The Giro saw its first major contender—depending on who you ask, I suppose—crash out yesterday: Christian VandeVelde. It’s a bummer to see a a nice guy like that go, but he’s staying upbeat—as Bob Roll says with alarming frequency, that’s bike racing for ya! Garmin-Slipstream’s day wasn’t a total loss, though. Tyler Farrar managed a…
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So Maybe I Owe The UCI An Apology?
I think it’s only fair to admit that maybe I should replace the word “UCI” with the word “testers” in that last rant I wrote. Thanks to Cyclingnews’ plainly insufficient reporting—which did no more than simply translate the term “Vlaamse Gemeenschap”—it was, and still is, unclear exactly what the “Flemmish Community” means. Frankly, it still…
Don Petacchi Says Hello
It’s not that I don’t think Mark Cavendish is the fastest sprinter in the world. Milan-Sanremo speaks for itself. But he had an easy time of it at last year’s Tour, thanks to one of the most misguided cases in the history of arbitration and, well, that problem that Tom Boonen has. Petacchi is getting…
There's Egg On Cav's Face. It Must Taste Delicious.
Oh, Cav. You dashing young blade, you. Getting all self-righteous that Garmin Slipstream was practicing (OMG!) for the TTT in Stage 1 of this year’s Giro . As we all learned from Chariots of Fire, that’s simply not what persons of quality do. And Lance Armstrong, Mr. Millimeter himself, inexplicably agrees. Never mind that Columbia…
Cyclocosm Is Not Convinced
From today’s Velonews: From Johan Bruyneel’s Twitter: And, of course, we know it’s Lance because of the Shep Fairey skid lid.
Season's Underway, Time For Things To Fall Apart
So seeing as it’s the middle of the season and mere days before the second-biggest stage race of the year, what better time for drastic, sweeping changes to come out of nowhere. Let’s start at the top: the UCI wants everyone to suffer more and so has decided to enforce their utterly arbitrary 3:1 “fuselage…
Inferior Potassium
Wait, wait…a loose federation of Central European businesses/state entities—named after the the capital city of Kazakhstan so none get any actual ad exposure—is having trouble putting together the constant supply of capital needed to run a cycling team? I’m not surprised that Astana’s collapse is happening so much as I’m surprised that it took this…
What Did We Do Before Twitter?
A little back-and-forth over the Interwebs between Daryl Impey and American cycling commentator/blogger/some sort of Time rep at one point or other Smithers, related to the Theo Bos Affair:
Czechmate.
I knew Roman Kreuzinger could throw down. After all, he did win the Tour de Suisse and have the misfortune of being Edvald Boasson-Hagen’s breakaway buddy at E3. It was Wevelgem and Kreuziger’s teammate Kuschynski. But in yesterday’s stage at Romandie, he simply walked away from the race favorites and took the win. Maybe you…
Defying the Cycling Gods
Say what you will about Lance Armstrong, but you must admit, the man has cajones. Er, un cajone. Or something. Anyway, going over the UCI to race at Gila, donning the mysterious black kits a day after Der Speigel put a doping story on his teammate back in the headlines, and, just for kicks, smashing…