Month: March 2006

Call it the Erik Zabel Kiss of Death. Allan Davis took second at Paris-Nice for the third time in four stages, once again to reigning World Champ Tom Boonen. Davis has racked up more than his fair share of minor placings over the past two seasons, and I attribute it to this interview, in which…

Yeah, now this is what pro cycling needs, a little T & A. I mean, Daily Distractions is one thing, but a whole race dedicated to…oh. It’s just Tirreno-Adriatico. Ah well, at least the stage was interesting, with Quick.Step’s Paolo Bettini (who most definitely did not “defer” to Petacchi at last year’s Worlds) taking the…

“Malediction”? Dang, y’all; give Cyclingnews’ man in France bonus points for sending me to the dictionary in his Stage 2 Paris-Nice report. I knew what it meant, but believed it applied strictly to curses in the form of incantations. I wouldn’t use it as he did, but the judges gave it the thumbs up, and…

Man, I gotta stop taking these weekend junkets around New England; it’s cutting down on productivity. It is, also, however, streamlining my posts dramatically. For example, I have to cut right to the chase that Tom Boonen used his sprint win in Stage 2 of Paris-Nice to wrest the GC lead from defending champ Bobby…

Well, the Tour wild cards are in: France’s Agritubel will be making their first appearance, while Communitat Valencia, formerly Kelme, will be returning for this first time since the Manzano Affair broke. Team CV was also invited to the Vuelta, along with Relax-GAM, while earlier this week, the Giro selected Panaria and Selle Italia, the…

It’s like there are two sides to every story, or something. Check out VeloNews’ write-up of Stage 1 of the Tour of Murica -“his native Australia”- then have a look at the Cyclingnews results – “1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner”. Turns out both are right, as the kid left the Land of Oz for Deutschland…