe for the ’06 Tour. So’s this guy. Why bring him up? Well, Richard Virenque is looking launching a new jewlery line. Dubbed “Virenque Design” (I would have gone with “Triqui Dique,” myself, but I suppose that’s why I don’t name jewlery lines), the crossover comes as little suprise to followers of the flamboyant Frenchmen. The unusual part? Virenque’s statement that “I’ve always wanted to do something in fashion.” Excuse me? What about the fashion of madman breakaways for the polka dots? Or of, well, you know, that other fashion you’re famous for?

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  1. Anonymous says:
    14 November 2005 at 8:36 am

    The unusual part? Virenque’s statement that “I’ve always wanted to do something in fashion.”

    – Looking for something special for the favourite man in your life? If you live in France or Belgium you could perhaps do worse than check out the latest jewellery collection from Virenque Design. The collection stems from ‘Tricky Dicky’s’ LONG-HELD desire to “create something in the field of fashion and design.

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Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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