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And what else is new? It’s the third time for the Aussie, who didn’t actually win in 2003, but was awarded the victory after David Millar admitted to doping before the event in early 2004. Bobby Julich was nowhere to be found, and an aging and busted-up Eki also found himself adrift at the wrong…

First day of Worlds. Men’s U23 TT, Women’s Elite TT. Winner on the Men’s side was Mikhail Ignatiev, only the cutest thing ever (I’m told…) to come out of Eastern Europe since Misha (or maybe t.A.T.u., tho neither Misha nor Ignatiev needed to pretend to be gay to be cute.) Second and third are unimportant…

So after months of everyone being all like “ch! Hell yeah, it’s a sprinter’s course,” there seem to be now some differing opinions on the topic. Most loud on the topic has been Mario Aerts who thinks it’ll be impossible for a sprint train to get things going, especially if it rains. Stijn Devolder thinks…

Hey there. I´m writing from some whack Madrillano Internet cafe, and have 21 minutes left on my Euro, so this will be brief: Kirchen won the Tour of Poland, getting a bit of revenge on ProTour leader (who beat him at Fleche-Wallone, but could muster only fifth here) and certain ProTour winner Danilo DiLuca, whose…

Dick Pound, whom I dislike profusely, and who is so hard nosed and litigious that he once sued the Premier of Quebec for calling him a “crackpot,” really seems to be out of his mind. He’s supposed to be the head of the organization concerned with fairly eliminating doping from sport. But so far, he’s…

See what I meant by yesterday’s headline was that one major race currenty going on (the Vuelta) is like the 3rd week of the Tour, which is “boring” because it generally lacks any real GC change; and the other major race (Tour de Pologne) is like the first week of the tour in that the…

Ok, seriously. Vuelta: Quesada escapes to win. Oooooh, it’s such a big deal because he’s 5th on GC. NOT. Even after getting away, he’s still six minutes back of Sr. Heras. The only real suprise going on is that Quesada’s team, wild-card entry Communidad Valencia is beating everyone else down in the teams competition. By…

Don’t call it a comeback! Outsprinting an on-form Luca Paolini to take the first stage and the GC lead of the Tour of Poland yesterday was none other than 2003 TdF maillot vert Baden Cooke, back for his first pro win in 18 months. Though many bad journalists described yesterday’s stage as “glitch marred,” it…

Oh, sure, just because the Vuelta stops for a minute, the whole cycling world just shuts down and stops putting out new stories? Jeez, look at ProCycling; as of 10:30am EDT today, this was their lead story. “Menchov frustrates Heras” indeed. Did they even hear about Stage 15? Well, you won’t find that sort of…

You might have thought the Vuelta a Espana was turning into the Tour de France. A relatively unexciting leader, having grabbed the lead in the TT, was now just following his most likely rival’s wheel, letting bolder non-GC riders snare stage wins. That was before today. Now, following his fish-clad (that’s the points jersey, by…