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After years of being “oh yeah, that guy,” American Levi Leipheimer is looking like a big threat to Lance’s quest for number 7. The Gerolsteiner rider took second by a second for the second time in the Dauphine, bested over the 47k TT only by Phonak’s Santiago Botero, who is himself looking no chump for…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so you are all no doubt bummed to see that I am no longer absent. We have some catching up to do. Dauphine – Hincapie wins the prologue, one of four Americans (Leiphiemer, Landis and Armstrong were the others) in the top 5. Lance plays superdomestique for a day…

Not much to report today. Liberty Seguros’ Angel Vicioso took his third stage of this year’s Euskal Bizikleta, but was narrowly denied his fourth by Euskatel’s David Herrero. The race lead, though, still belongs to Comunidad Valencia’s Eladio Jimenez, who should be able to hold on to his 1’15” advantage through tomorrow’s stage to take…

Hasn’t Phillipe Gaumont caused enough trouble? The French vet’s cycling career ended in disgrace last spring, when he was arrested in connection with a drug trafficking ring. The incedent led to a month-long suspsension/investigation of the Cofidis team (in which nothing was found) that kept riders like Stuart O’Grady out of the Spring Classics, and…

With exactly one month to go until Lance Armstrong’s last Tour de France (an professional race) ever, there seems to be no stopping the build-up of story lines. First on the docket is a new Danish documentary film that followed Team CSC through the 2004 Tour. As reported on ProCycling.com, the 100-minute film contains scene…

Not much to report on today. “Fast” Freddie Rodriguez, who always seems to be the National Road Champ (and did he ever tell you about the time he beat Petacchi?) got outmanned by US domestic squad HealthNet in the first day of racing at Wachovia. The top three finishers in the race (Greg Henderson, Fred…

So now that all that nonsense down in the boot is done with, time to recap what went on in the rest the continent. Hometown (or I guess homecountry) hero Tom Boonen rocked the Tour of Belgium, taking two stages and most remarkably of all, coming in second in a 15k ITT to maintain the…

FULL LISTING OF PICKS LOCATED HERE. The Giro is over. So what are you going to do for the next month while you wait for the Tour to start? Work your mind-numbing, spirit-crushing job? Log hours of hard training time in hopes of maybe snaring a 20 dollar prime at some Cat 4 stage race?…

PSYCH! Everything went exactly according to plan in the final stage of the ’05 Giro. The field piddled along at 27 kph for a while (oh yeah, it was downhill, too), before Discovery fired up the first of the 12 finishing circuits. Some Australians tried solo moves before Petacchi and Fassa kicked the GI tract…

Now that was exciting. Simoni, DiLuca and Rujano take off on the old-school gravel road, putting 2 and a half minutes on Savodelli. What does Il Falco do? Stays cool as the other side of the pillow, that’s what. He lets Wim Van Huffel (what a great name, eh?) and Lotto set tempo, then rakes…