News Archive

Tomorrow, Roberto Heras will find out whether that Sword of Damocles that’s been hanging over his head for the past half a month will come slamming down through the proverbial skull of his cycling career, or clatter harmlessly to the ground beside him, it’s apparent danger merely parallax distortion. Discounting the Lance allegations from earlier…

A slow day indeed. The big news is Jan Ullrich is going for the TdF/Deutchland Tour double next season. Big Jan, who lost the ’05 edition of the Deutschlandtour to Levi Leiphiemer, possibly because of a misaligned front wheel, feels the ’06 parcours is better suited to his riding style, and would rate a victory…

It’s a slow newsday. But I will make up for it later, I promise. Anyway, the current financial woes of the GP San Francisco are no secret. But Threshold Sports’ President and CEO David Chauner says here that everything is fine. Threshold, who also recently lost the USPRO Championship event to upstart Tour de Georgia…

When my mind wanders, I sometimes find myself contemplating how wasted those Germans who spat on Jens Voight and called him Judas at the ’04 TdF Alpe TT must have been. Even if you disagree (read this one carefully – lots of fun ProTour rumors) with what he says, how can you not like a…

First topic today is the Giro split-stage. Or rather, the lack thereof. Yes, it’s just too hard for professionals to get up early, and work a super long day, even though their afternoon shift is really just a downhill coast into town. I just don’t know how all those USCF 4 and Collegiate C and…

Bob Roll once wrote, when ticking through his cycling alphabet, that “V is for VeloNews, without which we would know nothing.” My, oh my indeed how things have changed. Because today is a relatively slow one, let’s briefly examine how. On Cyclingnews, you could read an interview with Allan Peiper, where he describes living in…

Yeah. The problem with updating at 11:16pm EDT is that the next morning at 10, the news is all the same as it was during the last post, because Massachusetts’ last night is still Europe’s this morning. Dang. Ah well. This’ll be a domestic news post, then: Mike Creed and Danny Pate have signed to…

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…

Finally! Here’s the official site, and, to save you the trouble of hacking around the Italian web page, here’s Cyclingnews’ and Daily Peloton’s reports, plus a map from Pez. The story is no change in course, depsite threats of boycotts from non-Italian teams.

Seriously. I know, both from comments on yesterday’s post and recent forum postings that at some point today, the ’06 Giro route was officially available. But it has since been take down. Cyclingnews, VeloNews, Daily Peloton, they’ve all got nothing on it. It’s still only 4 pm in Milan, so concievably, the presentation may not…