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Velonews' Boo-boo, Racing News

Posted on 29 March 2007 by cosmo

Sloppy copy editor that I am, I can sympathize with a typo or two. But a dead link on a freakin’ “Site of the Day” page – I mean, wow. Don’t worry, though; since it’s for a good cause, I sent my friends in Boulder an email informing them of the mistake. If I haven’t been permanently relegated to the spam filter, the error will probably be fixed by the time you read it. But, just in case, I’ve memorialized the gaffe for posterity at CiteBite.com.

Speaking of gaffes, I really fanned on that Scarponi win yesterday. No, not by missing his Puerto connection (that was an intentional omission), but by not mentioning that he smacked up Mick Rogers and heatseeker Richardo Ricco on his way to victory. Ricco got stuffed again today, this time by a resurgent Danilo DiLuca. This Settimana/Coppi-Bartali thing has some pretty big names throwing down for the current GC leader to be Luca Pierfelici (?) of team Aurum Hotels (??).

See, at Castilla y Leon, the results make sense. The story so far – Vlad Karpets wins the prologue, and holds the lead while Francisco Ventoso snaps up some flat stages. Then today, Alberto Contador used his team to grind Karpets up before launching, before launching his own assault. It’s the same thing Postal used to win a couple Tours de France. A brain hemorrhage might not be nut cancer, but maybe keep an eye on this Contador fellow, yeah?

thoughts on “Velonews' Boo-boo, Racing News”

  1. Brayt says:
    29 March 2007 at 3:55 pm

    It’s still broken. I had to google to find the real site.

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  2. allezdude says:
    30 March 2007 at 3:26 pm

    do you like how velo-snooze didn’t even cover or mention boonen’s win at Dwars door Vlaanderen? maybe they didn’t to avoid the controversy about how boonen’s bike was causing his back problems- as a a favor to advertiser b/c spesh-l-ized? anyway unbelievable they didn’t mention the race.

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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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