What’d I miss? Actually, it turns out not that much. There was a Liberty Seguros team presentation, in which Vino celebrated joining his new team by wearing an entirely different uniform. I know he’s the Kazakh road champ and all, but personally, I feel it’d be better for team unity if he’d tone his kit…
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CSC Gets Press, Unibet Wins, General Self-Promotion
Oh, Team CSC, what won’t you sell? Ivan’s pedals, Dave’s nutritional supplement, an autographed jersey to check out a tour site, a feature film; heck, over at Competitive Cyclist, you’ve got your name attached to a a crankset, a wheelset and not one, not two, but three frames. Maybe that’s the trick to getting all…
OLN Sucks, VeloNews is Weak, Petacchi Still Cruising
I don’t know what it is, but I’ve just been a little down lately. Fortunately, I know exactly how to cheer myself up. When OLN sends out a press release that announces a series of hour-long tape-delay recaps, and calls it “cycling coverage,” the Journal of Competitive Cycling owes it to the sport to express…
Petacchi "pips" Boonen?, Davitamon Drops Acid
As I consider myself a man of words, lets begin today’s post with a little vocabulary lesson: pip (1) |pip| n.; a small, hard seed in a fruit. (2) |pip| vt. to defeat by a tantalizingly small margin, usually at the last possible second, esp. with relation to bike racing. pipping, pipped. Now, based on…
The Tour Baby! DVD – Review
Scott Coady’s behind the scenes look at the 2000 Tour de France. 2004, Color, Roughly 100min. Originality: 3. This is a fairly unique film. It starts off as the messy, off-the-cuff sort of video any cycling nut would make at the Tour, but grows into something with style and direction as Scott gets more and…
Quesada(s) Lead(s) Ruta, Rain Stops Langkawi, Lance Hocks Stocks
So it’s Monday again, and I feel like pro cycling fans are just kinda twisting their heads around in confusion looking for results. And they’re not entirely absent – Ruta del Sol, the real race to the sun – is in full swing, with the Quesada Brothers slipping away late to take Stage 1, before…
50% Limit is 100% Stupid – Rant
Drug testing is a relatively simple proposition. You identify a doping agent, develop a test that detects it, then apply that test to blood or urine taken from a given athlete. Now, I know, I’m skipping several steps, here, and years of research, but what I’m trying to say is that fairly determining whether or…
Hamilton Suspended, Proposes Reforms; Langkawi, Tour Med
Is the Tour of Langkawi still going on? It is? Oh, I’m sorry, it’s just hard to pay attention to some Ukrainian winning a dinky 16k TT when a reigning Olympic Champion gets banned (after 15 months of appeals) for blood doping. If there’s a bright spot for Hamilton here, it’s that, thanks to his…
How To Dope, How To Not Dope, Results
Screw cycling; if VeloNews has abandoned it (does that have anything to do with bike racing?) then so will I. From now on, this is the world’s sweetest doping blog. Step One: buy the drugs. Step Two: buy some antibodies and an electrophoresis apparatus so you can refine your methods by checking your own urine…
Heras Gets 2 Years, Aggiano at Langkawi, Gutierrez at Mt. Faron
It has finally happened; a Grand Tour victory has been determined solely by a dope positive. Riders have been busted at controls and kicked out (and sometimes left in), declared unfit to start (scroll to Stage 21), caught with dope in the car, entire teams have been asked to leave due to overwhelming suspicion, and,…